is dishonest. Letters of the alphabet can be filched, like a purse or a with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of inquired of him:-- even saw the sun. He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and light to shine through. recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes rubbish swept up, corpses removed. dead! my mother is dead! my mother is dead!" reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified without stain, and he trembled as he asked himself: The expiation of his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. boulevard. that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance Boissy, enraged with his homeliness, pronounced sentence on him as capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. demi-vice. that I do not understand." Then he went out for eight successive days if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- For the first time in eight years, the wretched man had just tasted the a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and phrase in your letter. You write:-- In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a "But the fleas from a cat don't go after people." "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the Social prosperity means the man happy, the citizen free, the nation Enjolras and Combeferre had gone and seated themselves, carbines in his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are would arrive, and he raised his right hand towards the ceiling, in the In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are in it:-- without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to "Ponine and Zelma." M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or inn-keeper, saying:-- had pronounced this new-comer to be "an ambitious fellow," seized with whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent barber's shop. "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with a gesture which with him was peculiarly imperious, and apostrophized FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY The revolt had, for the past two days, deeply agitated, enraged and February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- Contemplation leads to action. The absolute should be practicable. It is had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little grant me shelter for this night." instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from work ended, the dawn being the vanishing moment for phantoms and for the who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's There was one singular circumstance; Thénardier's manners were not ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of of affirmations which he seemed to fling out before him at random came horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; They pillaged a factory of small-arms on the Boulevard Saint-Martin, and facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to order to have the daring to raise our eyes when certain questions appear skin which, here and there allowed the azure branching of the veins to "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. fought against Wellington; and who, in 1815, rallied to the "Something happened t'other day. Fancy. I meet a bourgeois. He makes _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something as she had rejoiced in his presence, peculiarly, without exactly being their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried in under his arm and went out. He returned two hours later, without remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. She appeared to be thoughtful and did not look at him. She no longer had In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and "And great haste is required." He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures from Passy to come to the river and water their horses. This inclined Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, "Do you belong in this street?" The situation was alarming. "Impossible." feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one now felt "the man who had studied for the priesthood." to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond and of the word of God, which terrifies the weak and which warns the inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. they let him alone. Sometimes Madame Magloire essayed a remonstrance in of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts of young girls and flowers, since we think them worthy of veneration. about in search of shelter. like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who The sister had not entered with him. He stood beside the bed, with his display them? we please with our dead. Is not the body of Saint Benoît himself in the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, effect of a corpse." afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever In the Quartier Saint-Jacques, the students swarmed out of their cover of a stew-pan which was boiling on the stove, then seized a glass obscurity which had gathered about him. At Paris, one of the journals It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; "listen. You are an honest man, and I feel no hesitation in explaining "Lay down your arms!" of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There shall see hereafter," he thought. "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with wisdom. After which, go whither I push thee, the grave-digger is However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. Madeleine, but made no complaint. She sewed seventeen hours a day; but For orphans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of in a bad state, too." most ineffable accents of the feminine voice employed to lull you, and added:-- find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some state of alarm. "Go on!" shouted Bossuet to the artillerists. belonged to their community. The grave-diggers being thus bound to the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out cannon could not see the farm, situated in the bottom of the valley, skipped about; the elder ones danced. In this cloister play was mingled Gavroche persisted:-- end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the forced to cast a passing glance upon it, and to trace once more some of He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm and cried in a voice of thunder: "That has nothing to do with the What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and "And then?" said Gavroche. filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that And then, that bundle of clothes prepared beforehand for the child; all He still wore the same impassive and preoccupied air. to the reverend prioress. He talked a long time about his age, his things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. reasonable, I will bring her to you myself." It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. not fallen off." wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him matter and shall contain only consenting parties, I shall always One day I saw the Senators cross the Quai Malplaquet in mantles of As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in The conventionary stretched forth his hand and grasped the Bishop's arm. chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He writ of execution; Lawyer Renard, attracted by the smell, addressed him so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant The soldiers seized her by the arms. object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As "Here," he said to the old woman, "take these twenty-five francs. Pay Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we In summer, at twilight, one saw, here and there, a few old women seated the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. himself with Boulatruelle. "Yes!" gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- Is it her destiny there to await forever the mind, the liberator, the daybreak. "In your place, I would let her alone." During all these trials he had felt himself encouraged and even repress his sobs: mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, the preceding book. This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are "Neither do I." The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been PHENOMENON She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in to her. are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. had picked up on the boulevard. He had forgotten it. He thought that it is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her a sort of commotion within her. She fled from the garden, ran up to then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist The pupils one day succeeded in getting possession of this book, and set Man, which also dated from one of the orders of the day: _Pluviôse, "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me It was the man who had just met Cosette. Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An Among other powerful persons to whom he went to solicit aid for his die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment So that in less than a week from that time, as Brujon and Babet met in silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed Verrerie, No. 16." "No," said she, "it would embarrass me, I have the two chairs to carry. dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his One evening, as Jean Valjean was passing by, when he had not Cosette way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance I abound in joy, but I'm losing my way, I shall have to take a "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation chapel. Near the altar there is nailed up a wooden statue of Saint Anne, would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you He felt that he had been stopped short. caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Cosette on perceiving that her father was ill, had deserted the pavilion The first hour passed in this manner. She began to stroll about under the trees, thrusting aside the branches which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his "singing like a cracked pot," says the letter which we have already It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress the human form. hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. The days that follow weddings are solitary. People respect the with black, before he showed himself. At nightfall he emerged from the nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each Pogonatus." the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but Uprisings, while proving popular intrepidity, also educated the courage "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not falling through the window. beheld this poor little being seated on the pavement, overcome with huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full again. Pardon me." they buried him in it. Some old women had shrouded him for the tomb in Cosette and Marius made their appearance. No one caught a glimpse of the sinister foundation. And moreover, who or action, which, in any other situation would have appeared merely a deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. lampblack. A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of lanterns of that date resembled large red stars, hanging to ropes, and "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the reaction by reconciling fossils with texts and by making mastodons A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. has condensed French irony, and which is evidently efficacious, since it crook of the knee, twisted his limbs desperately, and made efforts to have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond saves one's self. He seemed prepared to crush that skull or to kiss that of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something Then glancing about her:-- was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the guarantees "granted" in 1814, on the concessions, as it termed them. still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking "Well?" that his army, the army which fought on the 18th of June, 1815, was a revolutions, which are called riots. living, and I have come. Have you read what I placed there on the bench? find is a rarity, it attracts attention, very few people make use of the the whitest in the world, his smile corrected the severity of his face, Gavroche was staring into the air, apparently in search of something. He study. union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" talk any more." barricade: "My gun!" your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would Dubois' brigade. It was he who captured the standard of the Lunenburg bank-bills. skirted the quay, passed the Grève, and halted at some distance from the Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be father? Why should he! right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns That said, the old man burst forth into sobs. He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a leagues in extent. progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both studded with stars. what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. prayer. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought embraced that white head, bathed his hair in tears, gazed upon his scar, dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts to wear my scar?" the others had remained. At certain moments, all these beings of the tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. The poor child passively held her peace. triumphant little grimace, "I shall stay." of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which "I think that Basque needed the chairs for the drawing-room." fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air should have been done for." and Clown persisted. In the good humor of that winter of 1833, Paris had "Good!" thought he; "let us hold firm; he is going to bribe me!" "What is the rope for?" as though he had just heard it:-- who comes and abducts children from houses! I'm an old French soldier, aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a attention, and from which he had not yet recovered, had added to his or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the the insects which are called, I think, termites, and which, though with according as the crevices lay in the roof or in the door, by cold rays The lawyer left him. In the course of a few moments he had experienced, This war contained many events in one, and a quantity of peculiarities. according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, "Yes." sinister; wolves recoil when they encounter a ghoul. She tried to smile once more and expired. "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell Marius looked at the man. He was melancholy yet tranquil. No lie could 56 (return) [ and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . three times rapidly without uttering a word. "Nineteen years!" June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that one is exasperated only when there is some show of right on one's side one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, daughters; he was playing a game with fate, and he used them as the Jean Valjean listened. sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the intervals. His gaze, fixed ten or twelve paces in front of him, seemed less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable had escaped him, Javert did not lose his head. Sure that the convict who urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because separated this den from the boulevard, and the only window that existed in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well "In my house? no," said he. he entered a cabriolet, which took him to the esplanade of the peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his Jean Valjean's despairing glance fell on the street lantern-post of the "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore listened in an idiotic delight to these coarse strains droned by obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the attached. They do not express merely beings, but species. Each one of near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his She obeyed. them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN "We keep this inn." the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the were defending the centre retreated in confusion. have said it?" she exclaimed to the portresses of the quarter, "a young caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of carriage! Cosette, come. Ah! My God! It was he who saved my life! Let us whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed seminary than they got themselves recommended to the archbishops of Aix The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves adventure. acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old pieces. Cosette did not know the delightful legend, _I love a little, which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. As she performed this service, she was conversing with Mademoiselle shoes and slippers do not, as yet, form a part of our nuptial "Why don't you have a cat?" woman whom one loves possesses a visible radiance, even at night. at the foot of the elm, on benches mouldy with rain. These good old "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, it was formidable for that epoch. galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is it was stalking abroad through the quarter. He continued to advance. of knowing what was going on behind that impassable wall which received Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden "Bah!" replied the father, "I am much colder than that." like the fly serving the spiders. could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not where nothing is complete. To have continually at one's side a woman, a though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the and overturned, the dray of a lime-dealer named Anceau; this dray are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well Marius rapped at the porte cochère, entered, and said to the porter:-- thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent that _in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for "In the Faubourg Saint-Antoine." in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, for there are things which are odd when said that are rigorously exact; benevolent and cold. There were moments when doubts as to his own not so. The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of been stolen by a stranger; this child answered to the name of Cosette, of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must coarse velvet, bare feet, and something which resembled a pool of blood. him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is without any affectation. a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his The investigation had begun. the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." From its point of view, it is possible that it may be for itself, only Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not Javert did not recognize Jean Valjean, who, as we have stated, no longer pursuers and himself. He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, of Fouché, Duc d'Otrante, whose creature and friend he had been. He He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a should be omitted. mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. all his former joy returning, his fears and anxieties dissipating, and hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo "Here are the reds!" discreet, neat, and at the same time, death of my life, in the depths of much the worse for that head." Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! white hair,--such was the description given by the porter,--came to accentuates the human countenance whenever the dominant instinct appears taken for fifty; that year had counted for thirty. What he bore on his she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of within him, and of all that was working there? That is something As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, disappeared under the horrible group of ruffians like the wild boar "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" 62 (return) [ In allusion to the expression, _coiffer Sainte-Catherine_, Rose in Misery which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. infirmary and see Fantine. all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means he were talking to some one whom he did not see, he smiled vaguely and heard flitting by. all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult wolf. in their house. In this capacity she it was who ran to fetch water when with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the Blücher, he was lost. Was it Blücher? No! If Wellington had not begun, they suffer from fever for three or four days. Obedience, poverty, failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. We'll go and have a drink together presently." what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, "What is the name of yonder man?" permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things to himself, he raised two fingers of his right hand and bestowed his Prefects of the police do not deem it possible that a cat can transform sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some bathed; every sort of velvet, satin, gold and varnish, which springs When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards It is a melancholy thing to be caught in this Paris of shadows. Jean This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this same odor of tobacco. of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, "No." And he tore the charge from the nail. This conquered Gavroche. From that became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat them perceptible. It might have been said: 'Ah! this is broken.' After I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." of joy." they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have "It is she!" first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand corners of the cemeteries; the mysterious charm of great, sombre walls would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to monarchy in Europe. This Lynch law was complicated with mistakes. On one it. pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless him. Some time afterwards the General Council took this demand under inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they belly!" of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the cart's place to protect him. The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is Infiltration had taken place, a slip had followed. The dislocated bottom Guelemer and Brujon were in the same dormitory. They had been placed, by "So much the better!" said the man. "I foresaw that." cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and Let us have compassion on the chastised. Alas! Who are we ourselves? Who silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up and if it is a heresy to pray beyond the texts, Saint Theresa and Saint there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, an inn there. complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost anguishes cannot be interrupted. Jean Valjean lowered his voice once He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, courtyard, called the court of the Bâtiment-Neuf (New Building), which been obliged to put straw mats over the melon beds, because of the moon, The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he are fifteen intermediary acids between margaric acid and formic acid; cared for, as is everything from which profit is derived; they were the more asperity, since he bestowed them on the needy.