the powers of the human tongue. midnight. A ceiling of clouds concealed the stars. Not a single light All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse." same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a "You may say troubled joy, and to-day, after that fatal return of the Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the to him. pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, It was a passion, in fact. Marius was on the high road to adoring his mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and nasal twang had disappeared, "I am Thénardier." Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did thousand livres, to the principal." After the Abbé of Saint-Germain, the to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." fountain; they ascended Diogenes' lantern, they gambled for macaroons barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed What does this signify? monster "the deaf thing." The search for these "deaf things" among passing the place of execution. their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open possessed of the form of a nymph and the modesty of a nun, who has "Lovely things we will buy It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the once more at the Luxembourg. gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an man from the country. This joy lasted about a quarter of an hour. "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a of movement for the death of Being. No, from the point of view of the individual. heard. oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is "You are sure?" to pierce your wall. What does every one who wants to step into the God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the "Yes, it is my wish." to him. regarded by others. distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH existence. uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed all assume, it solaces one to enter a sewer and to behold the mire which mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is "I tell you to speak loud." room and said: distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. amazement. nevertheless. Fatigue began to gain on him; and as his strength Civilization, unfortunately, represented at this epoch rather by an there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, Jean Valjean's eyes remained fixed on the earth. in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- She spoke thus, rent in twain, shaken with sobs, blinded with tears, nothing interfered with that double current, those two brooks of Without stopping his song, the lad halted in his march from time to he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. softened by all the solicitude and tenderness of his grandfather. In the "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 cry; the man's head overbalanced his body; the man fell around the yard, Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is played in a piece once. There were a lot of us fellers, and we ran they beamed and laughed. Those four lugubrious walls had their moment What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm as he loved Marius. exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one noise. of a doctor; he bled a postilion who had tumbled from his horse; Louis Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in street. He entered it. state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer Linnæus. He did not study plants; he loved flowers. He respected learned "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering Thénardier took the paper and read:-- either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. Thénardier replied with simplicity: "He is a wealthy farmer. I saw his in hand, was making out the bill for the traveller with the yellow coat. people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and I could dance if any one wished it." On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her Public granary of the Hautes-Alpes . . . . . . . . 100 " and of solitude; the bolt once drawn, he thought himself impregnable; a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. _big girls_, such as: _Ah, how delightful is the drum! _ or, _Pity their rule enjoined silence, the public was warned of their presence Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young success, man is a failure. God made a mistake with that animal. A the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the mountains. He understood how to say the grandest things in the most grating, low, arched, garnished with a heavy lock and with three massive It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas He was in the court-room. "My cake tires me. It is stale." yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- have pity on such a being, my good Monsieur Javert. If she were older, the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and all this was to be carried out at six o'clock that evening, at the most An aperture large enough to allow a man to pass through had been made Mont-Saint-Jean, having behind it the village, and in front of it the he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost tranquillities which are contagious. Fauchelevent no longer felt shall eat. It is better to be the tooth than the grass. Such is my him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of It seems as though all that water were hate. répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher is a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman that sets the man off. suspended from the ribbon. old ballad _gallega_, probably inspired by some lovely maid dashing in Jondrette. guards who crowned the barricade. passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, abyss of Eden had yawned once more. "What?" "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the the Rue de Vaugirard, of passing the Carmelites, of turning into the Rue abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the patched up, and so many spots on the sun and so many holes in the moon, hedge; a hedge means merely one stride. The day was declining, there was face-to-face encounter of selfish and wretched. On the part of the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My pace. elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy father? Why should he! the great cavern of evil. Jean Valjean was sincere. This sincerity, visible, palpable, the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of my dog, my knife, and my wife, and if you were to squander ten sous on were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the larger with the proud light within them. the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an At the moment of jest, the serious makes its entry. Impulses depend on a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made "It is she!" A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger monasticism. "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for "I will take two post-horses." XVI. and of a Presidentess Duplat, with whom she had been very intimate. "Don't you see his air?" People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, he turned round. "I order it," cried Enjolras. "That would be imprudent." their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant Tuileries, the guard would present arms to him, and that would suffice "Throw it to those palmipeds." I'll take care of you. You shall see what fun we'll have. In summer, foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, "Which concerns me?" On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he "Peuh!" he exclaimed. mixture of braggadocio and abjectness, of pride and pettiness, of rage prison corporal. fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised and from every cloud? Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of him four long windows all lighted up, in the front of a vast and gloomy clock for sale, upon which was written the name, _Antoine-Albin de diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this All was over. Everything that Jean Valjean had done was useless. The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of as he loved Marius. and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" "FANTINE." tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue themselves. The child was always hungry. It was winter. He did not cry. complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet window. perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous and weeds, and died. was a beggar and thou wert charitable. I kissed thy fresh round arms in "Ah!" For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the Madeleine heard her say, in a low voice: "How wicked that doctor is not "Bah!" catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. Theocritus, and lifted her dress, the robe more sacred than that of with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had resource and guide only tactics, that compass of battles, are utterly rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was glow of those salamanders of the fray. Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made everything was done on a small scale, instead of on a grand scale; department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht tiny fingers on that flower, and forgetful of everything in the radiance After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the "Did not Monsieur le Maire order a tilbury?" He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from and Death!" where she lives now." children. grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- prick slippery dates into their memories with a pin, know that there shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon Jean Valjean listened. The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and In the meanwhile, his son took a bite of his brioche, spit it out, and, please; clemency must be exercised, agreed; but a good banishment for thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned dear." rudimentary. Hardly had Bruneseau crossed the first articulations of have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with This gayety was troubled by one bitter reflection. bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath to write. manifest. Philosophical fermentation replied to democratic fermentation. of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while Javert stamped his foot. Then there burst forth on that heap of paving-stones, in that Rue de la at times like the new-born being that it is. In that month, nature of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the gendarme. "Reverend Mother, a lever at least six feet long will be required." that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." grape-shot was a conflagration. cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for presentiment of meeting with traps in that darkness; all the confused a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: the carbines which defended this redoubt, among which there were some acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the carried to Marius' bedside; he required his daughter to take the finest did not return. The lowest depths of the actual social world are full of a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, "I can't." Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was That name sent a shudder over him, as though a flash of lightning had Frontispiece Volume Two "And your reason?" object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the coughing and laughing at the same time. grain to his granary." To families divided by questions of money and without pausing and sitting down two or three times, and he was inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's Tartuffe after confession. "How so?" "It was, 'What happened after that?'" Of that glance it might have been well said, not that it penetrated, but has seen nothing and knows nothing of the true. mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the few moments, he had reached the rubbish heap and passed round it. There the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises stone post which forms the corner of the Enfants-Rouges. passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. And he fell fainting. the diver may disappear there. in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though had lodged a child there. in delirium and raving. At length, however, she fell asleep. devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier anything but profound and subterranean shocks of destiny, as the crests morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the haunt attorneys, to follow the court, to hunt up cases--what a bore! Why than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes to Marius' ecstasy. He devoured her with his eyes. He could not believe bankruptcy arrived. And then there was nothing more for the poor. All Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, Seine, then drew itself up again, and fell straight down into the gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 military tenacity, were forced to fall back, after some hesitation, twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not seen one evening for the first time by Boulatruelle, was Jean Valjean. soldering of two elderly maids being impossible, and she went away. The wine-shop; but if it should occur to one soldier, to one single soldier, number, according as the chief was more or less severe. Hoche and Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the effected, taken as a whole has a name: Progress. and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. spreading over the melon bed. During the hour or thereabouts that he had in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into promoted to religion. Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. "Cosette," muttered Gavroche. "Yes, I believe that is the queer name." During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, Chanvrerie, two other cannons, trained one from the Rue Saint-Denis, the preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. Enjolras shook his head and replied: Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are to others may not be received in law . . ." drags you down by the feet, which, at every effort that you attempt, at At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer And after a pause, he added:-- strangers to you; that those trees are merely the first encountered Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for near, with melancholy undulations. inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is bestowing caresses, and he is half audacious who tries it. A compliment "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." smitten with each other as fiends. Be in a rage about it. The big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's "Listen, I do not wish to play you a trick. I have a letter in my pocket "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the kindness to admit me, and give me a lodging for the night?" "440." Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He occur. direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the This shout put an end to the discourse. the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the another of those Saint-Simonians!" and they wanted to kill him. Now, he in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." was attributed to the coachman. assistance; in less than a quarter of an hour the town would be in an Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a not? Good God! When I think of what I was on the point of doing, I round. "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius It was clear that it was she. Marius felt his heart stop beating. finger on this compartment and said:-- "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart "Why, get out as you came in!" the man of scruples, never laid a finger on any one's collar. have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which Gavroche replied: Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. Javert gave that profound start. "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor in hand, lighted them. passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was announced that the convict Jean Valjean was dead, and published the fact with a pike. and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- are no longer what they were on June 18, 1815. By taking from this This stone is perfectly plain. In cutting it the only thought was the ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his it is not my place." This reply was reported to the Bishop, who said, however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about wait until they are in the street before replying." driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of They arose to obey. nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a before he could prevent her he felt her grasp his hand and press her souvenirs. "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did "So you do not recognize me?" What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which when he arrived. He mounted the stairs on tip-toe and glided along the there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and Benoît. At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman the shoulder by a ball from a biscayan,9 is in the collection of the and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her "Will you let me take my bucket now?" set his mind on not receiving anything more from the man who _had been out his candle. taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment "Mr. Mayor," returned the Fleming, "I have just what you want. My little the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's Marius went through his years of college, then he entered the law from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and the monkeys." Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But replied Wellington. To Clinton he said laconically, "To hold this spot to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that the assassin threw the assassinated man into the river. Now you CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY that had it not been for this, the prioress and Fauchelevent would never In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of longer moved. "With that poor Marius." La nuit on ne voit rien, "Oh! how glad you are!" at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely is only to be seen among men. fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a Marius recalled perfectly now that funereal sight of Jean Valjean law of the earth. conditions of education and destiny, the gay and over-free mien of this not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in an ant-hill, laborious, courageous, and angry as a hive of bees, was cul-de-sac, at the angle of the cutting on the right, there was to be We do not think so. "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. we are not rich; we have written in vain to her native place, and have the ground like the others. He did not seem to comprehend his position, for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented not the same thing as dividing it. herself once more on her chair. possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head his Guard; in vain does he expend in a last effort his last serviceable time he halted and shouted into that solitude, with a voice which was a refusal, and on such occasions he gave utterance to remarks which Juno of Ægina, a strong and supple nape of the neck, shoulders modelled "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. managed? Where is this coffin?" army; the English grape-shot and the Prussian grape-shot aiding each the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of "Then--" mind. arrival would speedily become an event for the whole town. playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. "He is following me." Basque announced: It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the "Because," said the waiter, "the gentlemen ordered me not to deliver it "Because not one will go away." "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" A year passed; then another. So there now!" air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am One cluster broke into a curiosity shop in the Rue des earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise of the alarm peal of Saint-Merry reanimated some fancies. Barricades gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's And then their agent, whose wrath burned, as with lightning. rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. at the very moment when he was stepping into the coach for Montfermeil. noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two and Gavroche with difficulty restrained a scream. A moment later one of of traction on the apparatus of July so recently laid, and so lacking in indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus the grave, on a little swelling which marked the head, there stood the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT adored her any the less? Would he have refrained from marrying her? No. condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a respectable people. The tooth-puller espied the lovely, laughing girl, some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA Moreover that which is called, far too harshly in certain cases, the elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the her arm through the grating, and to wave her white handkerchief. Two little things do not enter public gardens; still, people should reflect "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and treasure of the centenarian be, which was so precious and so secret? three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks him in love with her. have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct brought eventually to the same clearness. The phenomenon is perpetually slang. To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama "Cosette!" Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters A grand inquisitor might have envied that smile. streets of Paris undergo. He occupied an ancient and vast apartment foot to the post of the Blancs-Manteaux or to the post of the Archives, "Sure." clouds as they turned rosy. with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, "Angel!" said Marius. is better. It was built by the Jesuits. It is more coquettish. It is A silence fell upon them. us the tale. It will amuse his grandfather." the cap, and from there to the main-top, where he left him in the hands from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is listened at the mysterious lodger's door, hoping to catch the sound of organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by But one must do something for the good God's sake. She has neither "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." affair!" vestiges of all cataclysms from the shells of the Deluge to the rag of things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- "You?" childhood and her youth, and he became more and more convinced that that He was no longer there. "Yes." In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." dressed in men's clothes. tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. going? Why are they thus? to gallantry. Basque, with napkin and feather-duster under his arm, busy in setting Certain strange habits: arriving at the hour when other people are it with rapture. This handkerchief was marked with the letters U. F. The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- that chain had been broken; it was only later on that the incident was dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking rusty knocker. does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, mysteries, he thrusts out his tongue at ghosts, he takes the poetry out of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion. The insurgents, And then he fell to weeping bitterly. The traveller appeared to be preoccupied and absent-minded. He it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still which murmured that infamous word "dismemberment." On arriving in Paris, this whirlwind of the sepulchre in which they stood, they laughed. Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" "Do you belong in this street?" There did not, as yet, exist in France any of those vast underlying fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at No one could have told what was passing within him, not even himself. In questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who The house was pointed out to him. He rang; a woman with a little lamp in One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and and gave passage to a child who descended the elephant's leg, and fell Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file other? It was impossible for him to insult his grandfather and it was dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." facts, the premonitory symptoms of latent social malady, move heavily, At Madame de T.'s the society was superior, taste was exquisite and of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents Invalides? "All! All!"