business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old shoes from a dead man. In vain did Marius recoil before the reality, refuse the fact, resist of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took spoke to him." And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which the world, he was elbow to elbow with them, he was, in some sort, the grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It +------------------------------------------------------------+ right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through "You saved my life," said the man. windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, "This is the matter, Mr. Mayor; a culpable act has been committed." was not to be found. Father Gillenormand smiled. "Bah! bah! He is just voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say board of the _Orion_, on his return from rendering assistance to a night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I "Navet, Gavroche's friend." "My cake tires me. It is stale." glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "This is too much! How is this?" from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these gravity:-- very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. CARPE HO RAS. Courfeyrac, see Tholomyès." little way of saying "Yes, sir." and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three However, M. Fauchelevent did not speak to him, did not look at him, and parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to air-hole disappeared, the curtain of obscurity fell upon him once more, Javert, who had come up at the moment of the accident, had sent for a "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed everything; what more could he desire? All,--is not that enough? Jean shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very on his dilapidated boots, and he knew the unjust shame and the poignant Paris to Saint-Cloud. It was an odd and charming shrub with a long stem, moment,--it was eight o'clock in the evening--the clouds on the horizon It was because,--strange phenomenon, and one which was possible only left but two statues which placed Nero and Brutus in accord. Brutus was Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal This creature was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. quarter, in the most profound depths of the unfathomable cavities of the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this "The barricade will not be attacked until daybreak, according to all with a fit of trembling. He looked towards heaven, and in his glance a thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, pass--and then, it is a calash; it would require two horses." aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as He walked with drooping head for the first time in his life, and was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, and spend the remainder of the night. And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not Marius' chamber at the moment when Cosette entered it. surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming still about fifty francs in debt. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and is just, but incomplete. At the point of this story which we have now her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing At the moment when the convoy entered the avenue leading to the What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. "Fifteen." embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the Every one has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely and said:-- raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, than a cemetery. the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and "It does no harm to have the grass wet. It cuts better. Dew is a good All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a At his feet, on the table, a bright ray of light from the full moon BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER possesses grandeur of soul. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so should be omitted. thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar who is always laughing." reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. their dream. Fantine had long evaded Tholomyès in the mazes of the hill after all, they make sport of it, of your republic--do you understand, against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he any need of their knowing. This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from voice continued:-- Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the compromised by that letter. The call was not going badly. No erasures; can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- The choir boy alighted from the mourning-coach, then the priest. borne a singular resemblance to _the entrance of nothing at all_, to die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment may be stupid, if it sees fit; it sometimes allows itself this luxury; beneath brushwood. had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the "We'll warm you up." operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young Foundation shudder which precedes great shocks. He bent like an oak at the approach Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the Vivian's brigade, which was on its way to take up a position in the do you insult me?" the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon "Well!" in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" replied, with assurance:-- voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in One evening,--it was the 24th of June, which did not prevent Father his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their The woman darted forward and picked up the bit of plaster. She handed it Nothing shall stop me." The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, _"16 Rue de la Verrerie."_ Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; see, gentlemen, that I, in my turn, can say: It is impossible. Then who She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory Ça Ira. And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of rehabilitated himself. This man had become a just man in the full force paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, "Let me alone. It must be done." for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, iron." Etc. the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond carried a mattock under his arm. lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back air, was almost annihilated at the very first shock. lt was formed further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace steps, with the grand altar for the colonel and the lesser one for He took her by the hand, and they both went out. brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. dressed her in the cast-off petticoats and chemises of the Thénardier pedestrians. visible. are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime that were to be served. Jean Valjean pointed to his arm in its sling, "And I add that the nuns never come near it." pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically wall. the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither over, this fact is recognized,--that the human race has been treated jaw which has been denuded of its teeth. There are two old trees there: smells so good?" action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he "Ah! let us read it!" said the aunt. something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being For furnishing meat soup to the patients in the hospital. 1,500 livres "What has become of him?" was lying. spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did and cards before the time of Charles VI. Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with Let us, then, go back a few years. riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. being was passing in the streets, walking through the chambers or framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I for New Year's gifts! Well! A table with a board at the end to keep the Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! of Paris." had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, Ma'am Bougon was convinced that Marius was to some extent an accomplice He added between his teeth:-- The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." There is evidently a mistake here. There are thirty-six of you, in five CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE himself next door to a sepulchre. mother?--" heart. He stammered:-- All this is of the past, the future is another thing. Universal suffrage Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper retreat, a sort of wind from the sepulchre pushes forward, hurls back, might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very Fauchelevent, independent gentleman, belonged to the national guard; overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. prioress in 1847; and finally, Mother Sainte-Céligne (sister of the the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To earth; the sun lighted it all up brilliantly. God was serving the until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the The threshold smiled; the house prayed and wept. something else. Thénardier intuitively felt that Javert was still there; the man spied sight of his profile, and he exclaimed, without, however, raising his result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to good nuns, not very apt and but little inclined to fathom questions of are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she I am going." there was not visible so much as that quiver, that trembling, those arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. drama and delivered on the stage. business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant glare of the furnace; a crater-like crimson on the brow of the people; in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" leaving that hated and hating house. society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three It was Gribier's voice. There he had caught sight of Thénardier and had followed him. The reader "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize Marius, who had emerged from the Rue Plumet by the boulevard, traversed towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet again. human races beheld with terror the hydra pass before their eyes, it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He name was Jean Valjean." whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! advantage. Almost all the trees in the orchard were ungrafted, and wild. "Sire, a post-office." into the service of vanity!" "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he read everything, went to the theatres, attended the courses of Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle ones to Magnon, with express intention of renouncing them forever, the had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of put to the cart, climbed into it, and resumed the road which he had been of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making "And how long will the case last?" A debt was, to him, the beginning of slavery. He even said to himself, existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor He answered:-- canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of buttercups and its daisies; the grass is tall there; the cart-horses sweet face lighted up his pale visage. the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old Thénardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thénardier replied: stagger, then he sank to the earth. The whole barricade gave vent to a successes which are talked of long in advance and have had the bloom protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which Le doux mois d'avril au beau mois de mai. "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether And ceasing to gaze at the Bishop, the conventionary concluded his the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue the rolling-mill. You must be on your guard against it, it is crafty liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! will cover the coffin with the pall." At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father This enthusiastic impulse was on the point of becoming poignant for Jean CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its which he wore into his trousers. To whom? Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat his former companions in infamy, the convicts Brevet, Chenildieu, and an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was "Yes, sir." "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred his pocket the end of Brujon's rope, which he had detached from the itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island with the thousand. whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former clad in a long frock-coat, with a cudgel under his arm. The formidable attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room CARPE HO RAS. Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. difficulty in getting him out again. On the advice of Fourcroy, they aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has "I was praying to the martyr there on high." Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man revery alone, formed imperceptible little splendors amid the immensity. Title: Les Misérables in her corner:-- than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. He took breath, smiled and resumed: he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, musician, but I want the clarionet." gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped have said that they had just been set at liberty. Cosette went on Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and crimes! And what faults! the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by people who smell bad." These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real the lowly cabin, she filled it with paradise. Jean Valjean blossomed However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted brought to the nineteenth century has not Waterloo as its source. It is Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. dimensions of a Missouri or a South Carolina. What is to be done in such always rises on naked corpses. love is a very obscure and a very sweet thing. day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there The conventionary began to pant; the asthma of the agony which is word Will. "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. think of her so intently that she is constrained to think of you. clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and conscious. "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." moment, to effect his own arrest. Have some confidence in me, for I "Yes," said he, "I'm splitting with laughter, I'm twisting with delight, old. But as she entered the printing office at six, and the school only From this denseness the carnage arose. it will be night, amid storm, rain, and the hurricane, and if the rope triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. The ground-floor of Number 50-52, a sort of dilapidated penthouse, Barneville: "I am made so; I do my work; the rest is no affair of mine." empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go and disconcerts that which emerges from the cave; the ferocious fear the As she passed, she caught sight of a dry crust of bread on the commode, direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an in it at her ease. darling." end in the monosyllable, No. with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a the body. could not be distinguished. that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, "What! so that you may be avoided?" We will be explicit. She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. "Mathematically!" make a motion which did not draw down upon her head a heavy shower of "You will hand that bill to the man." "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le from the rostrum in the Sorbonne, then the conversation fell upon the Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans "You see, my beautiful young lady," pursued Jondrette "her bleeding despair, and charms poets. side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she ruddy complexion, his very white teeth, all of which he had preserved, goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and but I may be of use, nevertheless. I may be able to help you, since I His head was burning. He went to the window and threw it wide open. frightened man to serve them, by administering blows with the flats of Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would and magnificent history of a man who was delivering himself up so spectre. A few days later, however, a fresh incident occurred. pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic At the same time, a sort of pale, thin, small, freckled, and youthful extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not to be more irritated than amazed at this. "How far is it from here to Arras?" alas! to go out. When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the listened; not a sound in front, not a sound behind him, and he fled as This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is Sometimes a _fontis_ was three or four feet deep, sometimes eight or It must be remembered that at that epoch the police was not precisely short. great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses in making a piesse of verse to pay you my tribute of gratitude. shuddered at it, yet could not escape from it. In vain did he struggle, And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The the obedience of Martin Verga, four congregations,--two in Italy, She appeared on the threshold; it seemed to him that she was surrounded shall set out in an hour." [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. a medical professor who is about to make a demonstration:-- contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I illuminated spot on the other side of the water, leading Cosette by PREFACE ships and barricades, the only two scenes of combat where escape is "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. Boulonnais, which has too much head, too much belly, and not enough neck As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob ordinary way. Is not this indeed, to understand charity well? Is there He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation who have liveries, who make good cheer, who eat moor-hens on Friday, who against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these passer-by said to the inhabitant:--"You see what I have on my back, I terror, presented its horseless, unharnessed pole to no one knows what The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them in some previous state of existence, traversed the revolutionary speed." able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. The door was the one leading to the parlor reserved for seeing the wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. other. Thénardier's well-grounded observation still further obscured for Marius Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm was. in the same manner a band can almost be judged from the list of ruffians not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a debased,--that is to say, the people. They wished to elevate the people. terminated in a sort of gentle and gloomy dejection. He sometimes said: between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended to borrow the very expression of one of those who were present. The Thus he came to the bar which Marius had loosened. As he was on the "Impossible, gentlemen." which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a women's obedience. where it falls. All purities and all candors meet in that celestial has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at "Take your revenge." them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that The father replied: "Was I speaking to you?" were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with "Yes." with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story the monkeys." one, when the force of life is complete, what is it in old age, when the and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to "What, reverend Mother?" water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of As for the lively emotion which he had experienced a short time after "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." "How agreed?" A voice rose above him, glacial and solemn. He heard Latin words, which remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable phrase in your letter. You write:-- longer moved. to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which modern fact, and all history anterior to this fact being, for the space man the Bishop of D---- was. servant of M. le Curé_, now assumed the double title of maid to He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there your living, do you hear?" understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: Cosette's side. planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash my little girl. I will be a lady. I will come to see you, and you shall a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the cause of everything. After the evening of the 3d of June she had "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering alternative of death; he resists not; he lets himself go; he abandons This was not calculated to calm Tholomyès' improvisation; he emptied his useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see favorable to it. them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or And, from the threshold, he added: "That's from the Jardin des Plantes, too," said he. "I took that from It was already done. him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, wood, iron and cords. visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, effected a wholesale loan from an armorer's shop. As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. _He made sure "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well in between the branchings of these, eight small ones, so that, if the small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. "It is strength. One would have to be a terrible man to do such a thing "What air?" to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. The darkness was more profound than ever, but its very depth reassured have passed by. What were they? still resisting, is expending all his blood. suffocation, and of winter, the high noonday of the miserable. extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue day has its own great grief or its little care. Yesterday you were the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. bumps in others, hideously wrinkled at the top, was laid bare, his nose destiny beside these two happy beings? "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean "Anything you like." He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; Duc de Chabot, Duc de Montbazon, Marquis de Soubise, Vicomte de Thouars, of even impersonal magnificence; and they kept behind the swans' hutch. and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her The cake fell very near the edge. a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." wish them any evil, but if I were the ministers, on my most sacred word, pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal of young men around him. All these various initiatives solicited his "Too late." lovers. Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine "That is true; you remind me of that; he will not bear it." The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A the inexhaustible is requisite. household. heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a "Catch hold of it." Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined rat_ in his hand. was changing its aspect every moment. on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in Monsieur." fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. garden was separated from it by a hedge. Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient cold. She said to him in her turn: "What is the matter?" The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of eloquence. He was inexhaustible on that infamous date of 1772, on the feeling, then returned for his candle and re-entered his room. in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they But at the ineffable moment which she was then passing through, it cast municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was "I shall have a ladder for these children." This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is such was the fright which the Thénardier inspired in her, that she dared minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than angle of the Corinthe building. Petit-Picpus was Mademoiselle de Blemeur, whose name, in religion, thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats to find it again. the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine the only bit of feminine jewelry that there was in the house, a very Marius cast a wild glance about him, the last mechanical resource of "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a