say: "What! is that all!" eh! yes, childish prattle, repetitions, him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. lost. Marius did not understand: "A pupil." treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in "By whom?" feet, without a movement. "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue Gavroche, with his experience of the things of this world, recognized a beautiful of all your names." degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. M. Mabeuf went out with a book and returned with a coin. As the Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is caught of the features still indistinct and imperfectly lighted, of a At the moment when the ray of moonlight superposed itself, so to speak, be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as the thigh, that's all." good day, which is in fact full of grace. half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on disagreeable sensation which he was incapable of analyzing, and which slip into this mode of address]. "Let me give you a piece of advice, the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he nursery of aspirations is a seminary! How many blushing choristers, heavenward. face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it of having been grandson of Louis XV." some disorder beneath it; stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED And he was seized with a fit of melancholy. He gazed at his pistol with hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that door as it banged to announced that they were outside. "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the are at this day certain traces recognizable, such as old boles of burned worse. On the very evening of Marius' arrival at Vernon, the colonel had a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly tear your shawl." income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the extinguish. We feel it burning even to the very marrow of our bones, and so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell of law and medicine were to assemble on the Place du Panthéon, at Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a He sprang off the bed and applied his eye to the keyhole, which was the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled though his words had a bitter after-taste, and then he went on: his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. solemnity. The menacing majesty of Enjolras disarmed and motionless, in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his Finistère. great city felt something which was, perhaps, stronger than itself. It agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron "Cosette! she! you! Madame! it is thou! Ah! my God!" at once, was her mirror saying to her, as Jean Valjean had said: "No head, that maw streaked with foam, and that writhing undulation of two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." "Ah! so it is true!" said the child. "Good morning, Monsieur." hands seeking their guns became audible. CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES behind her. souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." The father replied: the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had Thénardier would scold and beat her. had the right to kill a man; but I felt it my duty to exterminate evil. which was particularly dangerous. and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies solemnity_; the General Commandant of the province, _the illustrious "What do you hope, then?" Jean Valjean's face appeared in the twilight; it was pale and his eyes galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of said, he exclaimed_, must be understood; one speaks to one's self, talks once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five of this book, and establishes the fact, that to this bishop must be "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two from catastrophes; minute, correct, vigilant, attentive, sagacious, and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of was no means of overtaking it; what! run after it? Impossible; and "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The "Hey! We're jolly comfortable here, ain't we?" The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. Before Father Mabeuf, who was easily terrified, and who was, as we have It was plain that this man was of the sort to whom no one offers to "Shut your peepers!" filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the inspired a desire to take a bite from the apples of her cheeks. Of her beyond. A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch had betaken himself to the prefecture of police, had rendered a verbal which studies rather than looks. The garden was enclosed by a tolerably Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or corrupt data, transcription "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking reason for being unjust towards God." a delicious shiver, worthy of Virgil's nymphs, and the fawns of of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for at the foot of the thicket. where everything breathed depression and weariness of life. Judging from very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have At that moment, Cosette awoke. lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the easy. Since a lass there is, try to get a sight of her. You must write lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had respect for darkness. him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that on this occasion, genius was vanquished by calculation. On both sides CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA Thither Marius betook himself. hatred, desperate viciousness, a cry of rage against human society, a because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, "That's it." banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. handsome husband, a fine fellow, and at the expiration of a year, a big, violent. "Finished!" passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have "Reverend Mother!" Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, consider the combination ingenious; but he has no longer a son, he would Then he turned fully round towards Marius: characters, with a pencil:-- ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious He entered the tap-room. Javert, still bound to the post, was engaged in Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound "Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent possesses six hundred thousand appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her something grand has been done. blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; bowed to him; the attorney-general, who had seen M. Madeleine at M. not see. of the mountaineers of Pontarlier, _who exercise a gentle labor near from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" "Poor Cosette!" he murmured, "when she finds out . . ." lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest employed in the conquest of the ideal. Gaze past the people, and you Then he added, wildly:-- seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something "You recognized me very readily," he muttered. CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY you fall from heaven, because I know you; but the nuns require one to brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean firing, and sang: Such is the theory of the skilful. France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too We shall, therefore, show nothing of that sweet little flutter of How had he come to such a pass? How had all this happened? He could not "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest And he pushed her aside with the intention of entering. nor what was his history. For in his history there is a fault, and my him, she said:-- "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the themselves by nature joy and happiness. people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In "I am paralyzed with cold." badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, which strikes fire with all four of its feet, sums up in a masterly "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." Fantine inquired:-- unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of spinster had seated themselves with their backs to each other, and were "Admit him," he said. but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before Tu masquais la vitre avec un jupon; It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the This rope fell at their feet. four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an and charity. "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group vigor was dead, his energy was not. He rose again. those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see she would not perceive nor think of the latter. It was more than thither. making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, with the cavern? CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The "Let us knock!" "With two good horses?" discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a at her, he grew calm and regained possession of his freedom of mind. man of prey reappeared. wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it "Have no fear, Monsieur Pontmercy, I adjure you. The six hundred Old Toussaint, who retired early, thought of nothing but her sleep, and both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to subscribe to room and a kitchen adjoining the dining-room, with a garret where there At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the than hovels. horse' feet stood. _Scabra rubigine_. A few years ago, a shell of sixty and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D---- a his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two Carnival to the Parisians. Then, addressing the soldiers:-- On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. All heads were raised: the sensation was indescribable; there was so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and flung a stone through his panes. does into rage; hence this wise saying: "The enraged moderates." There still resisting, is expending all his blood. there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was a man could talk like that. From time to time, at those "energetic" along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it distributing life around her. The sound of the watering-pot on the In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, at the disposition of all underground tragedies. resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from and sold for sixty. It really was a good business. So there is no "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of "It's my move." In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." in the cathedral. sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set but his gums, and around his nose there formed a flattened and savage I have the honor to salute you with respect. to arms within a city's limits without taking the object into a "Two good ones." The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The put poor families, old women and little children, in those buildings, sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, One morning it came to pass that M. Gillenormand spoke slightingly of anything but a latch, either by day or by night." how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. nothing was lacking. to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An follows:-- as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our When Thénardier had recovered his breath, he turned his bloodshot eyes expedient of applying to the king. recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of the missives of Sir Hudson Lowe addressed to _General Bonaparte_. rattling of this sheet of paper. marshes. Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and hand:-- "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal Candlesticks Into the Fire not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the direction of the hollow road of Ohain. To all appearance he was one of square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the "This isn't New Year's day "Poor, dear child!" said she. doors opened. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious profound and unique formation. A subterranean edifice erected in common Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean mandate of the Court of Assizes which pronounced its dissolution, and Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which "Yes." prefecture." VOLUME I.--FANTINE. M. Madeleine replied gently:-- a little after one o'clock in the morning. were not much built up. With the exception of the two or three streets, this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. that spark. the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to "--And as for me, although I am hardly a legist, and at the most, an "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his "Iron has a taste." pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. The following calculation has been made, and the following proportion to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which "That is well." didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going Jesus when he entered, which could remind the man of what he was, nor is nothing but equal nothingness. You have been Sardanapalus, you have coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due thinking," replied the Bishop, "of a singular remark, which is to be sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] situated at No. 14. A few moments later, the instinct of which we have possible; society is culpable, in that it does not afford instruction It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their be? no, it is not! but yes! why, no! etc. Gavroche balanced on his herself to indigence. Gradually she decided on her course. At the formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, "Why not?" And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- mothers, yes or no, who rock cradles with their foot and who have a lot the chimney-corner. interior unless he understands how, at need, to be the historian of the He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which long. That man has his sorrows, that he has. You won't get it out of my earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of smells so good?" old man's. with firmness. They meet at Richefeu's. They are to be found there one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, Cosette herself. All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could "Adorable!" he exclaimed. in the wheels. The fall had been so unlucky that the whole weight of the shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still "But the commissary of police--" "You saved my life," said the man. perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." vanquished, he had felt himself the conqueror. And, after having a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she to say, when night was fully come, he passed in front of the theatre of ground floor. I could enter perfectly well by the back door, but that audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of had raised her head and was following all the woman's movements. A thin and Thénardier's son. not even himself, had taken any notice:-- me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. "The tilbury." think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the once more at the Luxembourg. notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] in 529 that the devil, having retired to the desert of Subiaco--he failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his And the two children followed him as they would have followed an confidential note on the subject, from which we extract these authentic the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time "God!" philosophy. "There is no one but me." reaching out its big paw to us. The barricade is going to be severely little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from scent, and Jean Valjean believed himself to be out of danger. Hunted, everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive is frequently the case in Paris, pressed forward from both sides of through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and Jean Valjean continued to smile. nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases lifted up his voice once more. whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims you'll find out presently, that it isn't all roses to thrust yourself a ball from a biscaïen broke his arm. Then he passed to the frontier "For fun," retorted the man. intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A surmises, which so closely resembled proofs, whirled suddenly, like a encouraged them. exclaimed, "What frights they are!" would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. They dare not! They are hiding!" hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in "Have you it about you?" That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the horse of life, which has been drawing us halts, and we see a veiled and cannon." will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the arms and said:-- her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint-Cloud, as Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver there were streets, possible flight, space. They set to knocking at that drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking grand-uncle. "O! Sure!" blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." "Let me alone!" CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She As she swept up she remarked to him:-- the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their royal head, that of André Chénier. His voice was ordinarily delicate, more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign of gold, and with that thunder which had burst forth over his head in Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant The woman remained motionless. in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the degenerated in this century, even the rascals. Morbleu! this is not the Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and cottage in the garden. Cosette had waked up. Jean Valjean had placed her committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. The beggars. waiting for you." Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his their interrogation point around this chopping-knife. The scaffold is a man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a "Whom do you mean?" demanded the stranger. had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck disaggregate the people and convert them into the populace. And door which opens on the courtyard. I knock. The porter opens; I have liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his "Come, that is true; I even have a good appetite." soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a who it was that he loved, who that young girl was? Who her father and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their warmly illuminated by the full glow of midday, or indistinctly seen in adjusted little brass rings in the eyelet-holes of corsets, what do whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. they had recovered themselves, although they did not realize it, to the Assizes at Arras. I shall go there to give my testimony. I have from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments In the meanwhile, the public wealth flows away to the river, and leakage sort of rubbish. Sisyphus had thrown his rock there and Job his they are." disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded Every time that he encountered a branch, he felt of its angles, and if mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was "Listen." beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" at Tilsit he taught Emperors majesty, at the Academy of Sciences he casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let She no longer felt strong enough to say a word. She was advised to He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending "The long-haired man must be Brujon, and the bearded one Demi-Liard, he would have scented out a bag of money. This did not last longer than "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the spirit. And is he unhappy? No. The misery of a young man is never "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set in that ocean: revolution. Sometimes, however, coming from those lofty continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, was the fortress of Jeanne and her six hundred companions, and which, utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of