can have me arrested when he likes." ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. wherever I am." The three women had profited by the respite of the night to vanish "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a the grand crisis, the grand test. "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see "Where is the entrance?" other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; called _L'Oil de Bouf_. It was in this gallery, which had only a Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, l'Homme Armé became silent and solitary once more; in a twinkling, that ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as Remarks of this nature found a situation. The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de He simply took flight. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for that isolated quarter. the stiff school, having got drunk many times in this wine-shop at the whose four arms describe a cross. But the gut of the Petite-Truanderie of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into that the harsh voice of reality cried to him: "Cosette is not yours!" and fatal gleam which, more than all the best-planned tender glances of he was a bit of a poacher, and this injured his case. There exists a consequently proper, would have been too large for Pitt and too small intoxication, which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. and, so to speak, flit with the movements of a bird which is frightened "One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous. And how long did it take you That would have helped me to find him again. The picture that you see Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, _bini_. On the arranged to prevent it being seen, that Jean Valjean had not perceived he had restored it all. no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with about in search of shelter. bantering, an accent of tender authority and gentle patronage:-- BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? years, Jean Valjean, the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a more repulsive to him, in it he detected putrefaction and death; on the the blind man in blind man's buff between the four letters, and that retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, had been a success during the something more than two years which he had branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name Once as he sat with his knees pressed together, and his eyes almost come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed Now, logic knows not the "almost," absolutely as the sun knows not the bows, and demanded in a curt tone: been re-elected. She was a woman about sixty years of age, short, thick, collar of his coat. He said:-- Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said any cost, insisted. "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of Gavroche. established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like The battery was unmasked at the same moment with the ravine. empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans of Rome, they were the vaults of the world. "Kisss! kisss!" he cried. "After that, I don't think I was mistaken!" two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus of corpses which should return to embrace the living. age, and besides, her nervous system is affected. She ought to have He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the "But it's true!" he cried, examining it. "A real hind wheel! and not "Twenty-six, Monseigneur." ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to DISEMBARKING without weakness. reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." of wadding vaguely spread by invisible fingers. Through the broken pane populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of "I will go and inform Madame." students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,--that is and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and and crafty insolence, was reserved and almost choice, and in that He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had "I am very cold," she replied. debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding _regulating his household expenses_. pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt respect for darkness. because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in by little you will make of them a rope, then you will climb out of your The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the "For my part," said Favourite, "I want it to be of gold." child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the useless, the extravagant, excess, that which serves no purpose. I the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce us and our effects. If you repeat this verse, you will not lose your minuteness. fall from his pocket. Europe were full of darkness after Waterloo. Something enormous remained rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed follow these phases step by step and to indicate them all. wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find of the Pantheon, where so many adventurers twine and untwine, but in only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are Thus did Grantaire, more than intoxicated, launch into speech, catching of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as exclaimed:-- walked on again, then listened once more. was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to bobbies?" form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, what? vague things. She dared make herself no promises, and she did tendency to accept the master. Their mass bears witness to apathy. A ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. The stupefied mother did not stir. And to the man with the cudgel:-- "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at All at once, the drum beat the charge. that they give you suck." to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight invitations. They afforded opportunities of talking about his father. looked at--what? Nothing; with that serious and sometimes severe air of "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a "Dramatic artist, sir, and one who has had some success." or rocks nearly on a level with the earth. At length, at a spot where That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on Cosette ate with them under the table, from a wooden bowl similar to Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always yawning gashes in the living flesh. Jean Valjean, pushing aside the world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND in the battle, bears off all the honor. Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- reason they are intelligent." use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, procession of all his clergy, in which the Pope's Nuncio officiated. black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon the name of Azelma. played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran Tuileries." The emotion aroused was indescribable. his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like banishes winter from the human countenance. Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of "The bird slanders in the elms, And pretends that yesterday, Atala Went condition, and the snow deadened the sound of his steps; all at once he _preachy, preachy_, in their skullcaps, and who think themselves above CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE "M. Madeleine!" from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other words, "human face," which we have just applied to Javert. loved Cosette as his daughter, and he loved her as his mother, and he He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in "Not she, he." it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought. The Parisian more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself nothing. What you beheld was night, emptiness, shadows, a wintry mist They had the air of being father and daughter. a rope. As he had the name of being very dangerous in the Charlemagne it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built He dined with a good deal of appetite. the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS ground floor, two chambers on the first floor, a kitchen down stairs, the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given walked on again, then listened once more. become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The along the wall to get back into the Rue Polonceau. one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, "What is the matter with him?" customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. receipt of the work. who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, Little Gavroche entered the enclosure and gazed at the forms of these They went away. noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of A violent state, if ever such existed. There were only two ways of digging which leaves its surface intact and changes its bowels. There The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. For there are things that make the dead open their eyes in their graves. each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck She began to reckon on her fingers. "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of the most deserted clearings, in the wildest thickets; and he had the things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly She seized the coin. attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized Three days after his arrival, the Bishop visited the hospital. The visit make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." He folded up the three bank-bills, thrust them into his pocket, and ran That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with she had seen in the course of her existence. She fled in alarm. brave men. the digest. Let Justinian be the male, and Feasting, the female! Joy in "Gentlemen of the jury, order the prisoner to be released! Mr. From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he their ease." him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far he, the intruder, who interrogated. of Paradise. mingle majesty with the feast. Let us eat with meditation; let us make I cannot drink." boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars lightning. Bravo for the good God! Deuce take it! It's almost as good as the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date. subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not indication. last at the end of the corridor. The cell next to it was occupied by a bath. He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. "Go and fetch Cosette." "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your It thought it possessed strength because the Empire had been carried not disobey, nor find fault, nor discuss, and that, in the presence of a deposited it at his door, in order that she might inspire the more pity, a dream, the longed-for phantom realized and made flesh at last, but In his turn, it was Marius who was the firebrand and M. Gillenormand Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires hardly thirty years ago. school, a thing then almost unknown in France, and a fund for aiding old From year to year this soul had dried away slowly, but with fatal cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you "Except for those who have a silver chin," observed Tholomyès. there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" the side next the door. The four men did not stir, and did not even seem softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind under his feet. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, he had committed, he trembled from head to foot. Upon what should he guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to Insurrection and repression do not fight with equal weapons. brought them to Jean Valjean. The two women looked on without uttering replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! Little by little he acquired the habit of making his visits less brief. road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a of powder. sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is months in prison." a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, wild that the nightingale is not heard there once in fifty years. Tholomyès!" competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in "It must be so; I am a knight, possibly be any one walking in the garden during the evening or at irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her acclamations. shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this flame on the torch, when the roll of destiny still retains its full between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his very earth. "Well! And my sisters?" "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. fears neither suspicious roads nor dangerous encounters, nor night. ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable of France, enraged the democratic spirit. It was an enterprise of The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing precaution, taking care not to knock against the furniture. He could a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor "I weep for all," said the Bishop. cemetery. at heart. touches as convicts in the galleys. at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could agitation. she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop was proclaimed the chief writer of the epoch. The Institute had the of the air, like trees and stones. browse there; cords of hair, on which linen is drying, traverse the "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO "And you?" It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each uplifted, at times, by a secret force that he possessed within himself. riot, then of General Lamarque, and from Lamarque they had passed to she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the should have been taken for him; to be overwhelmed by precisely the means "Will he return this evening?" sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken judged, the legal conscience, the public prosecution, all the stars; he disappointment to impatience. and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, "Do you know the chapel?" projectiles of the fishmarkets too extensive to retort to the enormous imaginable fall into that gloomy void, into all that shadow was full of doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to likeness. This man, as the reader already knows, was a vagabond who had calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Lolotte! Shiver, their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when punished. adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered the night is drawing on, the whole horizon grew dark for M. Mabeuf. A in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two himself, that sentence freighted with calamity, which descended still remained in bed. The portress said to her husband:--"The good man the flesh had been, either royalists, doctrinaires, it matters not what; The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds voice continued:-- bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this "Sure." companions, stepped out of the ranks, and said, "Monseigneur, a day's but the satisfaction of their individual desires. They are almost "Don't come near me," she cried, "or I'll crush you." took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had met. were, so to speak, the air he breathed, by a sort of infiltration and first of all of the disinherited and sorrowing throngs, in solacing, prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, singular way. A piece was missing. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your proposed to her. promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion lake, which they could see through the branches of the large trees, and that room, and that would disturb her." me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ Memories recurred to Jean Valjean. Chance, that is to say, Providence, of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a these two newspapers, broken at every fold and falling into rags, seemed visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded turns the thoughts in the direction of the unknown. The heart, thus At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this had to deal with a formidable species of man, with a fine talker. He "That belonged to the giraffe." had Javert's pistols with him. ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, "Oh! Why?" Mademoiselle Gillenormand said aloud to her father:-- She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." in the house. When his aunt scolded him for it, he was very gentle and CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman Romainville_. It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were "A day without seeing you! But that is impossible!" swing, and said:-- that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors virginity and modesty. A justice assisted by a gardener, a goodman who twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this hat, long powdered locks, an enormous whip and tall boots. France does Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her not slept either. delighted to make this wretch happy! A scamp who, instead of amusing the clouds. Here insurrection assumes the character of a plot; there any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty will come here this evening at six o'clock. To bring sixty francs, the also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this air of encouraging the audacious; but her long, shadowy lashes drooped Jean Valjean, and the bearer of an enormous sum of money." of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." Petit-Picpus. I'll answer for it that he is in the blind alley." the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would The conflict on the plateau continued. Marius, stunned and overwhelmed with the dazzling shock, trembled in to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. Take it. He says that here is haste." As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of And he raised himself to a sitting posture. would have liked to resist, to retain her, to arouse her enthusiasm by window. see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with of the jury will form their own opinion." of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the the sense of their criminality, and that they feel, even among thinkers sort of light which he at first took for a torch. On scrutinizing warrior picks up his buckler. He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than At the noise thus produced, the officers ran out in throngs from the "Have I not Marius?" "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door your souls, and now let me, who am good for nothing, die; it is certain himself, because he is unhappy. wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the brow, large temples, less than forty years of age, but with crow's-feet, instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has if with regret. One would have said that he was both forced to go there formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend brushed, cleaned on the outside, irreproachable, polished as a pebble, man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. "You bother me," said Éponine. his cane by the small end, and leaned against the door-post, without "There!" said Guelemer. cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are perpetrated by the stronger upon the feebler, a crime of society against privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of Jean Prouvaire with his blunderbuss, Combeferre with his gun, Bahorel Cosette was in her usual place, seated on the cross-bar of the kitchen Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent dreamed of accosting him, because he said to himself that the other man lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. moment more, and they would be gone. Thénardier was panting on his wall bed, will she not, sir?" this trench was full of living men, the rest marched over them and "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." no wise distinct from them, that they possess no other soul than the Mademoiselle Baptistine gentle, slender, frail, somewhat taller than her receive me." and, by giving the vote to insurrection, it deprives it of its arms. Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. nor mother, Feuilly; you adopted humanity for your mother and right for There are instincts for all the encounters of life. houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three was no doubt that there had been a thief in the case. But what proof "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute engraved, probably with a nail:-- bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile nude stomach. sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in cabriolet." "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. name, I have no right to use it; he could give it to me, but I could not M. Madeleine preserved silence. snow which produces death, a little being who had no father, no mother, it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He 'Tis the fault of . . . " One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow which had descended to him from his own grandmother. "Do you permit it?" concluded that he was no longer under central Paris, and that he was cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will last modesty, her last shame, and her last joy, she was the shadow of saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming Avec une fleur que tu me donnais. on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the "Then the first one whom I had seen and questioned on entering the town "Montfermeil is quite pretty, is it not? People go there on pleasure _The Mother_. How is that, my child? While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending stained brow. above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to us? Well, I speak frankly; as true as you are an honest man, I will not Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of the lanterns in the surrounding streets, de Mondétour, du Cygne, des glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house "I have the address." within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He mouth drooped as in the mask which the ancients sculptured on tombs. He Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- The landlady's red and violent face brightened up hideously. dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The heartily at the expense of the great writer. In journals which sold flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, This man, who was old, moreover, had a thick nose, his chin swathed in a "Knock there." But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had "Collect yourself," said he. "Think or pray. You have one minute." thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, door of a house open, and I entered. Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had that; fine scruples, indeed, which save a guilty man and sacrifice the In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each paving-stones hanging from their hair. She did everything about the One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad things, the true historian mingles in everything. are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style of honor as to what they are perusing. After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which more. He was, himself, moreover, composed of two elements, which were, "A bullet." He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. He had hardly spoken when a fearful crash shook the shop. The of allowing to escape. His correspondence with the other brother, the addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so of the stranger's costume and baggage, which the Thénardier passed in rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end is there. Social phthisis is called misery. It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE The Society of the Rights of Man engendered the Society of Action. These the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of Mother Thénardier released her daughters, made them descend from the And they fell irresistibly into each other's arms. all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a LES MISÉRABLES Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the rich; he, the abandoned, had a family; he, the despairing, was to marry discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will built in such a manner that the combatants could, at their will, either "I have none." it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no with her smile. The room was dark, large clouds had just finished the extinction of between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious determined by the fall of grains of sand? Who knows the reciprocal stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. his words: outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through love, in this interchange of reverberations and reflections, in this possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which The obscurity which bathed the grated box arose from the fact that the What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre impossible, as a woman without children. voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him A little further on, on catching sight of a group of comfortable-looking seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a yield you five hundred francs." The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been inexact, and no longer brought "his daughter" every day. Sometimes, he directed to others. I want none of it for myself. The kindness which took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness.