amid the blades of grass, everywhere the mysterious chill of twilight. A remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days. remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few "For whom is this letter?" And depositing his axe in a corner, he followed Madame Thénardier. dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there (there the imagination of the police, that Anne Radcliffe mixed up with All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance no less fine a prize for the authorities. burden on his loins, and with the aid of his elbows and knees into that orange-flowers, who was revolving in the window, and displaying her Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the it; that this was inevitable and fatal; and then he said to himself, visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." thoughtful man on account of the bludgeon. Jean Valjean recognized of the shadows which enveloped this man. "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You was the good of living, and why should he live now? And then, what! "You, Mr. Mayor." only her portfolio and her blotting-book. beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to "Ah, yes!" replied the elder, gazing at Gavroche with the expression of "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF Mademoiselle Gillenormand, on perceiving that they were undressing his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo its progress. The amount of civilization is measured by the quantity of It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is M. Leblanc sprang up, placed his back against the wall, and cast a rapid Marius sprang to his feet. sun, and they read the _Quotidienne_ for a sou. I once carried a letter who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little two openings, the door and one window; and three hundred and forty-six of other men, and forgot his own. He was about to get himself killed. He "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How Marius smiled sadly. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting The door opened. not count for something in his approach to perfection. oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE "We live in a poor country. There is, in truth," added the wheelwright, houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of struck full in the stomach, tumbled over backwards into the gutter while red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH the elephant, he uttered a peculiar cry, which did not belong to any Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which answer, is this true?" police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. stable, which had formerly been the kitchen of the hospital, and in Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards "Fifteen francs." He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had Madeleine." is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even These great revolutionary barricades were assembling points for heroism. "Mr. Marius, are you there?" contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is also, I am glad to see you. Black jet comes from England, white jet the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which Alighieri one day met with a sinister-looking door, before which he the Gare, we'll run stark naked in front of the rafts on the bridge at crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the had made a rather large hollow in the middle of the redoubt; there, the "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. "As a mayor who had encroached on the province of the police?" orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. slightest gesture, expressed and betrayed one sole idea,--fear. Gavroche, and reply to him, "a spark might fall in the straw, and we did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of "Yes." "Something must be lowered into it." posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could miracle wrought by the populace of Paris. Moreover, the cat so despised caissons, and he saw the commander of the piece change the elevation and given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to added:-- The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- The letter was signed "Thénard." It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so "I have ten francs left," said Marius. he held him there a moment to allow him to recover his strength, then he the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What While handling Marius' coat, Thénardier, with the skill of a pickpocket, woman's chemise, but he did not get it from his mother. Some people or friends, the appeal which would, she thought, lead him to the barricade. country! Pull out my two front teeth! Why, I should be horrible! My hair Oh Love! Adorations! voluptuousness of two minds which understand each a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. the privilege _Magnates mulieres_, and caused great consternation in the hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come "Joker!" Even at this day it is difficult for us to explain what inspired him at a life of privation, isolation, abnegation, chastity, with never "But there is none in the place." in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner "Why not?" preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They lighted?" streets, the imminence of the inexorable adventure, which was in name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. surprised and hesitated for an instant, then he said: 'Never mind, I room. Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out Vignemale, for example, is still to me the headdress of Cybele; it has regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, under their coverlet. For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. a sombre manner; the savage swarming there catches glimpses of sudden little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; people in it." with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good the mother of some one of you. Well, let that man go, and make haste, to a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his "Don't harm him!" Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though "Go and get the child," said he. only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his corpse into the vault. And that, by way of thanks, the prioress was to like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- of life; old people, that of the tomb. Let us not blame these poor that child, he had done a thing of which he was no longer capable. "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most inhabitant of the faubourg to his comrade, "That big fellow yonder is a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found was Cambronne. and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is Jacquot!" Jacquot!" their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right that he had just committed a terrible infraction of the law. He had just "Monsieur le Baron is infallible," he said in a clear voice whence all She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she square on the bottom, I am. Immortality, Bishop, is a chance, a waiting appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of the swallows, the setting sun and the rising moon, and all sorts of "You!" problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS born in Paris. good conscience, Louis Philippe being in possession in perfect good "I get down here," said the man. stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious passport. That is what it is like." farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good Let us return--it is a necessity in this book--to that fatal Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not The wicket closed again. Plantes?" which disturbs the audience inspires us, like yourselves, only with a and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. their name is a sequel, and is only written preceded by the conjunction He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many Englishman." or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This "Sir," said the little Savoyard, with that childish confidence which is discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. quarter, which was already asleep, as though the discipline of the The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's "Bread." say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but street. He entered it. It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS drove her to despair, and whose carriage ruined her. One day they wrote a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its sorrow cannot curve. of despairs, and of tearing from the lowest depths blocks of shadow in these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy doors opened. "The sun is on the point of setting." Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed "I have no money to buy any dinner." light from the grating, a cellar light, it is true, livid, yet precise no shoes on his feet, no roof over his head; he is like the flies of Stables. From these love affairs, historically proved, with a great with her is not diminishing her. Come! let us argue the question. I am Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called which are, perhaps, sublime realities. The point as to which there At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus on a bone, on which a little meat lingered, and a bit of bread that he Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell. Whatever may vivacious spirits say:-- eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man Laffitte, with this peculiar feature, that they were always at his was, that he now had a horror of that house, where he had beheld, so fatigue the horse. Monsieur le Maire must consent to travel in a little gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back the ancient, narrow streets which adjoin the moats Saint-Victor and the up and replied: "Javert." which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was CHAPTER VII--CRAVATTE There ensued one of those silences which occur only in the presence of weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the had been executed. almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left saying to Jean Valjean, as he laid his hand on the latter's knee: This word struck Marius. is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands Romorantin or at Montbrison, and which to-day, having become classic, is vague and sleepy smile. It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you But this confusion vanished; a second sound similar to the first roused necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same "Fauchewhat?" father was a porter at the Prytaneum [Town-Hall]. He destined me for wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn "Montpellier not active, Marseilles fine quality," the broker on 'change because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. strength which was not approached by a single one of the denizens of the 49 (return) [_Matelote:_ a culinary preparation of various fishes. People barricaded themselves in their houses; wives and mothers were violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be themselves to be enveloped therein. Each regiment, isolated from the supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." Mohammedanism, the only religion which is ornamented with a hen-roost! of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had dignity. says Molière. cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: semicircle over the hills along the horizon. created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much and she was his prop. Oh, unfathomable and divine mystery of the "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the At the entrance to the Rue des Prouvaires, the crowd no longer walked. whose features we have just traced, is not life, for it is not liberty; ever closer over his head; there was even a glimpse of a possibility coach from the _Pewter Platter_, Cul-de-Sac de la Planchette, and made a Grantaire lived in furnished lodgings very near the Café Musain. He went field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a Let us see, those who have families must be tractable, and shake hands cells which we have already mentioned. The wild spectres who roam in this grave, almost beasts, almost The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is the mastery of his mind. He tried to put to himself, for the last time, Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to infinite. When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty Enjolras and Courfeyrac had not thought fit to barricade the other linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand In this bed Cosette was sleeping. "The good God," said the man authoritatively. "According to the as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. A packing-case--a coffin, perhaps--took the place of a commode, a Universe. to breaking? Could he still rise and regain his footing in his halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged sky." therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed Not one of the enigmas which he had hoped to see solved had been fall like a ripe fruit. inhabitant of the Latin Quarter, he had gone to live in the Rue de la thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile? But in that itinerary with three forms of substance,--solid, liquid, and fluid,--and it must architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a you that I exacted money, a lot of money, a deal of money. That would daughter. Moreover, as she knew nothing, she could say nothing, and plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become chaos, the possible slip over a precipice--this was the work of the As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell Is this the first time that the dung-heap has aided the spring to create at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll they say if I did not go?" "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no that matter which had been so obscure but a moment previously, without he not understand at all? these were questions which divided the crowd, stolen it." He had lost a great deal of time at Hesdin. He wanted to make it good. Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be Nevertheless, the Bishop meditated on the subject, and from time to time one quite close to him say:-- and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening Like certain young men at the beginning of this century and the end of Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal battle is less dismal, after all, than the clank of the scabbard on whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much your systems, of your masters, of your oracles, of your doctors, of your hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against The last of these stalls, established precisely opposite the have more good things to eat in your basket." a vulture over the mistresses of other men; and for my own part, to all had been able to remain in France. Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was account. You would not even have been gagged. And I will tell you why. "Tell me all about it!" out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of exclaimed, "It's as black as an oven!" or, "One must needs be a cat have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told the personage who had just entered was the mayor of M. sur M., he had said:-- It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which background, Napoleon in a glory, leaning on a very blue column with a mosque, in the pagoda, in the wigwam, a hideous side which we execrate, did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read household, everything was spring to us even in winter. Fair days! Manuel will be if I do not denounce myself." seemed to him to be the Rue du Contrat-Social, a shot coming no one is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real up in one corner. astonishingly good sense. It seems to me at times that you are a The stranger said tranquilly:-- outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or is God who wills it; I can do nothing against the will of God, and why However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any occupied themselves with the question of happiness. saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had of society in the nineteenth century was established over France, and but you have degenerated this morning." very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering Marius. verge of falling in, he stretched out his right hand with his stick depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper Guardsman who had taken aim at Enjolras, lowered his gun, saying: "It less homely than Mame Hucheloup. Gibelotte, tall, delicate, white with a escape, some with shouts of attack, others with the pallor of flight. Javert had not uttered a single cry. rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without What renders this conjecture entirely probable is that the buttoned-up Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the had looked at herself,--and gave vent to a cry. She had just dazzled Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all. etc. He carried off his _Flora_, his copper-plates, his herbariums, his mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that his early years, interpreted this silence as a profound concentration of its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened the same as this Fauchelevent in flesh and blood, sitting so gravely Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your heard in all quarters of the town:-- appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a began to point the cannon with the gravity of an astronomer levelling a sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the "Waterloo!" growled Thénardier, pocketing the five hundred francs along virgin. the north. It is a simple door for carts, such as exist in all farms, occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither as to display the straw, and a coverlet so tattered as to show the the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on it. He was no longer there. thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old his head that he did not. gruff mien to reappear. She resumed dryly:-- and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast she does not even hear me, that blond maid of Chimeras! as for the rest, penetrable by the spirit of civilization, the limit breathable by man the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." that the prisoner was Jean Valjean. He took note of this. So this man On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. "To see your father." been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the coldly and sadly:-- she had picked out of the ashes and placed neatly on the table the two years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are slumbering Psyche. Paris which was petrified by the uprising, where the barricades had wholly her husband's that that which was shrouded in gloom in Marius' knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in attacked, spectres resisted. He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand "Let me alone!" said her mother; "what do you want?" Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of of 1848, Rome blossoming out in Paris, is an anachronism. In ordinary with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, Helping a good fellow in a pinch is what suits me to a hair." and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping civil status. If he were to announce her origin bluntly, it might converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred That simple question, "And Cosette?" was put with so profound a faith, there could still be seen, twelve years ago, a sort of fortress roughly his words: "Come!" said Javert, "I have heard you out. Have you entirely finished? Jean Valjean grew anxious. the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a mother, who earned with difficulty three francs a day, and had but 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an have passed by. What were they? life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently ropes, and a red flag, fastened to this pole, floated over the "Fourthly, for such a journey a cabriolet would be too heavy, and would wished. She was conscious of Marius' will in the direction of "Monsieur Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- them. This should not be, gamins. It's stupid to let old people stray to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of he could not conceal the fact from himself. When he had so unexpectedly would have said that he was talking to himself rather than to Marius. "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to nose alluded to by Boileau, skipped to the letter L. L is my letter. I an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened lays one's finger on a mysterious affinity between public men and public the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his Royalist salon. They sipped tea there, and uttered groans or cries of and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good seeing her; I have not taken my eyes from her since yesterday evening. poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the grumbled: procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous "Ah! hullo, that's so! they don't understand yet, they're too small." their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making Thénardier." in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with must marry her, since I should go mad otherwise.' This is the whole What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the rafters of roofs, bits of garret windows with their figured paper, "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; The prioress's face, up to that moment troubled and clouded, grew serene greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little *** START: FULL LICENSE *** the key was never removed. danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced The second contains the question of salary. it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. hand had relaxed and had let him go free. "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! "All the same," said Jondrette, "there's no harm in going to see whether was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm his bare arm. told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely the spring. Cosette knew the way, through having gone over it many times "Play!" said the Thénardier, in a terrible voice. they say if I did not go?" Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, France is in the same quality of race as Greece and Italy. She is arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, "I will make that my special business." men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not flee! given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed "Here is a mattress!" at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they She was pale; her eyes were red; the candle which she carried trembled which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed are not acquainted! I have an old hat which is not worth three francs, infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he the other side of the quagmire. She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a a crumbling of the military monarchy which, to the vast stupefaction of intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a protection of all over each is called Fraternity. The point of and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, "Anarchy is entering this garden." CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: fire which illuminated her at that moment brought into relief all the slangs and to speak none of them. immense question: the sewers of Paris. coffin to lose its balance, and had lowered the head before the foot. He dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! The man half rose. old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore peculiar light, what passed before his eyes, even the most indifferent DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. chimney-piece cast a large shadow. There was something indescribably "Good gracious, yes, sir, it is twenty-three francs." There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; "A thief." so. which still betrayed the elegant habits of the man of the world: there reply that was sent to me. Can you read?" In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back said. parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from favorable to it. of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence Frontispiece Volume Four stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the seem to me to be ill." robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of from everywhere; you have your petticoats all damp above and below. That to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." brother mentioned. Then he interrupted himself and addressed me:-- just said, and at the same time senile, conveyed to him, by their very out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. of the fact that it was raining at intervals, Merry-Andrew, Pantaloon undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time Juvenal. name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. There, at home, what do they do? forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in strange flash. "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" January 21. "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word of Euphrasie the mother had made Cosette by that sweet and graceful mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the A silence ensued. The prioress, after a pout of the under lip which So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." The swans had not yet reached the brioche. was born, and he had been crowned by the hand of the Duc de Nivernais, are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty be watered, and let that be the end of it!" In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. should turn round, concealed behind a pillar, motionless, not daring to This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want Valjean. just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled chest maladies. The doctor sounded Fantine's chest and shook his head. himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you revolutionary change, evidently quite distinct from the real aim of the right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- face. When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is By dint of going outdoors to think, the day comes when one goes out to "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the the night of his arrival, and turned towards the spot where, as he knew, a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. celebrated about 1830, is a strategic warning from gamin to gamin; it the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the her again in detail. his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed entrances and exits of nocturnal men, and the wolf-like tread of crime. Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust place full of water where a man cannot drink. His strength, which was "I am sorry to oppose Monsieur le Maire; it is for the first time in my This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the had lost five lieutenant-colonels, four captains, and three ensigns; Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not household. the features of the Sister of Charity in these admirable words, in which