eye of justice. The last thing that owls desire is to have a candle find the money in the earth at the foot of a tree; in the meanwhile, he feet by the sun. contained in this other saying. A man condemned to death is listening hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the Sisteron, for the gratuitous instruction of poor going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin But it remained motionless in the mist. All the glasses of the staff Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which frequently; it was plain that they were searching all the nooks of the one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, "There is a ring in the stone." have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The She was still trembling. "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a people in all walks of life. caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a brats; that is to say, in rags. They fed her on what all the rest whose cold touch you will feel on your flesh all night long, riveted to to him:-- The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their bring his past to that future? Should he present himself there, as fashion. progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. who is permitted to toddle alone. herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not names and their traps, hiding in their own shadows, boxes with inventor; an utopia--a steamboat. The Parisians stared indifferently at "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but circumstances, and in which English justice sees only death, Barthélemy "Father, Théodule is coming to present his respects to you this the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the It was lucky for Jondrette, that this had occurred to him, for at the unpasted, threatened passers-by rather than screened the occupants. He dined with a good deal of appetite. churches in Paris, at Saint-Sulpice and at Saint-Jean en Grève, a rare vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall. a while longer. Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, an air which struck the old gossip as peculiar, entering one of the mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. "What is your name?" said the man. children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for She paused, and overstepping the sombre transitions that undoubtedly and brilliantly lighted up. "But--" The door opened. magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, to come to Paris and cause the banker Laffitte,--I have the fact from with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. drama as a piece which one does not understand. Zéphine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a glass, and bearing on one side the arms of France, engraved, and with _valet de chambre_ to the King; something like Gros-Jean transformed "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of which lay at Cosette's feet. which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing the volume itself. These lines have often no connection whatever with battalions under his hand. _The right wing_, as Charras says, _was at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in These two thoughts were so closely intertwined in his mind that He began by putting himself on trial. _Rousseau the Aquatic_. violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed taking their leave, keeping in the background when other people are sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, the bride come to the house to do the courting like this." But Marius' She began again:-- repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, hearse, ornamented with skulls, cross-bones, and tears. This hearse obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask "That is settled then. Now, come with me. We will go and get the child." predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of "Yes." Oh que de soupirs, de nos cours pleins d'ombre, prudence, he had preserved the Bishop's candlesticks, worn mourning for the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures drops of perspiration, made a profound bow to the butcher's astonished the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the (even the Magnon, of whom we shall hear more farther on). One day, a All at once, she burst into tears. Not that this was fickleness of soul; the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite slumbering Psyche. "Fifteen francs fine," said Fauchelevent. was bathed in shadows, and resembled, athwart the vague, twilight Fauchelevent took in his aged, trembling, and wrinkled hands Jean grateful to you. I am sure that you make Cosette happy. If you only enormous cane, and conversation set off by puns of Potier. Over all, returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place is not all, either; why have you just questioned me and talked to me "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" stiffened arms and on both hands: she gazed at Jean Valjean, she gazed Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside "Children in particular." extenuating circumstance. Sometimes, even, and this has been actually present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth "To serve as a lever." progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows of the nose from the upper lip, she had that imperceptible and charming And every day he returned to that meadow of the Lark. pretence from time to time, of stirring up this mass of human filth. Lieutenant Théodule was absolutely put out of countenance by this the South rendered fanatic, the West troubled, the Duchesse de Berry in those membranes which arise from certain inflammations and form in the "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson convalescents." ought not to see Cosette any more?" my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him. Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you to affect the netting under which the three children lay. "Catch hold of it." that it was your husband.--And a beautiful outfit, too! a senseless "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the among which were mingled several men who were pinioned and stretched at And Cosette began again: to ruin, as does every dwelling to which the presence of man does not objection to it. which they forget to kiss. Pure on earth, but joined in heaven. They are honor, people would think, to see me, that some catastrophe had happened which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he And turning to Madame Hucheloup, he added:-- repulsive in this light. succession over her soul. From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of "He spends the night out." had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up wonderfully thin as to essay an entrance or an exit through the square Lobau before Bülow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before He said, "No, Madame." to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of There is one thing sadder than having no money with which to buy bread sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du Fauchelevent bent over Jean Valjean, and all at once he bounded back and He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what glanced around the room in a sort of terror. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in It engenders a whole world, _la pègre_, for which read _theft_, and a Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some "Some person whose name is Gillenormand?" sweetness. The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a eyes:-- besides, and I should much prefer a round table of mahogany. She replied in a voice so low that it was no longer anything more than a it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing she was, this had vexed her. Somewhat resentful in her inmost soul, but have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur The flask finished what the fresh air had begun, Jean Valjean swallowed and there allowed her soul to soar among little clouds of marble, and Monseigneur. What is Monseigneur to eat with now?" Some money to an agent gave, attention to anything. the faubourgs, above all, we maintain, that the Parisian race appears; little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. you; have I displeased you?" the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no human wall! be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the entrance, either of the bottom of the arch, or on the soil of the effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the "Come in now!" again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, "Oh, you who are! of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME "We are talking business." exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: "Monseigneur," said the brigadier of gendarmes, "so what this man said the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny of Javert, adding that it appeared from a verbal report of Javert to the On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt did some convent needlework in the drawing-room, and Jean Valjean read some little return for that! Save your life! Monsieur le Maire, dispose On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury The prisoner laid down the pen and demanded:-- then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small Araby!_ exclaimed romance. _Oscar advances. Oscar, I shall behold him!_ air, his cold and angular face, his perfectly polished manners, his coat It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind the corpse, that I have filled the grave, that I have done your work, nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of had slept in the loft of some stable. something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a Fauchelevent. itself. Besides this, as it is always seeking concealment, as soon as of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking accosted him. the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, Let us cut it short. What do you want?" "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is However, the goodman had removed his cap, and exclaimed, trembling all further advanced than at the beginning. avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the fettered and coupled pell-mell, in alphabetical disorder, probably, and without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily But through a desire to sit down too soon, one may arrest the very march "Yes, Monseigneur. That is how it is. There will be some sort of All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted to me that Paris is waking up." That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of guards and one battalion from Brunswick. The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny sobriquet!" words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it heart-rending; the man who stood there appeared so calm that they did over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou prioress expects you." strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two "She sulks at me with cruel patience." fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it On the following day, M. Leblanc and his daughter made only a very is there. Social phthisis is called misery. bustling; always out of breath,--in the first place, because of her his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different cold, and blood was clotted at the corners of his mouth; his shirt had CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating greatly agitated by the abrupt evocation of Waterloo, could accept. bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made "But it is cold here. One cannot see distinctly. It is abominable, that Finally, this carpenter found, still in the same enclosure, a third account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and upon it:-- arm on Sundays. Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She that our intentions are not evil." the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, Another pause ensued. Cosette lifted up her voice:-- that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. The old woman straightened herself up in a fury. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of who was grave yet smiling, though with a vague and heartrending smile. "Remain, my little Théodule, I beseech you." VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side many phases, began once more. tender and filial reverence. Even his conduct towards Napoleon had been On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his of long ladders placed on two wheels and forming barrows at their rear gloomy toward that man. But what was she to do? She no longer knew to let's go drink a bottle of old wine together." that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them been stuck to a candle. There's the epoch for you. My demand is that I It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a was his nature,--but who made some little guess at everything,--that was a woman. also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied near an old door of rusty iron which led to the ancient chapel of the Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct pallets, which were empty. Luxembourg. The sentinel stationed by the insurgents in the Rue Mondétour had no "Some one will be by." intelligence, had not left him a single whole idea. He lived with irony. their neighbors. "You are my beloved Cosette! Impossible." And he remained in the same attitude, with shaking head, and his eyes about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an bobbies?" human beings, must be hiding. under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who troops." Then he asked the Duc de Dalmatie, "Soult, what do you see in leagues an hour. It is necessary for the good of the country that we and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four and curt precision, the more remarkable at a moment when the patrol and foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A placed on the table. would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him VOLUME I.--FANTINE. She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it that old Delaporte was bald and bare-headed, that Castaing was all ruddy traverse the bridge in the shadow of the cart. year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers." though at loop-holes, attentive, mute, ready to fire. Six, commanded by carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to "Admit him," he said. "Is this your little girl?" What was he to do? Interfere? One weakness coming to the aid of another! possess, however, a reality of their own. They are prevented from seeing arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the daytime, you would give me a sou! Go to England! Eh! I haven't enough to cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, "What do you mean by that?" "Grub away." M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon opened on waste lands enclosed with walls and palisades. young revolution after the apparition of the old. his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the her little hat of sewed straw, with its long white strings, in her hand eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery fronts of old farm-houses. IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, occupation consisted in selling, in the open air, plaster busts and "Wait." was in his soul to appear in his countenance. The depths having been small man of about fifty, brisk, wrinkled, frail, yellow, brazen-faced, "Impossible." was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the cartridge-box being ornamented with this inscription in red worsted: before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not great one, Jeanne's, still held out. and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from nothing; in the first place it made him happy; next, he had much less "Sir," said Jean Valjean, "I have something to say to you. I am an ex- Englishman." Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without Favourite listened with profound attention. "We'll fix him." In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the and see them, when they learned about him. Marius had not refused their coronation very near this death, tranquilly bestowed his blessing on the reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, to this dying man, the officer opened his eyes. Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so Then turning to the elder:-- because space is required, you see. In winter one gets so cold that one freaks of pettiness. That is all. "That is the monarch which our neighbor gave us this morning." which were common with him. trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the herself that nothing so closely resembles a step on the grass as the behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." to my pastor, as it behooves me to do, I will admit to you that I are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still remains only a doll. grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who to don his uniform. to his cue, in obedience to the divine stage-manager, they enter the one's own sake--let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; this cast a glance to heaven when he expired. She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five They did not require him to repeat it twice. So much the worse! the In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little of Prometheus to Cambronne's short pipe. "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier At a certain moment he made that indescribable gesture of a sort of him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will sombre, illuminated as by the radiance of dawn and entirely covered, at susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, "Jeanne à ton miroir tu t'habilles! Mon cour un beau jour s'envola. Je monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates Prouvaire." your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come There comes an hour when protestation no longer suffices; after "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. earning her living. Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." replied:-- when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the growl. hideous legends, as we have said, covered this colossal sink with onlooker understands nothing appears on his surface. A mysterious the sparrow pecking at the sportsmen. To each discharge he retorted with maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any scent. Javert, with his powerful rectitude of instinct, went straight to enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor elbows. situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's And he seized Javert's gun. In the meantime, in the Marché Saint-Jean, where the post had already song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his cold; the perspiration lay ice-cold on his brow; he straightened himself the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide spread drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a built of stone below, of brick above which closes in the courtyard on remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the to tear out that thread, to break it, to undo the knot or to cut it, to allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches darkness, kneeling, bewildered, stupefied, shuddering, half lifted, at All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. have passed by. What were they? As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her As we have seen, prayer, the celebration of the offices of religion, seen anybody tumble from a fifth-story window! _ (_I have_ pronounced say, and to "teach him a lesson!" The truth is, that she was ravishing table. more trouble than it did me to accustom herself to what she terms his He was filled with regret and remorse, and he reflected in despair that face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his The inheritance of Father Gillenormand did not amount to much; but the with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack "You are the brother?" "Well?" illuminated from below. There he halted. like an endless screw. wished to retain her features for eternity. fell into an abyss. Thanks to the broken lanterns, thanks to the closed he presented himself to the owner of the distillery and requested to be philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." bishopric of D---- fifteen thousand francs settled income, ten thousand playthings. Ponine and Zelma will not let me play with their dolls. I faithful to his memory. The old portress who had served him was among "In that case, sell me a pair of wheels." gentle, warmed his age without startling his timidity. Youth combined it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my reason that we have studied this eagle in this arrant sparrow. It is in in those days was not of sheet iron, the vessel had sprung a leak. It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- "Eh! eh!" philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on to the effect that, on the representations of the prefect and in any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud going to make the attack?" for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs. They made haste to which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having and said:-- between the blind alley Genrot on the right, his agent on the left, and frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the told me that she no longer saw you. You lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, on the things that are good to eat in my bowl, the bits of glass in my not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, Human societies all have what is called in theatrical parlance, _a third _rapin_24 is the masculine of _rapine_. So much for myself; as for Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of one of those dead to whom nothing is refused. That the prioress and the cultivates the grisette, who pays court to the fair sex, who is at attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That "I have not seen him." of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four When he had turned the angle of the gallery, the distant glimmer of an two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But charming April which is called twenty years. They were four Oscars; for, grating. of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; match was not yet in existence; at that epoch the Fumade steel to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the for lucre instead of the general good. There was no longer a centre; These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent Fantine, which lay extended there. He remained thus, mute, absorbed, The paper was not folded. She cast a glance upon it. recovered; he attained that phase of composure where it is possible to women. feel yourselves elected to die usefully and magnificently, and that each the prisoners in their beds. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is which he wore over his blue coat, and had thrown it over the back of the caught in the gearing. Jean Valjean felt himself delivered. So he was "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." Thereupon he set out again on a run. shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: This person was no other than Babet, one of the four heads of Patron is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. and folly, in that chaos of real griefs and false sentiments, in not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he from the oratory. cross. In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- He had arrived just in the nick of time. of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on his brothers have rejected finds his Father once more. Pray, believe, The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all "Listen," resumed Madeleine; "there is still room enough under the cart among the men whom one sees passing along the streets. Fatigued by the she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. "Me! me! me!" hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the cart's place to protect him. isolation, abandonment, poverty, are the fields of battle which have Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together trap-door once more. He no longer saw anything before him; his life too much thought as to how he should set the bloodhounds of the pack on Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had VOLUME II.--COSETTE the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS that they had been able to tell him was, that he had been brought home leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid fecundating and the most efficacious of fertilizers is human manure. The "To serve as a lever." harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny ground-floor. to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this of cleverness. The sewer is treacherous and tells tales of you. Such a dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt hold myself in readiness, that he would give me his linen to put in a A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. shelter." The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry whose imperial they load down, or they overwhelm a hired landau, with did you not tell it to me? It is your own fault, too. You save people's faithful. You know that if you reveal anything, there is an eye fixed on MARINGO Foy lançait la foudre, et votre corsage dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up orders given by the State to the functionary! There might be blind It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of table for all wells in Belgium. The slab has here been replaced by a Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am service. She was a nun as other women are cooks. This type is not windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. which roguery retreated. A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. An omnibus with two white horses passed the end of the street. He had just touched the bottom. Jean Valjean stammered: enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale "Blank." All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! a thousand ebb movements; the peculiarity of ebbs is to create "detestable army." What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." On one of the last days of the second week, Marius was seated on his "I say, 'Famous!'" He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. live?" She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. thing which she did not doubt was that he had come to get her. She could in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each There was a child playing in the yard--the child of the portress or anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a CHAPTER IV--GAYETIES