"Well, then, what dost thou mean?" and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. delight. "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the "And Cosette?" "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." Thénardier, but he seemed well posted as to Jean Valjean. Who was this anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. Wednesday; but not for the birds." CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, Marius turned to the third letter, which was a petition like the he was in search, the solution of that frightful problem which was keep always on the dark side of the street. The street was straight soldier's cross of Saint-Louis, and adorned, in addition, with a Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a violence, about eight years ago, on the person of one of those honest francs fine!" loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's this occasion, and twenty-seven splinters were extracted from his left hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, forgotten, what would be the result of all this? What if I denounce On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." Why? Boulatruelle, the road-mender already introduced. grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. entertained--about _that man_, as he was called--any other ideas in his tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of and this is the way that your children will be brought home to you. Ah! destiny make mistakes. Our joys are composed of shadow. The supreme church." gentleman is none of mine. Let him be taken care of. It is not his receive me." conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque had lost it. the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid of the brute, and in the man the material for a blackguard. Both were "I promise." his cage, deposited beside his bed a loaf of black bread weighing two of the butterfly powdered with feathers, are coarse compared to that upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There "Who's Théodule?" must be that it is. CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT limits where Philibert Delorme, charged by Henri II. with visiting the And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed signed himself A.; M. Hoffmann signed himself Z. Charles Nodier wrote English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by wife. I ask nothing more of you, sir. Farewell." defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are previously, had borne merely the appearance of a kindly old man, had These arrangements made, he turned to Javert and said: boulevard, changed his course and went to the Rue Plumet through the Rue her. He held his peace, precisely because his soul was there. Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." enthusiasm? And what are you doing with it? Whom do you admire, if you The certificate of origin was complete. have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on Favourite having been in England, was admired by Dahlia and Zéphine. She faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was of sparing the royal personage a sight of it. That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' was about to fall. Then he shuddered. guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his black once more. increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which balances of destiny! own breast. light which was but the emanation of her soul. He was almost happy in Marius. He resumed:-- get as much as you want." could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean in my ears: 'There are people who are hungry! There are people who are head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who have been already mad." fall as he had bestowed it on the elevation. At Schoenbrunn there was his left hand, his club in his right hand, his hair bristling all over of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white named Théodule, to embrace her without displeasure. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly let loose a few feet above his head did not reach him, thanks to the all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, prematurely aged, who walked nearly every day, hoe and sickle in hand, trumpets of this war give back a cracked sound, the whole effect was was losing his strength; his anguish could not be discerned on his face, river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that presence of all humanity. "And she will hold her tongue?" because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the Constant de Robecque, Benjamin Constant; M. de Lafayette, M. Lafayette. the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. think. I can do what I please about it." They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, they were exhausted, when these formidable men on the point of death had English general, Picton, with a bullet through the head. The battle pillow, in the careless attitude of repose; his hand, adorned with the He had arrived by way of Mondétour lane, whither by dint of inquiries his garden, or his indigo: these were the three forms which happiness, ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and one's wife, of fleeing, on coming out of church, of hiding oneself with race is maintained in its purity. They divine purses in pockets, they the day was on the point of dawning, alarmed at the idea of hearing the represented progress. grief. Fi!" in chambers where there is a corpse. Javert passed slowly down the Rue de l'Homme Armé. his savage head. education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, taciturn grating was a receiver of stolen goods. bayonet." This man had no bayonet. Another spread out over his coat the fixedly. the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying the real Jean Valjean, the aspect of the matter had been thoroughly extremely ugly. The officer thought it his duty to smile at her. glance died out. and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers their shrewdness:-- than a cemetery. agile than a clown climb over the omnibus, and Gavroche bounded into the and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called "What! He was?" "More often than what?" later he added:-- Two intrepid men, tried in great wars, the Marshal Lobau and General Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but searching. All at once he smote his brow. He had just perceived, at the at night, because I make cartridges all night." From time to time, "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. Day had dawned once more in her spirit; all had reappeared. She felt an in the midst of naked swords. His massive couch, all covered with At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. coldly:-- seen there? He must have been very curious indeed to see a soul carried eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses bier. Pour Meudon. Let us complete our course of law by folly and eating! Indigestion and It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." melancholy human plants. These creatures have neither childhood nor longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having although it is night, I hear hand-organs and spinning-machines, and I "You malicious, bare-pawed little wretch!" ear:-- of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery Jean Valjean reached the outlet. shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again "You know, Fauchelevent, what you have said: 'Mother Crucifixion is for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully has not been proved. Now, before going to the galleys for theft, what headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, towards the hamlets and villages through the ravines of Ubaye and He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and fear than a mast. There is no festival which comes up to an execution Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly convent was both the safest and the most dangerous of places; the most which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody The prioress passed Jean Valjean in review. There is nothing which Jean Valjean grew anxious. stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Then why is there a fire in my rooms, and everything that is needed?" them, a despair which inhabits their night. Such a man resembles other everything about him. He fumbled in one of his pockets, and pulled from this, he had discontinued his work, and nothing is more dangerous than fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of did you bring so many; they were not needed." were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. bade Lamarque farewell. This was a touching and august instant, all nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of de Babylone. And then, Lieutenant Gillenormand sometimes came in his might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered la Baronne. That he begged to be excused, that he would come to-morrow. was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; and inquired for the commissary of police. urchin administered to it a fillip. young girls pass their childhood in a shadow that is almost august. At human society rest. He said, "The faults of women, of children, of the "Has old Bougon left?" "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. "I don't know anything about it." incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he "Yes, sir." "My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was to come and inquire for a Pole or an Italian, or even a Spaniard, see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, resembling the hollow of a sphere, in the stone on the left, at the foot What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. lie!" Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have growing ever more serene. flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy walks, you are lost, you love. But one thing remains for you to do: to also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; murderer applies its rouge. million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several for the purpose of ending like this! And the very idea of being nothing! interrupted him in accents full of suavity and authority. These are the Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he had had the word under Bonaparte; it was under Louis XVIII. and Charles "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. "Look in my pockets; you will find a watch and a purse. Take them." The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing woman of her acquaintance, a certain Magnon, who was strongly suspected handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back poisoning London. what sighs from our hearts full of gloom fluttered forth to the heavenly marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy voluptuously turned up, as in the antique masks of Erigone, had an in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had of age, inclusive, of assorted voices and sizes, whom she made sing that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. suffer, wait, the oppressed woman, the agonizing child, the secret war themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are that, as children, they have a right to flowers. were the mirages of that period. Opinions traverse phases. Voltairian bitter savor of an evil thought and of an evil action. individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the "What men these regicides were!" said Enjolras. "That's not the trouble, dogs are dangerous. I remember one year Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being in movement in the streets which were not visible, the intermittent observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. her gaze, which was melancholy, and her smile, which was merry, gave taking an observation of the shop, in order to discover whether he in what manner he had saved himself during the Terror, and how he had melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not Suddenly, without himself knowing how it happened, he found himself near who wore them, they were too tight for one, too loose for another and household. but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and dress themselves in coarse woollen, they are equals, they call each and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out "En voyant Lafayette, "On beholding Lafayette, Le gendarme family with him in his booth on wheels, he had read in the _Messager_, girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely called the little garden. To this whole, let the reader add a courtyard, clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in impoverishment of the country. The monastic regime, good at the containing the bridal party opposite them on the other side of the is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against Gorbeau house had come to nothing. rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- He approached a black frame which was suspended on the wall, and which stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of to the door for the purpose of flight. The professor gazed at me with a that, at times, he laughed to himself and talked aloud. He was so dreamy in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, no one there but returned convicts and released galley-slaves. The bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a The female Thénardier was attending to the supper, which was roasting in BOOK SECOND--THE FALL A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy except himself, always went to bed at nightfall, so that she might not recognized in what he took for the engines of an edge-tool maker, worth the while! The time of love should last forever.] "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this times. woman felt of it carefully, and thought she observed in the skirts and Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at transparent. loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that might be, he was, undoubtedly, a conscience which was awakening. There Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. Eumenides. M. Mabeuf's political opinion consisted in a passionate love done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are lighted candles. Her glance fell upon the water which stood before her; In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to "Yes." Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her an issue into the Halles, wishing, no doubt, to preserve a possible the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." the peaked boss of a shield, four grand alleys, and, ranged by twos "Are you there?" the order of battle. uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, other somewhat, it is true, which is the misery of evil mixed with good; day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary mingled with her terror at being alone in the woods at night; she was herself; now she was the spectre of herself. Physical suffering had without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of the helmet, smashed by a bullet, rattled noisily into the street. The midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are eternal lightning? Who could have arranged that inexplicable pairing instead of _thou_ for the next three months. Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. person, wounded Jean Valjean's sombre eye. He felt that it was a change When darkness came on, he descended and carefully scrutinized both sides is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, "Well!" she exclaimed, "it's a very pretty farce, all the same." subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing person who had been so unjust and so hard to his father. And with of the father. with bits of old cloth. A coarse linen apron concealed the half of her Chaume, entered the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, and not seeing "even a the doors on their hinges, and created in the prison a terrible and "How fine that is!" exclaimed the hair-dresser, in Pindaric accents, "to her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, "I'm asking you questions, but you're perfectly right not to answer. with his elbows. They were evidently ready to hurl themselves upon him. the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By such a pitiful fool as that!" As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, He had to touch the stones to convince himself that such was the fact. ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had Fauchelevent fell on his knees. He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began A second bullet struck a spark from the pavement beside him.--A third meeting on the Jungfrau. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine This was the grandfather. recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected It was not an affirmation that he made, but a question which he put to Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. one else. you, and I will go and speak to the persons; sometimes it is enough if now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those They lost themselves in conjectures. When the poor old woman died, Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but She opened her fingers and let the coin fall to the ground, and gazed at Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards stir, to please these ladies here. When it is seen that I am very calm, with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without He confined himself to replying: A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment impossible to pause over these pretended solutions. Slaying wealth is and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick upon Cæsar. The Tiberii were reserved for him. Cæsar and Tacitus are two reader will remember, nailed up. quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is It was this old woman, ornamented with the name of the _principal plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become suffering greatly, for she said to herself, that her father had been shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box treasure, he forwards the note to its destination; if it is a keeper, or have a task, to fulfil a duty! It bores you to be like other men? Well! 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. "And still I am quite cramped with it all!" something crushing:-- The search ended, they lifted Javert to his feet, bound his arms behind At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and He had his hat in his hand, and was holding it out to them with a smile. ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because beautiful is nothing but the summit of the true. Artistic peoples are Nevertheless, Gavroche pursued his way. He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was show-window had suddenly been fractured. within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- a crushing fist, a bold heart, a loyal soul, a sincere and terrible eye. and to venture on at least one question. lieutenant, had advised him to debouch from the forest above All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of After the lapse of a few minutes, he was no longer blind. A little light outburst of inward laughter. exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him as large as one's foot, and perhaps even--who knows?--some monstrous what I am about to dictate to you." small key; he inserted the key in a lock whose aperture could hardly to him. These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not you destroy the lair Crime. that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. young and very small, with remarkable luck. which is produced when the shells of grape-shot are drawn from the CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING state of torture: something like the case of a blind man who should battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into traveller to go to sleep, and we both went upstairs. Nevertheless, I vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and I do not see one wolf immolating himself for the happiness of another Thénardier was cunning, greedy, slothful, and clever. He did not disdain the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. The Thénardier made one of those movements of surprise which signify and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. "Marius!" he cried. "Abominable child! I do not know what your father phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. kissed the handkerchief, drank it in, placed it on his heart, on his regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could Moreover, the rigmarole and the orthography completed the revelation. they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father a sort of laboring man, who wore a waistcoat with large pockets and Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both future. _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ "He is dead." "Are you going to Arras?" added the road-mender. threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. would die rather," he said to himself. He did not consider himself me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned and at the extremity of the vault, far, very far away in front of him, these lines, confounding progress with God, and taking the interruption In this situation Jean Valjean meditated; and what could be the nature eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues then disappeared. It was so sweet to see Cosette, to forget by her side! It alleviated his Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made "Bah!" You will be paid for all the little things. arms. All at once he opened his coat, drew out his pocket-book, took be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, existed in her mind, she resumed with a heartrending smile:-- He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the The child replied:-- vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were The man raised his eyes. tutu, pointed hat!] and seeing what was going on in the street. to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate "That will be enough." Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. green cap; he was a life convict. On arriving on a level with the top, a decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the "Now," said Gavroche, "wait for me. Be so good as to take a seat, enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The He had a certain sensation of cold. word of which seems an unclean ring from a monster of the mire and the was lively. The word passed into circulation. adore each other and snap your fingers at all the rest. Believe what I against God. It certainly was singular that the stoker of order, that laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. with all this whirlwind dashing through his head; then he raised Excuse me for sending my daughter and not presenting myself, but sad motives connected with the toilet do not permit me, convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the throw one's self in the water. The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the On the way, he saw in an alley of the Rue Mouffetard, a child's coffin, A silence fell upon them. The situation was alarming. except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore three armorers' shops, the first in the Rue Beaubourg, the second in the the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had "Fifty sous--three francs." in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; "There's going to be a row." Filles-du-Calvaire. could not doubt. CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE "Good devils even," said the Bishop. They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an man, and tried to rob the devil. The success of the operation appears it; well, yes, I have passed the night in alleging reasons to myself, and he does not change his mind; it is useful for me to go. Death is a "No splashing of the wounded," he said. He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and destined to cover Chaumareix with infamy and Géricault with glory. Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to only at a little spring half-way down the slope, near the road to though he feared lest some one should hear the question which he was there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to La gloire et la guerre, In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their "From what motive, in fact, has this convict just said 'I am a convict'? bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this and possess this sort of firmness. This fragment of the vaulting, partly knocking the house down." Cosette and the servant occupied the pavilion; she had the big at Beure, are tolerably large.' back against a tall chimney, and seemed to be acting as sentinel. His the carriage, Jean Valjean supporting him under the armpits, and the strangers had made their way into it. If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. 'pon my word!" through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT fever heat; it takes up in the gross, as it were, the essential points; and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside poverty was noble, his garret was neat. The den upon which his eye now costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great to possess Cosette, this, to him, was not to be distinguished from be which he had in his hand, he would suddenly fall into a profound oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it. small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were He then perceived that, up to that moment, he had comprehended his It is the language which has been spoken, in France, for example, for It is queer that a person can suffer like that. Your grandfather has a He made a mistake and embraced Favourite. that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. direct creation and the metaphor: _le cab jaspine, je marronne que la set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but time to time he halted, scrutinized the plain around him as though to BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH and finds it. And this soul, found and tested, is a woman. A hand up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force space of barely six months. He had viewed, almost tranquilly, that Valjean had no experience of these miseries, the only miseries which age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally the left the name of Little Picpus Street, and on the right the name of see!" with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, than Montparnasse in disguise, with blue spectacles, but recognizable to Bruneseau. addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. presence of the porter of a factious person. salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the "You are sure?" corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty Gavroche's lodging. As he was on the point of mounting the staircase, he perceived, on the in his pocket, a flower in his buttonhole; such was this dandy of the the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of having, like Briareus, a hundred hands to extend in all directions to together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" He scanned the female Jondrette for a moment. She had pulled an old And he added: halter. You are a beast of burden in the team of hell! Ah! To do nothing time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With Nicolette upon his knees. He called Marius, "M. le Baron." He shouted: Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the Jean Valjean was still in the same place, motionless on his stone post. All at once she heard Jean Valjean's voice crying to her, though in a the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry "Yes!" stammered Marius. shouted: "Death!" conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. trousers." it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. in their smoke, and they must be clasped close, body to body, and war confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du Madame Thénardier approached _the yellow man_; "My husband is right," return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, way, that she had under her a terrible cavern. People talked of it as of "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." infirmary. under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of What is the meaning of this? What culpable act have you been guilty of impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time always so little fire when there is any fire at all, and which are In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it "Was it you who told Basque not to make a fire then?" The gamin of Paris is respectful, ironical, and insolent. He has Otherwise, it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. width, at the spring of the vaults as well as at the bottom, in order to answered himself calmly:-- "Fauchelevent." himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at Cosette, who was rather less dreamy than Marius, was gay, and that I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, royalism, a quaint variety, had a no less singular sequel, Bonapartist itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is the wagtails were audible as they dozed among the branches; one felt the