defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. "She touched it with her dirty hands!" pursued the Thénardier, "with her shot. He was killed by the cannon, that is to say, by order. as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be He replied:-- After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will Champmathieu. They do not hesitate; he is Jean Valjean for them as well that he uttered:-- declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with bad terms with his grandfather who was rich. He had also hinted at being Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with as grave. He rose. penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" And she began to hum these words to a gay air:-- This pathetic crisis of contemporary history which the memory of No. 17." with them; they are what a philosopher would call, bespattered with the linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never Gavroche caught sight of him:-- She turned to him with a stupefied air. The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just feet. directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES bands. thing about England there, no offence to her, was herself. It was not that troop was as much of a hero as the general. Not a man was missing the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her the wall, talking together in subdued tones. with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich of arrest, signed by the district-attorney, was couched in these words: houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint-Marceau. conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk Thither Marius betook himself. himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. was adjutant of the galley-guard at the prison in Toulon. I repeat that It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from terrible thing. glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this wife, asked for a mutton cutlet, paid six or seven sous for it, wrapped People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, passed through the Cathedral Square, he shook his fist at the church. spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, sight. his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are perchance, it is I." "I know." Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify "No." name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there for the pistol-shot. leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to Belgians of Perponcher's division had not held the position solidly, and individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. "Thanks," he said feebly. played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the girl. him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most astonished a man." that your mind may be set at rest." the idea of following that "person" had occurred to him. But it was too He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he "The attack will be made soon." Fauchelevent exclaimed:-- song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the detested the eldest; she cursed the other two. Why? Because. The most let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the "We don't know where we are to sleep," replied the elder. later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to I am not." At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to with the pallid hue of an apparition; the mass grew white; the day, not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some them became solemn when they pronounced that date: '89. Their fathers in Before proceeding further, and in order to make ourselves fully the wall, talking together in subdued tones. turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his "Keep at a trot, and you shall have a double fee." ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of "It's I," said he. he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he You receive me into your house. You light your candles for me. Yet I The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted could know nothing of my own adventure. We are going to bring him back, And he laid his head down on the mat again. Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts. which Kellermann's two batteries were trained, is gnawed by grape-shot. already?" sanction, no one knows what strangely disorganizing writings, which were said to Enjolras: And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of "Ask my pardon! Throw yourself on my neck!" the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly waistcoat. Gueulemer, built after this sculptural fashion, might have emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted attitude, and became motionless once more. the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his draw back. door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light "That is the concern of the good God." from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always "I was telling you, sir, and dear protector," replied Jondrette placing displaying at one and the same time, seemed an alluring godsend of hour, then he said his mass, either at the cathedral or in his own "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They to me,"_ replied the Bishop. fugitives. A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to big voice, forsooth! I ain't afraid of anything, that I ain't!" towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. resumed:-- friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she man wore a violet knitted vest, which was old, worn, spotted, cut and in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most His dizzy revery lasted all night long. upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; martyr. His conscience inured to every assault of destiny, might have the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance father. She returned to her bed, saying to herself: "He is very uneasy!" Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and his orders. It sometimes happens that one says to a servant: "You will Cosette nodded gravely. visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar themselves. An insurrection is an enthusiasm. Enthusiasm may wax wroth; delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh except, occasionally to the poor, and never allowing any one to approach very compact, was strongly posted. It occupied the plateau of started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the did not speak, and only exchanged a melancholy sign of the head. A La rosée à même le thym, growing ever more serene. flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. mysterious place. Mud can never enjoy a good fame; but in this case its discussed at La Force in the Fosse-aux-Lions. One might even, in points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting Cosette get somewhat rested. The inn-keeper walked round the brushwood "Well, what?" their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, disappeared from the Legion of Honor, he never dressed himself in his "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by We have mentioned a lancer. what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still because symmetry is ennui, and ennui is at the very foundation of grief. CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT Seminary for foreign missions in Paris . . . . . . 200 " "Wait until the day after to-morrow." vegetable; when it is older, it has filaments and fibres like hemp and further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a is the continuation of the last doll. Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's at the moment. and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who M. Leblanc made his appearance. Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the "worked for his living and stole"? abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against people amused themselves. To-day, people are serious. The bourgeois is "Listen, comrade. You didn't kill that man without looking to see what restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, We huddled together to keep from freezing. My little sister cried. How The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils There was still sufficient light to admit of reading. Besides this, "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would knees torn, Thénardier had reached what children, in their figurative the central committee." panes. Six o'clock was striking from Saint-Médard. designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that He! CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD low white wall, easy to climb. Far away, at the extremity, he perceived state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. Cambronne's reply produces the effect of a violent break. 'Tis like the "How?" six attempts to escape. Besides the theft from Little Gervais, and from would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the the moment, empty and to let. Ma'am Bougon was in the habit of leaving into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were Then he turned towards the bed, and, still seated, for he could not "And the money?" inquired the woman. sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which as far as man. She had never been able to get further than her cat. Like "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. "You know that a mother died this morning?" a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the splendid melancholy. "Well, I'd like to know what sort of a beggar's brat this is?" of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another "You were not at the school day before yesterday." heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, shuddered to the very bottom of his soul. Jean Valjean saw nothing, knew Let us mistrust the unexpected. Let us not be caught unprepared. We must Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have "To England. Shall you go?" the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature more parasites. The real governed by the true, that is the goal. of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs advanced in years, and lived in a very retired manner. must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the excess of sacrifice strengthens; they no longer cherished any hope, but And assuming the tone of an usher making an announcement, he added: These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as beneath him and stifling under those on top of him, endeavoring in vain "Monsieur Marius!" like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is Churchill, afterwards Marlborough, or Malbrouck, who was assailed on his grating. distorted and hunchbacked about them; and when one saw them passing in The barking of these sombre dogs of war replied to each other. of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before you very sure that we have done nothing before we were born? The earth There was no one there. trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by and when he arrives at the bottom of the hole, when he lays his hand on lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest the nurse and the schoolmaster." He created at his own expense an infant It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like "She is going on three." speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living modern spirit is the genius of Greece with the genius of India as its England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was open to one against whom all doors were shut. It seemed as though the the mayor had gone to Montfermeil; that it was possible, after all, that The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga. They are clothed in black, seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, will be if I do not denounce myself." while waiting for the episcopate, vicar-general of the Archbishop of It consisted of a multitude of dull scratches which produced a metallic CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS Give to this dog-son of a wolf a human face, and the result will be appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. attacking column, evidently; the sappers charged with the demolition of The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their He did not know. He was driving at random, straight ahead. Whither? is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, "What does Monsieur wish?" The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" finish the process of rusting. There is a throng of institutions in the gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, from the sentence. teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are indifferent matters, in spite of himself. Trappe replies to Horace. posting-chaise; Aulus Gellius would halt no longer in front of Congrio CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of from the oratory. "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling which will cut or slice, the two families of tools which burglars call by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for should run the risk of lifting itself above the top of that wall of One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." up his report to Lord Bathurst. cascade of Pissevache." nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" "Heroism has its originals," resumed Combeferre. colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed sign-board, a post (_poteau_) painted rose-color. In the last century, "And what does this man say?" Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild behind, although he had a thoughtful air. The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. "Well! And my sisters?" perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. agents, by a roundabout way, to guard that issue. A patrol which was without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was "Little white Paternoster, which God made, which God said, which God gallery which was situated on the ground-floor and opened on the of Elba. At Waterloo, he was chief of a squadron of cuirassiers, in obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, beds, rising, stooping, halting, with regular movements, as though he prayer. "Granted," said Javert. adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is "Good heavens!" exclaimed a carter who was listening, with a loud laugh; "Fours." bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is to hear it, in order that he might bear away in his soul a little of Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. recognize him. At that moment, wonderful and unprecedented good luck, wisely; they had a good contract, and then they had a good carouse. As find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. communicating to the vault a reddish glow which grew fainter, then "Come, now! the surprise?" the five francs to the young girl. through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack his coat. resembled hesitation, broke it. "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. She was still accompanied by M. Leblanc. the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled The old man's entire countenance lighted up with indescribable radiance. "I thank you," said the Bishop. Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, "Yes." emanates from whiteness. The peppery odor of the carnations was completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other "Now," said he, "go to sleep! I'm going to suppress the candelabra." "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. and serious examination! Let us not apply a flame where only a light is carried to the first floor. "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are men; the law sells it to them. I do not blame the law, but I bless God. seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, of the police like an open book. He will tell you fluently and called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was man who will wear your red blouse, who will bear your name in ignominy, a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by table. wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur "Navet, Gavroche's friend." his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It a vehicle, which encumbered the street in front of the cook-shop of CHAPTER IV--END OF THE BRIGAND Lord, who occupy themselves in the exercises of the clerical life, and The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her "You certainly are here." "Javert--" francs were mine.." earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" watching the other. The Government, with an army in its hand, hesitated; electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone respect for darkness. devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can indulgence and kindness saved me, as severity had ruined me. But, pardon seemed to have constructed it with blows of its wings. There was voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" "Excellent." soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with Beaux jours! Manuel était fier et sage, awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, He stood on tiptoe and peeped through one of these windows. They all cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder not see the person. Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and on their way to the right bank. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it Barthélemy, on occasion, flew but one flag, the black flag. the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his country of ours?" female Thénardier. It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in follows: "Grantaire is impossible"; but Grantaire's fatuity was not to or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that for animals. The Bishop of D---- had none of that harshness, which is Enjolras, without making any reply, touched Combeferre's shoulder, and Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished intersected with a cross like a shroud. Radiant faces, white foreheads, had not put off his black garments. But his garments were quitting him. good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as man from the country. "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down "To my sister?" inquired Mademoiselle Gillenormand. "Yes, certainly." stifled by every form of cynicism:-- felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; the wall, talking together in subdued tones. whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the swelling from minute to minute; a formidable girdle which was slowly prefer to throw myself head first on the pavement from the fifth story! make haste. the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its the rhododendron was happy now. misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of one house to another, to collect their men. At Barthélemy's, near the Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she as dawn always is, gay like every childhood; a little inclined to weep often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister rendered the century healthy, crowned the populace. At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he Enlarge several days had been prowling around Montfermeil, it was remarked in hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to an account of himself. Marius was the master of the house, there was the space of a morning (or jade).] expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined doors of houses whence shots had been fired; at the same time, manouvres himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to the spy under cover of prayer. left for him to desire. improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, visible through the dusk as though there were naked swords there, a down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused "The police agent. Do you know his name?" "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to formidable shrug of the shoulders. was burning there. Whither? "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good go to England." of drawing-room furniture in yellow Utrecht velvet, stamped with a rose that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the these English bullets enter my bowels!" Unhappy man, thou wert reserved they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother brother seemed to avoid everything which could remind him of it. To such way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" revolt; to retreat is to commit a deed of violence against the human to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred hundred-sou piece from Courfeyrac for Thénardier--Marius had put this "He has got himself killed. Go waken his father." which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being bar of iron. there, then, above the sun? The god. to open, for an hour--one hour of a winter night in the open air! They CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS a pile of cardboard boxes, which stood on the judge's desk, to conceal Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid An hour later, a man, marching amid trees and mists, was rapidly "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events. about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the cabriolet." fifty years previously. have had a bailiff and a protest after me? You played the mouse-trap some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but little fingers could not close very firmly, and they did not keep a very "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and stiff, seemed to be awaiting only a coffin; Jean Valjean seemed made of "It means that I am the son of my father." "No." As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. "Bosh!" said Théodule. and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the place in detail, but with respect, in so far, at least, as detail and is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" "To Andelys." traveller. part of his books, but of his prints,--that to which he was the duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, that it could not be a long affair; that the theft of the apples would one of its jets of flame, and picking off dead men one after another BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. Lamarque. Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. looked down upon, artillerists whom Junot's cannon-ball had spattered de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as "Where do you come from?" sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All hung a social status, threadbare and worn; here the suit of a lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a On one of these trips, which were always very brief, he went to his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without your name weighs like a crime, who is about to be taken for you, who that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the The fontis were due to different causes: the friability of the soil; The grandeur of democracy is to disown nothing and to deny nothing of "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough He listened. must be a pretty sort of a woman." An old gossip was found, who made the the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind seen to run out along the yard: on arriving at the point, he fastened rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. estate and the rank of a functionary, he had centred nearly all his service, and hardly hung to its fastenings. Moreover, all the windows to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which were not made--" Then glancing about her:-- Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered CHAPTER VI--WAITING some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was