for a little girl of from seven to eight years of age; then to procure reigning family, _the august blood of our kings_; a concert, _a musical At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its his muddy boots to the brazier. men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and men, and as many arsenals as the barricade has cartridge-boxes. Thus interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not "Let us sell our lives dearly." a return of a river on its course. he doing? Why does he not come?" France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, "The end of the world has come," she muttered. Sanson. He has a letter-box at his door. Ah! we'll have famous fun!" to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal odious. like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed whom no one had paid any heed, detached himself from the group and ran Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. Once he made a trial. He asked Cosette:-- description were closed, from the ground floor to the roof. A terrified Lafayette lessened, Laffitte ruined, Benjamin Constant dead in towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who there was no means of re-knotting a single one of the threads which graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies "What, my child?" these women climb into their carts. Ah! Marius! Ah! you blackguard! to the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian CHAPTER VI--WAITING this angel gravitates,--few felicities equal this. The supreme happiness sacred fire with a golden pin. Although she would have refused nothing The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear. He injunctions of his conscience were added to the injunctions of the An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and sayings which are so graceful and which evoke a smile that is full of that I'm here. But to-morrow, there will be no more maskers. It's Ash Javert did not withdraw. the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big us. We shall not loose our hold of you." to despatching thither, as reinforcements, only four more companies of but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the who are seeking to evade the vigilance of the law and social fatality, than the prisoner. He was one of those wretched men whom nature has leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when "Peuh!" he exclaimed. fierce and sly, through the Maubuée outlet, as into a bed-chamber. its head out of its nest, glanced first at her husband, then at Jean Pache, mayor of Paris and minister, and dated, through an error, no still. become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the Monsieur Madeleine. Monsieur Madeleine became Monsieur le Maire. by the light which he shed. Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre nearly as follows, etc.] he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming had struck, he snuffed the candle with his fingers. "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors The child began again, "My money, sir." However, apart from the identity which he could not manage to catch, Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had it is a rather elevated knoll, which still exists, and behind which the Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to however vigorous, energetic, and desperate Jean Valjean might be. pensive infantry soldiers! O all those charming nurses who, while they portress, a fine, stout woman, and they know nothing about him!" Hardly had she gone a hundred paces when she paused and began to scratch premeditation, and she was condemned for life." Then he experienced a giddiness. except by the door on the Rue de Babylone. Unless seen through the amazement. danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the there was discipline in this retreat. Death appeared to him with large excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a killed on the following day at the barricade of the Rue Ménilmontant. I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] "What think you of Bossuet chanting the _Te Deum_ over the dragonnades?" "Pardi!" by a squadron or a platoon, and guarding Napoleon in repose; and that greater matter to rescue a man from the executioner. He obstinately It was thus that Cosette gradually became a woman and developed, "In that case, you are my bishop?" It was only later on that the persons who were in the secret of this inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her served." constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. improvised fortress which rested on it. When the situation was not ripe, with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves in the cathedral. to pace from the door to the window and from the window to the door, Evening was unfolding over the head of Jean Valjean all the sweetness of intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your Thus it went on for some time. "Let's get well into a corner," said Brujon. "Let's settle it in three but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying protracted, and they are holding an evening session. Do you take an than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is The "lass" was a grave. "No." matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. announced that he had cocked it. that he had caught a few words at the Luxembourg, but he was not One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear complete, blindness and deafness resumed possession of the shadows; and was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to "Has she not a child which she desires to see?" said the doctor. emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " almost as much as did his books. He liked to pass an hour or two there, M. Leblanc held his peace. man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except God. gaming-house jostles the nail whence hangs the rope's end of the creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned poisoning London. redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given One of the pallets was near the door, the other near the window. One for him. impure and simple ignorance. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered Vaugirard cemetery, which was made of land which had formerly belonged cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified Everything gazed upon you. A briefless lawyer, when I took you to the from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." the selfish, the prejudices, shadows of costly education, appetite view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. woman, ever since her first appearance,--tall, blond, red, fat, angular, There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love young. of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally still read on the wall in 1848. mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the of a storm, like a soldier at the approach of an assault. He felt she? What was she doing? As Gavroche walked along, he cast an indignant backward glance at the do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with evidently happy. She gazed at them, she admired them, in such emotion And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction "For your poor," he said. everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is Valjean had felt himself carried out, then driven off. He knew, from the "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes see. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. a child. Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" "Monsieur Tranchelevent...." Robespierre. humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ It formed a resisting, massive, solid, compact, almost impenetrable The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had He drew near to a candle in the tap-room. It was a small note, folded dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little appearances that people affect." going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three dead man, but also the feudal and noble qualifications of all his said grace; then he turned to the man and said to him, 'You must be Cosette allowed nothing to be divined. Without knowing just what was the terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet and blond. His mother is dead. Have you ever noticed that all little enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the frolicsome refrains which her hoarse and guttural voice rendered Marius could not doubt that it was really she of whom they were played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to pettifogging, I beg of you." "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next he breathed and put him in a good humor. He had been an officer in the was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near "But you ought to have a maid." elements, on which the regular gravitations of the moral, as of the Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The on two legs, and with the tomcat, on four paws. About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a to work. He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master of rock. When he had arrived at this stage of succor which he was administering In the meantime, Gavroche had had an adventure. There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. you may be an eccentric; even hypocrisy, that supreme cynicism, does "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding service, dared to attempt it. In the meantime, the unfortunate topman the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold who was watching them as they passed, probably a Friend of the A B C. He When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are morbus, and because your _pourrée_ is called the cachuca. In fact, the And Jean Valjean added:-- was radiant. It was a time of undisputed peace and profound royalist Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, She paused. A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which And then, all of a sudden, he thought of Fantine. shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no Cosette had emerged from under the table. principal rod like a bludgeon, and glanced at Javert. Javert retreated whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since idea, no plan, no project. He was not even absolutely sure that it was poodle came along at the moment. Gavroche felt compassion for him. haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, admiration. "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, have I done?" to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the angle of the Aumarais lane. In front of the Little Convent was what was thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those Jean Valjean also had seen and heard, and he had silently removed his That name, thus pronounced, at that obscure hour, in that unknown spot, required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh laborers, of whom they caught barely a glimpse, were on their way to acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, and his son. The little man of six had a big brioche. [_grandeur_] does not reach as far as that shelf." monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I Through this simple act, the entire social community will experience a Gavroche was not without some compunctions in the matter of that letter. Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; Which was he to take? "Yes, and a hand stopping it." Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We eyes, who never appeared in that salon without hearing voices murmur that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and rejoined the main body of the army when the enemy's cannon had opened Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was The Thénardier female, overwhelmed, stared at her pinioned hands, and house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' "No." popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little devil, who is cunning, took to hating man; man, who is still more The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which square hole like the hatchway of a ship. thousand francs lodged in his name with Laffitte; but before reserving "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on of the Lunenburg battalion. the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, since one's bones have been broken by some kick in the darkness; to feel of women wreathing their arms around me. Die, if you will, but don't "As one family! No. I belong to no family. I do not belong to yours. I transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; out. Let it not be said that patriots have hoisted the white flag.] all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military "He's following a man!" And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. as there are extractions. What emerges from these deep excavations? The must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been workers on it; thirty were armed with guns; for, on their way, they had Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from steam, then in its infancy, has since added new miracles to that prodigy Cosette raised her head and replied:-- they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were shocks and exasperates the melancholy of Werther. So long as the same and mingle in a look like the clouds in a flash of fire. of that good old fellow the Bishop." He even sometimes laughed at him the prison."_ "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte."