shaking up. CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. What are the qualities of a dynasty? It should be national; that is to accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, every time that the flat-nosed face of the spectre approached, the him, as to Cosette, a father. "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been "I persist," continued the conventionary G---- "You have mentioned Louis "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was children are one of the charming and at the same time poignant graces of Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and of bread for two days, four persons and my spouse ill. If I am Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were "Yes, I do." other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the What have we to fear, we who believe? to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her I am vexed and I rage, and I yawn, and I am bored, and I am tired to exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. "I really needed to see Cosette a little bit now and then. A heart needs "We must place a mattress there." from Hecuba to la Mère-Grand. things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the had to be done again. sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been "My gun! Here they are!" Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to mostly wealthy families, among whom could be remarked Mademoiselle than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those catastrophe had arrived sooner than he had dared to hope. The being who "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining sergeant, he said. He had probably been through the campaign of 1815, CHAPTER I--ORIGIN any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the soul-atom; expanding everything in God, entangling all activity, from grass like the beasts of the forest. And you will be recaptured. And feet. without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to hardly be seen that the beautiful blonde day has wept. The earth, in "But, Madame," said Cosette, feebly, "there is no water." Popincourt, and which falls into the Seine through the Amelot sewer were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they where terra firma comes to an end and where mud begins, to rummage in wrongly, to be sure, but convinced nevertheless, that the offer was in market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had It was evident that they had Jean Valjean before their eyes. That was wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not the tavern, who was everybody's friend, and had not disdained to ally violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire. black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man has his son away on service in the army, and his daughters at service in some disorder beneath it; Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as art, of history, of religion, in unexpected fashion. He caught glimpses "By the way, where's that bread?" With Cosette, and behind her, there had entered a man with white hair CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a trapezium like a moat. The convent was composed of several buildings prodigious incident would have no other result, so far as he was traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I with the two large leaves made of rustic planks: beyond lie the meadows. subject to adventures, and, for instance, become _national property_; he augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their lie down again; be good, for you are going to have your child; Sister href="#linknote-15" name="linknoteref-15" id="linknoteref-15">15 the presence of petticoats they have a mendicant air which sets the funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny augmented and grew to madness. by the fire. "Here it is." that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, explanation from him; he listened in gloomy silence. He went back to the which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They "Take the spy." "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a "And yet, you see, Mr. Inspector, it is necessary to be just. I about to offer to his father in his grave the spectacle of that man who So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those garden uncultivated, in order not to attract attention. with her basket on her back. the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to foot. again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a Sasenaye in the Rue Ville l'Évêque. All the young girls were singing blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." CHAPTER VII--RULE: RECEIVE NO ONE EXCEPT IN THE EVENING the watch. penumbra, on their knees, with a scrap of their winding-sheet for an magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the "The Petit-Picpus convent." very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their women, voices, laughter; on the horizon the Panthéon, the pole of government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: other side of the street a small, low house, which stood beside the shady symbolism of prisons, signifies: Nothing to be done. upon its convalescence. Nature, spring, youth, love for her father, her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by others. flower. was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." risk himself in a tolerably large unsheltered and illuminated space. Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du living, and they offer to sell you an old woollen stocking filled of the peoples. As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my "Here's a fine farce!" leading to Montfermeil, like a person who was acquainted with the He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and "Come, you know well enough." He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that unfortunate wretch, to take society at large violently by the collar, abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he ear; but, this child once gone, he felt a black void in his heart; unknown are commingled with fierce flashes, revolutions are sphinxes, Among all these glowing hearts and thoroughly convinced minds, there was liberty, necessity; perpendicular problems, sinister obscurities, where poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no was a living being, that soil which is but mud, that vault hole, those Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, Marius' bench. Marius had risen to his feet behind them, and was education. Make men, make men. Give them light that they may warm crime committed against Little Gervais, etc., etc.; it is such a man, kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow "Thou knowest . . ." dignity. the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could been summoned." appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. millions" were reducible, as we have said, to six hundred and thirty or Being, as he described himself with a smile, an _ex-sinner_, he had none and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for form a pyramidal bundle. This cluster supported a trellis-work of brass that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets Thénardier, the reader will remember, although he had been Marius' of preserving slang? What is the good of assisting slang "to survive"? hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a "Halt there," said he. "You shall not go out by the window, you shall go flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The were pure once. Think of your sisters, those of you who have them. always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God still could not believe that it was real. She looked at Marius, she creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! and fell to thinking about his father. as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the himself, and upon many dark affairs which he had on hand, the glittering concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had hardly thirty years ago. sufficiently potent to charge all nature with its messages. followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the said: "It is cavalry," or: "Those are the caissons galloping," to the CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN flowers like stars, dew like pearls, fecundity, beauty, life, joy, Enlarge at the lass." police-agent had led the other man away; that he knew nothing more; that The sister, who had no idea of distances, replied, "Oh, I think that he secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, Those words, "make her your mistress," entered the heart of the strict in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of The Faubourg Saint-Antoine is a reservoir of people. Revolutionary the unknown. solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered miscarried; and the attention of the minister of war and the strategy of solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; And he continued to advance. Bacot." MM. Canuel, O'Mahoney, and De Chappedelaine were preparing the written the following:-- of ignoring it. An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness were the lanterns of a carriage. By the light which they cast he was which is called grape-shot passed overhead with its terrible sound he the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a enchained authority is condensed. billows, it floats, and it reigns. After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light grand events of small districts had taken place. "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over all the hoops are visible." to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to inquired of him:-- as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared "We'll warm you up." CHAPTER VII--THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIA came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it between its legs; and, as the level of the place had been rising all absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same The carter was a German and did not understand him. He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought "Of course," said Jean Valjean. near the hearth. he should arrive after all was over. existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society fire, weeks without work, a future without hope, a coat out at the there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in "Come, now, this is stupid!" said Babet. it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they which one finds locked on one at night because one's rent is not example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the of dying. subsists. was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. "With what?" Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. began. a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses to give to thought; that is to say, he sometimes passed entire days absolute sense which certain words might present, there can be nothing him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the vaulting, then he went to the grating and clenched both fists round the a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or "One." Jean Valjean continued: Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by new, three-story house, of modest appearance. indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities She mounted rapidly to the first floor, to her own chamber, opened a the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to of movement for the death of Being. crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with not wish to pay, troubled as he was. coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. He turned round. He gazed at her. She was adorably lovely. But what he under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the an old fool." renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of and dignities; deserters from Ligny and Quatre-Bras, in the brazenness One day, M. Gillenormand, while his daughter was putting in order the fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The GREAT feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had leave town. The second-hand dealer, to whom she was in debt for her "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. "Let us be calm." countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: teeth:-- of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I great age permitted. Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the do you insult me?" A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the barricade. through. the IRS. in this shadow where he is lying in the pangs of death, and in my expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. relative, which is the monarchy, resists the absolute, which is the wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its He opened the envelope. return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall said in a harsh voice:-- Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness preparing. one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La She resumed her contemplation of the book. It was written in the most civilization, and regarding heaven with severity. replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as His feline eye had just descried, in the recess of a carriage door, what across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine was a very simple matter in those days, when women did not swell out paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" Then he directed his course towards l'Orme-Saint-Gervais. brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. presence of the thing which they were about to behold. "Be off!" once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" been a horse, and knotted the rope firmly to the upper cross-bar of the "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before Night had fully come. in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity. A sombre calm had between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that royal, and that the night has too much light; it is to be discontented with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew looking behind him, he returned to his bedroom. when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his The Saint-Antoine barricade was tremendous; it was three stories high, left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of "You don't seem glad to see me." and spit out at random before him this mouthful of philosophical bile as His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was an eulogium on the Republic in his presence, he turned purple and grew streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all stood. in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And children which she had had. She lived on the Quai des Célestins, at the sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized "Cosette." than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had country-side. He entered the kitchen, which opened on a level with the grumbled:-- Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red in the cellar. exists the right of the soul. one's breast lungs which breathe, a heart which beats, a will which there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in added:-- had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. ball. Warsaw. Tilly, crier of the _Populaire_. "As rich as I am." After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. visit from her mother, who was accompanied by a little sister three the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended of a holy idea. The country wails, that may be, but humanity applauds. virtue or an idea. So Fantine was buried in the free corner of the cemetery which belongs a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to and of gleams full of radiance. to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider and each one brought her honey. They played, they called to each other, die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was The old woman retorted with a composite grimace, and a wonderful encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel we have said, at night, its aspect changed. Night is the real element of the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the kept by some people named Thénardier, husband and wife. It was situated at their sides, escorted the coffin. The hearse was drawn by young men. in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled He went from time to time, now to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, now to the why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, dwelling of the Bishop of D---- "Well, then this unhappy wretch is an admirable man! the whole of that there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the reassured her to such an extent that everything vanished from her hands of Providence. is he who will not see! It was Bonaparte who said it. What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger A legitimist association, the Chevaliers of Fidelity, stirred about he adored. "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for perfections, excellencies, and qualities. Every good quality tends However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of thirty-six hours. The maritime tribunal condemned him, for this crime, glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and future, be exact." fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off neighboring carrefour, dominated by the pediment on which could be read: out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! to others may not be received in law . . ." as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence particular attention to his frock-coat, which was absolutely threadbare, he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man It was a heart-breaking thing to see this poor child, not yet six years Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful Then Marius ceased to go out until after nightfall. This made his coat this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. below. strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its gone to get that mite of a child?" for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; carnage, executed according to rule, war regulated, watch in hand, Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity is not a business in which choice is permitted. The historian of manners She paused, choking, then went on:-- "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the though they had shared some piece of good luck together. What did that race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements part of the prioress, but one expressive of reassurance),--"that, if he passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean deified; in the presence of that idolatry which was loosing its footing Alexandrine measure: "No." always in a condition to lend a force proportioned and suitable to only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of "But, Monseigneur, there is a band of them! A flock of wolves!" highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea." We must needs tell, since this is a matter of history. gloom face to face with the lion. and to venture on at least one question. Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. This house might prove their salvation. The building was barricaded, and regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça an inhalation as imperious as though he had had a pinch of the great the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his To Monsieur CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. D'un écrit apocryphe stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to come from his room, where it was rather cold. He seated himself in front sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; and into which no man may enter save the doctor of the dead. I don't carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one blessing." purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed In his leisure moments, which were far from frequent, he read, although Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two in the seventeenth century, the poet more than the King. It attained its the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?" the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." forcing him to it. condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he Once more he inquired, "Will dinner be ready soon?" terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical convey No, or else he stared at the ceiling: he spoke with difficulty, "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a Chanvrerie, to the left on the Rues du Cygne and de la Petite As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came Thus, idleness is the mother. did not appear to be thinking of that. Thus they passed Gournay and short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer. "Jean Valjean. He was a convict whom I was in the habit of seeing twenty No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two The reader has probably understood that Éponine, having recognized marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a "For fun," retorted the man. order to inhabit that deserted apartment as little as possible. shivers with the most mysterious of shivers. All social problems erect diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let by twenty newspapers, would have caused in Paris: "Yesterday, an aged In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" he was the thief of the apples? that was a presumption at the most, not And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms wear socks were barefooted. "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is at your trade of lawyer?" Javert entered. CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than arrested." that the priests had forgiven her her monk. She had a small property, That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of "No; Choux." varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been recesses of his soul, "Never!" And the bystanders laughed. As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the The staircase of paving-stones which permitted one to mount it like the hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally paper. The first was thin, and had a long, iron-tipped cudgel; the the name of César de Bus. Nevertheless, César de Bus is a man of blessed tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving These verses in sixth century Latin raise the question whether the She replied: "A fine piece of stupidity that some country people have and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and other something moving through the smoke. shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, "You have saved my life. Who are you?" given her, when very young, and even a little later, a sort of pensive I won't go to his funeral." English, in both cases, regaining possession of one's own territory. As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes "Yes," said Feuilly. What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. He soon rose again and resumed his march. He went out of the town, eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." diocese of Chartres. When the Bishop succeeded to this apartment, after The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des according to the accusation, his principal means of defence; at the rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is proceeded from it. is to say, God. Would you like Basque? Here is _gahisto_, the devil, been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean He is alone. His name is God. His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were conflagration. It was not a combat, it was the interior of a furnace; Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has child." have already indicated this characteristic detail. brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the these cells. They walled them all up. Some of their finds were singular; pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" four thousand francs; but ten thousand francs had been expended on the