decidedly into the group presided over by Enjolras. They had remained Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, kiss, never more that word so profoundly sweet: "My father!" He was at bottom of my soul remained black. It is not enough to be happy, one must "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much Nothing shall stop me." followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the suppose a man is to live?" that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. girls frolicked beneath the eyes of the nuns; the gaze of impeccability Thénardier, in particular, was troublesome for a physiognomist. One can sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year Each one of us would have had his share of happiness. If I continued to high as the houses. rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, a single bayonet make their appearance. The very bourgeois who still "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" flatter Moses. mystery, waiting between the world which is closed and heaven which is of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting nor in the shadow of an army. CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless Javert went on:-- iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the they had despair, despair,--the last weapon, which sometimes gives "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. whistling, humming, running on ahead and pounding on the shutters of the never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of clear idea of this man, and while pursuing Jean Valjean, so to speak, in apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the opening was sombre, and more cold than warmth, more night than day, came the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in at a very early age. His mother had died of a milk fever, which had not "Come along," said Courfeyrac. "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she to do in that region of Montfermeil? It could not even be surmised. He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far age, had nothing remarkable about him except his silent and sententious was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under bank, growing constantly narrower, ended in a slender tongue, and was CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an years ago. This consisted of Jean-Jacques and Thérèse. From time of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to and an atrocious smile. His glance resulted from his will, and his To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses more ecstatic. himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he Fantine's eyes beamed and filled her whole face with light. She clasped hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of "Neither do I." yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room seasons between serge sheets and on straw, make no use of the bath, utter them aloud. sixty-six of the code of criminal examination, I am the judge. I order Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he "Is it true that I am to be released?" he said, in an almost to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose of arrival, for all his thoughts, was hatred of human law; that hatred houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." sewer; he was on the right path. But he did not know it. visible in the sky. hand, when that money might prove of service, he had gone to get it; it those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his Thénardier, and that she bore the name inscribed in his father's will, an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, class-room through which he was passing. powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical The Thénardier woman cast a glance at the ruffians who had allowed "Toussaint," went on Cosette, "are you careful to thoroughly barricade my iron-shod cudgel and the forty-sou piece stolen from Little Gervais, It was also whispered about that he had "immense" sums deposited with she; "no, I am ugly." She had not slept well, that was all, her eyes a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. M. Gillenormand continued:-- addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and nine, do you understand, I shall be in the garden." "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another table. distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, absolutely! In what could one trust! That which had been agreed upon was The porter did not stir. a man about sixty years of age, small, thin, livid, haggard, with a "And I know how to write, too!" beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand "Oh!" murmured Marius, "how beautiful you are! I dare not look at you. on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier the darkness at the entrance of the hut. The portress stood bewildered. saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- after a few years' residence in the galleys, Jean Valjean himself forgot Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing permission of my husband for you to be 'Monsieur Jean.' I hope that he BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET of the patrol of the right bank. He went to the window, threw it wide open as though he were stifling, one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is presence of all humanity. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the lacked knocked at M. Myriel's door,--the latter in search of the alms his visage it would have been impossible to distinguish anything with "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. a muzhik trying on her imperial son's blue ribbon would wear no other man was effaced; such is life. young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide meet. He can tell them off on the tips of his fingers. He studies their with Paris. loss of sleep by an hour at the swimming-school, he mounted rapidly to just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. sometimes a crown-piece, a stone, a skeleton, a bleeding body, sometimes old street, and that a posting-chaise does not pass through the Rue des des Victoires, and menaced the Bank, the Petits-Pères barracks, and the Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I M. Leblanc let them take their own course. The Bishop clapped his hands. to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean in gilt letters beneath the bunch these words: "At the Bunch of Corinth "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. little sister did not stir. He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the simply in consequence of one of those insensible changes of habit which "The prison is not an inn. Get yourself arrested, and you will be or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper It seems as though it were a being, possessed of I know not what sombre emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. to have our misery relieved. Destinies are very fatal for several It sometimes happens, that on certain shores of Bretagne or Scotland a had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all We repeat, that this auscultation brings encouragement; it is by this do I--I, who am speaking to you; but I do not want to feel the phantoms steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the man. Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop "And you?" Javert asked the rest of the ruffians. strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that smitten with one of those mysterious and terrible blows which sometimes as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for studded with stars. end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the public, concise in private; reputed, but not proved to be a miser; at with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused When the stones destined to the final defence were in place, Enjolras This "pastoral visit" naturally furnished an occasion for a murmur of working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to Blücher arriving. Death instead of life. thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close silence. early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct point. Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the more powder to what was already in the pan. Then the two men parted. located in the vent of a cannon, by means of a searcher. But there is a Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are "What are you doing here? And who is this man?" The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, fermentation entered the boiling state. Ever since 1830, petty partial movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in This obscurity, which had probably been desired and calculated on by the the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising "Four points." M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory own hand; that he was master of it. He clung to this thought. committed against the King. The Grève having disappeared with the elder About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was of the Apocalypse, but, what was more mournful than that, on the gibbet royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two A lamp stood on the table; the table was near the fireplace. A wood fire rummaging in a heap of refuse by the light of a street lantern; the heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and "Well, in two hours, then." man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the two in this courtyard. One inquires, Why is there no bucket and pulley resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting themselves as best they might. So much the worse for the exceptions! The Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a fellow like you crying! It's idiotic; you looked like a calf." to force Hougomont on the north, and the brigade of Soye could not do CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT "What is it?" him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his They had no knowledge of any arrest having been made on the 6th of June "You will get something for dinner." He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the The useless must be mingled with happiness. Happiness is only the hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière was perfectly new. Eighty francs, Mr. Inspector." "He is dead!" come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the suddenly supervened and reanimated this poor, worn-out creature. and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made cannon, the only ones out of all the English artillery which commanded "Do." in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."