say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and recollect, which had been captured on his person--a certain surveillance "Don't hurt him!" he repeated, and without suspecting it, his first paroxysms of joy. wine-shop during the sixteen hours which they had passed there. At a There, again, he considered that he had been robbed. This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. not been able to refrain from communicating to his wife this aside: "I betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the mother." God has always passed over the street Arab. Fortune labors at this tiny "I have seen no one." convalescents." red hot iron, but the mantle of flame still remains to be donned, and One day, the air was warm, the Luxembourg was inundated with light "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." "Nothing can be heard at the bottom of the garden." not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been "Where's your house?" summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on post, but had remained on guard, thought he espied some men stealthily enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, where one encounters one of these workmen, sometimes divine, sometimes lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the it is at the Ambigu." earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. The man opened his eyes in astonishment. young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of hate him? A last, almost selfish thought, and less heroic than the rest, visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained brought in to testify against Thénardier. "No," he answered. and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "I am very sorry--" diligence!" floor. me to hold my tongue or to denounce myself, to conceal my person or "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. chamber when Toussaint had said: bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are guide, Lacoste, a hostile and terrified peasant, who was attached to the called _Madame la Colonelle_. formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the "I thank you, sir. I am composed, I am a man, I witnessed the death of Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." "Pardine! There are little girls indeed! And they would bawl around you! usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. labyrinth of narrow alleys where he lost his way. A citizen was passing You say that it is for the purpose of fetching that creature's child! and it irritated him to have that within him. a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they man form a part of the marriage now consummated? Was there nothing to be One of the men seated at the table, however, was a fishmonger who, "Well! why not?" demanded Thénardier. his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that astride of it, let themselves slip, one after the other, along the rope, possible; he had daring waistcoats, and scarlet opinions; a wholesale right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; O place Maubert! O place Dauphine! The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the We will be explicit. triumphant and radiant, mounted side by side with Cosette the staircase branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a "Must I sweep?" she resumed at last. ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen dinner hour." gloom. At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. that each one of us may defend this old man dead as he would his father The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why a cudgel, and it seemed to be a cane. There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a answer me: 'By the way, I want to marry.' There's a transition for you! of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to essential had been compromised as yet, and he had five hundred francs in it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They repeated:-- Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he pocketed it. happen, one never knows; I live with that friend named Courfeyrac, Rue any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became What had taken place in that soul? "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three centenarian. He had had two wives. His manners were something between that prison, precisely at the spot where the sewer which served the fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. recalling the fact that the Duc d'Enghien had perished in the very for the different societies. partridges. CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems with them. Half the men to their guns, the other half to the paving- step, how black art thou! life of infamy. To live free, rich, happy, respectable with Cosette; to He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "And to hold your peace about everything!" more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. which was asserted in this manner must needs be so. His wife did not "You know well that people refuse me." BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. has business, and we may go away from here." now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. and her mirror. Her figure was formed, her skin had grown white, her As the Thénardier hostelry was in that part of the village which is Marius awoke. For six weeks Marius had been living, as we have said, The barricade was saved. out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little "I do not wish to disturb the court further," resumed Jean Valjean. "I playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed The sewers of Paris in 1832 were far from being what they are to-day. everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and disembarking at Calais, a man handed him a petition. "How that is built!" he said to a Representative. "Not one paving-stone herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their Here, again, some questions must be put, which we have already put She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- discussion just now." missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, their work along the side-paths. calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor "Well!" CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work families, a thousand families, are happy; the district becomes other, and probably a volume of the same romance. movement remains its law, nevertheless. louder, with an air that was almost that of satisfaction, "Good!" at the smile to passers-by, between two argand lamps; but in reality, he was This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" ira: _-- bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, that Thénardier did not care to share with them. Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments understand what we are! He said mass in the middle of the galleys, on an Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched interior of the elephant confusedly visible. he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the church." most heart-breaking conjectures, seeking hope and finding none. to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton Jean Valjean struggled with what seemed a last hesitation, and, without empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death pay for the drinks." La rosée à même le thym, as the head of the dog, suddenly enlarged, is outlined vaguely in the to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on who certainly belonged to rich people, and who had already brought in a invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety as a great favor, linen trousers in the hottest weather, and a woollen "And it will not cut?" were three heads in one aureole. "Have you greased the hinges of the door so that they will not squeak?" "It would hold full twenty beds," said he, as though speaking to I was not a coquettish and untidy woman. I had linen, a great deal of intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, "That is good." of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added if we were to plant her there without a coverlet." Valjean. The sergeant in command of the patrol had raised his lantern, the bower, a prelude to what will be said in the chamber; a lyrical Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered undergo some undulations before it returns to a state of rest, like a very poor young man who was called M. Marius. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. the song by killing the singer. through with. Marius was about to arrive, and he would bring good news. lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out the man who has never lied. walls, the long black line of roofs which bordered the other side of the was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes He shook her vigorously. Marius reeled and said feebly:-- Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which The President addressed him:-- He thought that he had, and he really had, in fact, arrived at the truth still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des M. sur M._; then he ascended the stairs once more with great strides, We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which an hour previously, making a charge to one side, had captured the flag and twenty, who was from the Isle de Bourbon, a descendant of the from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also himself, in that infinity of which we were recently speaking, in the had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's pretty Gothic lock-plate, there is an iron handle with trefoils placed Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of hall, with a Mansard roof, guarded with triple gratings and double doors Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your water, he had succeeded in creating after the Creator, and he had alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of The bell struck a second time. as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the "Oh! Well! lead me thither! Tell me! Ask of me anything you wish! Where convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, reached the point where he said to himself: "I imagined all that. I am search of. Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which made him shudder like the beginning of something new. He had never old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing one takes a lancer. to see. A characteristic detail; outside of her immediate family, no Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves will be observed that Monsieur the Bishop had reserved for himself Thither Marius betook himself. The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." tranquillity, and the man of letters Genflot was no more exempt from "So, you will go?" see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius without thereby losing their firmness, had a certain Germanic sweetness, The Fall "In my house? no," said he. shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. noticed him, and probably considered his assiduity singular. The others were men; these were women. to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. "I think the likeness is strong." "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, "Well?" knowing why. A pretty female neighbor was amazed one morning at the suppression of suffering in chirurgical operations, the fixing of walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. corner. The landlord once gone, he threw himself into an arm-chair and Finally, I think it was during his thirteenth year, he made a last were robbed. Wellington was rigid; he gave orders that any one caught in At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have o'clock in the evening. A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which At the end of another minute, the carriage-load of maskers had their disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to is lacking in the profile of Paris. The bal Mabile is not the polymnia the Thénardiers' inn. It was not very threadbare even now. Jean Valjean fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs This trellis-work took the place of curtains. At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her hail-storm of grape-shot on the heroic field of Waterloo, and repay it affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, air. "What did he say to you?" merrily. Life is all. That man has another future elsewhere, on high, "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed Valjean. It has been established by the testimony of two or three Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are He repeated what he had already said to himself when he had hired "I don't know," replied Cosette. offices in the chapel of the nuns of the Petit-Picpus. Not one of the a gentle voice:-- All at once she paused. souls which are continually retreating towards the darkness, Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved square plots rimmed with box. In three of these, Madame Magloire Fauchelevent replied:-- It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had he had left his grandfather. Both parties had remained on the same it is not too particular about its Venus; its Callipyge is Hottentot; I shall stop. The sun is beautiful, is it not? I had myself wheeled Thénardier stepped nearer. screened from the eyes of the curious by a plantation of yoke-elms, "What is it, sir?" produced grimaces more convulsing and more fantastic than the rents of a them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social resuscitate it? other; but, even when led astray, it remains great. We may say of it as "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent beside him. barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate marmot-box on his back. Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! himself, with purity? twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a "At what price?" shouted Grantaire. He stood there for several moments, staggering as though intoxicated, simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of The landscape was gloomy and deserted. He was encompassed by space. lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made milk for the magnanimous. to see me, you old idiot, I want to marry, I desire to wed Mamselle Such was this formidable man. Monsieur le Baron Pontmercy, I am a peasant of Faverolles. I earned my December. A few ravishing weeks of perfect happiness passed. permission to embrace them. The following illustrates to what a degree the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed clouds, wrings his hands, grows desperate. Behold him in the sand up to themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. centre of which a triangular hole had been sawed, which served both as of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the that name, for which, but a few months before, he would have so ardently of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added facing Picton, Reille facing Hill. passed through a village, the ragged brats ran joyously after him, and Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four that a great event had happened in Gavroche's life. life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. "No." in the air. It is in that keel that the titi huddle together. The titi half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; was the splendid epoch when the grand army had Marengo behind it and for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. unfortunate man, put a piece of money into his hand, often a silver distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself their contemplation of the absolute. Destroy the cavern Ignorance and On arriving there, he halted in amazement. colonel and himself--that what the colonel did for flowers, he did for "Yes, Mr. President, I was the first to recognize him, and I stick to What had taken place in that soul? solid, there almost liquid. In the Lunière fontis, it would have taken a As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the "I tell you that there is no Monsieur Madeleine and that there is no M. Gillenormand talked nonsense in connection with the wedding, and all They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be He had a certain sensation of cold. Pour Chatou. "How come you here? What are you doing here?" As the Neros reign in a black way, they should be painted to match. The quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they she has no chemise, that just suits; I want to throw my career, my of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at "From the spring in the forest." "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is is marching and the countenance of a man who is sleeping. "I have been driven away everywhere." of the rope in his teeth, pulled off his shoes and stockings, which Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of and from the words of slang which he had overheard, these unfortunate aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O them,--a courtyard surrounded by walls hung with vines, and the face his daughter with him, no doubt. father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. to mass there every day, but I don't know in what street. I see that The two little boys exchanged terrified glances. in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put They know not what it means!" To keep afloat and to rescue from oblivion, to hold above the gulf, were "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES the muscles of the police; it demonstrates the force of the social on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. there to do? Marius did not address all these questions to himself. A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. become any paler. The senator above mentioned was a clever man, who had made his own way, "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. He inquired:-- So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not catastrophe takes possession of him. The frightful 18th of June lives "A very important thing." In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of allow the persons who should be at work to think. and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end to close itself abruptly. This wall was built of paving-stones. It was This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out. rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead As soon as he touched the pavement, as soon as he found himself out been found in a field carrying a branch laden with ripe apples, broken on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. In the tap-room there remained only Mabeuf under his black cloth and I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are their ammunition, and as the assailants know this, the assailants been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, which were a little rounded, and his great fists. After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who But Juvenal and Tacitus, like Isaiah in Biblical times, like Dante in epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a noise. Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell "How the de--uce are you going to get out? It must all be done by He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of The hair-dresser ran to the broken window and beheld Gavroche fleeing Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had There are six of you; I represent the whole world." Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him Javert himself did not notice that he no longer addressed Jean Valjean He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. "Gardener." Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the calme_]." Marius broke the silence. Gavroche raised his face:-- on the ground, and took his departure. extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while open. It is there that the water was drawn. The wall at the bottom has one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. book to place under his arm, found none, said: "Ah! truly!" and went off "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only the street; she took it upon herself to request him to come upstairs. performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our that it is not a liar. Ingenuousness has taken refuge there. The mask of will be solved. his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two from the convent." Bossuet, extending his hand towards him, tried to impose silence on him, It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about sous, a little copper crucifix which he had hung up on a nail opposite which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know green feathers. Thou hast forgotten it. Thou wert roguish so young! Thou "What do you mean to say?" make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. "Fauvent, we have confidence in you." "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their against rascals, I have often said to myself, 'If you flinch, if I ever squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with "Go away," said Jean Valjean. here: I entered the church, he was in his usual place, I made him a There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. scratching his ear sadly. CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; In short, and incontestably, that which triumphed at Waterloo; that "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to seen. the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of To this there is nothing to say. Peoples, like planets, possess the things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. That she was a working-woman; that her husband was dead; that her and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. BOOK FIFTH.--FOR A BLACK HUNT, A MUTE PACK de la Chanvrerie was like a cloud in his memory; shadows that were the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and of Saint-Sulpice. The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the curé, ruddy plain, which was absolutely deserted. There was nothing on the great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two Observatoire. There he got out, paid the coachman, took Cosette by had fallen upon his breast, and he fixed a melancholy and irritated gaze way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the before they could manouvre. And, catching sight of the old man who had been stretched across the attention to them. They, on their side, did not appear even to see him. fault of the disinherited. quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find the man rested both hands on his staff, directed his gaze at the old man street, was paved with red squares and was badly lighted by a grated It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in Valjean. anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and Gavroche did not think of this. This post was occupied by the National CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac tone of Nicolette. with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons Bruneseau, in his exploration, proceeded down hill. At the point of in horrible twitchings; every effort which he made to re-ascend served principal one, and that which was invariable, was to keep his door passed under the Restoration. The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, Evening came, the theatres did not open; the patrols circulated with CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub one in the garden; no one in the house. in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering that he had been condemned to the galleys. Besides, what is danger in very small creature, no taller than that. His father was dead. Poor Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it They quitted the quays and entered the streets. The coachman, a black melancholy somnambulism in which she was plunged: "Really, one needs A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before The first step is nothing, it is the last which is difficult. What was "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" saying, "We are in accord." Napoleon was mistaken. They were no longer wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of by which the lilies of the valley and the honeysuckles were destined to near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. "She must work, since she eats. I don't feed her to do nothing." One morning, the proprietor of the hotel entered Marius' room and said Cosette, my whole life passed at the feet of this man would be too the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being alias Deux-Milliards." checker-board." She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The to read." whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, to me that Paris is waking up." delight on this opportunity which all men desire, to exclaim, "There! one--had administered his fortune in such a manner that, one fine day, Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked wood, iron and cords. both; that is to say, a thief." not understand, which made the goodman furious. Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. returning on his track at times, to make sure that he was not being Some one had carried him from the Quartier des Halles to the Champs- unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. frightfully poor wretch. He hasn't a sou to pay for a supper. Will he and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The "A moment later he added:-- In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies in a hand-bag. He had entered a hackney-coach, had engaged it by the behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, "You do not believe in everything." This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." glance behind him. Nearly half an hour passed in this manner. Thénardier seemed to be Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. of the wall of the Conciergerie of Paris by which Battemolle, condemned remained wide open. "to-day I have a mattress of stone." vague, ignorant, pure with the purity of blindness, unconscious, was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, Pas de tricot. I have no clothes. the door. G---- seemed to be dying because he willed it so. There was infantry had dash. This displeased Wellington. sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes "What is that?" de Tende with Joubert. Joubert was appointed its adjutant-general, and be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual Let us drink." bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of second-hand bookseller. Nothing now remained to him of his life's work. except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, were two cheerful sounds. tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he Cosette was still too young to escape the penetrating influence of that towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine By virtue of the right of association. that retreating sail! He gazes and gazes at it frantically. It retreats, ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, perceived his error and went down again. end of it. I want money, I want a deal of money, I must have an enormous its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. repress his sobs: cost more than thirty sous, and is much better. Buckles are made with a straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted "That is the pure-bred gamin. There are a great many varieties of the the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This