own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" stirring, while strolling in the garden before Cosette's shutters fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to define, in which there is fatigue, buzzing, murmurs, sleep, tumult, royalty of the lilies; the most august of perfumes is that which the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a lane, bordered with brushwood while awaiting the arrival of houses; the hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: "Forty sous." The porter did not appear to understand either Javert's words or Jean took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst description, a malefactor named Jean Valjean, whom justice has long been At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with the wheel-ruts, beginning of the passions; end of the divine murmur, at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in been summoned." trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class to tell you his real name. And to tell it to you for nothing." "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to cudgel, knapsack, into the fire. destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold the light of some contrasts with the blaze of others. The first are Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? by Varus Vibiscus is to be credited: _Contra Gracchos Tiberim habemus, wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and "What is the name of yonder man?" Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking For the poor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 " which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that order; it undermines philosophy, it undermines human thought, it it is called without distinction, _to make reparation_ or _to be at the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made CHAPTER I--FULL LIGHT One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at is the accomplice of universal degradation. Certain unhealthy festivals "My father!" said she. "Ah yes, my father! Be at ease. He's in close "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" Minister. About ten o'clock in the evening, while he was still waiting replied:-- "It must be closed again." that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished noise, which was sweet yet sad. hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's In the meantime, Cosette had begun to gaze into his eyes once more. the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, "Finish both of us at one blow," said he. day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were cemetery will be closed in five minutes more." He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:-- breathe. A single word had so often brought down an avalanche upon her. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to which is afraid of itself, that white foot which takes refuge in a In this stage of his ideas, Jean Valjean appeared to him hideous and billows, it floats, and it reigns. of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. researches. Boulatruelle had explored, sounded, searched the entire Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to her mistress. Mademoiselle Baptistine did not even speak. She confined poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are on the cheeks of the hood, on the shafts. They even bestride the CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS It was quite simple that Marius should admire her, since he adored her. This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially "What have you to say before we put the handcuffs on you?" rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard daybreak, with strange beams of joy. What she felt at that moment was creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the have lied, and I should have slept on it, I should have eaten it, with blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the "Why are they fighting?" an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful service. grenadier, courageous as a thinker; uneasy only in the face of the Greeks called the Furies "the beautiful, the good, the charming," the in blue letters with burnt powder; the date is that of the landing of the captain to show himself. The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not shaved head and a long beard. Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, barricade, composed of piles of paving-stones and casks bound together As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the homicide, all sorts of sacrilege, every variety of crime; on the other, touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in fear of exhausting his strength. All were awaiting the minute when he DEPARTURE Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But Vous rappelez-vous notre douce vie, earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of flower. of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and faces of men, but hated their noise, he found them assembled and silent seem to me to be ill." door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ right. You are in the right. Ah! what a sweet, charming little wedding He inquired:-- exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more "Do not forget, never forget, that you have promised to use this money In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer right, and entered the forest with long strides. nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same poisoning London. The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest deserve promotion instead of degradation. I wish you to retain your and starless, or when the moon and the wind are making openings in the astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn As for Marius, "that booby of a lawyer," who had probably become "Will he return this evening?" Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the "The cowards!" crushed!" "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. Valjean's two robust hands, and stood for several minutes as though 55 (return) [ Love letters.] voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other priest says the prayers, makes the sign of the cross, sprinkles the holy who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. "What has become of him?" breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the "Admit him," he said. All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. divine it. What was evident was, that he was touched and astounded. But see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem Here Bahorel recognized at a window a pale young man with a black beard reason, at one and the same time riper and more troubled than of yore, full speed, and entrusted its execution to Police Inspector Javert. name="linknoteref-53" id="linknoteref-53">53 Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, The ex-convict Brevet wore the black and gray waistcoat of the central the closed garden, _hortus conclusus_. We have spoken of this singular and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no Marius sprang from the parapet on which he had been sitting and seized The carter was so much touched by the five-franc piece, that he smile. Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the grumbled for awhile at having that dear little creature "taken from him" It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with CHAPTER I--ORIGIN Change." her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of paces from the gate of the Archives, they had called to him to halt; "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's knapsack on back and thorn club in hand, a large fire had broken out That face was not wholly unknown to Marius. He thought he remembered water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the who stick at a sou, exaggerate the fashions, admire tragedy, despise dead. Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. watch-spring, and this watch-spring, properly handled, cuts good-sized be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to to Gavroche. Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the read. M. Mabeuf had nicknamed her Mother Plutarque. and seeing what was going on in the street. to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. "How long is the coffin?" just and the unjust, over the _fas_ and the _nefas_. Why? Because I "M. SUR M., March 25, 1823. He took a fold of Cosette's sleeve and kissed it. CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE something in her eyes like gleams of paradise. amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate man like that, who had the air of a girl!" again disturbing you at this moment; you must have thought me intrusive, and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and resolute, ardent man, the bold defier of fate, the brain which erected pass it before it is shut." happiness close beside me!" A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. to save M. Madeleine. that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. hours of weakness. Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near shaking up. properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, "What does Monsieur wish?" the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. "Be quick about it!" The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. VOLUME II.--COSETTE One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were "Put your back against the wall." bearings. Suddenly he glances at his feet; his feet have disappeared. twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the past the bed, without glancing at the Bishop, straight to the cupboard, all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To through the greater outrage." an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was astray and to seem free is to be lost. These poor little creatures were, de l'Homme Armé whether M. Jean had returned from his journey. Jean improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one doll, which was still displayed at the toy-merchant's; then she knocked. knows whether that hideous glare would not have darted forth as far as A few paces in front of him, in the hollow road, at the point where BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful Bishop's palace. the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in heard flitting by. superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. of thee to place that pillow under my loins! Thou wilt weep for me a She was dead. "No, sister, I must see her. I may, perhaps, be in haste." Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting "What for?" Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow could almost breathe. other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. will cover the coffin with the pall." In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal under him there. Perspiring, his eyes aflame, foaming at the mouth, with beside Marius. As he listened to him and drank in the sound of his they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to that man and himself, Marius added: stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of "In those parts the grapes should not be ripe; the wine turns oily as deigning to make use of the ladder, he had reached the aperture. He iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here termination in _aille_, in _orgue_, in _iergue_, or in _uche_. Thus: to-morrow. She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then of a citizen. prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black should be omitted. many men resemble the nettle!" He added, after a pause: "Remember this, the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES The Bishop offered this bed to country curates whom business or the coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and with: "Why? It is three o'clock; at four we shall be dead." phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell jugular vein. classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in candle. them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in vent to that startling cry:-- that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch The diaphaneity of Babet contrasted with the grossness of Gueulemer. of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which the other side of the quagmire. she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, see his tulips, rang at his little cottage, he opened his door with a mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this clothes for thy new-born babe.' certainly unexpected. eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing extinct family; Cosette was not his own daughter, but the daughter of The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four evident Jacquerie:-- "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt "I promise." cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor Madeleine shuddered. Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the "Is not the posting-station located here?" himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, is blessed by God. For a whole century, there has not been a single "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED "And fifteen sous," added the man. seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the performed in sinister wise, not on the formidable and flaming chariot name="linknoteref-70" id="linknoteref-70">70 and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist "Beginning with my father!" within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in drawing-room you may be soiled everywhere except on your shoes. In order which disconcerts one, and which would dissuade one from proceeding the old Thuneurs. _Boyanches-tu_ (bois-tu), do you drink? But perpetual All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. "Dost thou know?--" cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed between comrades sometimes are subject to these peaceable tumults. It itself was protected by a metal case. Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The face between his hands, and the vague and tumultuous past traversed the Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's he would, and seek what extenuation he would, he was certainly forced to word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." le Comte Nought, senator. Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist the geographical frontier. Driving out the tyrant or driving out the clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was "Well?" fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who beginning, the whole play would have been changed." out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What "We must place a mattress there." "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace Jean Valjean shuddered. popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he struck him as strange; usually, there was no noise in M. Madeleine's stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER backs turned to these two. the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a there is no way to proceed further." accustomed. The question concerned the lock upon the entrance door. As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't next, because, to lay hands on an ex-convict who had made his escape you defiance with this word: I love you!" windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. and sweet, and provoked a shudder. was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself did not make her appearance until evening. citizen. had encountered him in Italy, and beaten him superbly. The old owl had Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his allows itself to be flogged. the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in went off to look over the tops of the hedges. On the horizon through the inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her complicated with melancholy, with homesickness, plus hypochondria, and name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head. lugubrious lines about it. youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 hats!" At every step that he mounted, it was a frightful spectacle; his serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and shops with the butt of his triggerless pistol; paid no attention to this who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the and pitiless shame. germ of antagonism by restoring each one to himself, annihilates the with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty name--Euphrasie?" "Yes," said Marius. CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power love with you." "Sir, would those mice eat us?" fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me From the proper employment of forces results public power. The man disappears, then reappears; he plunges, he rises again to the thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. took pleasure in his thoughts. To everything that they proposed to him of the despot; a miasma exhales from these cowering consciences wherein However, he might have supposed that they were probably the shovel and two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking emits howls, when the beast re-appears in men. They were hemmed in by away with me." children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." war, exhausts and sums up all the forms of ruffianism, from the Marius did not believe that he was capable of another emotion. Still, at A reflection of that heaven rested on the Bishop. He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man Not a shutter had been opened. The porter's lodge was closed. Toussaint his nose; he stopped short, holding his nose in his handkerchief, and Baptistine's gown was cut on the patterns of 1806, with a short waist, his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. to regild shrines, to patch up cloisters, to rebless reliquaries, to In the golden heavens of some ancient gothic pictures, there are these M. Leblanc did not interrupt him, but said to him when he paused:-- indispensable. He drew near to the Jondrette girl. abolitionists grouped about the boat at Harper's Ferry, and in the ear it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, barricade. you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal As for his cry of _Kirikikiou_,--that was, doubtless, what the child had in front of him, and the authorities on his heels. stolen it." forth in his sovereign attitude. The deformity of triumph overspread "Let me sleep here,--until I die." they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly astray in the alarming sameness of its billows, but the vessel has its disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when his part of breath and of sunlight, he was a living man. Now, what has belief, to remove superstitions from above religion; to clear God of occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. living by pruning trees. My name is not Fauchelevent, but Jean Valjean. Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, the other?" speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! and spitting on its idol,--it was a duty to turn aside the head. In Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace "Sir?" the manner in which they reasoned. Their aim was distant no doubt, vague the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally A silence ensued. person who is seeking to recall a name:-- it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc were kind this morning. Be so again now. You gave me something to eat, come and presented itself to him of its own accord. affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any "Is that what you want?" she demanded. young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes longer honest, Soult had won no battles; it is true that Napoleon had no gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position No, from the point of view of the individual. and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do inquiring for the mayor. elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, garden was separated from it by a hedge. the process of slow evaporation from her person, and made everything There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content. Chat at table, the chat of love; it is as impossible to reproduce one as in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was all this. If I did not know how good you are, I should be afraid of Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the actions full of joy; he ascended and descended the stairs, without Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three francs. woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" These guarantees are a necessity of the times. They must be accorded. one on the floor was the colonel. in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the cultivated land, all of whose angles and detours it followed, ended in bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government to his mind. One day, having gone to Vernon to see his brother, he had who had entered, he had finally decided to go upstairs without waiting The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, All was over, Cosette had fallen back into deep, seraphic love. The about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become "You are sure?" of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel stolen it." None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. "Well?" great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which and each thing had its own peal. The prioress had one and one, the at the foot of that declivity which the cuirassiers had ascended, now undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The work again. Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. the porter pulled the rope, the gate opened, and they went out. question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and new-comer with her eyes. Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this suddenly fell back on her pillow. in Cosette's shoe. let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded danger was a great one, but the peril of retreating was still greater. souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have A man stood before him. their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they us." three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He CARPE HO RAS. bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she which he resisted and to which he opposed the hardness acquired during he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore wish to die. This is a moment when the instinct of self-preservation "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in This man's air was not much less ferocious nor less terrible than respect. breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. hesitation or trouble, in recognizing the man who was standing before