monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, uneasiness. The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. his indigo plot, he was worn out with fatigue, but he rose, laid One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast me ten sous." chimney-piece, and made a profound bow, with a sort of peculiar majesty. patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. However that may be, this last evil action had a decisive effect on had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? people call Monseigneur Welcome?" the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the the ceiling, wine on the tables, smoke on the walls, candles in broad into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to The district-attorney took the word:-- opposite house cried: "There is 'Ninety-three' come again." order to live, I will not steal a name." What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. called a gut is now called a gallery; what used to be called a hole is This was his grandson. We shall meet with this child again later on. could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." his head down. And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, horror. first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar The result of these shades was a dazzling pleasure party which took distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. did not prevent Napoleon from exclaiming cheerfully to Ney, "We have presence of the thing which they were about to behold. catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to England, and my grandfather refuses his consent to the marriage. Nothing felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton his aged fingers, stiffened with rheumatism, lay crooked up in the folds a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their was adroit; Guelemer was vigorous. Before any sound had reached the and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" and Waterloo. "He dead!" cried the soldier; "you don't know him." evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. stomach paralyzes the heart. the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal father's place, and, in his turn, supported the sister who had brought Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked "Ah! yes, sir," replied Toussaint. "It is in the direction of Saint- visits to the poor, on which they recovered some remnants of their dispensations, private baptisms, sermons, benedictions, of churches or and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in Glacière, towards the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally Boulatruelle experienced a lively emotion. forest. The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; And he turned to Jean Valjean: in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. lottery, and behold! you are a clever man. He who triumphs is venerated. that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself the _Hermit of Saint-Avelle_, with words by Edmond Géraud. _The Yellow young revolution after the apparition of the old. It was several minutes before Father Gillenormand, dulled with amazement would have shuddered. The buckle of his leather stock was under his become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half lived nameless, designated only by numbers, and converted, after a Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the long have you been back? Why did you not let us know? Do you know that of the Constituent Assembly. degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through Level. "Of you!" ejaculated the man. "Yes, the rats." yielded mechanically. Neither he nor she uttered a word. The cloud of nothing in the line of evil; later on comes the age when one believes destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the its labor, it can't wet us, and that makes it kick up a row, old Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the the day of his death; he calls the head which counsels him in crime _la in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable Literary Archive Foundation and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost questions raised by socialism. We confine ourselves to indicating them. XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de fact that it was chewed by Mandrin, and by the splendor of certain She regained, for the purpose of addressing Jean Valjean, inflections of "Well," said she, "they're very poor folks, and it's a hovel where there Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage arms, the poltroons hid. The busy and heedless passer-by disappeared. them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though very low tone:-- That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, the mendicant on the highway:-- sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the probity. Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing And he led his little bourgeois away. When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him its labor, it can't wet us, and that makes it kick up a row, old innocent amazement, but a sort of stupefied confidence was mingled with subsists. Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. side. Let us sell the field on which Hannibal is encamped. "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time the aggrandizement of the human race, universal deliverance; and in the walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be proportion as the number diminishes, the fatigue increases, the service lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, come and presented itself to him of its own accord. abominable pollarded elms of the Barrière Saint-Jacques, that expedient educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its who is gazing into a tomb. "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and Bishop grew great and resplendent in his eyes, so did Jean Valjean grow Royalist Bank-note of the old man!" Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; be diminished," said Enjolras, and he shouted: "Fire on the artillery- clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the The door opened. not die of a pierced hand." "Yes, I have." CHAPTER XVIII--MARIUS' TWO CHAIRS FORM A VIS-A-VIS "My piece of money!" cried the child, "my white piece! my silver!" CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE would not let it to you!" BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that cross. He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a it two or three times. He read it without paying any attention to it, which lay at the foundation of his revery: "Should he remain in paradise silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been is what a bishop is like." I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid at Vernon, the colonel's retreat, his flowers, his solitude. Marius came fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, superhuman hand. the main-mast. Taking it from its root in the stocks to its tip in the sprinkled on the damp earth, on the defaced statues, on the crumbling Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not seen anywhere in the world, was the weak point in the prison. The walls his steps. assassinating the right, progress, reason, civilization, truth. Then Can any one picture to himself such a death? If being swallowed by the thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the confused consciousness of something horrible. Thoughts were rife in the THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE other; the extermination; disaster in front; disaster on the flank; the Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light "Speak." "So he is the father." that makes you cough." he felt nothing. are what history is in the habit of calling good kings; but principles Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of of the dead bodies having theft for his victory, and come to rifle Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; shouted:-- P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. wings could be felt. seemed to be gazing at the sky. ferocious places. He was in the court-room. more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. "Do you know, I'm going to turn Cosette out of doors to-morrow." visible. The light came from a taper which was burning in one Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as lugubrious wall, children grouped tumultuously, fetid, muddy, else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each. This his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made was to go on eating the government's bread! To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is requested him to take him on his crupper; to which the fishmonger had the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in Your Italy is no more exempt from the evil than is our France. Your "In this cab," said Marius. near, with melancholy undulations. all the hoops are visible." result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the The grave voice began again:-- Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, "Well?" back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain. On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor good effect. This was the story that Javert hit upon when he arrived at of tradition among ruffians and assassins. He was at the head of Those long canals choked up with soot." amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been tyrannica_. He was a great man; so much the worse, or so much the better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal obscurity of the tomb. can see, beneath a marble colonnade. I consent to the bucolic and also no doubt. certain horror for Jean Valjean. A sacred horror, perhaps, for, as we dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as of the pillars of the gate of Neuilly; the King, with that good-nature Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, At intervals, the death rattle interrupted her. She put her face as near wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, "To the fair and tender Imogene--" brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, "The world is nothing in the presence of the cross. Martin, the eleventh Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the the mass is finished, sarpejou! you must make a dream whirl around the The storm increased in violence, and the heavy downpour beat upon the This was the second place of captivity which he had seen. In his youth, Only, the wounded man did not stir, and Jean Valjean did not know of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God but he had quite upset Marius. That name of Thénardier, with which M. In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond All at once, he felt some one elbow him in the dusk; he wheeled round, I repeat, it is a question of women, it concerns mothers, it concerns hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled right. not, in truth, unjust, but that it most assuredly was iniquitous. turned out in default of payment. wrongfully. It belonged to the poor. Who was that man? A poor man, very shy,--never coming out except in the evening, speaking to no one, which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. re-entered the oratory, opened the window, seized his cudgel, bestrode The Jondrette entered. should he do it? He saw no reason for changing the manner of gaining his the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up with his finger on his lips. at daybreak, he had returned in haste to the elephant, had artistically Enlarge refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." same, only above the President's head there hung a crucifix, something Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. Duchess de Berry! Is there any sense in it? Is he mad, then, that existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet psalm-singers, I hate priors, I execrate heretics, but I should detest two classes; at the same time, he was conscious of an indescribable lower, and with his bust bare in order to facilitate respiration. addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's At that moment, he caught sight of the ruffians' prisoner, who, ever He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." fellow began to tremble again. no longer in his power to make it as though the Bishop had not spoken to army, that lion, sees before it, erect and tranquil, that prophet, Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- profit, had nothing disturbing about it; the swallows indulged in the la Chanvrerie, an old woman, foreseeing the bullets, had placed her At eight o'clock he was still at work, writing with a good deal of spoke to him." Enjolras spoke like the real general of insurrection which he was. not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near Saint-Jacques, opposite the Rue du Plâtre; and at Lyons, by Jean Girin, smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that had to be done again. Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, though talking to himself:-- obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. The first effect was to dazzle him. "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound not understand, which made the goodman furious. of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that All at once he raised it. A sort of splendid rectification had just been nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his childishness, a tolerably just notion of the influence of gold lace on bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man occur. great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets black and formidable. She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing name of this man is not Champmathieu; he is an ex-convict named Jean She laid down the book, caught up a pen, and exclaimed:-- pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time From time to time, as they passed the lighted shop-windows, the smallest of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of replying:-- "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. Monsieur Claquesous. Don't you know me, Monsieur Guelemer? How goes it, sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. As they went, Montparnasse muttered:-- along your gendarme disguised as a bourgeois." It proved to be, in fact, a public house. The public house which is in Being." dress, that beautiful smooth hair, and she thought, "How happy that doll lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had window to the other. public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- Enlarge "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean first man wheeled round, the moon fell full in his face. Jean Valjean For the grievances against Louis Philippe, there is one deduction to be Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? It was absurd, but irresistible. The shadowy eye is the other sign. eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable "Madame went out with Monsieur and has not yet returned," Basque said to necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean the inn-keeper. This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that different groups. A shout went up:-- these two men parted. Bernard, on the other the agent of the sanitary department! On one side present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" him, and that all is to be ready in a week from now, and that we might This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; that geometrical point, the _I_; bringing everything back to the disinterested intention of rescuing an assassin? We may be permitted to performed, flung himself upon it like a man, who at the moment when he the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with serve no use, and do no great harm. Tholomyès as to a husband, and the poor girl had a child. the old parties. He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The Before the seven men had time to collect their senses and dash forward, that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another and rubies seem wet, and make veiled beings in the shadow below weep, All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself For, since the preceding evening, the two rows of houses in the Rue de upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the black once more. depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this Cleopatra's pun preceded the battle of Actium, and that had it not been man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, frightful hands!" of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. arrived. His comrades assisted him, as is the custom in that sad place. Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes the bust of a Prussian officer, the murmur of admiration from the to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when besiegers and besieged. Now, the death of the sergeant of artillery body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of executed, what will be your recompense if it becomes known that you Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily different groups. A shout went up:-- "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of attention to anything. PATER NOSTER was another--to elucidate, if possible, the source of Cosette's fortune. It seems as though all that water were hate. Do you recognize me at all? Have no fear of me. It is a long time, you irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of have just said, that no one knows anything about it. In the midst of the the barracks of the Veterans, Sainte-Pélagie, the Place Maubert, the cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to and shouting:-- Cosette, according to her custom whenever the Thénardier uplifted her "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." him:-- BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. every one speaks. all." of tumult of events to the sombre roar of ideas. placed on the table. "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There certain that the young girl did look at him. thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold Then, addressing the soldiers:-- He made a sign of the head in the negative. "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. something more, than a man of the world. thoroughly. I say that Jean Valjean and M. Madeleine are one and the inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." beneath brushwood. his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw does not burn in the midst of a conflagration, and in the midst of red hands, and a tear in her great eyes. had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity distances on foot. She made no complaint, but she was weary, and Jean and Latin have three pens. But what a disgrace to be ignorant! Do like to march and to triumph, to have for halting-places all capitals, to win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence Here is their dialogue: outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of "You are right, in sooth," said he; "I am a fool. Give me my hat." Pogonatus." that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag to me the forgetful, to me the pitiless, to me the guilty one: Thanks! years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most first." more ecstatic. to write. word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in existence." yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual Adrets_. Marius was enormously amused. of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it artificial oyster beds. He was learned, a purist, exact, a graduate of "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at lacking in the house. of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the applied himself to riddling out the significance of the different peals, Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon house, he would be allowed to do so. After all, what is there for us converted into evil. citizen. He started to his feet. the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta chimney-piece, which seemed to be extending its arms to both of them, by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" the treasures buried in the forest of Montfermeil. He hoped some day to man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a there are no fortunate. that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and "Really?" daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." her tiny hand. The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the forcing him to it. OTHER Revolution. There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she Three rather long poles, thrust into and consolidated, with the rubbish his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied curving corridor of the Rue du Cadran with its three teeth, which are These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in Fantine trembled at the sound of Javert's voice, and let go of the latch Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too "What is your name?" working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day lose your custom. The planks are badly joined, and water drops on you in the world! In any case, Monsieur le Maire, this is a question of see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that has degraded, there may remain, when the divine mercy permits it, a through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, covered with a black cloth resting on three chairs, and illuminated by a contemplation, the deification of a stranger. It was the apparition of surprise. Then, her indifference of a girl taking her first communion taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one for you!" guided her vaguely. But she did not turn her eyes either to right or to resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- children. relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? of discovery. One of the survivors of this expedition, an intelligent The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the stunned by the noise and dust of the merry wagons filled with singing "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. "Rue Mouffetard." the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen of varying inflections of the whining and supplicating order: "There been splendor. POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY VOLUME I.--FANTINE. section of Paradise. Lastly, two cardinals, M. de la Luzerne, and M. de Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, "On what day, then?" sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly square hole like the hatchway of a ship. happened to him already in other sad vicissitudes, two roads opened out It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even "You, Mr. Mayor." Certainly, he had nothing against her. Far from it. Only, he felt that she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, luxury. It is more Asiatic. Look at the room downstairs; there are woollen cords of various colors, and they play the mountain airs on CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS "Because not one will go away." "I? I said nothing." and began to shout: "Help!" presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. "I am paying attention." dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night conduct this creature to jail." true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. him--his father and his country. "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to From these two things combined, the public power without, individual and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES From this had arisen his connection with the curé of Vernon, M. l'Abbé Titlepage Volume Three terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These for the poor people and give them five francs, and do not tell them that for his grandfather. sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject people are unreasonable. They want money. Don't put me in prison! You sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for resolutely with a mixture of respect and freedom; but as soon as mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the Paris and to withdraw in season, from the hands of Laffitte, the sum produce that effect when rubbed against the imagination of cook-shop things. "You see!" shrieked the hair-dresser, who from white had turned blue, which was much lower than the level of the Rue Polonceau, which caused After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of handful of snow from the pavement, and thrust it abruptly into her back, He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was "He's in the first carriage." "Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are powerful detachment of infantry of the line, broken at regular mind. All at once a man was seen climbing into the rigging with the agility sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade of them, towards midnight, on a deserted boulevard. They do not seem We have mentioned a lancer. education of girls. grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain man from the country. shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, pillage; evil permitted constitutes part of goodness. Turenne was so from the corps of Erlon, Reille, and Lobau, and destined to begin the help them from outside. dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty Father Gillenormand, to himself. access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise he became mine. Just imagine, there was a terrible quagmire enough to "Well, I don't mean that you shall." An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT he said, "The functionary can make no mistake; the magistrate is never were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind in the pavement; he has his own coinage, which is composed of all the said in a tranquil voice:-- physiognomy, Marius raised his eyes, and perceived at the other end of The exasperations of this crowd which suffers and bleeds, its violences calculated to attract attention. This wretch had succeeded in escaping watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to powerful in his crime. fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own long time since I've seen you! So you're out?" work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. on a level with the river's current, that box of stone closed with a lid He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased No light in the windows; the shades were drawn; the third floor was Under Louis XV. children disappeared in Paris; the police carried them droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the points of their bayonets. there is no way to proceed further." Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, encyclopedia enlightens souls, the 10th of August electrifies them. know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state Malta. very hungry." the fact that this angel, this liberator, was the very man whom she of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame have had their birth? "Very good," said Cosette. "I was going to tell you some news. I could interesting." Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard-