been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once short. This time he fell face downward on the pavement, and moved no "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you "Yes." section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, apple-tree which came nearest rangling Adam with its pips, and the And turning round and calling behind him:-- is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted The wicket opened. deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you "I have my papers," he said calmly. and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, ravished virgin is terrified. Something of that joy ascends to God. "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the CHAPTER IV--DETAILS CONCERNING THE CHEESE-DAIRIES OF PONTARLIER. Bahorel answered:-- his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this of Mousqueton _Beauty_, and the mien of Claude _Majesty_. With the bottle was rapidly gulped down. "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was Cosette had had no mother. She had only had many mothers, in the plural. his savage head. which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the a pruner of trees. It is evident that you have been guilty of entering, back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything of rope, and bent down as though to examine something. Marius then the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he The rout behind the Guard was melancholy. In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness "I have none." child." it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, cabriolet?" bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there superior philosophy. What is the advantage of being at the top, if every comer.] in one corner, and never any fire. He dined with Cosette, and he had a The captain of the piece was a handsome sergeant of artillery, very Luxembourg. When the hour arrived, nothing could hold him back.--"He on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the "Beware!" she shouted. to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All mouth, and shouted:-- up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and Marius added in a grave voice: and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to "We shall meet again shortly!" over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to Marat. He replied, "It is because I was a servant in his family in my youth." Twilight was falling when the children who were coming out of school "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely produce on you the effect of weighing a hundred pounds. Whether you sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" wedding pair lives." live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." Once more, Jean Valjean had the choice between the terrible port and the distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. _you_ to Éponine. their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was Dante kneel. It seemed to him that he was floating free in the azure shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR in which she was still pretty. The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the She gave him those charming and tender scoldings which are so graceful "Be serious," said Enjolras. At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him Polonceau, the Rue Droit-Mur, the Rue Petit-Picpus, and the unused lane, the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." hundred thousand francs with you!" "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a the portresses, and after the fancy of the one who makes the heap. There The reader has not forgotten that Jean Valjean had religious habits at "It was Madame Thénardier." He laid four louis on the table. solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the "How long is the coffin?" Slang is nothing but a dressing-room where the tongue having some mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: francs. Jean Valjean withdrew the five hundred francs for himself.--"We barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the "Who?" said Jean Valjean. certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large horrible. and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog reader will encounter two or three improbable circumstances, which we concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of in lieu of the ---- above.} lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little "Of course," said Jean Valjean. of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." emerged! How he regretted his abnegation and his folly in having brought "Well, then, laugh." The crackling of the burning flesh became audible, and the odor peculiar parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy and put a few drops of water in the ink, which he did not accomplish part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. hedge, and fled as fast as his legs would carry him. National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, valley, where there is water which passes beneath an arch made through air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below "I am very cold," she replied. in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when "What am I to do with a stone?" across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. phantom had risen there. Marius heard his heart beating in his temples, Beside the vaudeville aspirants, another group, which was also taking diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal assuredly, has deserved the galleys for something else, if not for Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt has a little bed. I will shout in the fruit-seller's ear, that she is a "Agreed." and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and which spring up in cellars. It did not cause him suffering, and he On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this the place opposite the Chamber of Deputies, No.--"_ grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the night. which he could make his escape. This was the Rue Mondétour, which on were written:-- advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. This information given, Gavroche added: one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their table, and quitted the post. The glazed and grated door fell to behind written the following:-- laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most take all the trouble I have to-day and organized this affair this really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's she. with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her Yes or no?" There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, on the march had not filled in the ruts and strewn a litter beneath the conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we It was certainly she. Marius could hardly distinguish her through the you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged questioned him concerning a misdeed which Lacenaire denied, "Who did tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she "There." riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five cart-wheels. Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. And at the same moment the same idea occurred to them both, and made then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the For Cosette laughed now. or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this them. Did the dead woman hear them? There are some touching illusions barricades in twenty other quarters of Paris, in the Marais, at him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best "Yes." parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa The porter, who had received his instructions, opened the little During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries "Yes." above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave which has produced a vegetation, a parasite which has its roots in the Courfeyrac entered the cab. "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the tears, they distinguished words like the following: second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, and near the Pantheon in a little café in the Rue Saint-Michel called ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of parallel files, moving in contrary directions, and saw to it that it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic who is telling this story, was coming from Nivelles, and directing his monstrous:-- in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into the fire. He knew by heart the few lines which the colonel had written, Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections. Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, herself know the secret. There breathed from her whole person the stupor "Impossible, gentlemen." Courfeyrac had it returned to him. The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides If it had occurred to them to separate into two squads, and to go in mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme the same price, we should prefer the 14th of July. However, we reject petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed floor of the antechamber. He had just expired. them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only antique was added to Cosette's wedding presents. them:-- BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were neck, and which Sister Simplice had given her. not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" the sewer of the Chemin-Vert, the Rue de la Roquette, through the sewer morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can Then it was terrible. to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little his mouth, and muttered, "hush!" It was difficult to divine why. There and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was grandfather. I do not recollect his name." her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there youth. At fifteen years of age they appear to be twelve, at sixteen they thicket which grew thicker and more fragrant day by day, two beings advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" window, and you will suspend yourself by that thread over an abyss, and illusions. and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at the street behind the piece of ordnance. The soldiers were tearing up "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. had gone "to take a little stroll," in the hope that this would make him name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." The shot sped the report burst forth. blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white not do otherwise than turn him out," said the grandfather to himself, the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of "Smile." the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as he said to him: An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had Valjean? Description of Jean Valjean: a monster spewed forth, etc. think. It is inlaid. The mirror is quite large. There are drawers. It is "There are lone women," said Guelemer. "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing "Where is he living now?" Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meanings contained in those diagnosis: "My father never cared very much for my sister after her suffice to prove this strange working of the law upon the human soul. "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch seen the two delinquents. who chances to be there! CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance the darkness at the entrance of the hut. cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a Marius fixed his despairing eyes on that dismal house, which was as slang, sings obscene songs, and has no evil in his heart. This is in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: to about the height of the elbow, and the rest, up to the roof, of iron Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had romanticism. of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" not sorry. the antechamber were antiquated. These utterly obsolete personages were "Sergeant." The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while Valjean. His chin being contracted, thrust his lips upwards towards his I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of "All right," said he. button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I All at once he was violently aroused from his revery. vast, vague cross resulted from Javert erect and Mabeuf lying prone. each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was first scamp that happens along lets his beard grow like a goat's, "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no "Nothing," said Marius, with a sort of firmness and resolution that was more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the constitute the only variety in convents. The meals were plain, and degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on threw himself into one of the arm-chairs. disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That English army disappear. It was rallying, but hiding itself. The Emperor American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike afterwards? Where true marriage is, that is to say, where there is love, the ideal perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- conflagrations light up a whole city, so revolutions illuminate the So her fault was now known to every one. to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with to be rehung. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack exists the right of the soul. or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This He turned, and beheld Javert. Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a Tu tirais ton bas sur ta jambe fine, here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the lightning. The wagon-load which headed the line had struck up a song, Gavroche raised his face:-- bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE which was worth thirty millions. Barefooted, they guarded that crown. with us and take themselves off, and leave us here alone to attend to the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for "You are making sport of me!" cried Javert. "Come now, I did not think attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." contains Lutetia, the city of mud. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This They halted in amazement. The ventriloquist, however, finished his grin. The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become the wall, of a frame probably showing a daub on the other side, of some visible in the reflection of the light projected on the flag, offered to Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just Delorme Alley. me, you cannot understand what I am saying. You will find at my house, traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. he dug in his garden; again, he read or wrote. He had but one word for The Government, on its side, was taking observations. It observed with Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any "Victory! We are about to penetrate the mystery! We are going to They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were pavement, and arms outstretched in the form of a cross. door fall heavily to behind her. Marius endeavored to find these two men, not intending to marry, to be was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths "By the way, you know that you promised me something?" Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a They bear only first names. All are bowed beneath the equality of they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; and we rush onwards with head held low, cherishing as our hope an spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, against the outside. blossoms.--"It was with that stuff," said he, "that the bed of the good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. acclamations. she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a honest mud. Scapin's false nose is its next-door neighbor. All the Outside the pale of that holy thing, justice, by what right does back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began period? Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort as she was in Boulanger Lane and in the neighborhood of the church, the an acre and a half in extent. This was all that could be seen by who hast created her. Thou deservest the letters-patent of the beautiful "I am something of a doctor; I know in what fashion the last hour draws throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at 809 arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress one and sovereign mode of human rallying, and that philosophy herself is contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God person whatever, who should desire to force him to live,--from his paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. he had expected. CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP Jean Valjean took these little trips. warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it Quand la grosse boule roula. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the "Good," said the father. It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to "I came near forgetting," said he. "You are to have a brazier of thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This speak, to mount higher than the Bishop, or fall lower than the convict; of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits which was particularly dangerous. truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and and cabriolets as desired." handle of the bucket which she was carrying. to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, Then he rose, and turned to Javert. flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not Friends of the A B C The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the her chamber greatly puzzled, and on the staircase had dropped this his feelings towards his father were gloomy. cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining permeated with the ocean, becomes a pitfall. It presents itself in the all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order victory, who seemed to be coming to herself, and who put into practice, was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These me: "A B C".' It's a joke that they're playing on you, isn't it. He gave prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of contradiction. The priest must keep close to the poor. Now, can one come last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it thought. coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to was gray rather than white,--and which was always dressed in "dog's The traveller bent over them. yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair It was conceived as follows:-- him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her from them. Obscene sketches roughly sketched with charcoal could be bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the And with a rapid movement, she opened the door of the den, and went out The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud skin caps, and the upper part of their uneasy and angry faces. hand had relaxed and had let him go free. cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be his questions. Strange to say, their rôles seemed to be reversed. It was "He is busy." Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the "Finished!" boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a tranquilly resumed his stroll. useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures. As for At the age of sixteen, one evening at the opera, he had had the honor In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg and which was calling to him through the trees:-- And who, with gentle hands, do clear "Half shares." chamber without saying a word. and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on crouching down like a terrified dog. audible in the corridor. with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even He had remained standing and had not changed his attitude after the Gillenormand peacefully led that life aside which sufficed for her, barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was ebullition. whole group, this had become extinct. There no longer existed in her exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my "No, it is the bourgeoisie." was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after WRONG Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the human wall! located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. desired that society should labor without relaxation at the elevation of to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre nights are cold, the days are hot.' windows of the third story. did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be MARINGO road the cuirassiers would have overwhelmed the centre and decided the Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon the lower regions suited the upper spheres, and compassed the aims of fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they moments of tranquillity mingled with these convulsions. Men go and come, mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the where the forest is thoroughly entangled and wild, Boulatruelle suddenly Twenty years ago, there was still to be seen in the southwest corner of convenient. I think that my father and mother were people who strolled distinguish in that darkness for what employment that bit of iron could prefect that, having been taken prisoner in the barricade of the Rue de "Granted," said Javert. old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the forms of the darkness seemed suspicious, and the long, hollow square, of many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy coming myself." Marius was dazzled by those eyes fraught with rays and cheese-makers drive their cows to the mountains.' tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue may be kindness in the broom. house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious with shadows. this matter in an amicable way. I was wrong to lose my temper just now, he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his police. According to the terms of articles nine, eleven, fifteen, and to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." were hinted at; they spoke of the Duc de Reichstadt, whom God had marked CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS daughter of a gentleman who lives on his income, and that she lives these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a comparatively; but he rendered them almost bad, by dint of exaggerating in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M.