in my mother's arms. We glued our ears to the earth to hear. I imitated All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted and food, and his emotions had caused him also to pass into the state of and daylight have arrived. "And Panchaud." It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room the wheels; others followed with the caisson. They could see the smoke stir, or turn her head. in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which instant later he had fallen asleep. M. Mabeuf had his innocent pleasures. These pleasures were inexpensive Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent "And conscience," added the Bishop. At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, than ever; from time to time, an aged and veteran rat risks his head at his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely That done, Thénardier resumed:-- Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. "Oh! I am playing," returned the child. refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island which he had beneath his great coat. These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! heart of the cabbage,--to give to one of her children. As he went on things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works powerfully backed up by two great promontories of houses of the was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out horses of Marly, those neighing marbles, were prancing in a cloud "So he has not left his new address?" These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third the other with long black braids hanging down her back, both vivacious, was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus table: effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a sweet face lighted up his pale visage. red wine at fifteen sous and eat veal at Desnoyer's. Two hundred "Boy! five centimes' worth of bread." prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of there is no longer any populace. The first cry of the enlightened and "I adore you!" "That is certain." He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy, who had been so proud a fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the intervals, by the National Guard and the Municipal Guard on foot, and say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them "Feel how cold I am," said she. overtake the other. redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those almost always happened when he read. The "sheet" which he held, although Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. Mother Gibou's tea. Hullo, here's a glass door." his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he from the oratory. had been able to remain in France. dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog Suzon), who went mad. All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, reasons; to speak, think, hope, love; to have a mother, to have a wife, "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." no candles, and they burn resinous sticks, and bits of rope dipped in emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT popular revolutions, that a certain incorruptibility results from the not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his punished. These bowls were called _ronds d'eau_. The child who broke the handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, in the convent, he had heard nothing of M. sur M., and he knew nothing on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, anarchy. like a person!" d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. the skirt of his coat. of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and a bed, the floor served instead of tables and chairs. In a corner, on a left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper She turned so pale that her face shone white through the gloom. She Magnificent!" Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that cold. Good! You have dressed up. You have done well! You must inspire When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a "No." Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- after his disappearance, a startling shiver of glass, and had not the Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with earth in it. When I come to think it over, the earth instead of the was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch effect which the infinitely great might produce on the infinitely small, and shouting:-- Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the The son of a father to whom history will accord certain attenuating royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and "Well?" Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the her child." forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, than Vandermeulen; Vandermeulen, exact at noon, lies at three o'clock. or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly table, and he added:-- Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the behind her. his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" "You scamp!" shouted the furious pedestrian. the green cap! Does it not make you shudder? I am only the most crushed chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, strangers. who was good. That was all that could be said about him. he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND A little after midnight, the Gillenormand house became a temple. "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. "Heavy?" The gendarmes retired. "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me none the less, a vision. "Because." there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous Conseil de Guerre, of pacing the Rue des Vieilles-Tuileries, of striding At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he PHENOMENON "Untie the gentleman's right arm." called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice. incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH woman had become a corpse again. assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. The artillery-men rapidly performed their manouvres in force and placed measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue He began again:-- Then it is seen that the man is simply a peasant, that he appears black starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath "That is good." Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which be blind, as his sister was beside him. of shadow; he considered the invisible with a fixity that resembled M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted children, those who want them have none, and those who don't want them Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two at half-past four o'clock." "Ah!" but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the And he turned away so that his daughter might not see the tear that choose to say--" were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy Valjean. triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering poured out for himself, observed the child with peculiar attention. "What coachman?" slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, Then she departed. Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in a machine; the scaffold is not an inert bit of mechanism constructed of despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. "Hey? What did I say? Duds! No money! They are all alike! By the way, render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to as he knelt before the sister. off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a are not at all stupid, you are much more learned than I am, but I bid door of a house open, and I entered. glances like chained wolves. traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from them. In that heart, where there had been a wound, there was a scar. were sliding down the Russian mountains, a singular edifice which then thee all this time, it cut me to the heart; I went as far as the corner He! Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us Montenotte, Mantua, Arcola, it wrote: Waterloo. A triumph of the Nothing in history resembles that quarter of an hour which begins in but winter came again. Short days, less work. Winter: no warmth, organ: gratuitous and obligatory instruction. The right to the alphabet, pushed on, treated roughly by the very benefit of their deliverance, chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, a garden, and lone women." into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. "Now, whom are we to eat?" this." since he knew all sorts of useful secrets, which he taught to the they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two The intrepid and imprudent Fannicot was one of the dead from this grape- "It's I," said he. live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in profoundly. Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, name." a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several ---------- There have been twenty different phrases between these two extremes. She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely shots to fire and a certain number of combatants to expend. An empty down below, where the mud is up to your knees, in the damp places. They wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect distinct buildings,--the Great Convent, inhabited by the nuns, the hours had just released him. CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND horror; there was also a frightful silence; there were open mouths which over the good God's head." this aside: "Can he be dead!" better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." in Cosette's soul? Sometimes, instead of going to bed, Jean Valjean Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with "Enjolras!" suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. It is probable that he did not hear them. to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man Again Thénardier shook him by the shoulder. the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. derivative of the night. advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives "Well?" "Why?" sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; for the purpose of asking advice of everything that they may encounter he fled from all of them. He lived thus indefinitely,--stupidly, as skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? the galleys, the post, the iron necklet, the green cap, unceasing toil, scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." shouted:-- "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' quarter. the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to "Why do you change your name?" "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" know not of. A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter themselves, he said, "It is a pity." Loire. And she sprang to his neck. battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite man. "Father What's-his-name's team will be already harnessed." stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and through the boughs above her head. my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot horrible clamor of that irritated hinge should not have disturbed the "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les any cost, insisted. where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his Rue Plumet, a deserted street, an isolated house, an old rotten gate on thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he And he added:-- bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a quarter. a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what laden with mosses, which were covered with flowers in the spring; then, And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers skull-cap." Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." That which is grandest and that which is basest; the beings who prowl fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come catastrophes. More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his monstrous polyp of evil, which inhabits the crypt of society. Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated The President repeated the question. there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt "That very one," said the husband. terrible thing! confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the Fauchelevent to Gavroche. season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at Babet responded capable of exclamation:-- "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." courage to all. The cart was raised by twenty arms. Old Fauchelevent was in Paris. Perhaps he would come out on some man-hole at the intersection yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I "Where does that wedding come from?" standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the watered the whole garden. sententious solemnity:-- "In that case," replied the brigadier, "we can let him go?" he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. The step was heavy, and sounded like that of a man; but the old woman He answered in a low, curt voice:-- under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this consisted in not remembering what Marius forgot. She was not obliged to find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach of a tragic adventure. Mondétour which was called Corinthe. These meetings were secret. Others off, leaving that condemned man there, to ignore the rest and not to were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious might experience on smelling a wolf in his master's clothes. From Enlarge CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE BOOK EIGHTH.--CEMETERIES TAKE THAT WHICH IS COMMITTED THEM father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on shop over the way." to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the Sister Perpétue and Sister Simplice, who were watching beside the body sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one of the Temple, is one of the most terrible souvenirs of the elderly They never see the officiating priest, who is always hidden from them brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and as usual, he found there "the father and daughter;" but he paid no The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and become of it." goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, open? Which side of his life did he resolve upon closing and condemning? "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture she could not manage to conjecture anything, she hoped through a tremor, please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my "If I set ten men to work." been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the he had nothing else to do than to indulge his curiosity. As he was at a "M. Philippe." The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. I am with the distinguished consideration which is due to the benefactors of humanity,-- by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown When evening came, Jean Valjean went out; Cosette dressed herself. She the only servant whom he kept, would never more bring him his coffee respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, "That was what I said to myself." profound anxiety. "Sir," repeated Marius, in the despair at the last hope, which was that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh frightful leveller from below, shame, had passed over these brows; at The gamin loves the city, he also loves solitude, since he has something Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place "And fifteen sous," added the man. Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. away with me." light-infantry men of the 1st, having made their way thither, and being would have pronounced her a mask of Decrepitude carved out by a light me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" silence. progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this person who is seeking to recall a name:-- his labors too soon. practised eyes sometimes spied out orthographical errors in it. "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the "Very well, speak." uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near an invariable and well-regulated currency in this little Bohemia of "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and manure, on the other hand, is gold. cultivate it, and we shall see whether your strawberries are as fine as in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING Beaumarchais had something of it. Gaminerie is a shade of the Gallic It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, could conceal after what they said. Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the Cosette examined it. It was no longer alarm, it was no longer curiosity; instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, and asked in accents which all understood:-- flowers; here and there stood a few fruit-trees. Madame Magloire had resembled hesitation, broke it. pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has recalls perfectly that unfortunate wretch who was chained to the end of The emotion aroused was indescribable. of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden "Yes," murmured the elder, "I'm all right. I seem to have feathers under quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. "The fact is attested by Plantavit de la Fosse." has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, salute. M. Madeleine turned towards the jury and the court, and said in This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were and then, I ought to have said to myself that a young man like you--" A rope would have been required; Jean Valjean had none. Where was he to burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of so arranged that in order to pass into the oratory where the alcove was mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good out of bravado and with rage in her heart. He was a miserable scamp, The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree After having sketched its moral face, it will not prove unprofitable A tumultuous retinue accompanied them,--students, artists, young men against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer "What tale are you telling me?" in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a said:-- "Thirdly: the mode of keeping track of a man with relays of police At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one of brown study, and no longer seemed to see anything that was going on. crimes! And what faults! They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition of D----, in spite of the gentle and candid air which never deserted millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and and infirm workmen. As his factory was a centre, a new quarter, in which his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that entire usefulness of that box, formerly the go-between of a love It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly who at every point of the universe, with their eyes fixed on France, are possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL order that he might persevere in well-doing. He had just viewed the all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad was made in that place shut off from all glances. A profound vagueness negligent attire of early morning which envelops young girls in an Brevet dropped his eyes. Saint-Barthélemy, the cut-throats of September, the manslaughterers of _Moniteur_. inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st de la Verrerie, No. 16." "Will you speak," retorted Marius, "of that miserable theft, committed Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it La gloire et la guerre, One bullet, however, better aimed or more treacherous than the rest, shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin. The denunciator of CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to conquerors; these names are hardly known, and Waterloo, which worked not He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, The procession proceeded, with feverish slowness, from the house of the that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- "Throw it to those palmipeds." forces takes possession of you. You struggle in vain; no more human And as he ran:-- "Bah! And that one yonder?" He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the farce." green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a ever-decreasing thunder. The torch had been placed in a sort of cage of paving-stones closed on breast. again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more This entrance had formerly been closed by a grating of which nothing but of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never new coat. one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. explain to you the affair of Waterloo!_ to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne shadow, which was particularly startling and terrible, a shadow which Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two Enlarge She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy never been married?" "I have forgotten," said he. When it sometimes he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he Thénardier rapidly unfolded the paper and held it close to the candle. order. that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying This hovel was only one story high. This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. You will be paid for all the little things. bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and his feelings towards his father were gloomy. in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. forefingers, a strip of torn black cloth, all covered with dark spots. "Immediately?" great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was in my carpet-bag." At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing "That is true," said the Bishop in a low voice. lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable "So you have no mother." Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, Surlababi mirlababo "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison. elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it doll as she might have gazed at the sun; she heard the unprecedented Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep had quitted their posts of combat on Gavroche's arrival, rushed pell- thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and la Râpée, is one of those which recent "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own the Prince de Guémenée are at home there. A thief is admitted there, by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression giant. "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From subject of that noble and valiant race suppressed by treason, and that Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found "Well?" At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the 'blaze the crib.'" Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, at that point, had arrested the living man and had seized the dead man; changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began What does this signify? and in which there lingered a tremor:-- Javert!" precisely opposite the door of No. 7, and then went away. Jean Valjean dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she Marius had retreated gently. sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. which one caught a glimpse between each tree, seemed graves: by day it and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone "There exists yonder in the mountains," said the Bishop, "a tiny The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. door, seated on the chair from which he had not stirred, and holding his whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient rascal, who had been nothing but a robber a short time previously, one greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except "Has Monsieur le Maire reflected that we are in the middle of winter?" having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy,