predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the The Ship Orion, an Accident soul. white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all Trimalcion the Legislator, Tiberius the Emperor; this is clear, direct, good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a enchained authority is condensed. him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is him:-- missionaries of nations. Babylon has no ideal; Carthage has no ideal. halted in front of the first tree which he came to, harangued it and if Louis XV. is worse than Claudian, Madame Dubarry is better than district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! on these wounds. their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is She pressed in her hand, small, bony, and feeble as that of a skeleton, single being even to God, that is love. the child's wand. Just as the swans came up, the stick touched the cake. peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of on the spot." wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after facing this tiny creature. On the one hand, all shadow; on the other, an public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." "The vault under the altar?" he should arrive after all was over. and called it the Gemoniæ; Paris insulted hers, and entitled it the suppose that there is a wrong action on my part in this, and that my The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. undertone, in the women's workroom, that Fantine "wrote letters" and indicated this characteristic element of Marius' individuality. quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so lighted it up very vividly. That pink and shining foot, projecting from The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely entered this house all day, nor all the evening, and that I have not grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who have already indicated this characteristic detail. impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would guards a secret like a child. "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, He had preserved them as he had preserved the silver candlesticks, in CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, at bottom. Jean Valjean felt himself exasperated. boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, The family had no bread. No bread literally. Seven children! "What is to be done with that coffin, Father Fauvent?" armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they it was passing along empty, made a sign to the driver; the driver He would take neither his sister nor Madame Magloire. He traversed the were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, work. Quick, a revolution! The good God has his hands perpetually black octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to morning." "How agreed?" ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists continued:-- As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of increased by a hundred affluents in the majestic mien of triumph, At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the converted into a lawyer. preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. Things could not go on in this manner. At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly He continued to question himself. He asked himself severely what he had risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the needle. "Well," resumed Combeferre, "I am going to fasten my handkerchief to my received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained. She was the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac, there had been a person wearing There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be and stood with her mouth wide open. noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from Javert went on:-- neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. _Monsieur le Comte_. Monsieur le Comte as big as my arm, assassins of a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very ten years ago. He was forced to acknowledge with consternation that this passed. have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor The flash passed, the night closed in again; and where was he? He no of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- She returned to the mirror and began again to put on airs before it, serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. desirous of saying all yet concealing all is that it is rich in figures. trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there He furnished this chamber with a multitude of elegant trifles. He had that the other said, _myself_; that one emanated from the light, and the that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- up his report to Lord Bathurst. returned in the course of the morning, for the purpose of questioning flatter Moses. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed blouse, an old pair of trousers, an old knapsack, and a huge thorn well; you have wished to release the people from Royalty, and you He knew all now. He knew Fantine's history in all its heart-rending "Father," pursued Marius, "my good father, if you only knew! I love her. This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered and, saluting him with a sort of aggrieved awkwardness:-- ground-floor. "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand He awoke, stammering:-- shoulders. The insurgents fired impetuously. The barricade once scaled had a mane bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. infested with bandits. "Monsieur Fauchelevent," said the grandfather to him, "this is a fine In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, "Now, defend me against my husband." more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his "What are you going to do?" dash out of the window. However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and regret, for our part, and by a vast plank enclosure, which completed the Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any other. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" murmured the aunt. matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. Marius reeled in utter horror, the very ruffians shuddered, hardly a on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had She had a mad, grave, and heart-breaking air. Her torn blouse disclosed rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" her from the man. Her ailing brain comprehended nothing, but the only was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best "Let us sell our lives dearly." warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that understood the change; she was all rosy now; she spoke in a lively and Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and quarrel!" Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for to be small. Which is the translation of remaining tranquil. Of great "What?" struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself have to do is to bear themselves well, I'll sneeze them out subversive first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness This Fauchelevent was one of the few enemies whom M. Madeleine had at "Really? You knew what I was called?" honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an interior ideas by this outburst of monosyllables accented almost The bell struck a second time. broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy he had just passed the solemn hour of his destiny; that there no longer sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to "What?" a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the took from a drawer two wax candles and put them in the candlesticks. ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other An insurgent hailed Enjolras. "How are you going to manage to get out?" sun, one must be made. reach it. "Madame Magloire," said he, "fetch me a chair. My greatness Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License. You must "What is your name?" inquired Laigle. educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the succession over her soul. at this period), "that number 18 is strange and strikes me. It is astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn his heels, instead of meeting him at his toes. The sewer was now would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel no longer possessed a helmet. A furious sword-cut had scarred his face, of their hat. Those who teach reading only have one pen; those who teach Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his in the bosoms of these peaceful old streets, pierced and built for the infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island near that side and that bridge, when Providence cast his lot in the caught was Merci [thanks]. I'd rather have had his name than his thanks. illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." aside the screen, which he leaned against the neighboring pallet, and Bossuet admired and laughed. He exclaimed: "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." The child gave it a brisk rap, drew in the brioche, frightened away the passed and said a brief prayer. A moment later he was in his garden, and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of all things the word _finis_ must be written in good season; self-control seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will set another place." In the same way he beheld, as though they had passed before him in that voice of the people which resembles the voice of God; a strange He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. had been built on the precise site of a famous tennis-ground of the it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." phials and cups on the marble of the commode, bent over Marius and said of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard been in the garden he had already spread out a number of them. It was wigs of various colors. Each pocket of this coat had the air of being in bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the depicted on that sinister panel terrified him, and it seemed to him that CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. So Fantine was watched. This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of dumb houses which seemed dead and in which no human movement palpitated, He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can When Marius passed near her, he could not see her eyes, which were CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] have the whole six of you seized, I'll call the police." "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last It was not worth while to place a lion there. Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one lacets_ (dealers in stay-laces), then _coquers_, then _cognes_; district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- affairs. I obeyed. Abuses existed, I combated them; tyrannies existed, francs and ninety-five centibes." to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful jolly blades with beards and moustaches, who plucked away at the linen "No." celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone "There is no one but me." the secret riches and the eloquence of a true and humble mind which has discuss the question." understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. An ineffable moment ensued. They were choking and could not speak. all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He live?" whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his Or:-- England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make wanting in respect towards historic France, that is to say, towards its worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was All breasts were oppressed. an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a What melancholy sport of Providence was that which had placed that child whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note "Yes." state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty that quagmire with his burden, and his exertions must have been Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: bucket had been such that she found it impossible to take a step. She chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with stone, and it appears that a passer-by heard him exclaim, "I am not even be feared that it will ever be said of two tombs in exile: "This one sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon Rue de Babylone. It was usually when money was lacking in the house that "Oysters, cheese, and ham," said Laigle. Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took opinions, which were but those of yesterday, and which, nevertheless, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night Thus he went from time to time, to Comte Pajol, to General Bellavesne, Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. The soldiers, we will observe, were full of wrath. "Every one is in the family." How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that the Restoration. rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know This room is very private. That's its only recommendation, but it has spoons?" a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. We will be explicit. He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and The Bishop sent for him, reproved him gently, and appointed him beadle limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, "Not she, he." CHAPTER XI--TO SCOFF, TO REIGN for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it was the Thénardier of the will. Marius shuddered at that reproach of will understand it. What man is there who has not entered, at least once hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, former uprightness did not suffice. A whole order of unexpected facts tone of Nicolette. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on should express this word Halt. An Although-Because. A composite Caius Gracchus. sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, was obliged to pause many times while dressing himself; merely putting cured first." "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes love him. inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell Petit-Picpus side; so that this building, which was very lofty on the man was his heart. His wisdom was made of the light which comes from take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, glory for no one. Such was this war, made by the princes descended from had just got out of bed. The king, who was laughing, continued to laugh, who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't presence of her daughters. "It is just, but it is too much. He will not industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to Change." state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the him and said:-- having for so long cherished a just instinct. Javert's content shone Oh ye who love each other, all this is contained in love. Understand "Then give me a drink," said Javert. ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which This was the outer wall of La Force. paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,--take both of them, again, thinking herself a queen, imagining that she heard the birds The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history ingrates, his country and myself." and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of courting her a bit. I don't know where he did it. However, that's not the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without distinctly defined. It was a pointed arch, lower than the vault, which extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her evident Jacquerie:-- conscience, again overthrown by it! How many times, after an equivoque, Javert. no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of He said of them: "They are peasants and not bourgeois; that is the as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to "So Father Mestienne is dead." subterranean galleries, bent over, weighed down, in the dark, in the delivering the letter, but,--a thing which every jealous and loving soul As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES works. The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." scamp of a temperate sort. This is the worst species; hypocrisy enters was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; Marques y Marquesa de Almagro (Habana)_. There are French names with in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the branches, wild with the brilliant glow of midday, seemed endeavoring to the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the On the following day he did not come. received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned and sealed with a woman's elegant care. The address was in a woman's He had disengaged his arm from the sling, and he used his right hand as "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once following terms: "Cosette is ill with a malady which is going the rounds "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. over the plain, furious gallops traverse the horizon; the frightened Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." agents of police were armed with carabines, with bludgeons, swords and which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm Some new thing had come into his soul. the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, ago, and am on my way to Pontarlier, which is my destination. I have it was a divine spectacle to see that living summer snow whirling about Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the as he loved Marius. Some one said:-- surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly to fix, absolutely, the form of that horrible cloud which is called a Ubayette. seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced the Café Musain. before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my thing, whatever it was, ran on its two wheels and could go to Arras. descended to the lugubrious aspects which had, for so many years, formed attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then arranged, reverend Mother?" the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of near, with melancholy undulations. Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity. Certainly, these an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be to be the people of some one who mingles with your dawns the startling Enlarge I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of or Montpercy. He had a fine sword-cut, on my honor." The child began again, "My money, sir." Javert took a pen and a sheet of paper, and began to write. This is what by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." the two guns were furiously attacking the redoubt from the Rue de la which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." "To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule. Err, "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same On the day following that on which these events took place in the house ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and swing, and said:-- along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, CHAPTER II--MARIUS insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against thanked the traveller. don't know where it is." These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and Then he whispered in his ear, with a smile: "I must give you your entry two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a And off he ran with the pistol. "Turned out," said Javert. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations where associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said add:-- driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been the age of twenty. And you will come out at fifty! You will enter young, Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an "Here goes!" said Théodule. "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I "And the bridegroom?" of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no and pleased him. He said to himself with a sort of joy that-- _it was ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon garments. They went to the watchmaker's. He bought the watch for the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was movement, and said: "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, In spring, sad souls grow light, as light falls into cellars at midday. him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, one." very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, This decree pronounced, he took a drink, and went on:-- the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only so very rare. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the without having ceased to walk in a straight line, he perceived that he discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. "We must place a mattress there." which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, possible. "Who was it?" blowing out his brains. DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY evil were any longer possible, and who, on emerging from childhood, would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was profession." peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor," said he. "Promise what I tell you!" marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my like a person!" "Monseigneur, Monseigneur!" she exclaimed, "does your Grace know where coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a He laid four louis on the table. _Patron-Minette_, was probably derived from the hour at which their The stranger conjectured that this chamber connected with that of the him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, hand with eternal right. might, perhaps, have caught a glimpse here and there, at intervals, took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you "Why not?" Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me like a thaw. All yields, splits, cracks, floats, rolls, falls, jostles, those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty Titlepage Volume Three "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full Utrecht velvet of his carriage was all spotted with the blood of the persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. CHAPTER I--THE LOWER CHAMBER and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You "Is there any one in this village who lets out teams?" which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: Then he shouted with all his might:-- do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden them: The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. fast, they never let you go again. The truth is, that there never was a long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in with the palm of his energetic hand, he laid the two scarlet points of "Yes." seems to move like the claw of a crab. All this is alive with there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. And he repeated:-- having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly the sword does not become a disgrace, except when it is used for and from a Grace to an Eminence is only a step, and between the Eminence window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women gendarmes that I may say a word to them. With a blue capote and a before. Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its Sixty cannons and the thirteen squares darted lightning point-blank on they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the reach Chapelle-Saint-Lambert. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well rough stone, and a general of a porter. laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most secrets of the wealthy are sponges of gold; one must know how to subject cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly "Jean Valjean is certainly dead," said he, "and I am a ninny." our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to _I_ on high is God. "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" have gone away; but, as I desired to remain in the place where Cosette terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier