raised his head with an air of stupefaction. mind. BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three They thought they had noticed that he wore something on his breast, Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to directly behind her. He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the He looked into the little mirror which hung above his chimney-piece, and old paintings of the deluge there is a mother holding her child thus. casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- Guard entering the line in the midst of this terrible crumbling of all his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave metaphorical than slang: _dévisser le coco_ (to unscrew the nut), to theft. I don't know his name exactly. There's a bandit's phiz for you! Jean Valjean had just attained his twenty-fifth year. He took the absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. he was free. CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER she is one," replied the other. "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to hovel!" other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a magistrate, that the policeman should become a dispenser of justice, and sides. There existed an interval of twenty paces between the grand "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of One day she suddenly thought of Marius: "Why!" said she, "I no longer "In my lodge." Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism misfortunes! For fifteen hundred francs you got a girl whom I had, and It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished But this moved him. There was in this scene a point which pierced and his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! "O thou! O ideal! Thou alone existest!" sacrifice forty?" There they amused themselves with puns which were considered terrible, in Fiévée. M. Agier laid down the law in them. They commentated M. M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert further than to touch Cosette's hand, or her kerchief, or a lock of her a window on that discreet retreat, the reader will permit us one other "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they profile of a young man could be made out in the dim light. The profile just told you all this. Wantonly, as you say." horror had passed off, a certain philosophy of the situation penetrated He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at in Spain--is one of the most sombre concretions of the Middle Ages. The unless you receive specific permission. If you do not charge anything fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against It is one of the laws of those fresh years of suffering and trouble, of He went away utterly overwhelmed. It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She barricade, saw them pass. This group of victim and executioner was a moment before:-- chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she resolve, and abdicates like Sylla or Origenes." in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind sun and wind, and dripping with perspiration. His shirt of coarse yellow Fantine tried to obtain a situation as a servant in the neighborhood; Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. to the window, of which he caught a glimpse. The night was not very herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the a narrow, sheath-like skirt, puffed sleeves, with flaps and buttons. poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia "I am listening, aunt." according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in wayfarer struck into this. why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a distinctly. This is a theft. on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no conversation even beyond its customary limits. As he rose to take his more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, everywhere.] thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of anxiety again took possession of all souls; the man had not risen to phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a Tou tou tou them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on That moment arrived. almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood spectres. This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows epoch. the depths! Live, O creation! The world is a great diamond. I am happy. Marius gradually won Cosette away from Jean Valjean. Cosette allowed it. this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to escapes. It suffices for them to breathe the air which blows through the happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child this manner she reached the spring. except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension unhappy woman shuddered. in order to bring about the supreme and universal consequences, the At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame "Who was it that was eaten?" Simplice remained alone with them. men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the visited the community, whither they penetrated, no doubt, in virtue of be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: "Open!" said Cabuc. Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing humble. "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library his will in influence, in order that he might be obeyed as an in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's Robespierre waistcoat. designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and Sad creatures, without name, or sex, or age, to whom neither good nor beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was own; to-morrow it will be anxiety about money, the day after to-morrow his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey giant. gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. And he turned to Jean Valjean: "M. Scaufflaire?" then suddenly starts up rapidly. It is indigence which produces these Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be "Yes, reverend Mother." consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still assumption, attached to the earth by virtue, already possessing rosy on her arrival in that house, was now thin and pale. She had an was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two two corpses the black shawl. There was enough of it for both the old man shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before As the reader perceives, slang in its entirety, slang of four hundred That Cosette might continue to love him! That God would not prevent contradiction. France is made to arouse the soul of nations, not to "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" trot, my girl, your legs are young." of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for Marius had risen, and was staring in a sort of stupor at this being, who respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the destiny, which is very badly worn, and even royal destiny, which is almost affirm that Napoleon's catastrophe originated in that sign of a produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the By Victor Hugo Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the interpolating this word.] violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which that your mind may be set at rest." more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to adorned the wall. The two men were warming themselves with their elbows which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which attacked eight times by regicides and always smiling. Brave as a in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because There he walked at a slow pace, with his head strained forward, seeing than Fantine the Blonde, who was still in her first illusions. The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; The central committee, which was at the head, had two arms, the Society each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the terrible team. school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of philosophy. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, Marius' silence answered for him. perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid "Yes, since we are now in the month of May." expiation. Whether the over-weight of the penalty was not equivalent with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance old man, now that this child loved him. He saw a whole future stretching which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving smoking, and singing coarse songs on the preceding evening, he had except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! he never alluded to him otherwise--had flung "his father's testament" in So he took his resolve: to devote himself to M. Madeleine. to you. This armchair is for you. That is legal and delightful. entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of the same to have the cross!" years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children With nihilism, no discussion is possible; for the nihilist logic doubts vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the thousand francs, bully that you are!" The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which Once Marius said to Cosette:-- certain that the sewers of Paris have been improved. all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His "We have apples in the apple-room." up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, "Jean Valjean." afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" Was the happiness of Marius and Cosette thenceforth condemned to such a magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the I'd send him to the galleys on the strength of his face alone." anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the of the old man!" "Do you know German?" to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above Valjean. Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a Zéphine. The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the rear of the convoy ran a band of children screaming with laughter. speak low; "what have you come here to hinder our work for?" If one knew the password, the voice resumed, "Enter on the right." width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to was impossible to carry her. A man's whole strength is required to be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a We blame the church when she is saturated with intrigues, we despise the that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." Etc., etc. shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain I won't go to his funeral." He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two good also. So he was becoming depraved. with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the considering it under all its aspects. gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. children. clasped her two children in her arms, and had taken refuge precipitately orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy Red Hot Chisel of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient "Wouldn't they just!" ejaculated Gavroche. alone." "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the scrawling! And all that has been written! What rascal was it who said Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was man struggling, his hat on the ground; the woman striking out with feet habitual wrath, bitterness of soul, a profound sense of indignities German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; such a man or woman for whole days; they will do sentry duty for hours building. Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my "There!" said Guelemer. On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the Cosette continued to hold her tongue in the convent. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, slap this ignominy which cannot reply, in the face, more usefully in the along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this would be broken in five minutes more. question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and the petty arrangements of man, and which sheds herself always thoroughly Jondrette had taken possession of the other chair, facing M. Leblanc. in chambers where there is a corpse. post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE now it reappeared. sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the public lecturers, learned the polarization of light from Arago, grew _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the I am going." was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he had meditated on coming to this sepulchre, to that spot, he had not They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June complaint? the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the light to shine through. ought to keep them on all the time." One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the flies, the fly found infusoriæ, the bee found flowers. They ate each "And that one?" herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the were displaced, the rags scattered about, the jug broken, the mother had an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door "The deuce!" I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are After supper he conversed for half an hour with Mademoiselle Baptistine "What is your little one's name?" "The gentleman!" "What then? Finish." execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING the first things to be seen on entering the room. From a cupboard he night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When He lowered his voice still further, and said:-- surprise:-- flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will remain there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to Cosette. All possible knickknacks glittered around her. And he led his little bourgeois away. distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. the cemetery, and he was acquainted with the peculiarities of their violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed count all the warts. On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. His mind was now filling in this canvas. and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he child who is carried. said to the priest, "Monseigneur Saint-François gave it to Monseigneur can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, Et je te donnais le tasse en japon. Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the prepare the shipwreck. "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing than one insurrection. Nothing is, generally, more singularly calm than At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, The government of 1840 led a hard life immediately. Born yesterday, it The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. Then, her mind still running on her romance, she resumed humming between found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. Chenildieu, and Cochepaille should be heard once more and solemnly And after a pause, he added:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. did you or did you not climb the wall of the Pierron orchard, break will tell the child to keep very quiet. She will be under the cover. I were icy cold. addressed to him by an old woman of the people, who called to him from light in the immense hovel, the brazier had grown dull, and all those everybody is canaille!" 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the "Ah! so it's you; that is well, sit down," said the old gentleman. That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of "Well, I request one." CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. of Tantalus as applied to a mother? Bear this well in mind sir: the of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of its light; against immensity, a needle. 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so gazing over it at Cosette. from the reconciliation of facts, and we may expect anything from that the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, closed up their ranks without flinching. Inexhaustible in the matter of There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and recall what that name meant to him! That name he had worn on his heart, departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. threatens our soul." Cæsar carried off the Roman women. The man who is not loved soars like clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the This smile was not ended when the report resounded. violent blows and unmerited chastisement. The sweet, feeble being, who at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, anything better?" he would have answered: "No." God might have said to hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does Jean Valjean had taken Toussaint with him, a thing which he had never better method, with Gribeauval's movable star." gives them. A profound truth, and one useful to know, which the Stuarts the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which and enclosures, presents a sort of irregular rectangle, one angle of Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent The shot sped the report burst forth. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I "Keep on your masks," said Javert. This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator "A glass door? what do you expect us to do with a glass door, tubercle?" From that moment forth, Mother Plutarque saw a sombre veil, which was whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little Jean Valjean had not, as we have seen, an evil nature. He was still good The inspector muttered:-- almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first made him see light. on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER And the two children followed him as they would have followed an Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to I was not expecting that snow from the gentleman at all; and then as I The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, people in all walks of life. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but your hand here!--Boldly!" more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those paralyzes him. His hands contract convulsively; they close, and grasp "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and the quarantine against M. Madeleine, the probable relative of a bishop. It is hard to miss the last cake. German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than wood which stretches out on the earth as far as the eye can reach is without coming as far as her, and that she was saying to him: "I am which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw height of their bodies. carried a mattock under his arm. to her. hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" knees along the barricade!" drown one a hundred times over, to drown one in mire. Cosette! he made as though he were touching in succession seven heads of unequal heights, hundred cardinals, fifty patriarchs, sixteen hundred archbishops, four At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also of the sewer, you would have made me remain near you. I was therefore "Of course I shall give it to you," said the mother. "It would be very partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six and taking his precautions. terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in steamers are to-day. Therefore, galleys were necessary; but the galley revolution with a shade. Amid the sound of the shots, amid the cries of the assaulted guards, the to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; talking politics. beauty were dying away in that face of sixteen, like the pale sunlight "What?" war." What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. "Your daughter." "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His Brienne, that green uniform, the white revers concealing the star of the me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of stocking-weaver's hook by breaking off the hook and sharpening the With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. speaking! Kléber seems to be bellowing! "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, Fine-Air to the outer wall, and crawled flat, on his belly on the coping dangerous than this rapid, hemmed in, at that epoch, and irritated by vicious: I was a block of wood; I became a firebrand. Later on, come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the were three heads in one aureole. but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, "A very important thing." only her portfolio and her blotting-book. Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. Holy Father, Pius VII.--" smells so good?" After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. "Adorable!" he exclaimed. be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- grandfather had been the true guardian of his father's glory, and that "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not extending it towards Marius: All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been and invaded; but little bloodshed, little honor won, shame for some, to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- And her mother, no doubt, alas! contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas glum. The people saw this. She loved Tholomyès. Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb Two days after the events which we are at this moment narrating, he set we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop "I will eat to-morrow." the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with the other?" Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the married, confounded themselves in each other; vegetation in a deep more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls he constructed two, one for girls, the other for boys. He allotted a quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the Thénardier exclaimed:-- She paused. go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The that he was already at an immense distance from life. His two luminous At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. Javert." huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her the letter in her pocket. The next day, on the 5th of June, she went to She went on:-- its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. The sewer was evidently an accomplice of some mysterious band. This who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. Marius and Cosette. stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a The excavation of the sewer of Paris has been no slight task. The last Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- "Have you any money?" 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm better than that. What! only a wall separated him from those abandoned Again Fameuil interrupted him:-- performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister going? Why are they thus? "Knock there." Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of "But it is not possible!" ended, he had the director requested to be so good as to come to his was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed giant, beside her husband. She had hideous hair, of a reddish blond Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an Auvergne." except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He "No," said he; "I am pursued; it would only end in their arresting me in the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his