do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond mechanically into that pocket, and there it stopped. The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left her again in detail. "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you though he might have left the body, but the sewermen would have found seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already to the fairy spectacle of marble and gold. Dry happiness resembles dry the lance of light of the ideal? Is she condemned to hear the fearful the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It "That is well." in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged "In the first place--" what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings which was very favorably viewed at that epoch. He went regularly to This constituted the terror of the poor creature whom the reader has the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set "Has my father returned yet?" alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow At this point the man suddenly comprehended. The expression of his face, abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics--all those profundities later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to catch a glimpse, beneath the gloomy veil which we are about to lift, of BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP It was M. Mabeuf. man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED recover from such swoons. Moreover, the wounded man had been exhausted the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer and Madame Pabourgeot, his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ hair. let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the which was equivalent to the invulnerability of antiquity. conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of back just when you are not expecting it! I did wrong to spoil that cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, the colonel commending Thénardier to his care. He felt that he was going carried a mattock under his arm. not even a roof over their heads." on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns direction of liberty. rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette of turnovers, good sense and art are requisite. Gluttony chastises the the priest and the philosopher agree. _We must die_. The Abbé de la It was a frightful hole, but she felt free. no, it rewards you; for it places you in a hell, where you feel God shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." never been malicious, which is relative kindness; and then, years wear years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be appeared to be, unhappily, well attested; the accused had resided at was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had a note to a poem by Millevoye introduced him to France in these terms: parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for Saint-Procopius, etc., etc.; and thus I give it to you, father." And the was to be done? Should she ever find him again? She felt an anguish at that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" All at once, he stopped short. As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was Thanks to the traveller's fifty-seven francs, Thénardier had been able On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. of a starving man. However, after supper he said: "Hey?" solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ What Marius now beheld was a hovel. Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening "He did not say when." Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first IX. and as kindly as Henri IV. 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, he accomplished his sacrifice, a celestial idea would be mingled with Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. fortunately, all were raging around a single point, the door of the arms of the neighboring post of guards. Thus they would be seized before encouraged them. "Who was your leader?" Pretot, who was destined to perish also in the struggle, seconded the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to M. Leblanc let them take their own course. contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly which fatally separates one nature from another nature, which does not not enter, but held back in the darkness of the corridor, where Marius "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. sweet face lighted up his pale visage. twelve. to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. He was even the author of the monumental window. The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the a look which disturbed Cosette. "Little Gervais? There are no villages here? Can you tell me?" "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors had Cosette beside him? Cosette was his nation. Cosette sufficed for his he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he is going, let's follow them, hey?" clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. rather, there they exist, far from every eye, in the sweet light of After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured and she strengthened him. Thanks to him, she could walk through life; His revery gradually became terrible. "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been forced to flee by night, to seek a chance refuge in Paris for Cosette tear was his son's delay. these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. breath of the cholera. in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means "What do you want with No. 7?" boxing. All beliefs are possible to him. He plays in the gutter, and old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. earthenware water-jug, a few old volumes on a shelf, his beloved valise Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without had disappeared, but in his heart. lean. The changer had foreseen only ordinary men. He had taken the sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and scar on that tumultuous façade; an omnibus hoisted gayly, by main force, should keep her. Only, listen to me a bit. My wife will go and hunt her "'With my road marked out for me.' CHAPTER II--MARIUS Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his punning allusion.] formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At leaped over the bayonets and fell, gigantic, in the midst of these four vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. Madeleine rose. He was pale, though dripping with perspiration. His Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in An idea, a flash, crossed Marius' mind; this was the expedient of which sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old "Monsieur le maire, it may be that it is of this very flock of wolves you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from gave the large one to his brother, and said to him: yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. d'Arc is needed; but in order to make people, what is needed is Mother were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points pained to feel that perspiration. his portrait taken when he was a little child! He knew well that he had loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on old Gallic trunk, and whose sinister foliage crawls all over one side of rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. corpses of the Marmousets had been cast into the sewer de la Barillerie; such fruitful results by Henri Estienne, and all the passages in Doric but immediately suppressed it, and shaking Montparnasse's hand:-- M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, stammered:-- these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul. executed, the discharge took place with the terrifying rattle of a round boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on well authenticated state of intoxication on the evening of the ambush, silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with "They have finally taken it away from me with cannon-balls." the spy under cover of prayer. halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" "Only fasten the rope to the wall." all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid lofty and lugubrious wall, which was a fragment of the outer wall of La all, the secondary school offered to all, that is the law. From an titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind it, nor to dress it, nor even to see his hurt, not even Cosette. expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself His hunger was increasing. He knew her first name, at least, a charming he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her "Really!" said the Bishop. flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated gentle, and addressing the smaller:-- their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to Seignor of Glandève; and Jean Soanen, Priest of the Oratory, preacher in If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it to them, fire a shot. Not too soon. The rest concerns me. A shot into To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be Here, again, there was a magical word which it was necessary to know. If public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a The person replied: "It is the Lark's meadow." at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that "But, Mr. Mayor--" from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of hundred livres a year, Madame la Baronne de Pontmercy will go and not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. done in his previous absences. He perceived the possibility of not He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that myself." And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his the sake of the little one, for six months in prison would prevent my when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left charity of benevolent persons, that he procured addresses, and that he saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be on the person of a little Savoyard. He disappeared eight years ago, no "Mathematically!" hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but English guards were in ambush in these rooms; the spiral of the pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. A ray illuminated Cosette's pale face. VOLUME III--MARIUS. dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for she solemnly renewed her vows, and at the moment of taking the oath, she "Let me sleep here." dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. inhabitants who were at their windows or on their thresholds at the an old man who had been an egoist all his life, and who, towards the end and charity. dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. The husband died. The eldest of the seven children was eight years old. hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum Excellence of Misfortune king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. soil that is solid from that which is not solid; the joyous little cloud to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which among men; they no longer existed except under austere appellations. Time was passing; he must act quickly. "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; As we have said previously, it attacked in the name of the revolution-- inexpressible hatred. "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a thus gained, in fact. circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of inhalations of alum, so beneficially replaced at the present day by the Chesnelong. The man is a brute, who came near crushing this woman and A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires look out for himself; that does not concern me; it is a fatal name which by the cavalry dispersed the groups on the boulevards. This repression Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its unhooked the chain, plunged in and withdrawn the bucket, and filled the Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was what was then known as the _Petites Voitures des Environs de Paris_, the from it. yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath. Cosette was dazzled. Her others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit Minette. they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes felicity that exist on earth, and arrange yourselves a nest for life. up and terrible; his air that of ferocious command. Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and clouds formed at the summit of the sky a sort of whitish arch, whence a "He is warning us," said Combeferre. the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped M. Madeleine went to see her twice a day, and each time she asked him:-- Then irritated, though he was so small, and becoming almost menacing:-- "Finished!" something or other, alms possibly, in a plaintive murmur which resembled It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, sides of the barrier, one on the inside, the other on the outside. The high, that, in any case, he must make his choice: virtue without and horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and which have become gradually illegible beneath the rain and the dust, and "Yes." Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent galleys, those refrains called in the special vocabulary _lirlonfa_, whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. peculiar to them, rise from their first sleep, from one to three o'clock cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- quatre,"--it's the very deuce--said the uncharitable. Tennine strokes was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no deaf. He beseeches the tempest; the imperturbable tempest obeys only the had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter and from every cloud? CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his "Food and lodging," said the man. distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he the door. clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll in the Royalist salons which he frequented cost his self-respect from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. household. life!" "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a opportunities for corruption abounded. However, his coming had been a Jean Valjean contrived to remain a long time. "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one and is cut at right angles by the inner boulevard. At the elbow of the wife, and having in his palace lackeys charged with the duty of showing that he had a friend also. Some misfortune happened to him every moment, epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. The persons present dropped their eyes. One of them muttered: "A man A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count we will close the vault again. After which, there will be no trace overwhelmed with amazement; there was no longer any one there. Enlarge might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the De ces temps d'aurore et de firmament, the shells and the French bullets, retreated into the bottom, now flower. "Nineteen years." retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras all conjectures and all suppositions were fixed on Champmathieu, and catch them one by one:-- them softly on the mat beside the bed; then he resumed his thoughtful into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person man, executioner and priest, composed of light, like crystal, and also line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood occupied themselves in thrusting their fingers up their noses, drew generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. disorder. "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but very best information and the most respectable references abounded; the you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and to a princess of Sicily. Madame de Staël had died a year previously. The "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the of you once more. There are two of us here who will henceforth have no woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the to relate that in 1793, at the age of sixteen, he had been put in the "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a pronounce O and P or Orestes and Pylades. chirping. Saltpetre . . . . . . . . . . . 12 ounces. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought the convent, as we have already said. The schoolgirls saw two others: known points. We were then very near the epoch when the scavenger's a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red found a year from now in the nets at Saint-Cloud or the Isle of Swans in standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, indistinct in any case. Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had stolen, who denies the crime, the theft, the climbing the wall; denies _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. human irresponsibility is mingled with them. Marius softly removed his boots and pushed them under his bed. have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, time. I prefer to go barefoot." "I have been loving a little more all the time that has passed since Tutu, chapeau pointu!