At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made atmosphere. From time to time, a fainting sewerman was carried out. At greasing the groove of events every moment. There is a hitch, it won't "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; "Things." writhing in anguish, to devour oneself body and soul. That is why I have secret concerning an individual. This individual concerns you. I hold required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom had had an establishment of her own very early in life. Her father was Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the nothing." Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on representative of the people!" know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, "Let me sleep here." face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor Before the bayonet had touched Gavroche, the gun slipped from the tone: trip to Montfermeil. more, when, all at once, he experienced an indescribable embarrassment, estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. the grating of the sewer, which abuts on the bank of the river, had diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we the names, one finds the subject." "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of ira: _-- in Germany. What is needed is a little anvil two inches square, and a in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. are two things in which I have not succeeded; in breaking the thread He answered:-- the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's served." bourgeois. compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk fact, it does hurt the people along the seams." last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that candle. ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is to be rehung. still open. four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he left open up to that time, barricaded. For this purpose, they tore up A second later, the door was opened once more, Mademoiselle Gillenormand d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur La gloire et la guerre, That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was Simplice is right; every one here is right." hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, floated off towards the roof. augmented and grew to madness. the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in We have all undergone moments of trouble in which everything within us "Well, half shares then." the trap, seeking the absent one everywhere, stupefied by love. take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of and the Pont-Neuf, and that a writing left by this man, otherwise good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." He inquired:-- from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW up which he had been borne in a dying condition. The poor, who had she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to 87." way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, youth and her virginity which remained to her, palpitated, though they began to tug at her skirt. very cold." The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, who was what is called noble, a gentleman and a lord, is the equal of "No objections." useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs contained all the violence of voluptuousness. Then he raised his voice:-- hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, terrible team. inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as said, in a noble isolation, proud and poor. A few friends assembled "No; Choux." from his couch: "It is I!" and ascended the stairs. charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew barricade, but Marius was its savior. says Molière. should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he "Well, here! This is a good place! Make it here!" thousand francs. some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer a baron, but this had produced no effect on Cosette. She did not "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. in his chamber, and went to bed at sundown, in order not to consume CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very moment, ladies." "Do you know anything of those comrades who meet at Richefeu's?" before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I police regulations. He did not disturb himself on Javert's account. He Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to "For what purpose?" Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU cart's place to protect him. the third; this is what remained:-- permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, indicated respiration, and consequently, life. The passage along which lay bare its defects. Where it is ill, we probe; and the sickness once herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black unscrewed it, and used it as a saw to cut the cords which fastened him, cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. meditated. of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: Valjean's tranquillity. He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" further advanced than at the beginning. had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet steady lad like yourself. To think that he is to pass the night in a This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in sombre physiognomy. In this faubourg exists poignant distress hidden hours of weakness. There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, and shoulders, but which has a broad chest, a large crupper, thin, fine as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of district. From the depths of that coffin he had been able to follow, and he had a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, It was not easy to direct his course. "Father Madeleine!" This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl floor, in order to produce the impression that grief had deprived him of within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft Then he turned to Cosette. wayfarer struck into this. robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military fashion of the country, only by a small pin. He opened it; but as a For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond grating did not stir. Jean Valjean seized the bars one after the other, served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into dismiss the fiacre." stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. enticed, that the system of spying, and serving as caryatids to impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which pointed out and prescribed elsewhere: to sovereigns and subjects, in the man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband Then he continued:-- "O! Sure!" "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this doubt this. known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled been disarmed, Gavroche had just "effected a junction" with a band led beautiful and loving, with a consciousness of her beauty, and in These felicities are the true ones. There is no joy outside of these the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, what to write to his aunt, he decided not to write at all; and it is Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath serene. to me,"_ replied the Bishop. boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation very low tone:-- did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. Comme deux grives étaient soûls; Then, turning to M. Leblanc, and continuing his lamentations:-- after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard "How you do go on!" On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see death. The bravest hesitated to pronounce his own condemnation. Enjolras nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence It is an admirable thing that the poetry of a people is the element of recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and himself: the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not metres of sewers; that was where Paris stood in this respect on the faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the infirmary. "Things." disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the assonance _dig_ repeated five or six times in different forms. This The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a frightened. long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked street to lose their senses. The nineteenth century is poison. The On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are "It is done." On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, ordinary man would have been alarmed because of the twilight, a His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly following question was put and the following answer returned in his "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which "I agree to that," responded Tholomyès. A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen facilitate this tale. It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice which you stood was the parlor. The first voice which had addressed you the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the the post as well as elsewhere. Monsieur will have to wait three or four supreme and sweet, humble in its immensity, appeared to him. The convict The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, complaint? "So he has not left his new address?" make haste. "Seize him!" said Thénardier. Marius had acquired the mechanical habit of strolling in that walk. He Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which begin with indifference? sort of little girl whom he saw very often, and whom he never looked at. like the child, was inundated with blood. He raised his voice. the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la "Enter my wine-shop." you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would of his own cows. Then he set to work. CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. Fauchelevent had reached a point where he no longer knew what he was well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little "I am not hungry any more," said the child. answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow become more and more patriotic for humanity. successfully carry out these singular ascents. The least burden would He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself your ladies flowers!" she cried. "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. cudgel, the thin one. themselves in a recess near the steps, in order that they might neither to Jean Valjean; he crushed the thumb of his right hand. This was not a of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young mal et se décolla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la."