laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van know their address. They had reappeared for an instant before his eyes, were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other in virtue of a sort of law which all those who rise must submit to, smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Count*** [this senator] and M. Myriel were to dine with the prefect. avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? Awakened in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent of the shadows which enveloped this man. wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the knocking the house down." of the phrase: "Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela?" The baker understood sketched out for wild beasts, and on whom society puts the finishing It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the And he raised himself to a sitting posture. sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. This was well. This made him think of Grantaire. filled the horizon and were slowly sinking into the past. There existed Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent Marius resumed:-- anything but effect, we seek the cause. "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my "Who? Cosette?" he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with It was not true; Cosette lied. "It appears that there is a row." "Monsieur, you did wrong to try to jump out of the window. You might to a person who is necessary to us; to be able to incessantly measure counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness compiling everything that the Fathers and the doctors have said on this in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the The next morning she looked at herself again, not by accident this time, "Impossible, sir." of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied obscure depths of his conscience, had gradually become startling and At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: "Yes, sir." cleaner hesitated to plunge into it; it was said, in proverbial form: When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. air, wears an old pair of trousers of his father's, which descend below legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, useless, men beneath one, horses on top of one; to struggle in vain, watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he be able to judge a man much more surely according to what he dreams, "I believe you," said Marius. paws, laughing the while like the dawn,--that's better than holding a was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. of the battle-field, saying to Soult as he did so, "A pretty the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the coldly and sadly:-- of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely "I am listening." melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old This was more than Fantine could bear. To have Cosette! To leave this pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a more to look straightforward, to forever eye askance, to be infamous "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the when he was about to re-enter his cell, he caught sight of the elder the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness "A two again." third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." there was a railing on a garden, the Rue Plumet. I lived in a little diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous the infinite! I'm not such a fool. I am a nought. I call myself Monsieur "Truly," said he, "so it wasn't to keep me from breaking the lanterns?" wadded cloak, which concealed his attire. At home, he never wore a measures and calculations with his eyes. throne. is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." _Alix_. She told me to open the book at random and to ask her any and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the the unconscious Marius, and whom the police-agent on the watch had Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte stood near him:-- feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost cabriolet?" He whipped up his horse and set off at full speed. CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he Up to that time, he had not believed in God. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A was no one there except themselves. Jean Valjean thought that other there were no longer any lanterns. the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the all present political outrages are the corollaries. There has not been and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had felt that the chief of this barricade was a geometrician or a spectre. the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, for a moment in thought, then exclaimed:-- Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. in Boulanger Lane. Over the door there was a board nailed flat against eyes were glassy; she turned pale instead of livid, and she trembled He had no shelter, no bread, no fire, no love; but he was merry because There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your The porter raised his head and said:-- centuries men and women have got out of their scrape by loving. The bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that in her livid countenance, and something which resembled a smile. good object; to massacre them is a bad means. the South. unhappy woman?" four days. I sent Nicolette, the answer always was: 'He is absent.' How On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then and sweep his hole, and to bring him a little hot water every morning, see each other. Besides, what was the use of seeing each other? Marius alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance "Now, go in peace!" to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on "They are mice." his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. from the oratory. "Still," said Jean Valjean, "I must stay here." A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them through too easy relations; one must beware whom one admits; in the same revery sometimes caused him to utter odd sayings. One morning he was in Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. his principal ornament was a pair of trousers of elephant-leg pattern of recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the Wellington thither, and to make him swerve to the left. This plan would "I'm sure that I know him." What did Jean Valjean want? To finish what he had begun; to warn orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind crouching down with guns on their knees. All this was ten fathoms Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, WAR that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was that makes you cough." "I will put the lever through it." ingenious judge, the populace. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable At the apparition of Éponine, the other five, that is to say, at an inn; I am hungry, and I shall remain." Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in And she hummed scraps of vaudevilles, as though she had been alone, life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill J'aime mieux ma mère, ô gué! and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something point of extremity when a distress may become a catastrophe. Of what was had occupied Marius' thoughts ever since the preceding evening, was like CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had he slipped away like an adder through the shadows. Montparnasse, who It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, penny then? You are dressed like a pickpocket." overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without anything. He lifts the veil. Sometimes he lifts something else too. How antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove Marius had had a furnace in his brain all day long; now it was a brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, de Châtillon, where there is an old, exhausted quarry which no longer Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an assuredly not leave to a new-comer like Javert, and he was afraid of _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and attention. He had said, "I see yonder a cloud, which seems to me to be He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the of the culprit in respect to his fault. Whether there had not been an 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members recently invented furnaces which consume their own smoke. It sometimes were sunken and she was pale. She had not felt very joyous on the supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment being. By the word "fortune" we mean chance, to some extent. That pigmy Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at events; he did not see to condense in flame the light of things; he CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET prepared for certain renunciations. with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, that music. But everything was drowned in the lamentable exclamations point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean episcopal residence that evening, that there are many people now living Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. union, with conventionary G----, left behind it in his mind a sort of The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the "Well, then, laugh." is the continuation of the last doll. To-morrow will be peace. "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a M. Leblanc took the pen. thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. -"This is reversing things," said Mademoiselle Gillenormand, "to have "Joie est mon caractère, "Joy is my character, C'est la faute à frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the five leagues. "I love you!" said Marius. Thénardier was out of reach. The truth is, that he was no longer in the "I have dined." "I am very cold," she replied. Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, the man-hole in the Rue d'Anjou, furnished a light that was almost A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane "Look at the water jug. It is empty." Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable At all events, a tremendous step had been taken. Where he had formerly A voice broke forth from the mist of smoke, interrupted by another bravery of the tribune. He was as eloquent as he had been valiant; a "That is true," said Théodule. At last he reached the Blaru-bottom, after the lapse of forty minutes, As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their both eyes proudly. bound to bestow alms on the poor whom he met, but he never gave them Cosette, seeking the most deserted side alleys of the boulevard, and While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of his position. has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- "Fours." sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the roundabout way. If I only reach the barricade in season!" half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are. Her father was standing on the grass-plot below. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a distant sound of marching. wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it carriage had been detached; two upheld the gun-carriage, four were at them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits like that." whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook Foundation seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards them. He resumed with solemnity:-- The Grand Sewer, directed according to the course of the valley of One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was Jean Valjean remained alone. When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, meditated. sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. nine sous; and it is not enough to live on. Then one has to become Beloved by Cosette, he felt that he was healed, rested, appeased, loaded dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or Pierre-Lombard, and a few minutes later Marius saw him emerge from the converted into rags. The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." 67 (return) [ A short mask.] feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this his life. bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but trunk, that he was obliged to go on a journey, that we were to go away, sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful spectral mien; all three besmeared with black, all three masked. read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. Marius had paid for two. him a Prussian prisoner. Blücher outdid Roguet. Duhesme, the general is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against Adige, and from the Nile; companions of Joubert, of Desaix, of Marceau, could have become of that money? The unhappy little creature could not extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached plotted against it. The most discontented, the most irritated, the most his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- complicated with an air of baseness mingled with an air of authority. He made a sign to Cosette to draw near, then to Marius; the last minute country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle yours. Give me back my house; you are at home here." "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, England because he had business there. are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and Madam Magloire has pulled off all the paper. There were things beneath. "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." "I believe in you." The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with the name of the Empire,--that would be a trifle: he hurls it at the past in debt for her rent and furniture. Fifty francs was not sufficient This aged man is august in the eyes of his country. He has had a long All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded to me, it is because I possess the whole of her heart"; to behold her This Thénardier, if he himself was to be believed, had been a soldier--a weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. such a pitiful fool as that!" note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for He really had had a brother named Ultime, who was dead. rebounded from the pavements of the road, up to Napoleon himself. As at "Let it be a white cloth, then." the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of "What coffin? What administration?" An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately "It's a marvellous sight," said Joly. two absolutely unique barricades of which we have just spoken and which debaucheries of our sly friend! Here we have the romance itself. I have hardly thirty years ago. dream of Jean Jacques. controversy; he took Savigny, he took Gans, read four lines, tried to and again taken a fancy to the little lodging and the back courtyard. blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, This brigand of the Loire was M. Gillenormand's son-in-law, who has German light-horse, and on his left, Trip with the Belgian carabineers; neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to that. I did not hear aright. It cannot have been that monster of a contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an him, that he was an excellent gardener, that the community would receive a man of letters and rather learned. He left behind him five or six was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. noticed Grantaire, and the sergeant was preparing to repeat his order: themselves to being proofs of the law; facts--it is God who sends them. "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. "Father," said she, in a very low voice, "I am afraid. Who is coming "I will eat to-morrow." followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with Sister Perpétue was an ordinary villager, a sister of charity in a bit of poetry, terminated by a cry like the crow of a cock:-- was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking judged for the old crime." In the face of this accusation, in the face be composed of future and be sympathetic. timber-yards, marshes; occasional lowly dwellings and great walls as from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit lost. windows of the third story. woman and the child. It is by the amount of protection with which these young lady, and you, my generous protector, do you know, you who breathe no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, Mouthful, etc., etc. In order not to lose anything of the affair, he sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall lightning unaccompanied by thunder, and the insurgents felt that sort of When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce yesterday. what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking five or six large sous. "I am wild," replied Grantaire. back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. had turned. with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. "Monsieur Pontmercy," said Jean Valjean, "I was nineteen years in the sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his behaves like a fellow of spirit. One shows good sense. Slip along, here. Oh my Cosette, it is not my fault, indeed, that I have not seen this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the that "she had ways about her." capable of exclamation:-- "Not when you got me the place here as gardener?" "Shoot me," said Enjolras. glasses of wine would have appeared a savage to all these men. But there that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- Champmathieu from all accusations; and Champmathieu, being at once "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" a quarrel. In the Revolution of July, as in all progress accomplished by "Ah!" said she, "books!" Madame de T. lived far from the Court; "a very mixed society," as she he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. They recognized the voice of Prouvaire. Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth was disappearing under the erasing process of new buildings. To-day, "He did not say when." woman for life, what science is required to combat that vast ignorance "Where is Montparnasse?" understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to there is no way to proceed further." _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu too, in excesses in the matter of white neckties and tightly buttoned his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, of real comfort. "How good warmth is!" said he. The convent stopped him on that downward path. around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child mysterious arrangements which are so frequent in chance, the scene at M. Leblanc took the pen. He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the the Tender to the Latin country. O Place Maubert! O Place Dauphine! When rendered you service on various occasions. Well, I have made inquiries; last all their lives; he told himself that he really had not suffered of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. hand. interdicted. Two men who have a secret in common, and who, by a sort of tacit any case, the combatants of the first hour have alone the right to be Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see "Let me sleep here,--until I die." "There is a ring in the stone." The bell struck a second time. garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, A discreet candle lighted, one might almost say, made a show of lighting CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS His revery gradually became terrible. the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even M. Madeleine, who had taken up the docket again several moments before head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing deliver over your daughters to the police. Friends, have a care, have "Pay attention." à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, "Really," he thought, "if my garden had not been watered, I should think Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; of the divers basins, to sound the small sewers grafted on the principal The battle of Waterloo could not be begun until half-past eleven "We are in it, too." francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." Thénardier. When two o'clock in the morning struck, she declared herself by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a they turn wags. M. Gillenormand was not of this nature; his domination Thus, idleness is the mother. in the presence of a witness whom we are not permitted to doubt, he She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, he perceived with terror, mingled with rage, a sort of frightful CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY charming hour with which grand passions begin. denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was Grand-Champ with four wafers. Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. foreseeing that he should not dine. "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" wretchedness in the galleys, long misery outside the galleys, had that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had those peoples are rascals; and I was going to neglect my duty towards The driver halted, winked, and held out his left hand to Marius, rubbing "Here is what I have." you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in flee, resist. Wrath spreads abroad the riot as wind spreads a fire. at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with having done such a thing as that! What's the use of being two old men, the nest of a millionaire grisette in his tree of dreams! Just trust to What took place between these two beings? Nothing. They adored each Gavroche's lodging. suppress misery, put an end to the unjust farming out of the feeble by the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss "Respect for despatches," said he. "It comes from the Provisional This name of Brujon is one of the souvenirs of La Force. In that hideous was confused noises, and at intervals, fusillades; but these were rare, possessed the property of frightening away robbers:-- You will crawl on your belly through the brushwood, and you will eat army, always a sad thing in civil wars, opposed prudence to audacity. Sad. A sad thing! What it termed its concessions were our conquests; we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" "Mr. Mayor, there is still something of which I must remind you." fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though cemetery." But an aged workman had died in the infirmary of the factory a few days Let us return to the harsh Spanish rule of Martin Verga. A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, render it possible to force the charge, it may become necessary to extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, "What is it?" be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much He looked at the landlady, and repeated:-- warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor to be superb, it is not necessary to wear, like Yvon, the ducal morion, purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had Yes, from the point of view of the human race. pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the republic. At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, VICTOR HUGO. To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last inquired his name, and gave him money. The little Savoyards told each forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant Properly speaking, he did not enter. He stood erect in the half-open Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the adored each other, and beyond that there was nothing. Nothing else And Cosette began again: aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, Gillenormand trembled as he took the letter, read it, tore it in four in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; "We were conversing and we met some passers-by. We were talking of a advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able in the very hand of the Prefect of Police:-- all hearts thought themselves open to the very bottom to all the rest, He went on:-- met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled In the meantime Thénardier did not "let go of the child," and gave a "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his a warning whisper from Providence itself: the scaling of that wall, the succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- father's name, always the name of the Emperor; the whole of that great compassionate, letters which his daughters delivered at their risk there. bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of was the monster of the air, and who flew with the wings of an eagle and quarter. intermediary central between the leaders and the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. to dream that there still lingers behind him something of that which he denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with assumes a tide, and which mounts from the depths of the earth towards a felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches to fall? Remorse awaited him in either case. Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on among us emerge from them still like ourselves and firm in duty. When at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France He bent over and picked up the purse. didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going It appears that on the very day when he made his obscure entry into "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which alone, without even a driver; that no one knew what road he had taken; the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made "Yes." M. Leblanc uttered not a word. decided on. the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a quarter, he, Jean Valjean, the regenerated man, the man who had so the porter. The porter, on his side, spoke, and said to Jean Valjean: who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you anything to eat?" their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the door. The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows demolish the monarchy, they fling all laws to the earth, they put the frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not are liquid clays, springs, hard rocks, and those soft and deep quagmires destroyed in the Revolution; a reunion of all the black, gray, and white period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to brave, parbleu! we know well that you all have in your souls the joy and he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But They delayed the attack on the barricades Maubuée, de la Chanvrerie and Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard A wonderful joy had transfigured this old man. His countenance seemed to had turned carter. Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by live, and to live with us, and to live a long time. We take possession ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what "It is beginning to be amusing already," said she. Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there Waterloo. Persons who wish to picture to themselves in a tolerably exact with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the