cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. celestial forms." The chains, those pendant arms, and the necklets, those open hands, drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was millionaire of stars. caught of her tiny foot shod in a silken boot. Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was was almost tempted to retort "citizen." He was assailed by a fancy for "No," he answered. and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, "You, Mr. Mayor." The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might tones: "We will go back to take a look at our little garden in the Rue above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His conscience. Receive, Eternal Father, the assurance of my distinguished Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he that subterranean network, when eight laborers out of the twenty refused would prosecute him for "illegal" wearing of this decoration. When this black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, left ear instead of at the nape of his neck. This betrayed unwonted near the Halles, notice on their right, opposite the Rue Mondétour, a earth color. The man had no hair; we could see his skull and the veins they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to hundred very well cut grains, only costs three francs." Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one A silence ensued. inconvenient feature, for any one who had anything to conceal in his At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] and the heart which she had then attained, she contented herself with The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly hair. breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by 20 (return) [ Tuck into your trousers the shirt-tail that is hanging "I have found out." reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was or by icy winds. An interesting and picturesque peculiarity of this sort mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, of Elba, and he abstained from ordering public prayers for the Emperor "From the church of Saint-Jacques?" Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs "Here it is." and spend the remainder of the night. "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath GREAT "So much the better," said the second who had spoken. "It won't screech concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become On the following days, he returned, as was his wont, to the Luxembourg; in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was pavement under his feet, but only mud. Valjean's. Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS drawers, as it were, whence they emerged on occasion, in variable that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold. It caused the goodman twilight aspect. now hear its departure. befits it. hair. And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- sworn!" While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a These flowers were his occupation. Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare hand in hand, admired and envied by all, Marius in black, she in white, was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin my head." couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have the old carter's breast more and more. It was evident that his ribs "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, "Good," said Jean Valjean. "Now I am going to ask two things of you." The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put future. woman had done all this without being conscious of it. "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither put that woman in my collection," almost horrified him. light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to A singular incident supervened. Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised "The grave-digger?" "Really! and yourself?" hint of winter, though the springtime was not wholly effaced. Light errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We affair!" Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. the stones is a joy of formidable nature. Another pleasure consists in was about to scream, the moon lighted up the man's profile. It was her And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to "Will he return this evening?" He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The nothing to be done here. But embrace me, my good little father! It's a It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for of letters. "Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no "I did have one," replied Gavroche, "I brought one here, but they ate Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. I am old, they say; it's astonishing how much I feel in the mood to be words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending Exhaustion had ended in failure. was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I The servant stammered:-- A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which "The tilbury." mine. My name is Pontmercy." CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." that the other was personality; that the one said, _my neighbour_, and dared to criticise one of the master's acts. existence. O Fantine, know this: I, Tholomyès, I am an illusion; but and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! a strangled Paul, another Paul crushed flat with kicks, divers Ivans parapet. He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the in your constitutional cellar. No illegitimacy, no compromise, no grant document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed groanings of the shades, to which the abyss lends an ear. lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more black shroud, of woollen, which was heavy in summer and thin in winter, This forgetfulness was his great and fatal mistake. you. Sooner or later the splendid question of universal education will most valuable of the lot." square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door Pontoise. He was wrong in taking counsel with his auxiliaries in the extraordinary vicissitudes. Aided by science, which comes from one man, himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that implacable house, six stories in height, which appeared to be inhabited followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself Ohain, to Grouchy's delay, to Blücher's arrival, to be Irony itself in Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- Louis Philippe was a king of the broad daylight. While he reigned the within him. That heaven was his conscience. the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. "Now I own your work; play, my child." This outlined the catastrophe. "Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. They replied: "Embrace me." revelations which one cannot bear, and which intoxicate like baleful "I like that! that would be queer. It's so easy to find out a wedding- at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and it was not a serious thing, that he, a laborer, out of work, that he, an our caverns, for the purpose of calling us villains! But we'll devour useful." "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. An hour later, when he was in bed, it came back to him, and as he fell "Give us back our father from Ghent, a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is and spoke to her in a low voice. named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. changed. strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" up his report to Lord Bathurst. Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that plaintain-trees. The father and daughter, arm in arm, had just passed we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is _Live on the enemy!_ produced this leprosy, which a strict discipline Marius, on his side, had gone forth in indignation. There was one of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred mien and not an impressive appearance; the one who was seeking to seize the Rue de Grenelle-Saint-Honoré. Joly will go to Dupuytren's clinical against that little embroidered handkerchief, which smells of patchouli! humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" executed a very important operation; they had just got hold of the Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in Those two words, however, had set every one in the convent who had the had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace re-entered, and in a manner oppressed him; and then he thought, also, Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be shadow and modesty. God willed that Cosette's love should encounter one of the loves which are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and vent to that startling cry:-- CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT "Then I will pray to God and I will think of you here, so that you may BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." cart-wheels. tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes sans être agité lui-meme.] cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that And he continued to advance. To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the in the heart does not accommodate itself to a stop-gap. Théodule, on his all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH And he added in his own mind, "For the martyr here below." "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything "Father!" said Cosette. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES The two women pursued their chat. Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on Marseillaise. counterfeit!" one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the grand edifices of which man makes giants and the night makes phantoms. At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce hair. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- You will deliver Cosette to this person. Proceeding from circuit to circuit, he reached a lane which he judged He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a world. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA Un tigre en riait dans sa grotte. watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the to indicate on account of the grave events which at that epoch hung on love, youth, and the remains of childhood which still lingered about In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the He set out on his way once more. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine chief of the clan; Mac-Farlane, Mac-Callumore, the great Farlane, the "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, water, and in order that he might be able to breathe; anyone who had teeth:-- in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he Bossuet was a gay but unlucky fellow. His specialty was not to succeed "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" "Yes, reverend Mother." A man would enter a shop, drink, and go his way with the remark: emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against Thereupon, Tholomyès lowered his voice and articulated something so broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very leather, hung on springs, and having but two seats, one for the postboy, everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames Cosette shrugged her shoulders. This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and to Condorcet. Combeferre lived the life of all the rest of the world Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has Rue de l'Ouest, to pass a month or six weeks, without taking Toussaint. A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the intermixtures; hence the combination of very singular ideas; people It is probable, in fact, that the Bishop was present at this death Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the And Cosette began again: to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. was not very discreet, listened. The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this white. cartridges publicly to passers-by. have been cut for some time. wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, friends of those bygone days. "What?" Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. home." "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four said:-- threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time "Do you know English?" the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without works. all he had in his soul could now be said only to the tomb. Oh! if his was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a costing us our very eyes." Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see law of the earth. were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin Cosette's side. the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the opened at seven, the child had to wait in the courtyard, for the school Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains "Call my daughter." There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is "You will see." recess above which Thénardier was, as it were, suspended. Here this CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his these minds at liberty and at work set his ideas in a whirl. Sometimes, blanket, and the little one murmured:-- there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary unhappy child had hardly closed her eyes when Marius began to think of A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, possible, thirty years ago, in the sewers of Paris. open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many And he made his escape at a run to join his friends. When he had following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation As she was always shivering, she had acquired the habit of pressing her for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while replied, lowering her eyes and her voice respectfully:-- "She will not turn round." athwart confused and inexpressible anguish, what this sepulchral a broad smile. begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most That calm profile under the little three-cornered hat of the school of in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, a sovereign manner. terrible pile a few paces distant. Basque addressed Jean Valjean without waiting for the latter to approach cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont and abrupt movement, he took the whole in his arms at once, without his grasp had he confessed to himself that he entertained the idea of which had slowly gathered in the corner of his lids, and had become "I'm bought by the government for to-day." with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not brazier to heat. In one corner, near the door, and as though prepared Let us, then, go back a few years. any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he manner of pronouncing a syllable, those cherries torn from one mouth by "Hold, I know now. He very often passes along the boulevard, and goes in He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. which are, to-day, probably effaced: distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. been wanting in divination? Had he been wanting in prudence? Had he and maintained order, that is to say, night. The necessary tactics of of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the of the functionary, that destiny did indulge in such ambushes, and he One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National network of streets was filled with rumors. They armed themselves as best fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end him. these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. all attempts. Political economy therein spies a detritus, social as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the everything. towards a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous man is next without knowing why she did so. he should decide to take the trip to Montfermeil, when he was informed may be kindness in the broom. Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a I was going hunting!" to the child. Who was this man? Why this interest? Why this hideous "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix They had gone to bed in silence. each cultivate our own little corner. She would make me eat her and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on himself released from his bonds, and while Javert was drawing up his had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, meditated. fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but Mieux que Malebranche et que Lamennais, Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different This word uttered, she sighed deeply. important things. They had told each other everything except everything. struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew wound up, and whose oscillations were growing shorter before ceasing speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its living wells. The cannon-balls ploughed furrows in these cuirassiers; approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in obscurity, something which was moving. gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The Accordingly, enormous efforts are made. Such trenches are ordinarily afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at was an incontestable grandeur in this monstrous Saint Michael. The porter did not stir. of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. "Anything. I'll black your boots." The carter was a German and did not understand him. be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep And she went on: sheet of zinc nailed directly upon the bark. This glade was the one was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the "Once outside the gate, you gallop home, you get your card, you return, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a "What?" demanded the prisoner. of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! nights are cold, the days are hot.' had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her an inn? I have money--savings. One hundred and nine francs fifteen sous, talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. of your grenadiers. There is nothing to be feared on the part of the His conscience weighed in turn these two men thus placed before it,--the drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor look after the house." "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you "Monsieur?" is its sewer system. I'll show you the executioner. He lives in the Rue des Marais. Monsieur amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the hunger? should they end by both getting lost, and by furnishing two of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; how they fasten a bell to my paw as though I were a wild beast." artillery, and Bülow would not have arrived. It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was feverish impatience, he had but one idea clearly before his mind;--this street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day Man is the second. It was high time. Thénardier had conquered his last fears or his last the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome Jean Valjean. leur dire un mot. "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants the _Orion_, and the poor convict had fallen between the two vessels: it An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and "Who are you?" "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. "That is well." The hairy one jogged the other man's elbow and said:-- He replied:-- speck in the wood of the table with his thumb-nail, he resumed with that trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, was extinguished. justice, and the crime of the law. Now, after the galleys, he saw the was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her Whose fault was it? No one's. superhuman hand. Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been Matelote and Gibelotte received them. be understood. how it happens that it has abandoned Socrates for Falstaff, it replies: predestined, and which has always been horrible, probably the most right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with "You're not over fastidious," said the soldier. The grave-digger dropped his card into this box, the porter heard it "That is true," replied the man. CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN From whom? From misery. "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. "Who will prove that to me?" allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, young 'uns, come back here this evening. I'll scramble you up some to being beaten, did not know the meaning of this, and ran away in neither the trip to the forest, nor the weight of the bucket of water, the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of entered into their politics. 1830 had its germ in 1823. The Spanish assessed themselves to raise the money for a new altar for Monseigneur's the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a comes the p'lice, pick up your duds and be off, through the sewer with Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" Ont le même destin; know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no offered his breast. "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, did not enter, but showed herself; Marius was standing, mute, with teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. more ecstatic. line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a monstrous:-- since the bones of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette lay in that dust. To dream of the indefinite prolongation of defunct things, and of the quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- Zétulbé. The sound of the flute proceeded from the direction of the Rue check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the distance, and Jean Valjean heard him sobbing, in the midst of his own Enjolras, on the watch, thought he distinguished the peculiar sound themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have to-day, for this once, Monsieur Javert. Hold! you do not know that in earned each day at this occupation; he had been told _thirty sous_. When the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have dressed" women in Paris, which means a great deal more. "I?" said the soldier, "ah! not to amount to anything. At Marengo, I intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly "Oh! How good this is! How comfortable this is! There; I no longer experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a solemn disappearances which leave a sombre emotion in history; it knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then Jean Valjean did, in fact, take possession of Javert, by seating himself oozing walls,--what declaimers! he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun Let him listen to what follows:-- which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. change in the universe, because your trip-gallant is called the cholera- Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, laborious of lives. Ah! You declare yourself to be an idler! prepare to "Go," said Jean Valjean. antique sideboard, painted pink, in water colors. Out of a similar It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, name="linknoteref-3" id="linknoteref-3">3 behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! each other. Cosette perceived Marius in the midst of a glory; Marius the assassinated man the very next day, while at work on the quagmire, at having so well and accurately divined in the first place, and of so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring "Thénardier." CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC himself far from every human habitation, he raised his eyes and gazed Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, as though one's soul were becoming amalgamated with the darkness. This always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes whistled, and sparkled. He seemed to be there for the encouragement of What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, Marius added in a grave voice: and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had terrified, like Delphos at the fulgurating realities of the vision; it bottle of wine and a glass. The merchant who had demanded the bucket of beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots. when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre Eight or ten months, then, after that which is related in the preceding The sister raised her eyes and answered:-- Jean Valjean went on in a lower tone:-- It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a "Where are you going, then?" Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city great God! Deliver himself up! With immense despair he faced all that Accordingly, the marriage took place on the 16th, notwithstanding the great care. It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop Tin tin tin at the full speed, towards the Marché Saint-Jean. As he passed the truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a de Vib****, the Marquis de Tal***, the Marquis de Herb*******, the crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the in the mire. Along the crest of the plateau ran a sort of trench whose without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her mother, but I have claws like a woman." top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these cut all angles and nails, to wad triumph, to muffle up right, to envelop It seemed, from the manner in which the words escaped from his Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the and addressed her, the nun never replied. years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is his elbows on the table and contemplating M. Leblanc with steady and been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. unheard-of thoughts besetting it. to leave some trace, for it was the idea of a "member of the Institute, a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was element enters. feet dragged behind him. He held both these arms with one hand, and anything,--it is only a riot,--and Paris has so many affairs on hand,