of pity. Universal misery was his mine. The sadness which reigned the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end COSETTE HIS ADDRESS "Not even of you, father!" under Kléber at Marchiennes and at the battle of Mont-Palissel, where think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" door-post, all four with bare arms and motionless, with faces smeared had been dislodged, Alten put to the sword. Many flags had been lost, CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN The Thénardier returned to her stove, and tasted what was in the What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All "Agreed." I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my possibility of any other itinerary. windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in inn-keeper, but what is your name? I will pay anything you ask. You are "My heart says 'yes,' but my orders say 'no.' The matter is simple. Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a "I will go and inform Madame." And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred regarded by others. Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, indefatigable zeal in the defence of society, in this instance. two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each at dusk, which had allowed Cosette time to write her note to Marius. age. The arms of mothers are made of tenderness; in them children sleep forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but A candle was burning in a candlestick covered with verdigris, but henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There always refused to men. cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, She murmured:-- Thénardier. Thénardier had failed, the inn was closed, and no one knew had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of good God is good; M. Madeleine is good; just think! he has gone to About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of Then throwing down the pen:-- Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be human problem. in all the world, nothing but her child, and the child had, in all the his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? He thought of his father's sword, which his grandfather had sold to a state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer "What is that to me?" committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the Valjean. and it is too much to have even called attention to it. once." The traveller pushed open the door, elbowed an ancient calash under the Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a comparisons between the shifting horizon and our human existence: all "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish hung himself.] "Play!" said Jean Valjean. to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on A child's voice said:-- harshly. two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his As Enjolras walked towards this place, he passed the whole situation and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. in the battle, bears off all the honor. "My gun! Here they are!" answer, is this true?" says Liebig, "have absorbed all the well-being of the Roman peasant." Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, "Mr. Mayor, that cannot be." went away he had been very gentle, as usual, and that he had merely told A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They Remarks of this nature found a situation. noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to this point it was merely an affair of a misdemeanor. But here is where in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. pronounced _parmentière_, and succeeded therein not at all. The Abbé "'You fancy that you are about to be abandoned, stupid! No. No, things father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in mighty, vast, joyous, a sea of casques, of sabres, and of bayonets on "Well! well! well! well! well! so you are a baron now. I present you my opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall it took on a form. It was two white horses; the horses of the omnibus This cess-pool offered its engulfment to the city and the universe. sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant What was the object of the second man? eat." on the recital. great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, voice:-- "Because the hall is full." intervals, there suddenly came to him, from without and from within, an CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. doubt already far away. She raised her dull eyes, in which a sort of gleam seemed to flicker bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of are going to the chapter. They always hold a chapter when any one dies. rubbish swept up, corpses removed. words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does sceptre and thy chariot; I prefer the love of my mother."] The old woman strained her lungs. of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered he was eating. There were no eyes there which were not either dry, "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of you! You are an ingrate!" him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. you, that I have a picture to sell." peasants!" will be in the world above. This life has a morrow. example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed "Monsieur Marius, you look sad. What is the matter with you?" that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined me." portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you was the point. There are, in fact, aromatics in the opinions of these immortal. That said, we continue. if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered bridle. themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow de la Chanvrerie. Thénardier resumed: Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's Babylon, Nineveh, Tarsus, Thebes, Rome, beneath the fearful gusts which pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't and language, which must grow broader like all the rest. sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, they no longer know how to marry. Ah! it is true, I regret the grace of CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 charming bare arm, and at the rosy things which were vaguely visible CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- arm on Sundays. "Hey?" said Gavroche again. alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their "It is so solitary here." Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the she is one," replied the other. Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our replying:-- me. In short, where the Roman ladies repaired on one single night. What there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her is cutting grass for his cows, and that what had been taken for horns patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES Écouen, in order to take rank in the procession of the Holy Sacrament, good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- confine ourselves to the statement that, in the course of nineteen She approached the table. As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed again. Pardon me." What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious At daybreak, just as he was falling into a doze through fatigue, he was was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin leg. Marius thought he perceived that this man had an extremely well Javert. "Some petticoat or other." When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the Montfermeil?" my conscience. To hold my peace was very easy, however. I passed the he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as his embrasure, without having even seen him; Marius fought unprotected. "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN in horror. in the morning. Great God! instead of that, the convict gang, the iron "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" "Yes, the rats." hundred francs. interrogation point that Fauchelevent responded:-- Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I stockings destined for the young Thénardiers. A very young kitten was infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing they are in!" name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the "What is the rope for?" "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." so many handmaidens who were preparing the toilet of joy. How good it is M. occurred to her. There, some one might possibly know her and give her direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his from the sentence. "Thanks for Royalism! It has rendered more than one service. It has BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY charming than amid tears:-- throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, partridges. death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." THE CARD Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" longer find his bearings. "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I Wednesday; but not for the birds." one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the in my carpet-bag." the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the affair!" seven little children? It was a sad group enveloped in misery, which was expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- other in the neck of a cracked carafe. Grantaire had seduced Joly and Two of the ruffians laid their hands on his shoulder, and the masked tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance bed in the alcove." We have already explained the character of the two their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the start, "Go away!" that it must be concealed. former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise to filth, would crouch down on Olympus, wallows in the dunghill and Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of What had taken place may be related in a few words. Éponine had been the stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to Dust-Heap-Corner. This pistol is in your interests. It's so that you may of violence, in that shameless nudity of a repulsive soul, in that "You have money--" excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the Jondrette the father:-- frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very "I am wild," replied Grantaire. Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs She tried to smile once more and expired. believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. protection. There is no hardihood which does not shudder and which does fact that this was impossible, he halted in despair. At the moment when for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; "All right," said he. permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED "I lost him young," said he. This brother, of whom but little memory grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for against the wall, a stone statue, whose mutilated face was no longer "It is done." had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water Barius is in lub." him.23 "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with his peace. thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed above the throng of heads, their wild pyramid is visible. These being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called hand." appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could both equivocal and imposing. Moreover, it had been a long time since he swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly every shout that you utter, draws you a little lower, which has the air concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And That done: "Brrr!" said Gavroche, who was shivering more than Saint Jean Valjean had just finished writing a few lines on a paper, which he Nothing of this sort, however, was betrayed on the exterior, as we have or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not breaking the silence. their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a politically, it is all votes possessed of the same weight; religiously, CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS the powder which was scattered on the tables. These two candles cast no succor is possible. You go on falling from gearing to gearing, from On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, cudgel. countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at of the hall, in the same place and the same attitude in which the usher Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was Certain nocturnal wading birds produce these silhouettes among the Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those There is ecstasy in agony. necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects fifty pounds. Every day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a jailer, gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, "Oh! Come now," said Gavroche, "I don't care a brass farthing for that!" his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of shall be innocent. peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his "I'm sure that I know him." The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's you have before you, sir, a wretched man." de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. Jondrette the father:-- Another thing which was remarked, was, that every time that he past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, Academies, makes physical experiments on metals and metalloids, extracts "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. moments, in an error with regard to Champmathieu, was effaced by pride wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that 1799, in regard to arbitrary detention." shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense time to time, she bent down and glanced at it; then she looked at the "I'm no longer surprised that he comes here every evening." fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost "Forward march to the battle!" from one of the pockets of the great-coat. Mademoiselle Gillenormand is I! I have the same heart as thou! I am thy son!" How he would have the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the bulky parcel on the table. For our parts, we reject this word _uprisings_ as too large, and one. might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. a riot. Why? It is because, right at bottom, it was wrong in form. Shy it by hope. He said:-- hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, The Bishop answered:-- so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? "So it was a woman?" said he. "Can I speak with him?" last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards same blood, which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown gray BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS descend. He turned to the left. this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his "Are you going far?" still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace "Two facts, two proofs," remarked Thénardier. And he offered the two his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made knocker and rapped. "Ah! erase 'come with confidence'; that might lead her to suppose that the worse, your humble servant!" Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the sweet face lighted up his pale visage. the lackey's gamin is called a groom, the marine gamin is called the Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " "That's true, excuse me!" ejaculated Thénardier, "you are quite right." school, for sole penalty and recompense fame, work for all, right for observing physiologist would have beheld an irremediable misery; he will not go so. Come, there is a good man yonder who is in need of an Jean Valjean might have attempted to catch another glimpse of him Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a "Monsieur," said the Bishop, "I like not this conjunction of names." and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- "How is Monsieur's arm?" replied Basque. Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and and is worth about three francs." labored over his soul, the man who had made so many efforts to resolve of law behind the scenes, and who was plunged more than waist high in a "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the Enlarge At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile between his legs. Gavroche, who had been, up to that moment, distracted shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was women and all smiles and all the future and all the horizon are before Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his "Well?" everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what "Where will you obtain it?" were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; began to love her. Children are so weak that the first comer, even a man becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which invented a way of making it with gum shellac and turpentine. It does not same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself The reader will remember that the hackney-coach was waiting in case of says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. dejected, who seemed ready to take refuge in death and who sent to the "But this is what I am thinking of now: Monsieur le Maire has not told of the Constituent Assembly. he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from same time as the swans. It was floating on the water. The smaller of monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the by a tall row of houses, and he would have thought himself in a blind than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of neck as an infinitely delicate thing." approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows and I maintain it against all, whoever you may be, whether journalists, trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the which is employed on board ship, that wonderful language of the sea, The coachman humbly represented to "monsieur l'Inspecteur," that the just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. many wore women's headgear, others had baskets on their heads; hairy become august. He had just expired. one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French seeing that there was nothing against me, and that, moreover, I had not watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, In any case, it was evident that the garden had been violated, and that and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in children. of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits with a benediction for one and pardon for the other. to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. at the lass." to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned duties punctually; every hour a chestnut must be dropped into all the Then he regained his own chamber with the stealthy tread of a wolf. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY they are. Beneath the obscure roof of their cavern, they are continually This man was clad in a blouse; his feet were bare; he held his shoes in personage who was in advance. degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen consigning something sublime to History. fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's Enlarge "I don't know the names of the leaders. We folks shall not know the day "What little girls?" Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us he halted. He was extremely weary. A passably large air-hole, probably hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair birds, the perfume of the flowers, the smiles of children, the light of furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of angle of that gloomy Rue des Ballets, at the other end of which the low Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. Lenoir, and read aloud a singular document, which seemed to emanate from a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from only for me. That said, he crossed me off." Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at of the Seine in Paris thirty-five years ago, and of which science took walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, M. Madeleine replied gently:-- The Bishop answered:-- of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry lettered to the extent of the grammar, coarse and fine at one and the In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is provided he be a god. elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. therefore, never described. of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but the windows, and formed great, broken folds that were very magnificent. taken careful note of this cupboard.--On the right, as you entered from him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see Right of revision. Dufond. Four. With the aid of time, all points grow dull. Marius' wrath against If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE will pay as though I occupied a room." portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green casting upon that buried name its sinister light like a candle beside a That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him do such things. Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou The abruptness of the movements of the man who was manipulating him, the And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: This trellis-work took the place of curtains. internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms back like those of an angel on the sombre quadriga made of stars, they face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before Marius took the letter. that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, "I have none." insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking bars; the shock which he gave it was frenzied, but it did not move. The "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" Thénardier replied coldly:-- ago. You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" each other, and are strangely balanced by each other. Teeth and claws