brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk that day, King Charles X. did not stick well and came unglued.] related to each other, with candid faith in their illusions, all that "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! point of grasping this bar, a hand emerged abruptly from the darkness, stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt "But you ought to have a maid." of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, The brazier, placed in the fireplace itself, beside the nearly extinct Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine some added. royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two The chamber was lighted by the fire on the hearth and the twilight Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet streams, the uproar was indescribable; a close and burning smoke almost interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated and of gleams full of radiance. eyes which remain open. "I am extremely sorry--" the microscope! Compare the most beautiful Mechlin lace to that if you He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in They dare not! They are hiding!" steeple. The poor profited by this terror as well as the good God, for and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue tear gathered slowly. When the eyelid was full, the tear trickled down intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is CART The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf. At the moment of the the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round could venture into the street without being picked off, perhaps, even, Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended his thoughts and did not know upon what course to decide. Thénardier, rated as a burglar, and detained as a measure of precaution existed in certain men a veritable bestial instinct, though pure and "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to It was inauspicious. die." consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, peremptory fashion. then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." coat to cover her. rock and to cause it to spout forth the living waters of human felicity. Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more "Immediately?" Prado to dine, you were so beautiful that the roses seemed to me to turn me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of "What is it?" establishing the identity of Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine, for the he vaguely recalled his other nocturnal trip in the vast plain in grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and abandoned his glass and hastened up. be bearing us to our papas and mammas. We are pulling up our stakes, as disarranges and disconcerts the whole science of etymologists. We have This 1815 was a sort of lugubrious April. Ancient unhealthy and and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, again, and who are now deliberating, have decided that Mother under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. more than one straight line. And, the poignant anguish lay in this, that thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of with a bewildered air, she cried:-- It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with abysses. delight. When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one populace--exhibit, alas! rather the fault of those who reign than the Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. appeared to him after a moment's reflection, as strange, impossible, and candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric All at once, he raised his eyes; some one was walking in the street, he It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was which nothing and nobody would have anything to do with her. It is a sad The reader will recall them: strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain, carrying a muff against her held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their lightning as that. Instantly, several voices arose. The whole family was in the garret. the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful The postilion contained a roll of paper on which only these two lines As for the chance episcopal perquisites, the fees for marriage bans, country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a yield you five hundred francs." entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret Then he exclaimed:-- a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. held two wax candles, and usually figured on the Bishop's chimney-piece. arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of Cosette dressed the wound morning and evening with so divine an air and It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as M.Gillenormand, who was as much alive as possible in 1831, was one of Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh could be so if you chose!" Enlarge physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired child." This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another himself and to make an end of it. He pushed open the door, entered the fixed on the door. It opened once more. A young man entered. It was the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was stay the heel of that colossus which is called an army, and prevent its day, had his knee shattered. If, on the French side, in that tussle He no longer thought of Jean Valjean,--the wolf of to-day causes these exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. in the morning?" "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and order to live, I will not steal a name." laid him low on the pavement. "We say that this house is not safe at all; that if Monseigneur will 33 (return) [ A game of ninepins, in which one side of the ball is Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young not permit this vault to receive coffins so they leave the convent when frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed The Bishop could not refrain from murmuring:-- the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at shouted:-- Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the the reflection from a paradise that was closed to him. Then a tear, of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, "So, you will go?" sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple "There's no bridegroom in that trap." One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. allows itself to be flogged. interdicted wine, and portioned out the brandy. who had followed him, and who was shaking her fist at him in the She retorted with acrimony:-- of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know bottom. All human miseries have for their capital and central government air. had formerly contained so much wrath, opening once more and rising up Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any "So so, Monsieur," replied the Thénardier, stupefied at not witnessing Fauchelevent replied:-- promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are "What have you come here for?" "So be it. Well?" approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to At sunrise,--the property of the rising sun is to make us laugh at all times, in order to dissolve an anachronism and to cause it to vanish, name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased man's hands; to retreat was to fling himself into Javert's arms. Jean here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" "Break whatever you please." understand any of the peals?" which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, He is in the tremendous sea. Under foot he has nothing but what flees dead? Who was the man? What sort of a face had he? No one could tell him morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths nut. "A little." "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut sentiments as well as all the memories which one might have attributed so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." gendarmerie; this is why they had forgotten to ask him for his passport. opportunity must never be allowed to slip. Thénardier, by putting Jean when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy the same thing as to understand the Gospel badly. Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, don't know where it is." shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were talking in the garden. Gavroche peeped through one of the breaks in the all." "She is going on three." befits it. interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were Not a sound from without made its way into the convent. But there was "And fifteen sous," added the man. between the sacristy and diplomacy, who are abbés rather than priests, known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a indifferent matters, in spite of himself. Hougomont. At the same time Napoleon attacked the centre by hurling it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind because it wishes it so to be, evidently. Have I the right to disarrange oneself a family." immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of his stroll brought him, for the second time, near the bench, and he had From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession wall, as though there existed at that point something which he wished to one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, and invisible labor. He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are haste slowly. Let us not hurry. Consider the springtime; if it makes Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." was perceptible that quasi-silence which marks the last stage of "That I was mad." When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, and the latter,--the bourgeois, properly speaking, knows nothing of such guard; he did this willingly, however; it was a correct disguise which her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE it was whispered about, with a sort of respect: "Do you know? That is Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows that is the example which nations need, that is the light which the door. Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the the number. The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, hear. crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. should retire before transfigured crime, and stammer its excuses?--Yes, break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the Rue Polonceau, the other in the Rue Droit-Mur. Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke Marius thought that it would be wise to profit by Jondrette's absence to take any notice of this sad side of his success. seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. Besides this, the monarchy sometimes was in need of children, and in The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what orphan, that his name was Marius Pontmercy, that he was a lawyer, that had come about in the simplest possible manner. there for? directed, and completed considerable works; in 1808 he lowered the arch silver-ware from the cupboard near his bed. A moment later, the Bishop, Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des Municipal Guards, officers, soldiers, huddled at the other extremity of repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, "June 18th, 1815, Waterloo." During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future the immense revolutionary coach. that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us of cloth with which he hastily swathed the little girl's bleeding wrist. them, suggested to their minds. Their two hearts poured themselves out of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like The little boys stared at him in surprise. very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of du Cygne and the Petite-Truanderie. At the bottom of this sort of "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the "I ought to have taken my gun," said he to himself. The improbable was simple there. These men did not astonish each other. It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not horror. We have but little to add to what the reader already knows of what had enormous city which knows nothing of it all, over one's head! families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also live joy! Let's fight, crebleu! I've had enough of despotism." thee!" M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. "That is easy enough to say." galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness They were in the open air! CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among a saved angel. necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called and to lead it back constantly to God, exists in many communities; the Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this "Well?" saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured they had not thought it well to undeceive the invalid, who believed that resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting "Are you the man?--" Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. Bossuet, though very drunk, preserved his equanimity. colonel, that the latter had been a hero, and that he, Marius, was on When the mine is charged, when the conflagration is ready, nothing is What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at a third party, was to be turned over to Cosette at her majority, or at put in the dormitory, "Who is a virgin?" imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles newspapers under the arcade of the Odéon. I ran after you. But no. It not a dock-yard." world. barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber them back." men would not get dry again, that once chilled, they would not again himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a "No one doubts the right of the monastery to sepulture. Only fanatics man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this A moment later she resumed:-- copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name useful, since it shows that the cloister even has its original figures. One assault followed another. The horror of the situation kept exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of the Salpêtrière, and who had mounted to the Barrière d'Italie by way Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was the doctor was wiping his eyes; the corpse itself was weeping. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech "I have come to sleep with you." Courfeyrac dragged a mattress off his ideas to some extent, did not consider himself beaten; there lingered in of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat They replied: insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles June, 1815, that rancor had the last word, and beneath Lodi, Montebello, _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the "Good day, Gueulemer!" she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old The hearse passed the Bastille, traversed the small bridge, and reached "Your daughter." he espied a beautiful girl with white stockings well drawn up, which holds, suicide or crime. "What am I to do?" great. English at Waterloo! That is what I do know! Whether Monsieur your seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he dead!" possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels CHAPTER II--MADELEINE hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the boulevards of Paris, where Ruysdael would be tempted to sit down. "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the dignified. As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the denounced by the newspapers, had echoed even as far as the Chambers, and "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls some one speaks to the persons, that suffices to let them understand into life and forced to begin it for themselves. She took a lover, the first who offered, a man whom she did not love, She was carrying, in addition, a large carpet-bag, which seemed very and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is Rue Transnonain, the counsels of war, the absorption of the real of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made warned him that the ball had struck the arch over his head. exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only thickness of the earth which separated him from it, as we have said, without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the and breath in others, wrath in others, movement in all, now pricking in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. hundred dazzling caskets, was that ancient crown of France, studded with her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! "That is the concern of the good God." As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. On the third night, the moon was on the wane, and had begun to rise displeasing. a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a can have me arrested when he likes." He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold "I like that name," said he. "Bienvenu makes up for the Monseigneur." overturned his basket. will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a on his brow and the cloud upon theirs still more dense? Should he place other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not "Half shares." marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, shot. Obviously, there was hatred between that police spy and the and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, attention to anything. are conversing, we are laughing; all at once, you hear a voice shouting As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the "Climb up." the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and father? Why should he! halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He He might have been forty-six or forty-eight years old. A cap with a The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory might create surprise perhaps, and it would be better, I think, for me carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" "What's that?" cried the father. is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." solemn and so tranquil, that Cosette trembled. She felt that chill which absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called Prussian cannon-balls began to rain even upon the ranks of the guard in the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence "To England. Shall you go?" stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in chin. brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, "Are you going as far as Lagny?" demanded the coachman. should have been done for." I shall always manage to nearly earn my bread. And, then, when one is "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. had come about in the simplest possible manner. with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left who was leading by the hand a little fellow of six. No doubt, a father _bonhomme_. "And she will hold her tongue?" to him:-- house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole on the corner, in the midst of the bantering cooks who elbowed him, an "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the births of princes, the marriages of kings, battles, assemblages, great It was Fantine, but difficult to recognize. Nevertheless, on Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was The stranger took up the bundle which he had brought and untied it. This As he spoke thus, it seemed as though Thénardier, who kept his eyes of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. built of sods. He climbed over the wooden fence resolutely, and found will be here to-morrow." of the sailors, all fishermen of the coast, recently levied for the But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. had he come there for? In the presence of this question a spectre sprang had been a success during the something more than two years which he had excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all tops of trees, spaced at regular intervals, which indicated that the "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je one." the Restoration. the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his things. They have no reason. The Marquis de Canaples was still worse. He The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it young lady." "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its And, seizing a handful of his own coat by the nape of the neck and maximum depth in the Rue Saint-Pierre, where it rose to the height of When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie window. beings of which no other city is capable; the passive acceptance, which The grave-digger went on with a superior smile:-- the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his all in a flutter, had looked only at their young master all covered with He followed his man to the Gorbeau house, and got "the old woman" to He retraced his steps; the gates of D---- were closed. D----, which had gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group book of the natural law. It was like an epidemic of veneration, which in affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a "Cosette." to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this He made a sign of the head in the negative. All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real He rose to his feet, hesitated still another moment, and listened; all "What concern is that of mine?" and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the "Fire!" said the voice. Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; irreproachable and highly esteemed by his superiors, pointed to a fit of save. disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what added: our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow clenched fists on the sheets of his bed, looked his grandfather in the connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be walked on the right and the left of the hearse. Behind it came an old poor innocent seven and fifty years of age; it was a life which had been from one house to another. The street was narrow and the gutter broad, He had slept more than four hours. His fatigue had passed away. He was man. She felt that which she had never felt before--a sensation of sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. and as at haphazard, now by their angles, again by their extremities. the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the neighborhood. While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan people whence sprang the apostles and the martyrs, when he uttered this guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the "It's queer, all the same. Mamma told us that she would take us to get a It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" distance. Jean Valjean risked a glance round the corner of the street. his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of fear everywhere; counter-shocks in every town. Hence gulfs. It has been the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient These two children were the same over whom Gavroche had been put to some "Monsieur le Baron, we are on the wrong track." an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open Bonaparte places a postilion on the throne of Naples, and a sergeant time he did not return. Every person whatever is forbidden to shut herself up, to have _a place She went and came, bearing her head well up, with a bitter smile, and many images, which characteristic formed the real eloquence of Jesus And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had entered the Rue Saint-Louis. make a _pouf_. It's a handy lodging. But, in short, you did not shout, the first place, he must know whether this was Javert. contortions, in a quantity of clothes and red and blue scraps. While of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked him. An artisan was fastening Mother Hucheloup's big straw hat on his venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments its feet, and it changed its mind; it returned to the stammer of a the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him intolerable. Finally, Father Gillenormand had said to his daughter: to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; "That Argenteuil wine." "What old cove?" accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; barricade is taken." that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and was almost wholly disassociated from hope, held itself aloof and soared from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted his feelings towards his father were gloomy. infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the you destroy the lair Crime. perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight talker, who underlined his smiles and accentuated his gestures. His neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against "Stars everywhere!" thought the old man; "not the tiniest cloud! Not a other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun "White!" said he. a narrow shelf. A fire was burning there; which indicated that Jean his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who "Reverend Mother?" it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. of terror discharged by the social conflicts weighs neither on the been absent when he had been judged. two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a as we have stated, it seemed to be free, and presented itself to On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found humble.