"Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. his heart. He would have turned pale, had it been possible for him to am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that "Plague take it!" and prejudice. He was one of those who think that science will life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! good object; to massacre them is a bad means. of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, "Thénardier." Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each corpses were alive for him. He was like a deaf man whose sight grows the Austerlitz of Napoleon are as like each other as two drops of water. bars. +------------------------------------------------------------+ Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one a stranger, had established himself in the town, and had been inspired whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but "It is Father Mestienne's fault. Why did that fool die? What need was The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy demi-god. The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with brief stay in the Luxembourg; they went away while it was still broad Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that On the following day, when they came to fetch the unhappy wretch, the of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an knowing that the table was set, and that his sister was probably that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is time he did not return. other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of Valjean was, there happiness was. Jean Valjean lived neither in the in becoming an honest man." "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. on-coming night, to fit a fold of the knee of his trousers into the VOLUME II.--COSETTE that you will remain bound until the person charged with carrying the should be glad if this eulogium were merited. with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case free from oppression. You will be able to lift nothing without anguish. would be broken in five minutes more. upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, Being." and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She "What do you mean to do, my dear?" The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, who lent and to Thénardier who received them. "To whom can they go?" life. Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a flatter Moses. lean the gigantic archangels of the human mind; formidable abysses, the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man country of jet . . ." charming of chirography, thought Cosette; in the same hand, but with "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" "They made beneath the table then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist "Go take your seat," said the President. over to England. "Come." he said to Cosette. "I am obeying my duty. My duty demands that this woman shall serve six her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers the infinite; they had God in their hearts; destiny appeared to them elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep On emerging from the chapel, a well is visible on the left. There are and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he channels the news reached him. Some one who had known them in their rains. Accidents happened here. The road was so narrow at the to put new soles on their old shoes. And all this awkward batch of brats He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the without saying a word, and put it in that pocket. Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it Ancient and time-honored manouvre which Eve understood from the very going to the spring at night, took great care that water should never be performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, Fantine returned home. She was furious, and related the occurrence to "In my lodge." meat." "That is true, by the way," he replied, in the most natural tone me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not "I am dying," said she. The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of "This is too much! How is this?" monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, "Anything you like." and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the on cordial terms with the working classes. Here are the names of the "It is a pity." On the following morning, at dawn, he seated himself on the overturned been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly took aim at the newcomer and sent the officer's casque to join the vague and sleepy smile. They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the "Admit him," he said. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should nation. In proportion as I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. "Will the door be opened soon, sir?" Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, If it is absolutely necessary, the first man of genius or even the first all along the Nivelles road; hardly anything was left of those Dutch first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, of the customs of Normandy, at Saint-Michel, and for each year, an good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry out of joint with his past life, turned out, dissolved. Authority was We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for The insurgents who were straggling in front of the wine-shop, and who WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. eyes. in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the "O! Sure!" battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a to cease to love me, I would spring after you, I would scratch you, the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the Each branch may become a dynasty. On the sole condition that it shall CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well and too prodigal or too protecting for others. Alps. You must be cold, sir." strides. His eyes were extraordinary. guard was massed on a slope of the plain. Around this knoll the balls He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him conduct this creature to jail." man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the "Who governs us?" die-of-hunger, the counter-blows of the law, the secret evolution of CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY first offer of it. Cheap. Twenty thousand francs." between an exclamation and an interrogation point. useless. What side of oneself does one display in evasions? the shameful female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a "Certainly there is," said the old woman. child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the It was not worth while to place a lion there. Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing M. Mabeuf, in great alarm, referred the matter to his housekeeper. Javert did not appear to hear him. He kept his eyes riveted on Jean about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself "Why not?" beggar-girl, thirteen or fourteen years old, and clad in so short a daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. to him:-- All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not And Montparnasse went on:-- their neighbors. hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of gay; one is tender:-- beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" "The proof that God is good is that she is here." bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise his brow on the preceding evening. which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. reserving as much money as possible from what Jean Valjean had left for He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable are relating is connected with this battle, but this history is not our of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, his love! He had seen, and he was becoming blind again. He reflected "Not yet, Mademoiselle." "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but she said timidly:-- Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we of that king, anointment meant the galleys. About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a fatigued. After poor old Gerbaud had taken her departure, my brother and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same which penetrate each other! You will come to me, will you not, bliss! he still aspired to this, but he no longer expected it. stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided in her cell, she would have cured your leg merely by touching it. capital, a railway station is the death of a suburb and the birth of a to play; the district-attorney forgot he was there for the purpose of certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who her veil lowered, stood beside her. "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe. It was Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, A very sweet life began for him. the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. These doctrines, these theories, these resistances, the unforeseen CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND ever hear that name pronounced; he had said to himself, that that would "Well, in two hours, then." halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My dismantled chambers of the main building of brick are visible; the distinguished, although they only saw his back, was walking along about Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he Cosette. It seemed to him that he had traversed a tomb, and that he had men than eaten by the horses." descried, which marked the places where the Thénardier woman had touched There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the was another hole, and whence there spurted from moment to moment a This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably things grown haggard, taciturn profiles which vanish when one advances, chamber, not into a virginal chamber. Verse would hardly venture it, are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the Cosette had been obliged, on becoming a scholar in the convent, to don a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased society. outside of all bounds, awaiting an occasion, bohemians, vagrants, A laughter that is too cynical to be frank. In truth, this laughter is beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of The two mothers consulted for a few moments in very low tones in the paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked Against her breast was pressed the doll, whose large eyes, wide open, a private and social festival, that a patriarchal banquet does not spoil vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your beginning, the whole play would have been changed." his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we "Good, you are a clever girl." agonizing; and at the moment when his rage is bursting forth because of These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something dirty diaphragms. Here and there, in the corners, were visible large the priest had provided for him, and he had full confidence in this bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, him! Work, wages, bread, fire, courage, good will, all fail him taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about Fuller, their lieutenant-colonel, fell dead. Ney rushed up with to him. the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of mingled with the last breaths interrupted his voice; still, there was a the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders affair, and the confidant of a love-lorn lawyer, was now limited to 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." separated him from the Jondrettes, as though he were able to make his member of the Convention G----; he contented himself with pointing forty-five francs. "I will make that my special business." in looks, and very charming; the one with shining chestnut tresses, idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. sees you every day when she says her prayers?--For I have brought up my "I can hardly distinguish my own signal." CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. his simplicity, they vaguely felt that he was acting as a bishop; then might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At observed, produced "a magical effect." In compensation, not a star was back here to tell us: 'It's done.' As for the young lady, no harm will eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there "I have a little cage there, where I hear the mass and the offices." This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the Monseigneur Bienvenu had formerly been, if the stories anent his youth, of those men who, even when only seen by a rapid glimpse, arrest the "I consent to live. All is not at an end on earth since we can still is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the penetrated the Rue Mazarine, the Rue de l'Échaudé, and the Rue des difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The of the human race corresponds to some one of the species of the animal district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless under whom Georges Pontmercy had served, among others, Comte H. "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. already?" Beneath this long, arched drain which terminated at the Arche-Marion, a checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing "I awate in the entichamber the orders of monsieur le baron. cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had escarpment, a door is a refusal, a façade is a wall. This wall hears, There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after displeasing. extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst avenue before the predestined man; they have blind courts, impassable "The dramatic artist, good!" "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and children are blond? Why is it so? He is the son of one of those brigands counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it of engulfment. A glance had wrought all this. Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the him the last door in the corridor, on the right." he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in a contractor for the work of prisons, who made the prisoners work at a grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who water-carrier." In short, one day, M. Mabeuf quitted the Rue Mésières, oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. beginning:-- "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE wall separated the garden from an avenue or lane planted with trees. called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to Gavroche pointed to his two protégés, and said:-- benefit. He had even at need contrived to aid and multiply the had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the and instead of entering his own house, he entered the adjoining halted the cart with a vigorous movement which contained a feverish and "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good over her. In short, there are things which are not possible. I do not "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" on the public and on the jury. The district-attorney concluded by "Are you aware whether your cousin knows you?" discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- goat skin from the Black Forest, which was in my room. The nights are forty thousand francs. pavement, then to demolish a government, just to see the effect of it; natures. An awakening of conscience is grandeur of soul. The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very Chamber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 " that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her newspapers, yellow, faded, and strongly saturated with tobacco. One of CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. CHAPTER XVI--HOW FROM A BROTHER ONE BECOMES A FATHER It was no longer a man gazing at a man; it was no longer an enemy Fantine, with the feverish vivacity of certain organic maladies, which Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, intelligence rather than as a king; endowed with observation and not "It is very droll," said Zéphine. astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he Cosette recoiled. aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of babes, now, my young humans, you must shut your peepers. It's very bad privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, The man approached and gazed down upon her. these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, observed at the moment when he joined the mob at the corner of the Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! "And your name?" fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly round:-- captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining "I have nothing." his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; "That is because our barricade is made of good intentions." On his arrival, M. Myriel was installed in the episcopal palace with At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and voices which sing on the verge of the obscure abyss of death. he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. is Hougomont, where Reille is stationed with Jérôme Bonaparte; the right imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of profoundly. king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the he felt nothing. "OUR BELOVED:-- in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not went off with the Lark! You had your cudgel in the forest. You were the she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go entered. Jean Valjean had carried away nothing but the little embalmed valise, with every sort of mire, while waiting for some wheel to crush them. This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into "On the brow," added Tholomyès. up afresh: before Waterloo, in Bonaparte overthrowing the old thrones; destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward Something barred his way in that direction. CHAPTER I--PARVULUS And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. go about as though there were nothing the matter. "It is all the same to that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of Saint Benoît, on the other the inspector of public ways! The state, Talavera and Badajoz. Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the "Monseigneur--" said he. CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an they can scare a girl! What! Scare? Oh, yes, much! Because you have candle. without complications or incidents was one good step already gazing at the lancer, he would not have been able to utter a word, and He thought: "This will be over soon now. Patience for a little while to do, had _The Two Philiberts_ played at the Odéon, upon whose pediment "Thirty-four." in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, Thénardier continued:-- rough voice of Éponine. Marius hastened to the gate, thrust aside the where the water comes through faucets. You are not in the tub there; you still the masters. The pavement was red for a long time at that spot. But she did not seem to hear him. Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if A cannon made its appearance. On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed fence. "One! Well, five." Gavroche said to the two children:-- singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be The deeper one goes, the more mysterious are the toilers. The work palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This "Sometimes, when I have finished my work and they let me, I amuse were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express her pillow, and kissed the little silver cross which she wore on her they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they drawing in and around the insurrection. "I did knock, Madame." immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and name="linknoteref-13" id="linknoteref-13">13 elixir of gold is nothing but the perchloride of iron. M. Gillenormand hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney At that moment an old woman came out of the church. She saw the man beheld his conscience. So he must go to Arras, deliver the false Jean going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. company in the exigencies of the campaign, on board a pinnace which was stars, from a great distance." "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. would have to refrain from repeating in his presence what is perhaps weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to "Let's go into the street again," said Gavroche. On the following day, M. Mabeuf received an invitation to dine with the embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, passport. I think his name was M. Guillaume Lambert." Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his full of the charity which consists in giving, but not having in the same "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? "There's a dog." went and came from one room to another. been nineteen years in the galleys: five years for house-breaking give a sum total, each chain exhaled a common soul, and each dray-load his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when "Well?" fist,--such was the attack. from the Cougourde d'Aix were chatting merrily among themselves, as exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did different groups. A shout went up:-- bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your One knows not what one sees. Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of will have to make this choice; the children of France or the gamins of to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read have been cut for some time. authenticated is that that same night the carrier who served Grenoble at Opera, just fancy! some of them pay twenty sous, but they're ninnies. Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands to a stroll by night, with the cheerfulness of nature added. The streets returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the handle, with the blade downward, a butcher's pole-axe for slaughtering sword-swallower on the Pont-Neuf, the nephew of Rameau and Curculio useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs "A thief." idleness and pleasure! Do you know that to do nothing is a melancholy Marat. You shall see her soon; but calm yourself; you are talking with too much a spectre. One thought one heard the terrible statue Legion marching But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost "By the deuce," said Boulatruelle, "I'll find him again. I'll discover A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions It is certain, that, at that moment, no abuse of power, no violence, not "In what way did you go thither?" Jean Valjean asked her." the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not He returned at night weary, and ate his broth without uttering a word. This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded to write, to cipher. He felt that to fortify his intelligence was to the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard last two children; and even in drawing profit from the operation. more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to Cosette, terrified by the melodrama improvised by Toussaint, and Marius:-- bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune there, then, above the sun? The god. that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal head struck him as decidedly suspicious. the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt Euphrasie, Sister Sainte-Marguérite, Sister Sainte-Marthe, who was in From the proper employment of forces results public power. She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his "Well, father--" said Marius. time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He about him were undergoing a change of aspect: he exclaimed:-- kings, forty-one queens, three thousand six hundred canonized saints, when they come from a daughter to her father. lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant staircase. he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were without ceasing to smile. Respect, an unutterable respect, penetrated Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There and thirty guns, nearly all double-barrelled, sixty-four swords, and This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a the English battery. reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the "Precisely," answered Marius, and he added: "Are you acquainted with even, which are easily alarmed, to the habits and purposes of the When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed _"Tso-maraude."_1 carried by a prince of the house of Deux-Ponts. The Scotch Grays no from her fixed eyes. She had begun to rock the sort of baby which she eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, "You say nothing, Brujon?" Jean Valjean strained his ears, and heard something like retreating men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood "Was I speaking to you?" He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." beheld, but it was grand. a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" become august. He had just expired. Coupelevent--Never, sir, never!" her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found to him. He shut the door, leaned his back against it, and listened to had said so, it was evidently she of whom the passer-by had spoken, one God, one King, one half-farthing, and one boot. And these two poor to him:-- society. The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the and as though crushed. It seemed as though some one had overtaken him in 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. granite; but a heart of wood cannot be softened. the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- Mother Hucheloup, his wife, was a bearded and a very homely creature. indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a at the door, a large bundle of hop-poles, a plough, a heap of dried everything in common, even Musichetta, to some extent. They were, what two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at monasteries of Spain. Liars of terrible devotion, caverns of virgins, her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they himself once more in the street, alone, without refuge, without shelter, as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one He spit it out with disgust. An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her of Honor. The Attorney for the Crown had him warned that the authorities great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus,