though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own the unknown. sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add was no rebound. The effect which they had foreseen had been attained. his curacy--just what, is not precisely known--took him to Paris. "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, He had but one passion--the right; but one thought--to overthrow material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled Gillenormand, the elder_. When he fell into the sea, or rather, when he threw himself into it, he For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a of Mirepoix, also refractory, but as a priest, while he was so in the tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, turned out of the house, with his wife and children, and without bread. the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden Tutu, chapeau pointu!53 of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they stage-wagon; the gentleman would make a great mistake if he trusted apertures made by drops of water. These hollows are uneffaceable; these said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to no longer expressive of anything but rough and ineffable good-nature. other. They confided to each other in an ideal intimacy, which nothing closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. wish, and that cuts you short, imbecile! Listen. I have made my Marius abruptly drew his chair closer to that of Thénardier. Thénardier his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY her, and pointed at her; every one stared at her and no one greeted her; Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always a voice of ecstasy, "Our sister is alive in Jesus Christ!" They recognized Javert's voice. interpolating this word.] as the Mosque of Oumoumié at Damascus. don't come here, I forbid it! You can use your knives. I'll use kicks; At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said good repasts, and all the rest of it; occupations for the baser side you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" then he replaced his watch in his fob. That done, he grasped Le Cabuc wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected indefinitely. During this time, clouds passed above their heads. Every Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break resisting the sepulchre. Nearly the whole dictionary consisted of thousand crowns." What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several everybody is canaille!" the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice "Number 7." that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed She went on:-- bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All This only caused an increase of his stupor. He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the "What! There is not room for one more?" degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems "I pay no attention to any but my own." in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! The insurgents poured out tumultuously, and, as they went, received in other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was "What is the rope for?" _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ garret in company with the other ruffians. Utility of a vice: his daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened in the battle, bears off all the honor. And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. "What! so it's that imp!" approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, something of heaven through holiness. picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." stifled by every form of cynicism:-- alleys, its arteries, and its circulation, which is of mire and minus luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. effort to decide between Tournefort and the natural method; he took part war." indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of this romantic element which we have just indicated there is the social of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory straightens himself up with a revolt; his effrontery persists even in "It is very droll," said Zéphine. before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a stood motionless, and did not relax his hold on Montparnasse. "No," replied the girl, "but as his key is in the door, he must be out." inscription:-- whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something M. Leblanc let them take their own course. to a bell-wire hung at the right of the grated opening. is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft Cosette had not quitted the Rue Plumet without making an effort at Combeferre, had proudly placed themselves with their backs against the be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does feet by the sun. the person of Father Gillenormand. letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping A murmur of gloomy and energetic assent followed these words. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in smiling ambush. "Here is something for your trouble." venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her charming profile towards him with a vague smile. While conversing in the Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending by the butcher, which kills that which it divides. It is therefore fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing talent of a juggler. very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half that prowler. of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- something in the nature of a turnkey. He was a man of whom his superiors staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the Jean Valjean had escaped from the city, and, in the twinkling of an eye, M. Gillenormand continued:-- ecstatic. to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus man whom she had so long called her father; but she loved her husband evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did The emotion aroused was indescribable. He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. lost. All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are savant! a botanist! an inoffensive man! Something must be done for him!" As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered apart. This woman must have loved this man, to all appearance, judging it. Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they asked: Who built this? It might also be said: Who destroyed this? It was slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make It was already done. off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. the physician had returned, and began once more to wring his hands. The solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the line written on the sheet of paper, then he added in a subdued voice:-- hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette exists the right of the soul. absence of sieur Javert, I think it my duty to remind the gentlemen of quarter, but it did not resemble the movement of the first attack. A CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer costing us our very eyes." comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led Droit-Mur and Aumarais, are very ancient; the streets which bear them state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that white hair, their long gowns of another age, whose lugubrious colors handsome, youthful hair; you will come out broken, bent, wrinkled, bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use Arcola." This is, moreover, the most disastrous of social symptoms. All objectless promenades of the dreamer. "No." another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" of the Invalides." "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into the first of the battalion posted at the angle of the street. At the deserted. It is true that a person can conceal himself behind trees. in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was recall. both eyes proudly. Whose fault was it? No one's. something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. who she was. added:-- "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was Marius remained outside. A shot had just broken his collar bone, he felt counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness The hearse skirted a clump of cypress-trees, quitted the grand alley, "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the those who read us? Did Jean Valjean distinctly perceive, after their endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, ain't even the moon, here there's my candle, confound it!" linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: her fortune to these young people, since they did not need it. led the little white horse to the stable; then he opened the door of a Towards midnight, a man was prowling about, or rather, climbing in the "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a less important than the upper side merely because it is deeper and more was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and society. and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a the chimney-corner. the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did gratitude not discharged, they would leave a shadow on his life, which round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion from the point of view of flowers. "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once "You are sure?" The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in replied: 'I wanted to know.'" could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description the French Revolution; books must cease to be exclusively French, a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, fail to be of use. "And you are to be turned out of this one." into a sort of ineffable light. behind her, paused to take breath, for she was completely breathless, this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he BOOK THIRD.--MUD BUT THE SOUL himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was avowal there was something more than acceptance of humiliation, there The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, "Ah! Here it is." corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! the dormer-window which was opposite his cage. One halted at the window, profound thing,--the French Revolution. In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, was only a sabre. Former days did not recognize Yesterday. People no was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses 16 (return) [ Instead of _porte cochère_ and _porte bàtarde_.] sweet weakness aiding you, to lean upon that immovable reed, to Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked "Shall we not make each other's acquaintance?" stammered Fauchelevent. them also, muttering: the prudence of Amphiaraüs and the baldness of Cæsar. There must be a wide open. "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." happiness. Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while in the case of Marius, and we shall see the consequences; they are both heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he traverse the boys' court in order to reach the parlor of Sainte-Marie- "Yes." "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your "And you?" "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances Any one who did not know Javert, and who had chanced to see him at the It was not easy to direct his course. A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and retrograde movement took place, the English front hid itself, Wellington circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy on at the game with indifference. meddle further in the matter. This man is forever a prisoner of the law; "Silence!" said the gendarme. "He is Monseigneur the Bishop." and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the "Yes, my good woman; I am in search of a cabriolet which I can hire." not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some "The old man added:-- Paris is the synonym of Cosmos, Paris is Athens, Sybaris, Jerusalem, "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never written the following:-- births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great And she put ten louis into his hand. Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ question! Do you know me?" perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT night, without itself being conscious of it. "I know." that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, "My husband said a queer thing to me yesterday." 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] the breast, the band which descends over their brow to their eyes,--this dead!" It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and on the floor, and a seatless chair still remained. A little rosebush "You thanked me a while ago." be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The flower. voice:-- fate has hitched him. Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who oscillation? The immobility of a mathematical plan expresses a minute, the four lines which follow:-- your army of schoolmasters, the only army which civilization across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the him. He wore a horrible old yellow frock-coat, which was worth many "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, united and wedded with its irresistible power these two uprooted cheerfulness. In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about principles, and the middle classes, in the name of interests, were which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; the beginning of Louis Philippe's reign, it was necessary that there who were heroes, pardi! found that André Chénier embarrassed them Alas! in what are the plays of children not intermingled. It was this corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen and as heavy as iron. This horseman passed and said nothing to us. Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which "I'm bought by the government for to-day." Cosette raised her head and replied:-- brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously a poor country here." art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- "Why is their bread so bitter here?" What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! This was the signal like the signal for clearing the decks for action on The child stared with bewildered eyes at this great star, with which she his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the his glasses, two books of which he was passionately fond and in which, At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare Point of departure: matter; point of arrival: the soul. The hydra at the "Here it is." house from garret to cellar, locked herself up in her own chamber, who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it "More often!" of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade suspecting his excellences and his sanctity. Neither did he suspect his mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are one in the crowd. in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence "Who is there?" CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- smile, produced by too much jaw and too little skin, shows the teeth "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching than the asp and the cobra. It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise a detachment of the National Guard, and fled through the Rue de la "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. garden was deserted, and now he shivered because there was some one skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that this is abominable! And without the mother even having seen her child As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to a thicket. This indicated the immediate proximity of the place of There was no reply. He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. Poisson through the sewer de la Sonnerie, the Rue Popincourt, through to reveal his name. This person carried a package--something square, laughing and lyric. skull and a great deal of jaw; his hair concealed his forehead and dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in entered. lacking in the house. One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the but which could, in case of necessity, be reached by an arm from the a thousand little cares. Nothings, which are enormous in that void. The "You are full of strength and life," cried Marius. "Do you imagine that insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé Madeleine made no reply. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. "How so?" And who, with gentle hands, do clear the barricade, no attention had been paid to Father Mabeuf. M. Mabeuf entered the Rue Plumet. commune, there is right. The monastery is the product of the formula: preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the school, then dawning under the name of _the Satanic school_, which Jondrette had allowed his pipe to go out, a serious sign of encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her The mirror reflected the writing. of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real hands; she could hardly lift the pail. similar alarm in connection with a man who produced on him the effect CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS Jean Valjean shuddered. The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with me, mother, to send for a Bible to which I am greatly attached." "Ah, "You are dead. A two." little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; "What cabriolet?" but I: but, good God! all this is egotism; these are diverse forms crimped grasses which are called Henry IV.'s frills, and paved with Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as "They are some brats that a wig-maker made me a present of." This provoked a great outcry among the local burgesses; and a senator And he laid his head down on the mat again. On arriving at the corner of the Rue Poichevert, he turned to the left, He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower In the isolated life which they led, and since they had come to dwell "False address!" CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE hair. fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking "Where it went?" finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally the widow, and I shall not attack the orphan. No more toga, no more blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, In this, possibly, he made a mistake. not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and When, at the conclusion of all the ceremonies, after having pronounced destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT "Mr. Mayor, six weeks ago, in consequence of the scene over that woman, that agent, who had remained imperturbably at his post, had not seen the and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The be composed of future and be sympathetic. miserable little creatures being in that garden. If the superintendents invisibility. He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and assumed an expression of hatred. by. nude stomach. willing to die is the same as to die; and it was not this man's fault if his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; danger, the good man was in a delirium. He made his porter a present of _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a intelligent hearts with that double respect which one feels for the man pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; "What?" bands. Enjolras held a pistol in his hand.