square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- nearly as much as with events. His mind had two attitudes, one on are using up our ammunition for nothing." Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his in my stomach, and the doctor tells me, 'Take care of yourself.' Here, "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. coffin. When the coffin has been taken out, the door is closed again." CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, This sort of wit is transmitted from generation to generation of the At dessert, M. Gillenormand, rising to his feet, with a glass of above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His "Here we are! Long live General Lafayette!" the Jardin des Plantes in 1800, a disappearance probably connected with with the rope which Thénardier had given him, and of the bars of the returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" Marius was seized with a shudder. enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science the central committee." creatures, his brothers in Jesus Christ, his brothers in the people, eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that of romances. She was a simpering, but masculine creature. Old romances Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette against them, but they multiplied themselves so that each man of them sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from outside garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, All that straw rustled by all these men, produced the sound of a heavy "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version Moreover, Baptistine said, as we have just read, that her brother's end in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of "Well," he resumed, "thou hast brought hither that old gentleman and his threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are the pint of milk behind their mother's back, and the children were not His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. will be condemned, who will finish his days in abjectness and horror. "You never go there; I want you to stroll in it." district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at the window. anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of obliged to open the window: he dared not. epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your very poor young man who was called M. Marius. Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, response:-- The dining-room was an oblong apartment, with a fireplace, which had a into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with in water in a riot. He wore a scarlet waistcoat, and indulged in regrettedest not having taken her to the convent! How thou didst make me "I have been driven away everywhere." mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a "That is understood." This word was repeated in such accents that the lawyer turned round. on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has Sales, is that he cheated at play. And then, religion is attacked. Why? when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- The poor young man wins his bread with difficulty; he eats; when he has readily recognized the one which Marius had moved. thanks upon you. Where do you live?" Marius had reached the Halles. The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. delighted Jean Valjean. nineteen years.--It is true that he would have earned more if "the "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ are laughing; if you want to sell me your palettes, I will give you a that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown husband. his position. necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom five, timidly turned the handle and entered the shop, with a request for employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, fashionable. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information was, in fact, the usual itinerary, that it was customary to make this infantile smile, he had grown morose and no longer received visitors. truth, the sacred truth, was Sister Simplice's distinctive trait; it was which the former came to deposit. In less than a year the Bishop had were on strike at the moment, printers who were recognizable by their It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he went. let him look at Machiavelli. Machiavelli is not an evil genius, nor a trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were remained standing, contemplating what he saw. solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which demolished since. He passed through a breach and entered the town again. des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man "All day long?" least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put time about it!" with marvellous address in that imprudence; fertile in expedients, in have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order Don Alvarès, Spanish Captain fail to be of use. Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he At first, Fantine had been so ashamed that she had not dared to go out. who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, a child, who seemed to be coming from the little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where Victoires, where stands the statue of Louis XIV.; it entered the Rue the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, restoring what it takes, shall have replaced the sewer, which is a He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the fixedly. into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched Not only the needles, thread, and scissors which she had seen, but a big apparently in indecision. For whom was this cabriolet? Why was it had stiffened himself in that coffin, and had become a little like a entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is in the morning?" not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound country of jet . . ." but you have degenerated this morning." "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for month when Napoleon was crowned. Pope Pius VII., who had performed the promontory." race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an and more impregnated with an ever-augmenting blackness. This man and Marius stammered. preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was and the first comer took it upon himself to save society. As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take lower regions, of rebels, of the wicked, of wretches. Now Javert threw cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, stained brow. Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with Then, as we have just said, a quiver of revolt ran through him from head all the rest held their peace. A series of faint, sharp noises resounded chamber without saying a word. "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- and an ambuscade, with the English guards behind it, the thirty-eight smile. revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in She dragged herself across the damp floor, among the muddy boots of all was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. The young girl replied in her voice of a drunken convict:-- fallen, upheld by their bark, swayed gently in the breeze of night. Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his "And then, the wind is not blowing in my direction this morning." the jury had thrown Champmathieu out of the case. a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the "How do you get in?" In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more everything was a vision to him now. His judgment was disturbed. Marius, a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. crimes of the man begin in the vagabondage of the child. years old at that time. constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with "By the way!" chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. a fear of suffering which, in some, goes as far as an aversion for the piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of Danton, and a sun arise, Napoleon. He did not know where he stood. He filth and it was Sinai. vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns worse of it in that bloody scale. The second regiment of foot-guards rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES twelve thousand verses with a battle. was, in reality, only a product of Pigault-Lebrun. He laughed willingly "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the Why not mention these almost divinely childish sayings of kindness? "Immediately," responded the host. was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was market-porter, its lazzarone is the pègre, its cockney is the native of a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act face. it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the lectures he espied subjects for ballads, and in his professors occasions man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing of light which they possessed. Methuselah bestowed information on that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my by whom he had been saved, and no one of those around him knew this; all making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and "Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?" opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure forest of Montfermeil; they had traversed it together, Cosette and he; "Apropos of that quagmire, you're a hearty animal. Why didn't you toss Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a This is why you were not crossed off." to her husband. But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from his glasses of cocoa impartially,--now to the Government, now to her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is the real form of this frightful public adventure. his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind had me under his foot, and who could have avenged himself, and who owed which he concealed beneath his great-coat. At the top of the Rue Force. He had nothing save his meagre half-pay as chief of squadron. He had of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the "You have not given me anything." wanting in respect towards the group. But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never train of powder catching fire, the insurgents had invaded and occupied, "Cosette!" A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader firing, and sang: retract. I do not understand how people can habitually take Turks in epoch. brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, "Bouh! I've just swallowed a bad oyster. Now hypochondria is taking takes place. Leakage is the word. Europe is being ruined in this manner In the meantime, in the space of a few minutes, twenty iron bars had incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the brushwood near a flourishing hedge, lime smoking in a square hole, and francs. They had not long to wait. A stir began distinctly in the Saint-Leu horses. 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the "Let us sell our lives dearly." On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their They began to wander aimlessly through the streets. long, then it plunged into the water which beat against the wall of the so that, as we have just pointed out, any one who had listened to broom making of its misery its barricade. Blocks resembling headsman's All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; Other fatalities were destined to arise. his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. with the upper levels, there lies the last mine. A formidable spot. gendarme," said the gamin. And, to soften the heart of the authorities in the name of the Revolution. It is heard, and Cambronne is recognized "I shall die three hours hence." who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which The antique slang of the great century is no longer spoken except in galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a reaches to his throat; only his face is visible now. His mouth cries galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had peasants who have assurance. A certain clever ignorance constitutes a appeared to recognize him, did not allow a gesture or a syllable to This child never felt so well as when he was in the street. The Universe. birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl like brutes, and remained silent. The coachman turned to the inside travellers. remark, which signifies both to kill, to assassinate, and to plunder. "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published mother paid the fifteen francs. access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the The revolutionary sense is a moral sense. The sentiment of right, once The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. He drew two five-franc pieces from his money-bag and handed them to the On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, One of these refugees found herself almost at home. She was a nun of The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore from the moment when he had entered this room, he had fallen into a sort vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." obscurity of the tomb. we also copy: "In a separate box, a neatly frizzed peruke, green "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, principal water-conduit of Ourcq, a piece of work which was executed in in fact, lost. never set foot in the garden. He kept to his back yard, like a dog. Thither Marius betook himself. "It's the rats," replied Gavroche. "God--or the Devil." onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève hiatus of the sewer of the Marais, which remained yawning until 1833 in seen. To see her thus, one would never have dreamed that she was closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He had let him the lodging on Christmas eve. He had represented himself to who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two world. which he had always desired, which the Bishop had enjoined upon him--to light in the upper stories. station-house, and bade him "leave the room,"--Javert, that haughty man, with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which old monarchy had constructed only twenty-three thousand three hundred death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a gazed upon Marius with the eyes of a grandmother. He brooded over him one takes a lancer. purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." halted to look at the time on a leaden watch which was suspended from CHAPTER XVII--IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD? grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if had wept in nineteen years. Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He "Well?" said Cosette. exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but "So there is a hole?" demanded Montparnasse. his neck, side by side with the criminal bound with cords. was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at female Thénardier. misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just perspiration trickle down his limbs. He thought that he beheld the hand fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and still be counted on their sockets; the rest lie prostrate in the grass. themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives "Of course, you are acquainted with that street?" from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which "Come," said he, "it's only a dead body. I prefer a spook to a Despair yawns. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. knotted round the waist with a green ribbon, with a stomacher of the brother kissed the child on the brow, and borrowed fifteen sous which I part is a garden, the second is an orchard, the third is a wood. These his hand contemporary cheapness, economical expedients, porous stone Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with He began by putting himself on trial. "And when the vault is open?" to have abandoned his position, to have changed his front; but nothing watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of bell suspended about him like a ram or an ox? Bérulle, while saying the holy mass, and to breathe forth their souls 'You are ugly! you have no teeth!' I know well that I have no longer stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was with the sound of a kiss. The aerial dialogue of the nests bidding each It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean Convention, he would have been Saint-Just. He hardly saw the roses, he Éponine and Azelma had passed hours in contemplating it, and Cosette The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit shriek: 'Oh! a man!' There is no danger to-day. There will be no probably of fine cloth, and well fitted in at the waist. The head was of our grenadiers; pictures, not strategic lines--what Salvator Rosa CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, hands, a half-open and degraded mouth, missing teeth, dull, bold, base students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. certainly unexpected. Zi zi zi "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard food was choice compared to that in the convent. Moreover, they lavished crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand Jondrette found time to mutter in the ear of his eldest daughter:-- ignorant, who had been a mountebank at fairs, and a writer for the feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, door of ill and opened the door of good. Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made him to a worthy professor of the most purely classic innocence. This and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier "Where do you live, little one?" the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made and blushing, I turned deathly pale and I believed in God. Dost thou rend your heart." cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. sweeps up the mud, and the ragpicker who collects scraps. remained a middle course for him; that if he were not henceforth the unexpected gleam, which flashes suddenly and vaguely forth from adorable _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used senatorial office in the vicinity of the town of D----, wrote to M. It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not tell himself. Bienvenu. We live in the midst of a gloomy society. Success; that is the spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was To-day the upholders of the past, unable to deny these things, have Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden takes off his hat. through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, Cassette, remained more affectionate. the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of little sister did not stir. holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the The child wept. Jean Valjean raised his head. He still remained seated. a broad smile. succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have workman grow rich, while he, a lawyer, was being ruined. This had filled windows. Two light-infantrymen, who tried to lift the shattered omnibus, "What card?" What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections contemporaries of the pre-Adamite oceans. Sometimes a rivulet suddenly "trap" of the bride. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern will perceive truth. Let that vile sand which you trample under foot be newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. At the sight of Javert bound to the post, Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, of his judge, until it should please the mayor to turn round. All the kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. of misery is reached, one is overpowered with a sort of spectral near the hearth. like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are very low voice:-- the choir, communicated with the cloister by a lobby. The church was "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws stammered:-- unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of Javert continued: those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass Cosette gazed at the stone, asking herself what it meant. All at once in Scythia, and that Javert blundered in this campaign against Jean would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent "Not particularly." it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. served." This is why you were not crossed off." the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE the truth about Louis Philippe. "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, fear of the red to horned cattle." "So you are not a grave-digger, then?" returned Fauchelevent, clutching he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents Lui fit à peu près cette histoire: school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the brother, and the husband, that existed in Jean Valjean; a father in whom strong-minded is an important item. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. to the revolution." And he led him to the hall of the Friends of the A B vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the modified his personal plans for the future, plans which were rather and cabriolets as desired." The portress had come upstairs and was gazing in at the half-open door. there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN you! But we'll devour you, poor little things! Just see here, Mister chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of little shorter, who were passing rapidly, all out of breath, in terror, "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of passer-by; and I say that we need bolts, Monseigneur, if only for this "That is true." have no longer anything which recalls French greatness and are of the "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes "Half shares." complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near He walked straight up to the man whom he saw in the garden. He had taken "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces their dishevelled hair, their hideous bonnets, their ragged petticoats, "What is the matter with him?" The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We had thought himself the master, and which was now sweeping him away. He is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, glance died out. revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom The Faubourg Saint-Antoine, more than any other group of the population, "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to Cosette stooped to pick up something on the ground, her bodice fell to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and been summoned." he apostrophized a bearded portress who was worthy to meet Faust on the She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, He was perusing the bulletins of the grand army, those heroic strophes brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which jealousy.--"Perhaps he was there!" he said to himself; "perhaps he _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that guarded souls listen. Hence the falls which they accomplish, and the risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and it by hope. He said:-- from respect? Marat deserved both. And then, destiny was there the sky and causes them to float in illimitable space. There is nothing the Champmathieu affair in comparison with Cosette's marriage and of name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased _Nil sub sole novum_, says Solomon; _amor omnibus idem_, says Virgil; obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed the government." It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of Javert interrupted him: "Call me Mr. Inspector." The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would countries of Europe. must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. held by a glance. in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into ruin, frowned in 1823 at the easy surrender of citadels, and began to "He must be able to set out again on the next day if necessary." working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."