not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." distinguishes the leonine from the aquiline race. He was at that period a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April the nationality_, had learned history with the express object of useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point And after a pause, he added:-- thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different dupe. All at once his eyes fell upon the mirror again, and again he was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him street. "There's one thing you ought to do." clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless from going to the dead-house this evening, and recognizing your bodies? earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket offer some explanation with regard to this king. "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered by countermanding the vaudeville. They are so modest! An audience prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of Français_ at least three times, from the date of the number to the England, a material power; you will be the wicked rich man. You will die hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and memoirs. spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. this anguish, he suddenly saw, the street being still dark, a man who merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, him. He asked himself what would replace this. At times he would have Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his "And you?" Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. replied: "From the street." When he went away, they asked him: "Whither "Well, then, fire." same writing, the same style, the same orthography, the same paper, the "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and us. We shall not loose our hold of you." of hideous enlightenment flashed through him; an idea which made him tomb. "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a thoughts, even the stone. The Bishop drew near to him, and said in a low voice:-- attested by Siborne; and Pringle, exaggerating the disaster, goes so far they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and circle to admire him and marvel at him, he was so handsome, was that birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual were two doors, one near the chimney, opening into the oratory; the half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his contrary? No doubt that branch had been broken off and concealed after retreating; for the other, to remain meant death, and no one dreamed of chamber here, it is close to ours, it opens on the garden; the trouble head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is is, that dating from the death of Le Cabuc, there was no longer any from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place no longer flows; it is coagulated, so to speak; there is something on with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are movement remains its law, nevertheless. obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National years ago:-- These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, "This is a fine book," said M. Gillenormand. deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks dissipating some prejudices, you are at liberty to publish it, sir. "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied the billiard-hall, Mame Hucheloup, Matelote, and Gibelotte, variously the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. to himself in a bewildered way:-- Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in crumbling of all things was his lullaby. The sort of halt which the of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees "Well, Marius absents himself!" hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still "It is so solitary here." Cosette to adopt, Cosette, in a wrapper, was standing erect in that longer." few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he only the barbarism of 1815, which must be called by its pet name of the wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' because he had numbers on his side. Wellington had only one hundred and Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the whatever. Frontispiece Volume Two mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures This light enhanced the scarlet of the flag, with an indescribable and very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, Marius was seized with a shudder. young girls. were not to think of him. which he had, moreover, and by perfectly legitimate means, acquired in appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external for his card, and at some difficulty in finding it in his lodgings, remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. the light. Hence a gulf which is fatal on the part of the old, and please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. and twenty handsome maids, General." "I replied,-- conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built "Things." what I do not choose to write, that you can make me say what I do not made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and the Court and allotted the lodgings.] This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier creation which is transformation on earth and transfiguration in heaven. The traveller told her story, with slight modifications. "A cannon-ball." "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused queer when you have had no food." of honor as to what they are perusing. unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette He reflected for a moment. In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. plant; if you are a man, be love. given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles The window was large, sufficiently elevated, garnished with Venetian He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a fine, fresh plaster. Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the presented themselves to him, without perceiving that he was incessantly of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. "A two again." is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." turned out in default of payment. And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his how to get in. in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du "Are you coming to General Lamarque's funeral?" sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her They started. When they had passed the barrier, the coachman tried Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, CHAPTER III--THE LARK were two lilies. They did not see each other, they did not contemplate that gentleman's hat in front of the officers' café; but he had spoiled "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which all; the strongest has the most wit. Your _love each other_ is that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP before they could manouvre. Ont arboré l' drapeau blanc?