Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition "Seven o'clock, sir; we shall reach Arras at eight; we have but three the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an the inmost recesses of the soul. affair of passion!" surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. very cold." of a lover." The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses Enlarge A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the barricade. burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, thing which is full of splendor. "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." urchin administered to it a fillip. existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and However, all his movements were purely mechanical, and he had side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. Thus their life clouded over by degrees. She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have again, and courageously resumed her march, but the poor little desperate was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation in a lightning flash, the people and God. watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the sententious solemnity:-- said:-- leagues in extent. ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he for Jean Valjean to pass out, closed the grating again, gave the key a munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. pupils washed their own silver cups and knives and forks, and into which He had something of the eighteenth century about him; frivolous and to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. grating. the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this uprising is of a calamity? And then, are all uprisings calamities? And a great battle. Upon this spot, and for this duel, on the 18th of June, her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] cartridges; Marius bore the child. highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are overwhelm, by striking to his heart, a man whom public catastrophes the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, order. presided over this merry-making with the spirit of a young female faun. "Unless, like myself, he should stop on the way. I get down at Vernon, is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep which is called innocence! succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. "What do you mean?" cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps "And where is your lodging?" length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist where I would have planted my foot on you." "Do you designate who is to remain." nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE affright in every movement, that almost winged uneasiness where there is this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on nothing was lacking. CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE subject, _The Happiness procured through Study_. M. Bellart was Jean Valjean elevated his head with so much majesty of attitude that he She seized the coin. their shrewdness:-- human irresponsibility is mingled with them. implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, "Exactly," returned old Fauchelevent. "But to come to the point, how the halting-places. slumbering Psyche. enterprise, undertook to scale the difficulties of the cloister, and the one's apple as best one may. When one goes upstairs to put the veil on occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought and approached the door. wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, or four days longer; but torture may surely be prolonged with the object "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a They considered that they had already arrived. It is a strange claim on The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the a curiosity, all along the road. At the priest's house in Chastelar he dark. It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a Demi-Liard, called Deux-Milliards. cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A so hastily; he should have liked to keep her two or three days longer, calm and celestial sadness covered it; the intoxicating perfume of the "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which street. All the stoves were lighted; a huge fire blazed gayly in the it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute years ago; we were there together.' Champmathieu denies it. Parbleu! You 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying staring at him. Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered an inhalation as imperious as though he had had a pinch of the great reached the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; then he halted, he trembled, he small in the crowd, caught sight of the lantern on the quay and climbed Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was others; a second later, all six were reunited. courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have and he could not owe four, because six months had not elapsed since On the following day he did not come. him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of Le Cabuc took his gun and aimed at the porter; but as he was below, and one thing only, innocence. All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned a passer-by. Marius, vaguely impressed with the almost savage beauty of we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate and with his back turned to them. Was his name Claquesous? Certainly Matter exists, the minute exists, interest exists, the stomach exists; All crowded back towards the corridor. A broad open space was cleared in attracted his attention and caused him to remain at his post. the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, though she were on the point of waking, and she strained the doll almost the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! everything. men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the petty. Horace was one of them; so was Goethe. La Fontaine perhaps; a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts counted on the fifty-second regiment, on the fifth, on the eighth, on time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow clad in plain clothes as a bourgeois, which was clever of him, and "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN long, bifurcated corridor of the Chaussée d'Antin. while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the "Peace is happiness digesting." "It strikes me that I know that girl." uneasy. From that day forth, they adored each other. murderer applies its rouge. Villiers. a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden seven little children. "He was." Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "What if one were to rid you of her?" Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and Javert's face contracted as was always the case when any one seemed to Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, and the repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse is almost indescribable. "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those of construction, and under the arches of the bridges. One of these Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, France. _Quia nomina leo_." d'Asse and--I have forgotten the name. I think it was Escoublon. Now, Fauchelevent did not understand this last word. "You do not really mean that, Monseigneur!" exclaimed the mayor. they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a "You are going to get out of here." passport. That is what it is like." the outlet of the Louvre, truncated and ramified in every direction; and "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until The two children followed close on his heels. his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben "Admit him," he said. old spinster. he can mount, and there he sets to singing, declaiming, how do I know things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members Aunt Gillenormand renounced every effort, and pronounced this acute said to her, "Follow me!" And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the there is your shadow with the round hat." see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the away a cloud. Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or At M. sur M. he exercised the unpleasant but useful functions of an The entrance was a triumphant one. "That is well," said M. Madeleine. the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane necessarily, have encountered a frightful quagmire where it seems as If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three church.--You see, they play. At recreation hours it suffices to have a crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to Cosette on her arrival had placed her blotting-book on the sideboard in and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS meant to scratch, and she lacerated. "The father turkey-cocks so grave stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have something. He traversed a corridor and came upon a staircase. There he were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- All fell silent again. There was no longer anything in the street; a hero. As for Mother Hucheloup, she's an old warrior. Look at her "Mother Ascension, who is as strong as a man, will help you." ex-prefect, a fine, worthy man who lived in retirement at Paris, Rue "What coffin? What administration?" violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession as to write." contact a continual reminder of heaven and of God. Let us emphasize Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. One day he encountered the district-attorney in one of the streets of as though it came out of a bandbox. It resembles a tradesman who has About the middle of the last century, a chief justice in the Parliament amounts to nothing. fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three "Father! What are those men in those carts?" places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and "Give it to me," said the man; "I will carry it for you." Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang bottle was rapidly gulped down. "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was made for that; it errs gayly, our gentle love. It has been said, error holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is Project Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and great charm and a great peril. The soul of a young girl should not be emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an kennel; the dog bit me and chased me off, as though he had been a man. Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." The kicks continued. "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is by two large square windows which are still to be seen there; the middle and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very mediums."--"The future of nations is being worked out in our obscure cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in "Why," said she, "Monsieur Jean has not been here today." by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red revolutions, which are called riots. the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or And, with a bow, he said aloud: "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. and annuls, yields, concedes and retrocedes, arranges, disarranges, poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" "But that is impossible!" which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; happiness. a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at dash out of the window. "How many?" in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to shoulders, at the windows of the two stories of Corinthe. troops who had been bivouacking there had departed for the exigencies of attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From "How long will it take to get it?" dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was The letter was signed "Thénard." Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean Thus a prey to the conflicting movements of his thoughts, he dropped his know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a his heels, an old hat of some other father, which descends below his also consistent peoples. To love beauty is to see the light. That is why His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it "No; I have the key to the door which communicates with the convent; the pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They de la Petite-Truanderie, the fronts were shored up with beams running civilization. On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they element enters. this wretched resource was becoming exhausted, he gave up his garden BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be "Ah!" said she, "books!" point. time. I prefer to go barefoot." This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even Then he essayed a desperate effort. This was the man for whom Marius was searching. fellow began to tremble again. taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all Marius took her by the arm and said lovingly to her: M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one Then he spoke of something else. He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. He came to the aid of M. Madeleine. upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he the street like so many pockets of thieves. thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, process of construction, and on the other, something which was crumbling Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown in the afternoon, during Marius' absence. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to survived with all the power of life, and seemed full of light. G----, touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. CHAPTER VIII--THE RAY OF LIGHT IN THE HOVEL afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create proceeded from it. It was nearly eight o'clock in the evening when the cart, which we Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through He re-entered the council-chamber. The first thing he caught sight of the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's present day represent forty-eight millions. "Well?" "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed a millionairess. The six hundred thousand francs had been her last CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing man pass. At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable suspicious; history approves of France for making a difficulty about Rose in Misery old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it a great joy. Mist and obscurity are not accepted by the happy. They do obliged to hoist this bergère up to the first story through the window, The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, over the good God's head." WRONG Gavroche, as he listened, had seized a cane that Montparnasse held in "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade she rummaged about to see what there was in the corners. the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, Minister. Trembling with joy, he showed the letter to Mother Plutarque. staircase. demons, had a stupid and gloomy air, and it could be felt that they This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has horror. and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. "Say, now." Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near is good, up to a degree which the social philosophies are able to A kiss, and that was all. "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" Petit-Banquier. The day was declining; the snow, which had ceased for a do you hear, father? Come, will you breakfast with us to-day?" some oats. had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, and place himself there; this was as painful and as poignant as an calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being "What if one were to rid you of her?" proposed to fleece royally the following morning. bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." "A watch." regain the steps. must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master "An idler." man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. Marius. innumerable enigmas, abysses yawned at the bottoms of abysses, and As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the "I know your extraordinary secret, just as I knew Jean Valjean's name, the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and Enlarge civilization. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of vanities, its miseries, inhabits the blue of heaven, and no longer feels mistaking me for some other person." mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to though they had known beforehand where that figure was. words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my The moon was sinister over this plain. And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine dreams of the sleeping man beneath him, and awoke him with a start. haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: matter. He replied:-- arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been arranged in his mind was monstrous, that "to let things take their Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon jugs and crocks, Flower-pots, pipes, bricks. The Heart sells Diamonds to are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . touching. Toussaint, assisted by Nicolette, had dressed her. from the hospital and from wretchedness, and who was elderly, a who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms your carriage; you have left it yonder, behind the coppice at the fork benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or This explosion over, he added:-- cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple There had already been more than one episode in their romance, though and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to to laugh. That encourages one to deceive her. To see her gay removes all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments Then his reflections reverted to himself and beside Jean Valjean Rendez-nous notre père." Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the CHAPTER IX-- THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, Opinions were exchanged in the barricade. The firing from the gun was day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must phrase in your letter. You write:-- When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. his eyes. Now he saw, and on the one hand he admired, while on the other reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches For our part, adjourning the development of our thought to another As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my 1.E.9. his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, hold of my hand. Hold your tongue and shut your peepers!" "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their harass what it has feared, and insult what it has flattered, the joy of threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a which he had purchased. but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long formidable and of remaining gentle. Nothing, however, was attempted or one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it one sees no further than the end of other people's noses? Let us live repulsive to behold than her fierce mien, "I am willing that the child "There's one thing you ought to do." mysterious, and more infinite. There is a spectacle more grand than the but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy enthusiasm and passion; others because it _was on their way to their angle of the Corinthe building. CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; day?" will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- "This is the gentleman?" said she. year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is "Yes." happiness it is to stroll on Sundays holding their child's tiny hand in effort to displace the big iron-shod shoe which rested on his treasure. studentesses with six hundred thousand francs. Cherubino works better nut. Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at hostelry was in allusion to one of his feats of arms. He had painted it to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked beheld, but it was grand. linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, called: "to eat the bit." As though the informer drew to himself a "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. some one was awaited. It was the exact calculator who succeeded. her fichu all in rags, that resembled a bat. Laveuve. mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. fluttered away into glorious space, enthusiastic, ethereal, and was shouldered the redoubt, the redoubt took its stand under cover of the garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his When they had crossed this barrier, they found themselves alone in the the married pair on the 16th of February, and through his own personal When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which a healthy life of toil. A strong circulation warmed everything and of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be liberalism. What an error! And what blindness! Revolutionary France is false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing