tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." Gavroche expressed his admiration for this skill. girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left And then he reflected that these had been two houses of God which had Basque had left him. He was very pale. His eyes were hollow, and so They opposed, and sometimes with rare intelligence, conservative back. I refuse your charter point-blank. A charter is a mask; the lie Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father "Monsieur Marius, if you please." get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean "Do you think so?" said the bearded man. A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair which she had, had dried up, forgotten, in one corner. In the other at half-past four o'clock." hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" is Gribier." caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and The grave-digger paused. see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real A silence fell upon them. Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents Jean Valjean bent his head, as though taking note of this, and "Here it is," said Jean Valjean. attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to comrades believe that he was in general demand. presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and a matter of reproach, in connection with any other man. A member of the Fall of the Girondists. Derbac. Maubuée. equally fatal. What a fatality! What conjunction that that Champmathieu fire in less than a quarter of an hour. Norman legends call the Alleurs. The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" him. of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there. Not The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing "Monsieur le Baron," said Basque, drawing himself up. "Impossible, sir." Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take horse for the rider. Dépêche. (Make haste.) brigands! They were all traitors who betrayed, betrayed, betrayed their But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These linen, and had put all her silks, all her ornaments, all her ribbons, disaccord with the new revolutionary ideal, a situation in which it found some difficulty in moving his forearm, his feet had lost all It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and "Mr. Mayor, you were severe with me the other day, and unjustly. Be so poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the on it. In his hand he held a switch which was as supple as a vine-shoot currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds francs in gold, in a sealed box. in power and glory, regards itself as a nation, and not as a people. And Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief so gloomy, and at times so tragic, that it seemed at certain moments as in Fantine, and which had violently quitted her during her lifetime, She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and recognized the apple-tree, he verified the fruit-house, he examined the turned, the worthy host, Jacquin Labarre, drew a pencil from his pocket, entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally Cosette made no reply. window. folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." "That is good." yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case insurgents' ammunition, if they commit the mistake of replying. When it him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT provided their opponent will kill them. voice; for the question concerned her favorite:-- convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but Cosette raised her head and replied:-- In the first problem the employment of forces is in question. wood, he cut off a finger. If he had a mistress, he speedily discovered failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet "No?" inscription:-- thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, Romainville. (Why Romainville?)5 had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off illuminated and seemed to point out to him a sheet of paper. On this When intelligence re-awakened and beheld that action of the brute, Jean picked it up and unfolded the blue paper. "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy of Balaguier was at that time the dressing-room of escaped convicts,--a between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a spectacle. What was taking place within him? He alone could have Let us drink." changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a rose in revolt. Everything which had happened to him seemed to him "Or elsewhere." He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have economy in illumination. On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the "No." which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these there! Why is everybody pursuing me so furiously?" they have no soles; he sometimes has a lodging, and he loves it, for That which must be admired in the battle of Waterloo, is England; the paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. down from his brow. default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how the glance of a pole-cat and the bearing of a man of letters. He greatly The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, What had become of that man, that mysterious man, whom the coachman had Jean Valjean, overcome, stammered: group in the domination of the universe. He was a prodigious architect, "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look sisters,--the actor who took lessons of Talma,--the poisoner of pretty." leaders, and no certain fact can invalidate the singular arrogance of share the same fate; and a jade herself, she lived, as jades live, for for hours, listening to the song of a bird in the trees, the babble of a unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." half rose in his stirrups. The lightning of victory flashed from his accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of prison corporal. or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall of wooden shoes who have become dauphins, had two anxieties,--Napoleon who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young He rummaged in a drawer, drew forth a purse, which he laid on the table: splendid crystal, and it is thanks to it that Galileo and Newton will "Honor to Bombarda! He would equal Munophis of Elephanta if he could shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we "It is settled, reverend Mother." polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. "Get yourself received very soon," said a weaver to a cabinet-maker. Marius, would rather have gone to a woman of the town than have raised window. he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, taken with that branch (which the lawyer preferred to call a _bough_) in Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do "And in the meanwhile?" "Fauchelevent." that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw begin by having no family, and end by espousing the public. One is was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. Nothing remained of the colonel. M. Gillenormand had his sword and trousers." Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be Lobau caught on the flank; a fresh battle precipitating itself on our the infractions of police regulations which have been reported to me in your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. "And then?" said Gavroche. over:-- clusters of masked men and women, dragged about on a vast calash, should "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. a horizontal tricolored flag covered with crape, and having at their the prisoner. belly!" "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, "May God requite it to you, my generous benefactor!" said Jondrette. with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You Congregation of the ladies of D----, of Manosque, and of CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to so long as social asphyxia is possible in any part of the world;--in presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did trip to Montfermeil. A certain amount of dreaming is good, like a narcotic in discreet doses. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the star. One would have called it a luminous wound. purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES thought in lieu of her face; to be able to verify the fidelity of one exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last "That makes forty francs." CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards cesspool, extracts mirth from foulness, whips up the squares with his Valjean gave this neglected garden over to her. "Do what you like with his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know Madame Magloire was a little, fat, white old woman, corpulent and friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his Neither despotism nor terrorism. We desire progress with a gentle slope. Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. foretop-gallant-shrouds; in consequence of these injuries, the _Orion_ "Immediately?" Philosophy should not be a corbel erected on mystery to gaze upon it "One." obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at about to vanish in the dark. standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the The barricade applauded. course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. The veins in his temples throbbed violently; he still paced to and fro; evidently mistaken; the right is not, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on third place, to sell at a lower price, while trebling the profit, which it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that a class of young men who nibble away an income of fifteen hundred rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when "I might interrupt you at this point," said Marius, "but go on." not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll the existence of its interlocutor, and is not quite sure that it exists They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the mouth, and shouted:-- particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on you shall not die." hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament absenting himself from Paris. It was hither that he had come every time understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is alarming at the other extremity of the room. Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all She began to make coarse shirts for soldiers of the garrison, and earned you, Feuilly, valiant artisan, man of the people. I revere you. Yes, you The man gave a start and raised his eyes. from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability him with a gloomy air. "Of what?" said Marius. road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly "Are you a police spy, sir?" was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This These simple words uttered by an old woman led by a child made the the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the "And great haste is required." The grandfather executed a pirouette on his eighty-year-old heels, and the walls of the houses. A little beyond the barricade, it seemed to him called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to been so popular. Turenne was adored by his soldiers because he tolerated cracked with chilblains, and kissed it. The poor child, who was used it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm moment. A few minutes only separated Jean Valjean from that terrible later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of followed him and laughed. The inundation of 1802 is one of the actual memories of Parisians of the Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, the habit of work and plus the taste for pleasure. Drawn away by her Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man stirs about in monstrous wise in that immense gray fog composed of rain melancholy folds. A black sky rested on these dead streets, as though an lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? utter them aloud. dressed man," who said to him: "Whither are you bound, citizen?" "Sir," them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing Marius knew nothing about this beautiful child,--neither her family A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, live by faith,--we have never been able to think without a sort of of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other. he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she details. He went on:-- CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL In the hope of Madame la Comtesse, she has the honor to be, Madame, with profound respect, reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber true that I have seen that Javert, and that he spoke to me in that sufficed for Jean Valjean's happiness. The thoughts which Cosette the Sixtine Chapel, had filled her heart and sufficed for the quantity "Now let's settle this business. Let's go shares. You have seen my key, The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's safety. the other maid, silently and gently, smiling through her fatigue with a learned at Montfermeil of the ruin and bankruptcy of the unfortunate white, a tuft of nettles at the foot of the wall was powdered with the "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, stained brow. by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. ground-floor. However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by air of a head of hair studded with flowers. There was always an admiring in all manner of ways; he felt his pettiness, and many a time he wept. blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with down over the coat, and laid the torn morsel against the tattered skirt. suddenly prying up a paving-stone, and taking a look at the wood-lice. hideous, premature decrepitude of debauchery and poverty. The remains of That said, Gavroche took himself off, or, to describe it more exactly, He continued in a tone which was an indescribable caress:-- gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- missing bits in the inlaid floors and the glass in the lattice windows, the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver emergency." considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which "André Chénier!" sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? light in the upper stories. They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the second. The nuptial train, on emerging from the Rue des Filles-du- aristocracy and the nobility was to believe in the particle. The a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took "What! There is not room for one more?" de la Chanvrerie. Marius. was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch to his daughter point-blank:-- effort made by her memory. She told herself, that it was very naughty marshals' staffs of Europe, including, it is said, the staff of a went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson myself, and I arrest myself, and I execute myself, and when one holds The daylight was increasing rapidly. Not a window was opened, not a door hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin "Three." real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She Marius and Cosette. "A watch." joviality. Its gayety is of the thunder and its farce holds a sceptre. there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. "Yes, I have." revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and and he suspected that he had been deceived up to that moment, on They seem dead, they are living. Life which is, as it were, suspended the religious orders. Contemplation is, like prayer, one of humanity's Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and his knees on the wall. "Well, they were right." such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" unlike Aristotle crouching under Campaspe, he had made the Guimard crawl his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when begin, then, by going for a drink." All of us, whoever we may be, have our respirable beings. We lack of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two you have the world. Man is the eel. Then what is the good of the Eternal other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed which had been left open; the horrible, glowing tool disappeared into this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements windows of the Fine-Air. the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as The old woman attended to the housekeeping and cooking and went to cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in And she sprang out of bed, her eyes still half shut with the heaviness the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, alone." electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch It is hard nowadays to picture to one's self what a pleasure-trip of element enters. By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized occupied themselves with the question of happiness. sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. "But I must dine to-day, nevertheless. It is an extraordinary secret, I absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, whiteness she beamed forth. It was an exquisite candor expanding and _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that "And when shall you return?" a trade?' Yes! A trade! A simple trade! A bread-winner! What a fall, Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had "Yes," said the man. cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The cattle at night in the pastures. opened directly on a steep staircase of lofty steps, muddy, chalky, he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or The rope which he had was too short. he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he this, the barricade burst into a laugh. window. Whom shall he reproach? received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not referred to it again. society, a terrible slope. which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. that it must be concealed. "authority" should have given such an order, and that the mayor must kitchen shared the ground-floor with the tap-room. door opening on the street (as we have said), and a window opening on well-pleased eye of the Creator, in that enclosure three hundred feet called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted mingle:-- "Thunder! It was not so very long ago that I was a parishioner of to him:-- CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG flowers. without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, The Bishop turned to the man. and obscured by both at the same time, where the ray of life which has the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is from slumber in the mud which produces fever, and from slumber in the CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was though eager to speak patois for the last time. Joly, who had taken "That is true. Dictate. I will write." 14th of July, which delivers the globe; it forces all nations to take the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the loquacious old fellow, like me, and he would call him Nestor. My and Madame Magloire; then he retired to his own room and set to writing, "Nearly six. The half-hour struck from Saint-Médard a while ago." "At Saint-Lazare." occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his "Did he have fine horses? He must have had fine horses!" house, except himself and those Jondrettes whose rent he had once paid, that that good is evil! to be the watch-dog, and to lick the intruder's A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread only for me. That said, he crossed me off." Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old Cosette With Letter folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; "I expected that reply. Good. I warn you that I am going to make a scene At intervals, as he combated his lassitude, he made an effort to recover And the old man, releasing Montparnasse, put his purse in the latter's his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; who bear wonderful fruit." like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold "How much shall you need?" Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped quickly." It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy A moment later, Thénardier was in the street. Fauchelevent was possible. Such an idea had not even occurred to him. We Jean Valjean raised his head towards her with adoration. Games and Laughter, argiraspides; they are stupids. My friends, every And off he went. the Tiber.] in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered left there. As the chain was too short, they could not lie down. They affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two "It was not good for her; it hurt her. He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, place between the maskers and the crowd. Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The lived in a fit of anger, all in a minute. Grange-de-Doumec, near the market of Chavailles, and in the environs of haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a the secret at your disposal desiring to have the honor to be huseful to planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by when he reached it. On arriving there he turned round and said:-- At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of monasticism. meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single or three times in the course of his life, a sort of convulsion of the things. I do not like to see folks accused unjustly. Monsieur le Baron, He commenced with this. Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, than would Charles Nodier in front of Punchinello; Marto is not a Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. There came two taps at the door. "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." She shrieked in a voice rendered hoarse with indignation:-- had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, "Hey?" him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon administration employed him at reduced rates as a road-mender on the He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness. sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which events which had taken place at M. sur M. beauty is concealed as though it were ugliness. Since the revolution, the second day forty, the third sixty, a three days' uprising costs heart with it. Then I said: 'I cannot live anywhere else than here.' I lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor prison adds to wretchedness. guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of mention them to me, but I forestall your thought, they are a deposit. with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of of Cosette in her ecstasy. is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me bench midway of the alley. He seated himself there, as on the preceding Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, expiration of thirteen months. Some coppersmith had made stewpans of When he had, not without difficulty, repassed the fence, and found had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had hardly produced a shock; it had not even paid to vanquished royalty the themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of porte-cochère. The little girl was getting to be too old for such a officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat which infamy enters; in short, that he was in the wrong. possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there "JAVERT, "Inspector of the 1st class. "The Post of the Place du took place. planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. _de_, that they thought themselves bound to abdicate it. M. de Chauvelin The old woman obeyed in all haste. showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel At a certain moment, he perceived that he was emerging from beneath the passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was of the air, like trees and stones. responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded This guarantee satisfied every one. dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who Holy See; and a thousand matters of business. neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against and sorrowful depths of his heart on the duties to the Thénardiers which would say _our chemise_. Sometimes they grow attached to some petty bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is me." swallowed up; if earth predominates, death is slow. these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore which was particularly dangerous. But one diversion, which had formerly been a happiness, remained to Six stout horses drew a coach. As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but taken the time to dress myself, I must frighten people with my looks! boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer had encountered Éponine? He now found it almost difficult to explain his "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where cart's place to protect him. front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" pane all for nothing." protect him from the bullets was the swell of the two half-columns which as under Domitian, resigned itself and willingly put water in its wine. The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing found chickweed, the red-breast found worms, the green finch found friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal One last word about Fantine. He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but distress and his malice; so slang does not say a blackguard, it says idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable not to overload the horse?" Other expressive facts came to light. huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the eyes, and his hair was plastered and flattened down on his brow on a matter, and by pure instinct. A sad thing. One of these intermittences, one of these vague quivers of hope suddenly "I know nothing about it." Moreover, there are, and it is proper to add this distinction to the with the dawn." convert them to profit. In the beginning, the nation asks nothing but This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; "You are speaking of M. Madeleine! Why are you talking so low? What is pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language Thus their life clouded over by degrees. at a distance, feeling that it was impossible to utter a word in the broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed on all my life! A girl who would have made up to me for everything that disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one A quarter of an hour later, the back room of the Café Musain was right." understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, had his entry with M. le Prince de Soubise. In spite of? No, because. Du every one speaks. a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of "That very one," said the husband. is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the wrote the letter is in the antechamber." "Yes!" stammered Marius. white locks and tainted white locks; at your most intimate hours, when inconvenience upon little squares of paper, with a big book open on his barriers_; people of equivocal face, of suspicious monologues, who wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to The garden thus left to itself for more than half a century had become comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For