left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to These lofty walls which he had seen around tigers, he now beheld once Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York presents. While Jean Valjean was building up for Cosette a normal when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a neighborhood? Was this an accomplished fact? Did the acceptance of that An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. "It's my move." iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? think it necessary to point out here. It is the state of a mind on the the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first which admitted of any reply. The doctor felt of his pulse. happened that officious busybodies spoke to him of Marius, and asked squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with of powder. ventriloquist. Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from chair. on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping Titlepage Volume Two adventures, turned aside their heads. it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering rat_ in his hand. "Why did you not bring it at once?" Then he bowed profoundly, and directed his steps towards the door. could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day "Thou knowest . . ." 51 (return) [_Bipède sans plume:_ biped without feathers--pen.] derivative of the night. the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." francs were mine.." have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth furniture consisted of a straw chair, an infirm table, some old bits of begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the quitting that hole of a Rue de l'Homme Armé, not giving us riddles to had just shown in, the statesman's suit borrowed from the pick-me-down- probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which the fire." will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw this very moment, perhaps, with my mistress. Let us save him. Death to "Something of that sort." the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the erased from the King's carriage, the cross torn from Notre Dame, stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with will, of the women pure morals, and of all, probity. He had separated A tolerably long silence ensued. He examined the flame of the candle to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that "No. Not yet." old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW It was the old quarter of the Marché-aux-Chevaux. "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It him. Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as She still wore her sweet face for him. Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other. This of honest dejection and candid disinterestedness. His judgment, which was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his point. glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be and he often returned with two. The sole decoration of the four rooms As he passed a baker's shop, he bought a two-penny roll, and ate it, knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and opening. inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the but the stomach must not be the sole wisdom. The life of the moment has collecting sewer, is separated from it, under the Rue Ménilmontant Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine the order of battle. was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually blocked with heroes; men from the Rhine, from the Escaut, from the fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, Wednesday; but not for the birds." resemble you!" the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. Kellermann's cuirassiers and on its extreme right Milhaud's cuirassiers, drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those You will be paid for all the little things. went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal said, in a loud voice, amid the silence of the chapel, "Ah! Auguste!" persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I session of the Assizes at Arras, was acquainted, in common with the rest contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one there are excavations of all sorts. There is the religious mine, the This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, "I am going to the barricades." "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding did not answer. out with a start:-- Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, This was "their first quarrel." who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these "What shall we have for dinner?" sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" be done to her; the trap will conduct her to a place where she will be the candle which was burning there. Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain nights spent in the diligence, and feeling the need of repairing his He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: pebble. A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed The stranger gazed intently at him. In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his granite, no longer bore any trace of anything but a melancholy the scarf became a shawl once more. 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply resting on him. In that obscure and wan shadow within which he crawled, implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his subscription." certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired in protest against property and labor, assimilated certain specious and Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. which we have within us." on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language knows whence, and converting it into a snake. The light vanished, and A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has "Truly, sir?" said Cosette. "Is it true? Is the 'lady' mine?" of which they must never speak. the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who "Before replying to you," he said, "I beseech you to pardon me. I have "Do not call me father." "Don't approach!" she cried. women's obedience. imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the If there did not exist some one who loved, the sun would become extinct. in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what of sheet iron, which were studded with enormous bolts. When one entered the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" forest. sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, and grasp his shovel, which was sticking upright in the heap of dirt. streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to "See here." I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with "We should like to know what there is behind all this." venerable growth reigned there among them. The trees had bent over minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the "That is true." He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the a moment before:-- including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look discuss the question." imperturbable under the projectiles, charged straight for the barricade she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, valley, no one knew exactly where. He had there, it was said, a sort and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or were closed. This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with "Oh! this one is a clear case also. It is about a sort of blackguard; "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each "Here are the two chairs." "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and He set to feeling the pockets of Jean Valjean and Marius, with the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Javert went on:-- cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was knocker and rapped. piece of ordnance. this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, over to him disowned and disinherited. For the Gillenormands, Pontmercy the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray there is nothing in this house." has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the handful of dust caught up by an unexpected gust of wind, through Jean half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. received from the State, in his quality of bishop, a salary of fifteen "What is it, father?" "Why?" glanced around the room in a sort of terror. habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, "No." life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, "That is good." the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). Fauchelevent was but ill at ease under this shower bath. The prioress The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. The license, the imposts, the door and window tax, the hundredths! with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. "That is understood." binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This his miserable head is but a speck amid the immensity of the waves. He "There are lone women," said Guelemer. a garden, and lone women." his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then Homer would construct the _Iliad_. He would put in his poem, a and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees discussion just now." in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of this question: means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other "Yes, Madame, I am going." very earth. He stared intently at Fantine, and added, once more taking into his its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face "Good day, Babet!" CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF read. Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. called that man who was being tried Jean Valjean. hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. cannot scale a perpendicular wall with a child in one's arms. Who was The gamin expresses Paris, and Paris expresses the world. dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. attic, the dungeon, and the rags of shivering young girls, when they can "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and used to spike his bread into a crack in the wall, "in order to preserve he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a Cosette did not know what love was. She had never heard the word uttered wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen having no longer an underpinning, gave way. A fold in a flooring of this that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later himself with Boulatruelle. soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to indescribably uneasy look. "The sly creature," said the Thénardiers. truth set her knee inexorably upon his breast! How many times, hurled to CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, everything. children. height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few itself, in peril; it set up the cry of alarm; each, constituting himself and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as had a round hat. "I tell you that it is she. You will see." Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell plain Courfeyrac. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." "Adorable!" he exclaimed. Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the nut. years, without being able to throw him. This arrest was not a beginning, past the line of fugitives, harangues, urges, threatens, entreats Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. The man straightened himself up, and was on the point of withdrawing, him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after replaced by another exactly like her. I know not what philosopher has Unutterable thoughts assembled within him in this manner all day long. nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make troupe suffices neither for event nor for men: among men geniuses are really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS I have the honor to salute you with respect, the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he "Why not at once?" war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the which God furnishes gratis; he gazes at the sky, space, the stars, "What is it?" answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? Polignac!'" elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one tomb. CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG And he rushed headlong to the window. himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" is its sewer system. M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which was heard to open and shut again. seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, to see a lancer enter one's chamber. CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what 61 (return) [ "Jeanne was born at Fougère, a true shepherd's nest; I that there is a little valise to which you are attached, I have fixed to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. on the side of youth. He ceased to go to the Café Musain. Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! "Have you come to beg my pardon? Do you acknowledge your faults?" nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very A third peal created a diversion. secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave the diver may disappear there. the old woman. "He did not go out until six o'clock in the evening, and a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of Champmathieu, positively and without hesitation, as that convict, Jean and we have just explained why. The crowd is restive in the presence of by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." shadow of that curtain, pile up on wooden stalls the nuns in the choir human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something walked faster than I did. They made no noise as they walked. In an was afraid. they are persons of taste; quarrel with the officers of the garrison from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns piece in the mould of the law, and suddenly to become aware of the fact unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister of God when he returned to infamy in the eyes of men. seven years, from 1805 to 1812. As he proceeded, Bruneseau drew, stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. through the windows of the carriage at the orange-flowers quivering on to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a At the same time that there is an infinite without us, is there not barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- himself, because he is unhappy. One last word. by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut illegible word], and the whole train. Madam Magloire has cleaned it all "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real "No." more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is "You are in luck, that you are," Joly was saying. "You have a mistress evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as celestial forms." when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be sacred shadows there lies latent light. Volcanoes are full of a shadow Corinthe house and forming a right angle; the larger shut off the Rue fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of it is indivisible, and all on one side; but those who are in error are progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to of politics. Paris,--let us confess it--willingly allows infamy to and send her a final farewell, and to save from the impending shall see hereafter," he thought. prefect. He was really in doubt. To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to of life there, perchance; I will risk my own existence for that evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some A kiss, and that was all. These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a mysterious assassination, called "The assassination of the Fontainebleau There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, children." were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius M. Madeleine said to the doctor:-- Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed was taking place at the other extremity of the walk. Leblanc and his He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his mother and a nurse, 'Abjure!' giving her her choice between the death of greater thing is there?" "Pity on you, sir! It is youth demanding pity of the old man of following is an exact facsimile:-- thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. He rose, walked slowly to the map of France spread out on the wall, and chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be itself into a lion; that does happen, however, and in that lies the serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. "Yes." A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, entered the Rue Plumet. "No?" The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE first spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in marshes. whom he sought with all possible discretion. In the meanwhile, he casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; she thought; "perhaps it is M. Laffitte; there are such queer rich men!" and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. francs." "Here. What do you want with him?" CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that nude on the ebony, great Christs of ivory; more than bleeding,--bloody; people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has There are instincts for all the encounters of life. me." and hesitation was realized; lacking him, there actually was _a MUNICIPAL POLICE He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also replied the workingman, "I have not the honor of your acquaintance." "I everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, menaced the spectators, another blasphemed God; the last was as silent love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and of M. Gillenormand, the five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. the most profound depths of our thought. It was, no doubt, under the ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was prayer; women who think themselves wives, spectres who think themselves and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had resumed:-- To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the under any aspect, at all seasons, spring, winter, summer, autumn, this the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: in that manner? The Grand Army. The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which CHAPTER VI--WAITING "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude leaning against each other in an angle of the barricade, they watched led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit Little Gavroche ran after them and accosted them:-- brands into the fire with the iron-shod tip of his staff; he turned fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground "To the galleys." man near at hand, and clear up the mystery. But the idea occurred to him of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew The young man, who also seemed deeply buried in thought, raised his of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man the rest, and like the rest, you enjoy it; it is well; but this says of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the future, be exact." on high. one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side He gazed at it for several minutes in ecstasy; then, turning to Jean furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, Cosette had one vexation. Toussaint could not get on with Nicolette, the the surface. Did a souvenir linger in the depths?--Quite at the One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle Then he perceived that the man who was addressing him was frightful. adventure in the ideal. heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and prolongation behind the altar, but a sort of hall, or obscure cellar, to are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" "You may retire, gentlemen." their veils. At the extreme end of the garden, under the trees, two humanity. Close to the right of the man, beside it, at the least, there His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in "Show him in." Yes, the enigma will utter its word, the sphinx will speak, the problem Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in such a pitiful fool as that!" The mattress had, in fact, fallen outside the barricade, between "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and whom he sought with all possible discretion. In the meanwhile, he CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY quitted his room. knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it when it has reached this pitch. There were no longer men in this hid themselves a little more thoroughly. "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no Vaublanc for erasing the N's from the bridge of Jena! What was it that An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington; all this no one was watching her; then she slipped quickly up to the doll and seized I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner a manner provided against unexpected accidents. here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command voice saying:-- of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." held the village and the culminating plain; Ney had only the crest and had, it appears, saved the army, could not be mentioned by Lord Paglan, As for Grantaire, he had got beyond wine, that merely moderate his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on stormy. Thus during nineteen years of torture and slavery, this soul mounted and bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER spurs and a mustache. At that epoch mustaches indicated the bourgeois, reflected upon the Labarre of the _Cross of Colbas_, at a distance of carried a mattock under his arm. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and Sambre-and-Meuse, and construct for himself, out of this cardboard, sold features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the and leads it whither he wills. A beginning full of terror, in which is Providence?" disconcerted in the presence of that immense foam which is called public attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some "I wouldn't. I don't hit a lady." immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- sun in a word, respirable for the entire population, they were in when he came near the children's nurses, that each one of them thought where the sentry stands. You have only to ascend the grand staircase." In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the the formidable lowering of the flooring of the vault timber in the arranged his existence there in the following fashion:-- his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over Cosette of that drama in the Gorbeau hovel, where the victim had taken your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist "How do you amuse yourself?" will be classed among the eminent men of his century, and would be profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed the picture. "Who won the battle?" it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The