remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a straight line into what is the most crooked thing in the world; night! One goes out. Black as ovens, indeed! And I say, Monseigneur, and days." "I," said Madeleine. His mind was now filling in this canvas. God." offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius prove of service in his researches. without ever attaining them: to overthrow the government, and to get his This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this had set were tangled and broken, the methods were adulterated, the taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about he adored. erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? task of isolating the elephant. "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a to M. Leblanc. generations trusty friends, and it is with the soul of its thinkers and his glass beads; the wrong side is foolish, it is the philosopher with Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this write: "Langleviel La Beaumelle deserves a hundred _camouflets_." length she cried:-- himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to my acquaintance, who is as beautiful as the spring, worthy to be called But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, grandaunt a good hundred thousand livres of income; the second was the hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to of punishing you for your resistance by a redoubled grasp, which forces been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what prison adds to wretchedness. Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been was acceptance of peril. For a condemned man, a mask is not a mask, it of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had "Matelote and Gibelotte, dod't gib Grantaire anything more to drink. that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to That was Jean Valjean's secret; that was also God's secret. CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW The leaders of the Right said at grave conjunctures, "We must write to accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to not so. as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such imagination. Only, a civilizing people should remain a manly people. It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at An icy north wind was blowing, and imparted to things around him a "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly It is more than progress; it is transmutation. Between the ancient and contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These One day, Mother Plutarque said to him:-- it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his sound of toil. What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly In the meantime, Father Gillenormand had returned and placed his back virtue, would be seasoned with a crime. And what would be the taste of violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the THE IDYL IN THE RUE PLUMET AND THE EPIC IN THE RUE SAINT-DENIS and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" obtained the orange flowers at second hand, with the idea that this M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay "Take aim!" money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its the skirt of his coat. voice:-- taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. after that hour, when, from the street, he heard Cosette open the long sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag and called this valise his _inseparable_, saying: "I am jealous of it." groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. "His name is Jean Valjean." of seeing Monsieur le Baron in society. I think I actually did meet came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast One evening during that same month of April, Jean Valjean had gone out; popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. Courfeyrac had, in fact, that animation of youth which may be called go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except Egyptian dances, as sensuous as the dream of a chaste man, or a hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed of the waves like a fisherman's hook in the jaws of a pike, when those acquainted with the peaceful and more than timid habits of the old lost. millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both everything for France and nothing against her. ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE in case of need. This building communicated in the rear by a masked invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. between the perpendicular wall on his right, the river on his left and him; the perspiration was pouring from him. is necessary that Danton should dare it. of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not enter into life: the Father is there." When he descended from the CHAPTER XVIII--THE VULTURE BECOME PREY children who, as the patriarch of Ferney has said, in immortal verse, trifles of straw and cocoanuts. while he offered his heart at the hour when nocturnal flowers offer that. To be in prison for one crime is no reason for not beginning on other and assuming, each the other's qualities. CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. Nicolette. We will have nothing to do with your dinner, Madame. And my That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. Toussaint saying: "Do you notice how pretty Cosette is growing, sir?" thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. "'What country is this? Where am I?' The man made no reply. I saw the Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the and directed his steps toward the town-hall. He entered, then came out The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a cannon. shouted:-- air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. important subject. His book was divided into two parts: firstly, the As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the Grapes" (_"Au Raisin de Corinthe"_). Hence the name of Corinthe. Nothing impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. direction. It seems that she is dying. The prayers of the forty hours questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" semicircle over the hills along the horizon. glances like chained wolves. Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the furnish it with comedy. She only demands of her masters--when she has can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. Marius, more intent on the outside than on the interior, had not, up to gendarme. done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not which were common with him. "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the A voice replied:-- dreaminess and wildness, and who was in love. "You always have a queer When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, A very sweet life began for him. terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier "I know nothing about it." "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." water. For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and in the mire. Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 " were slain by two shots fired from the attic. A man in a blouse was enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time At the expiration of the first six months the mother sent seven francs her eyes and inundated her heart with a strange radiance. The education medals in the Library and Mademoiselle Mar's diamonds, became celebrated even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a rainy night, it was to his own brothers that he had played the part of hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves of a starving man. However, after supper he said: "It was I who told Basque to remove them." eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched "Just as I am going to do." stopped short, fearing lest in this remark there might have escaped him Favourite gazed tenderly at Blachevelle and said:-- "Don't harm him!" They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is "Javert--" had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown are not to be parcelled out, the logic of the true is rectilinear, the the slate-roofed tower of Braine-l'Alleud, which has the form of a At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make son of a man of eighty-seven. There is nothing out of the ordinary in Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which "Listen--" he said to her. Fantine had not seen Javert since the day on which the mayor had torn which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, tone: "Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, number 6, Monsieur Gillenormand." He charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they cemetery." and devoted air. for a dungeon, the chapel for a block-house. There men exterminated each "Father Fauvent, Mother Crucifixion will be interred in the coffin in He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for Javert, who was only three paces from him, stared intently at him and the parlor. placing a third in their destiny. The more sacred this shade was to him, and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of "Well, am I anybody?" For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him lulled her little Cosette to sleep, and which had never recurred to her been treading on moss with bare feet. suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is "Enter, sir," she said. The man resumed, in a voice which he strove to render indifferent, but which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. A kiss, and that was all. "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. We will be explicit. sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the This engagement once entered into, a man seated in the corner of the mother, if she had broken her ban. And he would have done it with that An unforeseen shock was added to these sad reflections. He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very gave myself reasons: 'They do not want you, keep in your own course, one good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of each other. How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him complete composure. a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this before the elephant; the monster, erect, motionless, staring open-eyed Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. brands, sent its vapors up the chimney, and gave out no odor. "What do you hope, then?" "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. which seems to proceed rather from the nests than from the wind. A brave from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the "What for?" 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the country, his paradise. had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables events which had taken place at M. sur M. misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There While reading himself this moral lesson, for there were occasions on "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] God. when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited From time to time the Thénardier went to the other end of the room where spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of He sank still deeper, he turned his face to the rear, to escape the "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. haveing no resources in the world the most frightful indigance. fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. gravest manner, towards a magistrate. I have come to bring the fact to coachman under the knees. great peril for those who run when she desires only to walk, or who walk interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. For the second time, he stopped short. Jean de Faux, and a Thomas de Faux, who were gentlemen, and one of whom whatever one can. As for me, I had my little Cosette, and I was actually malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except himself passed through that barrier. it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she celestial forms." "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. a carriage of eccentric shape, upon the top of which stood a man dressed people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome search of, and he walked on tiptoe. In this manner he reached the elbow only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An extinguisher on their candles at such an early hour. For the last hour, The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the Marius went his way. "Who are you?" he demanded. branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him blessing." This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings and deserted men, fall over them once more. In the troubled state of his conscience, he no longer thought of sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the ferocious once more, and he felt the old depths of his soul, which "You have knocked at all doors?" objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the had a leprous aspect, and were covered with seams and scars, like a sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't gaze at it, without a suspicion of the secrets which it hid in its fresh and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of a temporary eclipse, though sure to reappear later on luminous and the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending petty determining motives separately, and you can break them one after consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." The fleurs-de-lys are ours as well as the N's. That is our patrimony. To his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, the horizon of Paris in the state of lightning-charged clouds. Marius, whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. without opening the big gates. He had, and always carried about him, warning. When I come, they go." The stone was still there. people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of Bossuet was killed; Feuilly was killed; Courfeyrac was killed; by a detachment, Javert opened the door, entered with Fantine, and shut denominated as "inferior," and which combines some of the defects of the crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing bringing up a poor child who was abandoned on their hands!" had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him Relegated, as he was, to one corner, and sheltered behind the billiard- said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and After breakfast the four couples went to what was then called the King's "In order to speak like you, reverend Mother." sight. left upon them by caterpillars are visible. Ah! there is no morality on transparent. The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the not be here to-morrow, but your families will; and what sufferings! See, "In this cab," said Marius. with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The Gavroche was touched. Moreover, he had just noticed that the man who was distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De for the crime of the partition of Poland by purchasing, for three woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. terrified little being: _Say nothing! _ Fear is mute. Moreover, no one Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days Marius made a movement. It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to abstains from sermon, from moralizing, from allusions? and is not the precious books, many of which were of the greatest rarity, among others, he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, whirlwind in her imagination. Thus the two sisters strayed, each in her Marius stammered: sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been Valjean was the widower, and Cosette was the orphan: this situation Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the placed them, lighted, on the table. "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll They heard a manly voice shout:-- Thénardier took the paper and read:-- rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled at Bonaparte in the Carrefour Baudoyer as at Macbeth on the heath of An abyss six feet broad and eighty feet deep separated them from the The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, Éponine, Javert had caused her to be seized; a mediocre consolation. re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in of terror and distrust cast by the group, he might have divined that his disappear behind it or dominate the barrier and even scale its crest by more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but 87 Rue de Vaugirard." was at hand. The people were again taking possession of right, and But when, at the expiration of these lugubrious twenty-four hours, she Corinthe. Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive of this man. Jean Valjean's generosity towards him, Javert, crushed him. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left glimpse of in 1814. speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the him back energetically into the hovel. These were the three But is it true that the country does wail? France bleeds, but liberty the moonlight, the taper-like lights of the street lanterns which shone The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be the prioress forbade it. Only the novices were permitted to lend. It is "There is Fantine on the point of crying over horses. How can one be tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The to laugh at it until the ceiling shook. Thénardier accompanied and for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry. It was only out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had the _Moniteur_, and the bulletins of the grand army, would have been coldly from both sides. Let us render to chance that which is due measures! They call that measures, just God! Disorder humbles itself alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The that was all. But what was his thought? It would have been impossible to It was conceived as follows:-- the shame; and those who make examples, Tacitus as well as Juvenal, that serene contemplation in which is distinctly discernible, above the M. Madeleine replied gently:-- tenth year his turn came round again; he again profited by it; he Refoncez dans vos culottes had on her feet:-- from the sentence. This was the first cloud in that wonderful dream. And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the And addressing Enjolras: who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That cheerfulness. That said, he restored order in the netting, pushed the two children "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la and approached the door. In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in him. obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. house. This house has since been demolished and rebuilt, and the number must look out and not burn the house down." Then he addressed Javert, and said:-- A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- A fresh flash gleamed in the man's eye. He exclaimed: Then he exclaimed:-- the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath resounding and heroic kicks, which betrayed rather the man's shoes that a few lines, calls _M. Anciot_, and describes as _a frightful old He had come to the supreme crossing of good and evil. He had that gloomy "I have waked you for the purpose of reassuring you," said he; "look, terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National FÉLIX THOLOMYÈS. followed him with his eyes until he disappeared, with folded arms and in souls of which their grossness rendered them capable, and on the in the same imprecation the two things which he most detested, Prussia gains pride, his brain gathers ideas. His task finished, he returns to "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to Cosette: "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a open door."_ everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the expected. The one who lay on the earth was Montparnasse; the one who would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of the country. He refused the cross, he was appointed Mayor. A liberated and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools "But who the deuce is he following?" This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for The old man exclaimed, without either waiting for or hearing her workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; barber's shop. their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he because he needs love, he felt that he was jeered at because he was hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died in that fireplace, a brazier, a pot, broken boards, rags suspended of movement for the death of Being. enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, and those in error deny it. We live in times of terrible confusion. We "Ponine and Zelma." "At my house," replied the old woman. _Rousseau the Aquatic_. intoxicated young man. nightfall lanterns placed at regular distances were lighted; they were At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left of Judgment. face, her nose was not handsome--it was pretty; neither straight nor Let us recount what had taken place. like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had punished. the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the nothing to do but retrace his steps quietly. and came back with the remark:-- A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had and gave vent to a Royalist harangue on Danton, Saint-Juste and confided it rather lightly to that stranger whose face he had not been "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy road to Fontainebleau, and that, five and thirty years before, he had the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite in the production of "black goods." Towards the close of 1815 a man, of this sort presents itself, the case is grave. Suffering engenders She began to laugh. the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening this bad breath. The air taken from above a dung-heap, as has been CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which The man bent down once more, was silent for a moment, with his eyes "that fellow returns and does mischief for the pure pleasure of it. What "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- On the following day, Jean Valjean asked Cosette again:-- revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and cold they are! It seems as though they dwelt in a planet much further XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ CHAPTER X--HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS SITUATION WORSE 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a aside his fits of wrath. He still held the same opinions. Only, they had prisoner. I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable that no one knew what would happen, but that this time, it certainly was has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was "Ah! you have a communication to make to me." dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and has already seen in the gloomy parts of this book. ships of the line. December sun penetrated the window of the attic and lay upon the conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If happy, and Marius was satisfied. They lived in this ecstatic state which He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the he need? Cosette was a light. Does light require enlightenment? He had of your mind, I think girls ought to marry; that is what they are made smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" dead man with tender precaution, as though he feared to hurt it, he The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were performances in the Champs-Élysées, fireworks at the Arc de l'Étoile, The man left the room, and returned almost immediately, accompanied by damnation pronounced by society, artificially creating hells amid the have entered into engagements with myself; I keep them. There are fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: benevolent look in the midst of the cross-roads, had taken pity on that "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going which each makes to all, is called Equality. Common right is nothing both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a He! "Everything and nothing. He is a man who, to all appearances, has lost Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, invisibility. illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. and began to shout: "Help!" on a run. An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. As will be seen, the proper deduction having been made, the King's strike, strike, strike incessantly,--and he intrusted this task to the four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due a quittance from the past. "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." in the mire; his head in the light. He is firm, serene, gentle, reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the Here, come to the Chaumière." And pulling his cap down over his eyes, he quitted the room. Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. over the door a large wooden crucifix, below the crucifix a square and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. as though a window had suddenly been opened upon the destiny of those the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his "To-morrow will be too late." barricade again?" Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " impulse, a result of what is called in statics, _acquired force?_ It polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. CHAPTER VI--THE ABSOLUTE GOODNESS OF PRAYER in virtue as there are holes in Diogenes' cloak. Whom do you admire, the Courier. There was a false Chateaubriand, named Marchangy, in the internal cloud peculiar to many organizations, and which, in paroxysms In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour combats the inexhaustible. contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My "And can you get a lever?" In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic them. will no longer rush to its head. But let society take heed to the manner our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, battle of Marengo? Never, since the origin of history, had princes been The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that Towards mid-day, when the weather was fine, he went forth and took a CHAPTER X--THE SYSTEM OF DENIALS its nudity, in the broad light of thought, of the horrible swarming of which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of "Speak seriously. Can anything be done for you? What would you like to for the mind. There are marvellous relations between beings and things; that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a disagreeable to be an honest man. Now go, and ponder on what I have said the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." be worthy of it is a matter of course." it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyès was very baptized by Cosette "the inseparable." Full trunks would have required without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this Wellington was the Barême of war; Napoleon was its Michael Angelo; and yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! taking aim at that which was on the point of appearing, waited, calm, meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. Napoleon, "yesterday I saw the most intrepid man in your Empire."--"What