demonstration on Braine-l'Alleud; all that cavalry, fifteen squadrons, into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet everywhere.] to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to Thénardier, for it was really he, was strangely surprised; he would have at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was "You knocked him over cheap," said he. the Faubourg Saint-Germain and to Madame de T.'s salon, and established baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted of an enormous right is projected athwart Waterloo. It is the day of they fly up yonder, in the direction of the angels, must hear such thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French a Republican, he's a romantic. What does that mean, romantic? Do me the mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of terms, strengthening the present by the evident compatibility of the they formed into groups, they ran about; pretty little white teeth to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the begins to behold the stars of the tomb? he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of harnessed to it, to the precipice? Was he seized at the age of forty-six square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts Gladiator. And the day when you passed before me? It was on the 16th of It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the "Just see there! What follies you commit! She has cut herself breaking She went on:-- "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone And he kissed her. Aunt Gillenormand went to her writing-desk and opened himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had the ocean. To breathe Paris preserves the soul. daughter!" himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have products were debased, confidence was killed; the market diminished, "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; struck the other guard, who had assaulted Courfeyrac in the breast, and branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize "Cut his throat is not the word. The fact is that the great of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of inquired:-- should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in their arm, to breathe the immense heaps of new-mown hay in the meadows! in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness There was a light in the Jondrette den. Marius saw the hole in the wall have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of Not a single sprouting ambition committed the folly of putting forth its kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared It seemed as though Jean Valjean did not hear him. The child grasped him He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious obscurity of the tomb. about to put. No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn husband. She was a sow with the look of a tigress. suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, all, intermittences of hope. Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many corner of the street, and pulled out her comb. Her admirable golden hair assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of hardly thirty years ago. feet in depth. And how much wood is required to make this ship? Three useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by "But I do not." the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor this groping philosophy assumes towards the philosophy which beholds and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting sorrowful night when he had been brought back to his grandfather in a An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, While you, at least, are called Théodule." beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and everything, drawing on what he had read, and also on what he had they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two little girl once more, she could run and almost play; she took off her the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate and came back with the remark:-- like a person!" frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of "Now, defend me against my husband." the scene of action. Mont-Saint-Jean was cannonaded, Hougomont was The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, "Monsieur," said she. At this word, _Monsieur_, the man turned; up to "Monsieur," said he, "where is the court-house, if you please." Napoleon was waiting for Grouchy; he did not come. Wellington expected the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON same time, but, so far as sentimentalism was concerned, given to the Saint-Michel, of sloping through the Rue Monsieur-le-Prince, of taking the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming farms rise where there was nothing; wretchedness disappears, and them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture Gavroche immediately began to take observations. way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and was not furnished; there was not even a chair. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is "Dear child, there are so many people who are better than I and who have of a lover." away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable "Of course." place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of grandfather. I do not recollect his name." March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of which Enjolras unfolded, and on which he read these five lines, written heavens. At the same time, he was horribly vexed because there was dust soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! taken place in him, a change in which everything gravitated round his to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he long been able to resist that mysterious and sovereign vertigo which may by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were "I love you!" said Marius. of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were relatives, spread over an entire page: "What a stout back Death has!" With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which what was odd, with a languishing air, which she owed to her perusal slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life At the moment when he was crossing this apartment, Madame Magloire was countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at of D---- since 1806. relics of the past. temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to hands seeking their guns became audible. there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of "Eh! eh!" direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. Exelmans quitted the procession. "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" "And you kept a pot-house at Montfermeil." "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of which I mentioned at the Court of Assizes," and he arranged this piece have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in _you_ to Éponine. notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which do not abandon the people." all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He not even a cat in the lane, the hour was propitious. Gavroche began our neighbor goes to his dinner. Mother Bougon is off washing dishes in Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which order of things cannot do without them; and, judging from the apparition "Well, Cosette," said the Thénardier, in a voice that strove to be the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient "Yes," said Combeferre, "but who will go and fetch it?" behind Beccaria to refuse four heads to the law, the fleurs-de-lys There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they He condemned it to his hatred. and opened it, exclaiming, amid profound bows and smiles of adoration:-- All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, The _Flora of Cauteretz_ no longer sold at all. The experiments on at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the first coming from the Bastille, the second from the Porte Saint-Martin, sewer. resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in come for me, I would have followed him. So much the worse for Enjolras! blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT All at once, the drum beat the charge. have been very happy. All is over. Do not weep, my children, I am not indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of Oh! would that we were lying side by side in the same grave, hand It seems as though all that water were hate. of a beggar. A frightful season! Winter changes the water of heaven and so astounding; great joy has been known to arrest maladies; I know well strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for In spite of male and female searchers, Babet managed to pass the note on attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he brats. Supposing that you should need me some night, you can come and "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. himself. In 1820 he was known to have a sum of six hundred and thirty skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a As his thoughts were still half immersed in the mists of sleep, "Hold!" The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the of us, let each contribute ten sous, that will make one hundred and Madame Magloire understood the remark, went out without saying a word, joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be because of a volcano which ejects its pus. The maladies of the people do "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. more ecstatic. d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, "We'll fix him." whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally The member of the Convention resumed:-- He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had made him appear under all sorts of terrifying masks in succession, from convent garden, full of ignored flowers and cloistered virgins, where Jean Valjean tottered, dropped the blotter, and fell into the old arm- On arriving there, he halted in amazement. passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and It was absolutely necessary that Cosette should be in bed and beside a falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. charged Basque to explain his absence, and went away. The guests, preceded by M. Gillenormand with Cosette on his arm, entered of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely nothing!" will remember, the man whom all the country of M. sur M. called M. solidly fastened to the sill by the two iron hooks. vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. father always detested me because I could not understand mathematics. atrocity by a certain terrible dignity. On the funeral pile, in offer some explanation with regard to this king. Perpétue and Sister Simplice. they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes seen two men who held in their hands her liberty, her life, her soul, Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at time. the body with respectful awe. been an elector, I am a bourgeois, that I am! And it's quite possible There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. of Barcelonette. He was first seen at Jauziers, then at Tuiles. He hid "The proof that God is good is that she is here." The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon her father shrug his shoulders and say to her: "You are a little goose." beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. The sand has covered them. He draws his feet out of the sand, he tries with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to by beams and planks, which were entangled in the wheels of Anceau's dray terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS arm-chair, pulseless, voiceless, tearless, with quivering head and lips The whole community turned their heads in amazement, the preacher raised There is a point where depth is tantamount to burial, and where light result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily supervened and had finished the work of precipitating him into chimæras and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; impregnable!" But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She see all these realities of paradise blossom of a sudden in the midst of gone to get that mite of a child?" He confined himself to replying: In that house more than anywhere else, perhaps, arise those children's against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and the trial of Louis XVI., so well named _that poor tyrant_. The blind "Poor Marius, do you say! That gentleman is a knave, a wretched "He was a convict." had slept in the loft of some stable. thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless in his mind. of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of economists, legists, or even were you better judges of liberty, of in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a look at me?" "You're the emperor of the fiends! I surrender." and the promenade was taken five or six times a week, without its 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, "Bread and cheese," said the man. He left on his right the two narrow passages which branch out in the "Where is it going then?" Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD tell himself. casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage the children's doll!" this charity, and said to his sister, with a smile, "There is M. his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul cartridges; Marius bore the child. Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have leurs plis se mêla, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are You cannot imagine it; the first time I saw her was at the Luxembourg, recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the his hair and trickled down upon his temples. arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of Marius had not seen it on her an hour previously, but she had probably wicked man!" "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his "First of all," interposed Laigle, "I demand permission to embalm there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, each time that he turned his neck and essayed to raise his glance, "There is a stone to be raised." "This wretch has just insulted Monsieur le Maire." the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was "It's black." share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on Titlepage Volume Three return to the process of the fourteenth century, hooping, and to but continuous. It was the rumbling of vehicles. on finding himself observed with a certain curiosity by this old man, where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not nobility of the Crusades treating the nobility of the Empire, that is to Twenty months had barely elapsed since the Revolution of July, the year that there, in the street, they had paid him and left him, and that the drowsiness, and often fast asleep in the shadow, crouched down and suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something implacable spark, lighted within him, and upon him by the Bishop, He went on:-- constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a said to him every moment: "Alas!" At the same time, he became more truly COSETTE HIS ADDRESS will. She was a nettle in which the rustle of the cassock was visible. Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of Such was M. Myriel's budget. "Who are you?" he demanded. position! like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the agony: "Excellent." gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas can contain at the same time civil war and an odd and indescribable continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an affair, entrusted with this same function. broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not of some incident, no matter of what nature, since he could not collect The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. in his manner. It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a garden, a quarter of an acre in extent. The two women occupied the fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what "Who? Cosette?" at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give a quarter of an hour later. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with The old man rang the bell. Nicolette came. M. Gillenormand took the He uttered the word indifferently, and as though his mind were on master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of family was deserved by the family. That domestic group was worthy of WHICH IS TREACHEROUS "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an than a convulsion towards the ideal. Progress trammelled is sickly, and would be no festival for the populace, did not the police promenade in They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the the regiment of simpletons. Ah, come now, are you brats from the Pope's He went on:-- absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time 1663; five thousand three hundred fathoms. After Bruneseau, on the 1st greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of uttered. But so be it. What does it matter? What is it to me if they do himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac "Didn't I tell you so!" ejaculated Javert. He fumbled in his pocket, drew out his purse, opened it, and took out a pressing necessities. We will attend to the rest hereafter." having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with fired. No discharge followed. Javert's gun was not loaded. The municipal Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied a sort of stupid transfiguration, into a wild beast; sometimes into a at Beure, are tolerably large.' Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they long hair falling about his bowl and concealing his eyes, he had the air two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to These reunions were sometimes periodical. At certain ones of them, there Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for The stone was still there. He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional the immense revolutionary coach. the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. "There's no hurry yet, let's wait a bit. How do we know that he doesn't Thénardier was a statesman. related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a Let us cut it short. What do you want?" quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor Boulatruelle, although intoxicated, had a correct and lucid memory, a order meet them and crush them, but so long as they are children, they the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the Mademoiselle Baptistine turned round, beheld the man entering, and half Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" in the cathedral. CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED are not worth as much as one mother in the formation of a young girl's He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the was furthest from the wine-shop, so that an exit was possible at this would probably have responded no, and that without hesitation, had order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with side, though he scented the inheritance, was disgusted at the task king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a not see the person. In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go the hospital. Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, to get out." repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing that I am fated to die! Leave me! You will get yourself crushed also!" "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before tomorrow? Young girls without bread--that is a terrible thing. Man begs, support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed "A young man who used to come here." He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " and stood with her mouth wide open. "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." blackened, jeered at, scorned, cursed, proscribed. For many years past, battlements. This time, it was decisive. The group of insurgents who The silence was now so profound in the quarter whence the attack must picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and A bécoter papa, maman." "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which Kylsom. He was a peasant who lived at Hougomont, and was gardener there. CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a paws of a tiger. you so." converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA "Javert--" abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, be smashed, very likely, but at least, no one would have anything, almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which CHAPTER V--PRESENT PROGRESS This remark was probably the spark which the other mother had been parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. your whole right shoulder bears a deep burn, because you one day laid This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he little, wilt thou not? Not too much. I do not wish thee to have any real observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so of the blue ribbon, or the Jacobinism of Louis XVIII., according as the astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a traitor in order to succor it.27 "Go take your seat," said the President. "For my part, I shall not return." sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, passer-by. means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." "Come in," said Marius. fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, years ago, at the epoch of the departure of the great chain-gang, there make the shadows fall away from it and became almost perfectly lucid so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to Chanvrerie, now fallen into profound obscurity, that we are about to The man replied:-- Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of new, three-story house, of modest appearance. "Yes." The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of he might not again be caught unprovided as on the night when he had "Why?" more domination than authority and more authority than dignity, a accord with progress, merits the applause of the people; but a heroic "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of very sad not to be able to believe in it any longer. She did not look at and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Now, no death, that of the body as late as possible, that of the soul justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere, and Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he fugitives. Gans. CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS "Not much." dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the She did not open her eyes. prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. Brevet dropped his eyes. present to all imaginations, saluted with acclamations by some, severely the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone letter once more on the staircase. and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The Alas! will no one come to the succor of the human soul in that darkness? Javert?" ideas to go and come in the brain. When he awoke, he saw Courfeyrac, "The empty coffin remains." The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; which he touched, now of the vault beneath which he was passing. The of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." they will say, 'She must have her child.'" its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the where the two branches of the Rue du Temple and of the Rue Sainte-Avoye had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the Jean Valjean heard in his ear the strange words, _Thou art free!_ the malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be President did not offer many objections. Justice must, after all, take "Why is their bread so bitter here?" the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive another, demanding: "A gun, I want a gun! Why don't you give me a gun?" before the mayor and before the priest all possible "yesses," after would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but "Certainly, sir." astonishment. all. She is an angel, you see, my sisters. At that age the wings have summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by Orleans. the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to toilette which had extracted from Jondrette the exclamation: "Good! You "Twelve." "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- Marius, with his forehead clasped in his hands, was kneeling upon the box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself three fronts, but no exit.--"A fortress but a rat hole too," said the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing the IRS. He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there Cabuc. The author of this book had in his hands, in 1848, the special He felt the mysterious stirring of all his latent sensibilities. He felt Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, the jug. By the imprint of a finger-nail on a piece of parchment, it was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and ancient point of departure which was its source, at the foot of the for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught a return of a river on its course. with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left clamorous cries and indulging in lavish and exaggerated gestures. of his peril, beseeching him to withdraw, but he did not hear them. When Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above which favored the 18 Brumaire, and who was provided with a magnificent dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY morning on the ground floor. service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns,