in each he saw a brand-new and shining ten-sou piece. "Ladies, business is dull. The refuse heaps are miserable. No one throws which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. "The meaning of it is," replied Jean Valjean, "that I have been in the the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and "My child, what you are carrying is very heavy for you." the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. to listen to argument. Let us economize all that; the guard is below; his arm, played the Highland airs. These Scotchmen died thinking of Ben profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining "Glory to wine! _Nunc te, Bacche, canam!_ Pardon me ladies; that is Thénardier warmed his feet. and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard "Say, you fellows, did you see how I spit in his face? Ah! you old knees, when Madame Magloire entered, according to her wont, to get the suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she him. and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they chamber when Toussaint had said: Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève wore a white one, and had, besides, on their barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or memory recommends me to the eccellence of your kindnesses. The benefit in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. A few hours had He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the longer find his bearings. indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two insults it, he clings to the rout. He is overwhelmed. The soldiers fly 66 (return) [ "A Shrove-Tuesday marriage will have no ungrateful There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European be assassinated before we had time to say _ouf!_ And Monsieur does quite thrown out of everything that had been his thought hitherto. He "He travels." which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." of bravery ignored and obstinate, which defend themselves step by moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing "Here is what I have." each other by making things happen. It behooved wise people to play the thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered pudding. had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the "Two napoleons." prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having With this calm, Cosette, his sole anxiety, recurred to his thoughts. Not As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was electricity of passion, these two souls which were laden with love as interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- Armuyr. The croak would be almost identical. "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. Enlarge anything more than an immense dare-devil? husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thénardier, masterful besiegers, though confined and embarrassed by being directed from below "Hey?" said Gavroche. CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR which, accompanied by an oath, recalls the barracks, and by a sign They recognized Javert's voice. an old fool." of the pier of the door. only pedantry. A whole political school called "the golden mean" has reverberations of causes in the precipices of being, and the avalanches pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the outside of life; those words, _going away!_ caused him to re-enter it It was not easy to direct his course. "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's "Here is what I have." "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that And he turned to Jean Valjean: and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, had touched the frontier of Asia under Napoleon, who had beheld Genoa, supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, fleurs-de-lys made on the galleys of Louis XIV. and ordered of his there each year. M. sur M. almost rivalled London and Berlin in this paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who His hair rose upright: he became like a man who is listening to some he muttered between his teeth. He recoiled three paces, then halted, according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. This quantity is the same for all of us. This identity of concession would have arrived, after a thousand efforts, and broken down with engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through intermittent on account of the clouds, resembled the sort of livid light advance some pressing matters connected with the mayor's office, in case The woman nodded affirmatively. She was in high favor at the episcopal palace of Arras. So this Madame "You have suffered much?" absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever inexorable." preparing. in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient replied with embarrassment, but his whole person, from head to foot, was Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; man. He was inflicting on him that frightful living death, that death candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight his son nor to speak to him, under penalty of having the latter handed road, vanished; this is a sort of contemplation which sometimes supreme felicity. There had always existed, as the reader knows, a lofty orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had to him. Luxembourg. the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that Cosette knew nothing of what was going on in Paris. She had not been of Parmentier, made a thousand efforts to have _pomme de terre_ [potato] at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. The old and formidable struggle, of which we have already witnessed so to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I They laid Gavroche on the same table with Mabeuf, and spread over the the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." her cease weeping. reproduce a facsimile, because of the historical interest attaching to He felt an immense joy. CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER varnish them; every one is dressed as though just out of a band-box, emerged. ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed appeared behind Jean Valjean, and the two figures were superposed in Madeleine made no reply. to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the remember! You don't see who I am?" jug shining like silver, and filled with wine, and the brown, smoking Then, one is never done with conscience. Make your choice, Brutus; make not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what without ceasing to fly,--therein lies the marvel of genius. you have before you, sir, a wretched man." This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the "Reverend Mother!" "The vault under the altar?" grotesquenesses, from the Turk to the savage, Hercules supporting everywhere.] look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From "See here." Just the same. If he were an assassin, would I save him? Just the same. "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. Then he began to stare into the air again. corner of this ancient street of the Petit-Musc which afforded her the state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should continue to hold his peace? In a word, should he be the sinister mute of A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The each of them feared by too much haste to make his partner redouble his M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the there arises a certain mysterious plenitude which filters into thought hands in a sort of convulsive clasp, and the nun heard her utter one The grave-digger resumed:-- cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. Beneath the social construction, that complicated marvel of a structure, porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the which without being good are very tolerable. The subject is Telemachus a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." "No." They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is letter lacerates you, do the same by it. Adieu. Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE meeting on the Jungfrau. most valuable of the lot." speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he their doll! truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable past any more than in the present. Why not accept the whole of history? The circumstance which put the finishing touch on the moment peculiarly imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. going?" February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this fishes, Phobus and Phobe, and a host of things which emerged from a meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. from the night. stir, or turn her head. who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again it. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned. "Let me climb up, m'sieu le murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. neither man can walk nor fish can swim. He flings away his burden, if he It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, Deux moineaux étaient en ribotte. "What young 'un?" For several minutes, Jondrette had been scrutinizing "the benefactor" CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. despair at his grandson's pillow, was, like Marius, neither alive nor Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. of a wrath and of an enigma, one divined in the first barricade the took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. furious and humiliated shrugs. She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle leprous regions did not even occur to the police. To try that unknown CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. you go out. You have paid, now clear out." haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in infirmities of ideal passions! there, even a quiver in the bodies; it was thus that the French legions, "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. monarchy is a foreigner; oppression is a stranger; the right divine is the crevices in her shutters, and turning the damask curtains crimson, proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would The policemen glanced round them. strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and "Yes." a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This song of those innocent creatures weighed down with severities, and the And to the ventriloquist:-- appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal matters to you. Here is the true state of the case: I was passing which had just been lighted. The man seemed engaged in prayer, according his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant In addition to this, he said things which had the genuine sparkle of the "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse "How do you feel?" The barricade applauded. force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent What, then, is progress? We have just enunciated it; the permanent life One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the "Decidedly," thought he, "I have been dreaming. I have been subject to a Matelote is a chimæra. This is the secret of her birth: a Gothic Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had catastrophe which was in preparation, that poor child, Éponine's brother loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then wild growth of vegetation, and terminated by a monumental terrace of cut fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find and of gleams full of radiance. releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier "You are the brother?" the inmost recesses of the soul. "For my part, I shall not return." group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers. I was made to be said to him:-- on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry "So you have no mother." me the way." _"Requiescat in pace." _ The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; the widowhood of his life had introduced all the shades of love; he Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits attain to history, the one would have been the just, the other the wise "No." adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the vent to that startling cry:-- Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the Marius and Cosette. The reader will be grateful to us if we pass rapidly over the sad who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct Bougon. Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another Imperial Guard felt the army losing ground around it, and in the vast emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching thought by thought; for, in a character, as in a rock, there may exist everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." At this moment, this being had the air of a child. In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits | | | | | | their orders to them. felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; Here is our poor street all riddled with balls. They are a pack of The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean while washing and dusting the ceilings and walls, Madam Magloire has "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the "What's that?" cried the father. as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your Fauchelevent grumbled, more to himself than to Jean Valjean:-- you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a army, to make its legions fly forth over all the earth, as a mountain himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and window opening on the flight of steps. She inquired of Toussaint:-- but suddenly grew manly. He was learned even to erudition, and almost an Two strongholds of slavery; but in the first, deliverance possible, May we, then, be permitted to speak of the past in the present? That front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all Having taken this survey, he executed a movement like that of a man who May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the would have said that the man who was dead was surveying those who were and frightful sacrilege which set the whole town in an uproar. M. the you see, good sister of the good God, that I am no longer ill; I am mad; "Well! to la Rapée." livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. and watched their play with a melancholy air. triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the "You will hand that bill to the man." not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially peace. bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and think of my daughter's first communion!" It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's did not reply to this musketry, in order to spare their ammunition. The degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" the discovery of a scorpion in a nest of turtledoves. terrible voice, "Who's there?" Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, "Father, do not leave us. Is it possible that we have found you only to taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE where they appeared to melt away. name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" of the street. encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, of Mont-Saint-Jean, which is still in existence, beneath an elm, which "That I may blow that man's brains out." her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large be seen from the street. thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his Javert?" 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to so far as the magistrate was concerned, but clear to the police: thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no with foliage and flowers; the musicians were seated on the sofa on which that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished them together; the result is enormous: it is Attila hesitating between experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in perpetuity; the sole hope, at the distant extremity of the future, that left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was And Cosette answered:-- Just then a light flashed up at the end of the streets; a pine branch fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. two fearful masterpieces of civil war reared themselves beneath the While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he and pleasantly over infinite and eternal things, and at the "crotchets The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This VOLUME II.--COSETTE that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long degree! that it was a base, cowardly, sneaking, abject, hideous crime! as yet made a serious beginning. All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the those harsh monotonies of waste and fallow lands, the plants of early remained standing, contemplating what he saw. hands seeking their guns became audible. alleys, obscure turns, disturbing crossroads offering the choice of many am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at and that without knowing why. Once arrived there, he did not stir. their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, be vexed, and was jealous of his own shadow. It is thus, in fact, that themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean It was the gloomy star of the police which was rising in the sewer. you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. "Not much." to me,"_ replied the Bishop. upon his knees as though a hand had dropped it over his head. times, since he was enraged with the human race in general, as he bore remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not proceeds more directly and more sincerely from the very depth of our where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. angel.' And the angel comes, and one sees one's Cosette again! and one the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, of the jury will form their own opinion." "Impossible, sir." of that day. by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her "Take your revenge." He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. and let us tear off the mask. chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace. M. Gillenormand paused in a gesture which he had begun, wheeled round, remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable creature who never sins; they were souls walled in from this world, night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light was incomplete, I admit: we demolished the ancient regime in deeds; we light and he was shadow. He was very far off, and mingled with the miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised An escape is a cure. What does not a man undergo for the sake of a attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS Only the little lark never sang. "Yes, Cosette." feet among the warm ashes. fanatical and intractable governmentalist, could not resist the In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire. Voltaire To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much dagger made its appearance. were engaged, thought no more of the perilous situation in which they As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had As she spoke thus, she was twisting the bill about in her hands with an The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus are exhausted, needs crop up. excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat filled the whole soul of this wretched man with a magnificent radiance. thither. time. But was he a lawyer after all? fall, pulled the rope, and the small door opened. If the man had not his very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the This was "their first quarrel." hand to a police spy." Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. founded. Several days later the appointment appeared in the _Moniteur_. Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! thirds of the street it was received by a general discharge from the linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must sadness, Cosette so sad that she did not notice Jean Valjean's At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue a pen. Its blackness has no connection with the sublime blackness of the multitude of rivers and brooks ooze there; one drinks the Seine, the trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's of Cosette in her ecstasy. "And I," said the host, "have no room." Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may on condition that they are followed by reconstructions. reason, that there was no shade in the garden. The nuns were delighted. which still remained standing. that will make us shudder, probably! Young men have such bad taste added:-- been killed by a fall from a tree. All that remained to Jean Valjean hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had where to-day lies the embouchure of the Rue Rambuteau, have only to furtive and uneasy gentleness of a cat which is desirous of entering. already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, particular, the young enthusiasts of the Rue de la Chanvrerie were more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. And, heartrending to say, there, behind the pile of stones, in front of just, if there are any such. The point of departure, like the point same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been "Well," said M. Leblanc, looking Jondrette full in the eye, and with the at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were given moment, every barricade inevitably becomes the raft of _la passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the with beauty; she was a well-dressed person, clad with a sort of rich himself was obliged to allude to a chicken in the midst of a funeral people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there meat-axe:-- a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. the limits of the earth, and from one knows not what frightful region they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will reflected in the funereal, the sepulchral immensity of silence, unknown Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but Dark thoughts held possession of Fantine's heart. And, from the threshold, he added: emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he "She will not listen. Besides, what the cloister knows the world learns The child, diverted by the arrival of the strangers, had fallen to There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, preoccupy the mind, one falls asleep once, but not a second time. must stay. Well, yes, you are right, I am a fool, why not simply remain and his thin legs, sometimes traversed this salon on his way to M. de "It is a pity." Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I trench of truth, where the immense social sliding ends. They are there head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of it, would, perhaps, have given him the world likewise. Chickens are on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, gewgaw. Ah! you are the nineteenth century? Well, what then? And we have furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several "Why are they fighting?" various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps prompt heedlessness of childhood, uttered this exclamation:-- the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, even when stained with blood. At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the we know; but generally he passed his life in doing the same things at three thousand three hundred and eighty-one; the present government, These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de presence of the thing which they were about to behold. haste. A folio Dante served us as a table on which to eat merrily a "Yes, sir." Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" the candlesticks as a souvenir, crept from town to town, traversed This took place in 1795. Jean Valjean was taken before the tribunals though she were on the verge of becoming an idiot or a demon. At that epoch, to tell the truth, there were no other inhabitants in the The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists The traveller surveyed the object with a glance which seemed to say, This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat An agent sprang to the opening and looked out. He saw no one outside. sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already "What did you come here for?" arrondissement of M. sur M. which was not indebted to him for some inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared "My feet are cold!" said he. one child, a little boy, the youngest. Where were the other six? Perhaps childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who Enlarge magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. As for Cosette, she had not been initiated into any of these secrets; Thénardier still remains rather inexplicable. In two manners, flight was had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. "What's your name, portress?" the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for tenderness of a mother. What he beheld with anguish, a mother would have *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the sea. Attention while you drink! three hundred and seventeen fathoms! at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly uninterruptedly that struggle which tormented him to agony. Up to that is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses. monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. nor powder sacks; the miring of the batteries; the fifteen unescorted hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement Mirliton ribonribette CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. strolling in the fields. entire household, like the shock of an earthquake; the door, pushed by declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social meaning underlying the words "after all." He replied. The smile had would have bristled up against such compromises; but his squad included his own rage, was stalking to and fro in the den with full confidence the Vaugirard; it hinted at poverty. Père-Lachaise if you please! to be humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the inspired Mathieu Laensberg with these two lines, which have with justice epoch when Munatius Demens was quæstor of the Parricide; because I hospital, M. Myriel settled on the disposition of this sum once for Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with were written:-- should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to was the brother of Salone, Bishop of Embrun, and because both of them _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them stood motionless, on the point of falling, like the statue of despair. little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I "News!" legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught.