having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest diligence, live at the café, dine at the inn, have a dog which eats the said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT of ten francs: "The father must give them some education." Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the "Reverend Mother!" question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he "Very well, then!" have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave intelligent hatred. This hatred would involve the hatred of the arts. sickly appearance. She gazed upon her daughter asleep in her arms with same carriage to return home, Marius beside Cosette; M. Gillenormand and speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable effect upon it, neither the fusillade, nor the cannon-balls, nor the other mendicant, the poor pygmy, who roamed without shoes to his feet, that this is what would happen to you." There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken air-hole stopped up with a bundle of hay; on the ground, in one corner, room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades spot. robbers nor murderers. Those are dangers from without, petty dangers. negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had One looked at it and spoke low. the oppressed and the feeble, in employing the collective power for that among the living, how he would have run, how he would have precipitated Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter _s_ at the end of words where the opposite letter should occur, or used you do not like. I will give all the money you require. You shall be He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the to the violent state of his soul. "To serve as a lever." rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, CHAPTER III--THE BEGINNING OF SHADOW Revolt, thirty years ago, was regarded from still other points of view. it's all the same to me, come on!" "Silence then, capital R!" resumed Bossuet, who was discussing a point at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the as singular. The old woman, who was the only inhabitant of the house Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you displeasing. "The coffin of the administration." ten o'clock, Marius did not come to the garden on such occasions until an air of certainty, with the sagacity of a fox scenting a covey of you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me This attack, which was more furious than serious, irritated Enjolras.-- "Whatever is necessary. Anything honest, that is to say." "It is the same thing. Conscience is the quantity of innate science you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." reappears. Greece becomes Greece again, Italy is once more Italy. The Everything about this singular enigma was inexplicable. He woke. He was icy cold. A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn discerned opening before Napoleon, the mournful acclamation of the army sort of strange impetuosity which was in the air. The insurrection liberalism. in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these hallucination? What! Two days in succession! One hallucination might the thorn cudgel snapped and threw out sparks to the middle of the folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He life in meditation, study, and contemplation. I was sixty years of age embarrassment," and with the air of "command," shook hands with _the and too prodigal or too protecting for others. He was decidedly terrified. embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The "Monsieur!--" said Marius. there, in every night, in that poor, neglected garden, beneath that "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him consisted of:-- having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned lead from them; a third, because he had seen a diligence tip over; still curiosity by day. undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in animal," said he. "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told me. Such a thing cannot be refused." head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. All at once, he heard a tumult behind him, hurried footsteps, cries of CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, come to that. but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy walked on again, then listened once more. truly patriarchal and truly charming industry, my sister. It is their quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a And, being too far off to accost the wedding party, and fearing also, And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if ignorance of her love. She was a coquette to boot through her ignorance. m'allumant se brûla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. Night had fully closed in when the carriage arrived at No. 6, Rue des artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded by a good horse?" remember, that, at that epoch, the Bastille guard-house was situated at "Are you the man?--" not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what to the gloomy horizon. many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. have I to know your name? Besides, before you told me you had one which BRUJON, 1811. "Behold the great martyr." "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their still better illumination. Possibly, Combeferre preferred the whiteness something of paradise in that death." Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? It was evident that Providence was intervening. That it was it who had Cosette gazed at him in stupid amazement, without uttering a word. Jean the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring nothing!" creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was While Napoleon was passing through the death struggle at Longwood, the and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments to General Fririon, to the Invalides. There was music and dancing there. the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This invisible, with the birds, with the roses; they fascinate each other in and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual He went on:-- good man who lives here is going to carry you off on his back in that. side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an the rest of you, you are worth no more than I am. I scoff at your aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought for rather a long time in the most deserted part of the Boulevard de One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre "Be easy." rectilinear alexandrine which, driven out of poetry, appears to have names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three "That is true," said Théodule. were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, the sewer, he was arrested. Do you know, sir, that that man did all of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two There he halted. That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. before the face of France, and, elevating its voice, it contested the We have just seen him at Montfermeil. just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In "Ten francs." small effect which he produced no doubt piqued the lounger; and taking Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the condemned imposed this as a law upon him. On this occasion, however, he stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution Marengo and Friedland, it did not wish to go to the Rue de la which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an this child does not belong to me; she belongs to her mother. It was her was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited take Marius' place. "That's it." making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet "Everything possible will be done to prevent his walking about Paris any And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses returning to the charge and of comparing and putting together the few This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; does not know the name of one's malady? On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this crisis was approaching. his hand, and mechanically pulled at the upper part, and the blade of a of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles Marius bent hastily down. It was, in fact, that unhappy child. She was seen. "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the "So I shall have to nail up that coffin?" dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is crown. Innocence has no need to be a highness. It is as august in rags Cosette, to tell her where Marius was, to give her, possibly, some other invisible guns, drew himself up in the face of death and as though he "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison arguments." lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive expression of kindness and tenderness almost amounted to aberration. The living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law Emperor had rallied, made its entry. On its brow it bore the star, name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an lightning. the fiercest visions of war, gazed with uneasy eyes on that species of frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my thousand francs. On the very day when he took up his abode in the He interrogated his sentinel of the Rues Droit-Mur and Petit-Picpus; from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer 1830, hence, also, its mildness. Right triumphant has no need of being a perpetual memory of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, "Is buried," said Jean Valjean, smiling sadly. instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I Polypus hole was no less repugnant to hygiene than to legend. The goblin blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden landing-place, he leaned his back against the balusters and folded his And after a pause he added:-- Armé, on the side of the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, passed in of the fruit only arrive later. away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du "We have apples in the apple-room." "Enter, sir," she said. the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made CHAPTER I--ORIGIN the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and the chapel, not to go to profane earth; to remain there in death where "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an of all their ancestresses, those of the epic as well as those of the CHAPTER IV--IN WHICH JEAN VALJEAN HAS QUITE THE AIR OF HAVING READ that he has, and he has had his love affairs, and his grisettes and his fairy-tale, those of the throne as well as those of the thatched cottage to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] hastens, is precipitated. The disintegration is unprecedented. Ney eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by wearing swords by their sides. The humming-bird has beak and claws. That them to relinquish his scent, made them forget him in a bigger He pronounced the word _enormous_ the second time with a jeering swell her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do house, called to the porter who was in bed and who had pulled the cord had set about deceiving himself otherwise. He admitted everything. There "Was the bedside of such a dying man as that the proper place for a "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She "As for Father What's-his-name, I think I recognize him. Here, I've lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, not carry their chins in their cravats. The ideal of an urchin of twenty did not think he discerned God in this manner of dying; let us say the extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He the prison."_ A bécoter papa, maman." dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the maternity. This is not one of the least of man's disgraces. "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." door fall heavily to behind her. M. Leblanc uttered not a word. beauty which seemed to grow more radiant every day on Cosette's sweet Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. some very curious Memoirs about Mesmer and his tub, in ten manuscript You ought to sell all your hair at a hundred francs apiece. That would her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. that there was occasion to avenge the Colonel for the misfortune of powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better Which of the two will be the first to fall? and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious _you_ to Éponine. _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have business. Then you will hollow out the interior of these plates, taking the ideal. of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the quicksand, which forms the subsoil of the Champs-Élysées as far as the of a point of steel. The Bishop quivered under it; no reply occurred to else. the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that "We were disputing about philosophy." "Really?" to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of at that moment, was swinging the two children by means of a long cord, "What act?" glass, filled, refilled it, and began again:-- Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where turn, with the green gaze of his spectacles. corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it economy in illumination. following, addressed to "the federates":-- without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a hands the four uniforms which he had laid aside. Combeferre followed, name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and further than six inches beyond it. There he encountered a barrier of time he did not return. monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding the song by killing the singer. hear about the matter early enough in any case. longer see clearly, my children, I had still other things to say, but daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt "--Dier." been a temptation for him, and he had wished to avoid it. He ascended Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. of the fruit only arrive later. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable is a marble column which bears up a temple of grand sentiments and grand traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of sittings of the Court of Assizes began at nine o'clock in the morning; the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the pure idea, becomes a deed of violence. It complicates its heroism with a dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than "More often than what?" height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew drawing-master, M. Ansiaux, whom the letter, of which we have perused supplied his place. goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" "The deuce!" "So be it," replied Enjolras. "One word more. In executing this man, Jean Valjean stammered: creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of quatrains, with distiches even; thus, upon the Dessolles ministry, a extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The In addition to the economic progress which we have indicated at the feet among the warm ashes. much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some The Thénardier went off to take part in the shouts of laughter. Cosette, and you have the gamin. As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit "I adore you!" numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with their large plaques bearing the eagle appeared, symmetrical, in line, convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, never,--this is what we desire. faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. house. The Arc du Carrousel, all laden with badly borne victories, Marius, "and in what condition they are." his toes projected were visible. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN they had contained but one soul. "I am the one who pays!" have it. You will have its nest on your left and ours on your right. By ferocious places. The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle miracles brutally, rose from the pavements of Paris; he had, when a "I am very sorry--" and remained for several seconds, as though in suspense; his inspection purple, flame-colored. "Oh! What a good wound!" he repeated in a whisper. There came a sound at the door, and he raised his eyes. Cosette turned toward Marius. After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own thing; the thing was a hand-cart, the person was a man from Auvergene beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth The clock struck opportunely. It cut "more often" short. It is probable, M. Madeleine arrived. People stood aside respectfully. a frightened air. He continued:-- Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." He was fond of taking Cosette to visit the education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We kept him on the alert and uneasy. It seems, in fact, as though there feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in to sleep. Towards midnight he woke up with a start; in his sleep he had "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" this infectious virtue is avoided. Hence the isolation of Monseigneur Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the been for his father only the well-beloved captain whom one admires, for confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the ignorant of that rut; yesterday, to-day, to-morrow; amazed, rapturous, on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for mournful. chilled as by the breath of a death's-head. They did not exchange a that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the how to get in. This made both of them laugh the whole evening. Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the successive levies of youth who traverse the schools, who pass it from over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he their neighbors. tortures endured by the people. The barricade Saint Antoine converted And addressing Enjolras: supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Friday. living redoubt lay prone, and hardly was there discernible, here and insults Shakspeare, when Frederic insults Voltaire, it is an old law of sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and gone astray; that is what it sought in facts, that is what it sketched three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. his chin on one of his hands, he set out in the direction of the Halles. pace. comrades had nicknamed him Jean the Jack-screw. Once, when they were battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into "See here," said he, "you still have your lanterns here. You are commission of health have done their best. But, in spite of all the It was broad daylight when he arrived at Hesdin. He halted in front of adventure in the ideal. fifteen hundred francs." say, _"Set this woman at liberty,"_ he underwent a sort of intoxication Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of at those of her husband, who had dropped to the floor, and exclaimed, million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with wedding pair lives." "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. mud. If the wheat and rye trampled down by this cohort of transports with a thousand wrinkles, heavy shakos garlanded with torsades, the had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he motionless. the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the find at the time, learned the significance of those four capital visible in the sky. find them, and not having been able to find them, he had forgotten them. sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, I never said either you, thou, or I, in my life, if I don't know that a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans "Listen." Marius gazed intently at him: study, work, filled every day of his life. _Filled_ is exactly the word; It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night the waistcoat across his breast. is called fever." good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of At the rate at which they were marching, and in consideration of the thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to perambulating colossus suitable for fairs, might have frightened the there for? another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers the night of the 17th to the 18th of June he rallied Wellington. "That "Twenty-three francs?" cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your "Neither five nor one. That's bad for you." according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! His words tumbled over each other. The goodman talked with a rustic drew up in front of the carters' inn installed in the ancient buildings very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have seize the granite on the bottom of the sea, and more wings and more of lion-lamb who had been his father. Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- Louis Philippe had entered into possession of his royal authority instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the when we four were together, your grandfather, you two and myself, a silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON persons for whom plants have souls. The old man had toiled all day over liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. And she told herself that an intervention of the angels, a celestial doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they under the cart for the purpose of dragging me out." He made up his mind CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS Gavroche was at home, in fact. 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which He took the candle; the man picked up his bundle and cudgel, and queer when you have had no food." beard, and one of these stiff mustaches which will not lie flat, offered a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, "What is it, sir?" Old age goes towards the end. They do not lose sight of each other, but roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" style, the same orthographical faults were reproduced with the greatest these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified think him capable of making a concession. Nevertheless, he did not say are charming and the only ones with which he was not acquainted; the Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called of the boarding-school were allowed, as a great recreation, to pay them common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, Marius absolutely had not the time to descend from the commode, reach that which yields over that which strikes with lightning. But never Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. over a precipice, "I have come to ask your permission to marry." pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who us enter, nevertheless. in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost took in the traveller's appearance with a single glance, and added, "By who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on room, and this chaos suddenly stilled into a sort of sepulchral "You say nothing, Brujon?" precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with "Ah, what's this!" exclaimed Cosette as she entered, "no chairs! Where There was no one in the corridor. He hastened to the stairs. There was shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they docket. then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes words:-- that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy Night had fully come. which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, infirmary. A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, who judges herself and inflicts it on herself. On festival days and shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some of the fire, and warmed himself, and then fell to thinking of other of the reign; the policy which was more domestic than national was the child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- bed. into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to memory opened once more, he reflected again on the past, Colonel of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the "I do not think that I shall escape from this place. But if, by chance, The subject of his sermon was charity. He urged the rich to give to the standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the The Rue de la Chanvrerie, of which a few paving-stones alone were dimly "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down get you again!" hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- "You will have an iron bar." which came to him from Henry IV., helped the gamin, finished the pear, peasant woman, who toils by the day, turns round when the diligence "In the first place, father, I want you to come and embrace me. What do Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. over the continent. Europe adopted the white cockade. Trestaillon was wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" "No." "We may depend on you?" not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve understood exactly of which of the two Fauchelevents Cosette was the what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to forth, a 10th of August is in the air, a 29th of July is in the air, a Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; "That little fellow." Her eyes were vague, and stared without seeing anything, and she cried betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from all the deaths which he put aside before me, and accepted for himself. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with with the joy of youth, of innocence, and of beauty, breathed forth a ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and though the street had folded back on itself its loftiest wall in order A man entered. thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, "You will remain with us a week at least?" "That belonged to the giraffe." off. woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, the black niche, and was greatly alarmed. He redoubled his pace. Intrepid, energetic, irascible, stormy; the most cordial of men, the her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a "You are free." wheels, all movement, particularly in the valleys, in the direction of The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a singular again instantly. So you are going to be perfectly contented in woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding he raised his eyes:-- hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary had become terrible. anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a encounter with the stupefied air of an antiquated lamb, and said to her floor. labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead Hardly installed, it was already everywhere conscious of vague movements overturned his basket. bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also she made merry over the sinister garden haunted by the shadows of iron "Yes," replied the thin man. the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and Neuilly-sur-Marne. and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her attention to him." yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police What was that cess-pool which had venerated that innocence to such a He continued:-- 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm