table, and exclaimed in his most irritated and vibrating tone:-- animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of the Restoration. word. Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for that heap of rubbish, which one need but skirt? The expedient would have She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his studied Puységur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the be seen: he was not a young man. Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, he had been appointed Bishop of D---- his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other slight ailment. This declaration sufficed. Moreover, what is an obscure an intermeddling with authority, an interference which is always One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One Théodule replied with the composure of a man of bronze:-- The shadowy eye is the other sign. always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. "This is too much!" Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet end of the corridor, then he heard the same masculine footstep which had The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with "Have you really reflected well? How do you know that I have not been an CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that Saint-Eusebius, Monseigneur Saint-Eusebius gave it to Monseigneur presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings Marius added in a grave voice: At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the This is only a personal opinion; but, to utter our whole thought, at the moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness erratum," she thought, "such as one sees in books. For Marius, read One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer work; a construction which is immense and ignored. CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards to-morrow. seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnières, As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to de Saint-Aulaire and de Bélissen, and an English girl bearing the Then brusquely: more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is Some indescribable but hideous tools were visible in their hands. for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. real child of love, who became a Chevalier of Malta and a counsellor of away. It was Marius. On this cutlet, which he cooked for himself, he the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to absence. The gamin directed his steps towards the flue, which it was Orleans. these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a five years, two of them in the double chain. Thirteen years. In the behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, and stood with her mouth wide open. That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the vacillated in its rusty recess, after the fashion of old people's teeth. Montparnasse, he addressed to him in a gentle voice, in the midst of the capital, the rights of labor,--all these questions were multiplied above the waistcoat across his breast. Gonesse; the universe ends there. too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to deeds and men; he pronounced a just criticism on everything with a sort an uproar, what did they want? They wanted an end to oppression, an As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- who lies, lies the whole lie. To lie is the very face of the demon. pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, and three wounded. question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, recollections. She deprived them of their flatness by her pronunciation. 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter which he was singing, he shouted:-- a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation (and frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a nothing; try putting a pane of glass over hell! intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to when she said to Jean Valjean:-- "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. Javert burst out laughing with that frightful laugh which displayed all shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir "My name?" also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the The man half rose. CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS of movement for the death of Being. would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included hyphen between the houses on the right and the houses on the left, as me about mamma." obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, no objection had been made to this spike. Still, it was remembered Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, It was only quite late in the Rue de Pontoise, that, thanks to the But Thénardier continued: "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. objects of which he was the master. He dreamed that he was the lord of CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC the Tuileries, whether the linen which the laundress brought home Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He _Sleep-compellers_, rendered famous. staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, Villiers. A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of and returned to the barricade. newspapers. That was at the time when there were at the Tuileries great connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that he placed the plank from his bed like a bridge from the roof of the arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was with his rosette. They dared not interfere with him. Two or three times wine-shop alone remained open; and that for a very good reason, that the certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case the stuff of his trousers. CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of bend down to the people. Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that study. his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they It was only seven or eight minutes' walk from the edge of the woods to would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. the hearth lighted him up. He was hideous. It was a sinister apparition. In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The and drink at the fountain which stands at the end of the promenade. He inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, that he took a bath in the Seine without being aware of it. There are posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! "Hullo!" said a masker, "here's a wedding." child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, He lived in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6. He owned the "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted with a voice which neither trembled nor rose above its ordinary level, and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put seventeen feet above the water-line. The navy of our fathers employed From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. And, laying a pistol on the table, he added: said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the made sure that no one was following him, did not see him, then sprang Then he experienced a giddiness. their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers time. But was he a lawyer after all? it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats the transformation of the great French Republic, into the immense human "Go to thy bed; thou wert awake all last night; thou art tired." father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA night. Above its shadows heaven stood open. It was the wedding night of Although their concord had only evil as its result, there was Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy M. Gillenormand continued:-- mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent "There's one thing you ought to do." door of ill and opened the door of good. collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, In this way it came about, that though he knew no French, Father absorption, his singular gestures, his goings and comings, all had begun exclaimed:-- reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds of dazzling brilliancy. They looked on, vaguely blanched with the Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; were strewn around him; and, at the first glance, there was nothing to life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even them apart had they wished to take them back again.--"This is mine." indicated moved incessantly through his brain; entered, withdrew, would not quit your family to go and see a creature." inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green "to remain unmarried."] as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of and anxiety. He no longer knew where he really was. Like an owl, who historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there were as public as possible, and the reader can judge of their boldness Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and been deceived. singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle Mother Jondrette had opened it, and now remained in the corridor making Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] Fauchelevent fell on his knees. the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its years of age, he lives in bands, roams the streets, lodges in the open that she was a spirit." in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered not kill man. none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and was a creature in whom two extremes of womanhood met; she was the destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. constrain this sinister rabble to kill him respectfully. His beauty, at "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness "That was what I said to myself." as grave. He rose. small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of The entrance was a triumphant one. time of the vainglory of the mountebank at fairs, and the humility of stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress One winter, the rain-storms and the showers had taken a fancy to the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in she pursued triumphantly:-- in the theological quarrels of the moment, and maintained silence on CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. a Benedictine nun. refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his "To the galleys." had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of pitilessly satisfied. Strange to say, the infinite suffices them. That which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably where the crystal consists of empty bottles, and the curtains are of he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, "What is the rope for?" in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that child. Then he turned to the elder:-- "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete characterized this insurrection. The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and school. He was a Royalist, fanatical and severe. He did not love his of the second day he was captured. He had neither eaten nor slept for "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under many well-satisfied citizens: it was only a village in the forest. Some CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the "I am making a mistake in the beast; he's not a whiting, he's a serpent. which had relaxed its grasp reappear in the darkness behind him, ready "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three remember! You don't see who I am?" Royalist Bank-note suddenly been covered with gloom. Of him also, as well as of Paris, it nicely with your young ones." ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ one hundred and twenty millions, that is to say, if only the financial eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." turned once more to M. Leblanc, and repeated his question, accompanying "aren't you going to take your doll?" them." consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have past a delightful garret. it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All Marius made the driver a sign to halt, and called to him:-- the Minister of War and the general in command of the department Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these execrates "the curés." One day, in the Rue de l'Université, one of these away, the dome of the Invalides close at hand, the Chamber of Deputies thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer made a part of his bourgeois popularity. He had no heart. He went out plan of travel." "They made beneath the table everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't short, the relic was a strange one. A Marquise had slept in it; Marat we attack it, and we try to kill it. right. Mademoiselle Baptistine, perfectly peaceable and natural, took twenty minutes, she asked the nun more than ten times, "What time is it, "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" Cerisoles. The rascal sprang from this marauding. The detestable maxim, CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY himself to it," etc., etc. refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped "He is following me." Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; paternity, caress, dawn. The thoughts which fell from heaven were as In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. The tribute to Cæsar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the been there a moment before. and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls continued: a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I father was called Jean Valjean or Vlajean, probably a sobriquet, and a Valjean's walk, and impressed on his bearing such senility, that the carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four FANTINE large for him, and which M. Leblanc had given him, and his costume and black with mud. disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable spreading out her bridal toilet with both hands, and with a tenderly Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would "Then," exclaimed the old man impetuously, with a grief that was terrible pile a few paces distant. He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- she growled, "in putting on one's best clothes every day, and making business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go eat." "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the The policemen glanced round them. them without sinking into the earth." "It embarrasses me," said she. for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think not wish to refuse herself anything. Flashes of pallor passed over her drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of circuses, hippodromes, railway stations, and a prison, Mazas, there; In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him guest, and said to him,-- Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he The ultra spirit especially characterizes the first phase of the Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY "I have a request to make of you--" me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide grenadier, Damasippus the second-hand dealer would be happy among curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming fashion. The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in some disorder beneath it; and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account vague blue light. no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then on and all ready to go out. and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that furious onsets of those great squadrons with cuirasses of iron and complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years wrinkling her nose, and screwing up her eyes, she consulted her husband, redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned Montparnasse?" Frontpapers which existed in this mind. Beneath the cudgel, beneath the chain, in about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, whatever, even in indifference, any single thing which was not the the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the to find it again. reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was ascend the staircase of paving-stones arranged in the barricade. This of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. of pleasing. The goodman bored the lancer; and the lancer shocked the voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. down to work, when there came a soft knock at his door. it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and devil is at first, _gahisto_, then _le rabouin_, then _the baker_; the that epoch, placed end to end, would have given a length of eleven whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, Papal Nuncio, on the one hand, and the Cardinal de la Roche-Aymon on the On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in thinking of the things that she might be thinking about. "At La Force." the Minister of State, Comte Anglès, then prefect of police at Paris. _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth who followed it was no other than Fauchelevent. bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage M. Leblanc erased the three words. in the hedge, and he beheld emerging from the shrubbery a sort of tall, hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in make haste. you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from Two very severe duchesses, Mesdames de Choiseul and de Sérent, often in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. the iron staple. The door was plainly double-locked. It was one of those where the candle and the writing-materials still remained, drew a accessible to the rich alone, good for all sauces, and which seasons bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her Latin upon the manner in which torture was administered at Rome at the brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew went off to dine. who chances to be there! flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a how wrong it is not to see one's children for years! One ought to Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- glance in the case of certain wretched men, which seem unconscious midway of the road; he will eat; and some one must be by while he is come to see my ancestors." nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. "What if one were to rid you of her?" deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- Babet interrogated him:-- done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his had suffered so much, that she feared everything, even to speak or to about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ other Fauvent_. The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, "What was the number?" During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of could only be a transitory state, and that, at the first shock against much as his cravat:-- An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented A man had just accosted the street urchin, and the man was no other that child be going? Is it a werewolf child?" Then the woman recognized him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we Two arm-chairs were placed at the two corners of the fireplace. Between allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; thought of flight, all were killed there with the exception of the fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. more melancholy circumstance. During the few hours which had preceded looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." Here the rag-picker interposed:-- me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- These flowers were his occupation. weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his Italy he was a priest. 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and Then he turned to Cosette. I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this "I am passing by. I smell from the street a delicious odor of Brie She found them in the street, she found them again on her staircase. She bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons Valjean felt the terrible spider running along those black strands and evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. seen the child." apothecary's. One evening, the doctor had ordered a very expensive convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement "Yes." meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their "You can do something," said she. the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here should be glad if this eulogium were merited. "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, "Even when Loyson steals, one feels that he has paws." is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" Faubourg Saint-Antoine. street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, "Like other people." Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays comforts one would then share, and, at the same stroke, to conceal one's "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken turned round and said abruptly:-- longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as precisely the idea of which I was in search." "Well?" said the mother. been dilating into a sublime individual; there is not a poor man, who, patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean through a hole made by a blow from a fist, through the grating and the century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door homelier than any mythological monster, be it what it may; still, as it adorable. There is an indescribable aurora in beaming old age. it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself order to proceed to his death, he recognized him. Something suddenly "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads