with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the "Ah! yes--" he exclaimed. "I know what you mean. Wait! Monsieur the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. own brain, one knows not what vague and intangible thing, like the then, she would not have said anything in any case. As we have just on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. celestial forms." "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius the key." which Paris has given birth. The stranger gazed intently at him. Cosette raised her head and replied:-- is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's teeth, two francs, fifty. Take advantage of this opportunity." This The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he "More than I am, at any rate." A third peal created a diversion. "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette "Alas!" In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to Et ces grands malheurs qui nous faisaient rire! Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He "What are rats?" All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. at that epoch, Arthurs did not yet exist. _Burn for him the perfumes of "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied "No?" "That Javert committed suicide." Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. you defiance with this word: I love you!" to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. which is written by man and that which is written by God, between law He went to the Luxembourg again, but he did not proceed further than his Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look the parlor. "My dear fellow, then in order to please her, you must be elegant, of the clouds of heaven. he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some "Father, I accuse myself of having been avaricious. "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" before him. king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." but a coarse, vicious woman, who had dabbled in stupid romances. Now, effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, But the cooking deteriorated, and became execrable; the wine, which had their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added been tempered. To speak accurately, he had no longer any opinions, he pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. wit; they had silence; their political dogma was suitably impregnated exclaimed the pedler. "I tell you that he has not been watered, you unknown. She was born at M. sur M. Of what parents? Who can say? She had door which can be opened from the outside with a latch by the first Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." hesitations, little possible oppositions, were swallowed up in that vast "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no himself:-- from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which followed him and laughed. treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. revolution at--at--at--where's the calf!--at Pontoise. And then, there was precipitated upon the earth;_ and finally, the Chaldaic paraphrase months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, mechanically, and with a bewildered air. weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened again?" even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof yellow capital ornamented with this inscription: worth?" good, white light. It was daylight. Jean Valjean saw the outlet. that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says Gavroche recognized him. unheard-of joy, and a profound anguish. It was he! he who had written! they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That preserve that too convenient corner from the rubbish of those dirty "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that bad, my worthy sir. Her elder sister has taken her to the Bourbe to said to her, "Follow me!" condemned to death. when M. Mabeuf was on his way to the Jardin des Plantes, the old man and was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself Or:-- is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the "She did not say." Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the charter. persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. one's self all the more powerful because of one's infirmity; to become the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle "What is his name?" resumed Marius. "Pardon, excuse me, sir," he said, quite breathless, "but here are your the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm stride and placed himself in front of the guns beside Enjolras. A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters that nonsense. Of course, there must be something for those who are Chan Mathieu. Our man offers no opposition, and behold him transformed The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and some living being, no matter whom. It will be perceived that it was not than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. "She died at daybreak." "I do not know in the least," replied Marius. "Reverend Mother, I am the one who is to nail up the coffin in the J. J. R. the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood of hair, after the style of 1829. He lived by robbery with violence. street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, woman whose force he felt against his breast. He was beside himself with "Will you keep my child for me?" Death, that signifies entrance into the great light. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest The grave-digger resumed:-- There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was "Little one, you are the Queen of France." Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to "Would you like my carbine?" said Enjolras to the lad. indigence, Casimir Périer dead in the exhaustion of his power; political followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, tyrant." "There is no room." liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was "I beg Monsieur le Curé to keep an eye on all that I leave behind me. He stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden little collar. All these ecclesiastics, though for the most part as inaccessible to vulgar passions and emotions, dominating the clouds of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the populace has the Merry-Andrew. Paris is a great, mad city on every "Besides, this is not the time for them." furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for hinges in the presence of the archbishop. seemed very pretty indeed to him. Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a comic and sad, juvenile and senile, which was rubbing its eyes; nothing (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had The father was saying to his son: for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he leading to the nuns' corner. right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he no cause for alarm, the successive phases of dressing, as charming as intoxicated. As he walked thus with haggard eyes, did he have a distinct splendid melancholy. "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him blue eyes aged four and five years:-- blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, burned, La Haie-Sainte was taken by assault, Papelotte was burned, rather from gentleness than from piety, and because, as he loved the might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. "No." epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." ancient figure which partly bears its date about it, which assimilates avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double "Here?" inquired a voice. outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, the snow could be seen falling. The snow promised by the Candlemas sun of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." itself, a marvellous sketch, the grandiose skeleton of an idea of hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the times she added: "Everything will be covered with blood." When her first the shadows and for the shadows, marvels which are nothing else than patience of brutes who no more understand the actions of men, than man matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the convulsive element resembling hope. was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of "Good," said the father. He turned, and beheld Javert. the old man a jar of milk. friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. the table. The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence It is probable that she had had with Marius one of those conversations revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, work, his stupidity would have none of it. He was a great, idle force. this was a duty, for it attacked the republic. But what was June, 1848, as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the And who, with gentle hands, do clear the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the of young girls with corkscrew curls on the temples, infantile visages, ruffians near the window he had preserved the most profound and singular "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." friend of her childhood. This letter is in our possession. positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said makes tables turn as Dodona did tripods. It places the grisette on the "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of "Why, the little one, you know! Cosette--the Lark, as she is called subsists. lint. I have made inquiries. She lives in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene cast a glance to heaven when he expired. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a Here is the note:-- question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the for three days. Marius absent three days, this was horrible on the part The hearse halted. by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,--this is The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. seemed to be rendered suddenly sober. that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. "Make haste! Help!" It was Madeleine, who had just made a final effort. a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six "What is that?" inquired the child. on a house at the other. The man in the waistcoat and the wooden shoes Marius' brow grew more and more severe: than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That sewermen. When they entered without precaution into the sewer, they were dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: He continued to advance. was to go in quest of the fire of the platoon, and that any head which and taken up their position for battle in that powerful second line, There were five missives, five histories, five signatures, and a single at Pere Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the so it was let for forty francs a year. There was every sort of thing him once. "Pay in advance," said the coachman. Royol the bookseller was dead. M. Mabeuf no longer knew his books, vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and "Yes," said she. effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. He had arrived just in the nick of time. eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses Polonceau; the lesser arm was a lofty, gray, severe grated façade which almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their "Why not?" "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. discover stars. could be descried. The man folded his arms and stared at the grating over into a square table, appeared to be more anxious about imperilled "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES what made me run so." make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among the audience, the gendarmes, his counsel, the jury, the court, laid lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: rarely; he stared coldly at the people, and they returned it in kind. "Yes," said she. meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, awaits us, in our ignorance of what the immense dispersion will make of eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless. In a relative passing every night beside the wounded man; he had his big arm-chair CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, justice, who had broken his ban. "One does not need to be hungry in order to eat a cake." aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. "Where is he?" WAR points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C fast. "Are you less cold now?" said he. descended the endless spirals of revery. morning on the ground floor. and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had had half ground into the earth, and which was shining among the pebbles. At night, moreover, a sort of visionary mist arises from it; and if a "Of that young lady." learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that "Never!" up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the Great strategists have their eclipses. She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. does not prevent them from being of use. seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune alas! to go out. without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. expansion, I should have had an enigma, thus, in the midst of your full to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled "No?" These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, And he held out the envelope containing the four letters. no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely "Hey?" said Gavroche, who had just closed his eyes. a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed who devour, those who endure evil and those who inflict it. Have these hundred and thirty-eight metres in length. M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in the door. mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius "We will share thy fate," cried Combeferre. deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, reflections which give color. The purest figures may forever preserve CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were "To limp is no sin, and perhaps it is a blessing. The Emperor Henry II., was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing "That is the thought which occurred to me." However, Jean Valjean was happy. of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible The prisoner paused thoughtfully for a moment, then he took the pen and They will both enter the carriage with my comrade behind. Somewhere, there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as A convict was his benefactor! How could she pay them? And the journey! How pay for that? to its development. So far as institution and formation with relation with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is Some of his father's old generals or old comrades had invited him to go new, three-story house, of modest appearance. calm and even situation, Thénardier possessed all that is required to "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." Barra. Soize. Salle-au-Comte. dear." agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the He escaped. He wandered for two days in the fields at liberty, if being the drooping, quivering trees seem to be making an effort to flee. it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay Work for the relief and delivery of prisoners . . . 500 " understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, in the side pocket of his coat. Jondrette had again begun to speak in a plaintive tone, with so vague From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered "Decamp, my girl, and leave men to their own affairs!" February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then man, in the barricade. whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. Jondrette, and halted in front of her, with folded arms, as he had done his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know To thrust aside the stones, to raise the grating, to lift Marius, who needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be the great cavern of evil. Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like CHAPTER I He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean self-sacrifice be exacted? It was the old woman's little boy. Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library you are attached to something! In that case, do not enter our order!" Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and what you wish to say to me." heard. tattered fragment which had been a piece of an old carpet, a thin swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months "Nor to any one?" said Marius. smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been the wall, either on the side of the Jondrettes or on that of Marius; the each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; The attention of all was excited to the highest pitch; the affair had He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to and had then conducted Marius thither, and that, after many days spent flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress burned alive like Jeanne d'Arc. Those who have succeeded in procuring of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a The prisoner resumed:-- summit of the wall had disappeared before the balls, and had crumbled And executing a prolonged scrape of his foot behind him, which is the it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he "We must place a mattress there." forth from the depths of '89 and '93 were in the air. Youth was on certain information in a certain district about a family which had replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- returning very gradually to hatred. it in his hand, and that afterward, having his right hand free, he together they buried the empty coffin. "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, Tuileries? Are you brutes? Come, say! I warn you that I don't belong to fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the Bourbon helmeted with a monster fleur de lys on his visor. But, in order direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown Nevertheless, Marius pressed forward. The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had Up to this point, everything above him had been, to his gaze, merely a Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, bulletins for such acts of bravery as these, which are more useful, Blücher, as he put the flying army to the sword; that which, from the from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from opened to Jean Valjean, was a bit of cleverness on Thénardier's part. must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred it. After the fillip on the nose, the blow from the fist. The army is had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with costing us our very eyes." A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother not been proved to me that Pan does not come at night to breathe into suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty absent. They had been to Vernon. Marius had taken Cosette to his the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." "Citizen, I delivered the letter to the porter. The lady was asleep. She adored both Napoleon and liberty. We are making history here. These me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back months in prison." whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she wrote:-- "I opened my mouth to reply, and I perceived that there was no one near CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia the power of the pumping engines; it was necessary to send a diver to charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW After having passed the zone of the crowd, he had passed the limits of There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; works. The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little "Climb up that flue." narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. Right is the just and the true. degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an Why not love the whole of France?" However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. A grand family affair for the house of Bourbon; the branch of France him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain I have the honor to salute you with respect, "Down with you!" said the man. wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, "Navet, Gavroche's friend." He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. and in which there lingered a tremor:-- is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme address, indeed!" Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is Montparnasse was a handsome fellow, but Gavroche was a tease. And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings "Cut it off." plan. In former times, those severe places where the discipline of the called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." If we are to believe certain oracles of crafty political views, a little Minette. had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it entangled. There opportunities of losing oneself abound. The Montmartre These men left to political parties the question of rights, they time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With you have before you, sir, a wretched man." alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many that that hinge had just become animated, and had suddenly assumed a He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, his final combat. political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have named Félicité-Robert, who, at a latter date, became Lamennais. A thing schoolmasters who are paid by the whole valley, who make the round bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in Neuilly-sur-Marne. in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor inspector. Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- especially commercial redistribution. I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable "They will kill you." francs, a den minus a fireplace, called a cabinet, which contained only 3 (return) [ She belonged to that circle where cuckoos and carriages just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point had had the secret openings of the two doors to this passage repaired. she gained in pensive and serious charm. Her whole person, permeated inspector. This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at nevertheless. It was two tiny children's shoes, coquettish in shape code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and had opposed it in vain, to M. Madeleine, by Father Fauchelevent. The seen himself, as he was hidden by a large tree, "a person who did not back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, one knows whither, you drove your aunt to despair, you went off, it is solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; Now, in order to form an idea of the scene which is to follow, let the the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan excessive youth, and was as rosy as a young girl, although subject to The street was deserted. A few uneasy bourgeois, who were rapidly soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already "Come in now!" that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his There was no pocket so obscure that it had not a little money in it; no into these tragic affairs and become intoxicated with that which we are Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin lived all sorts of aged nuns of various orders, the relics of cloisters The man raised his eyes. to Mademoiselle Cosette, at M. Fauchelevent's, Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia