and salt_. Fauchelevent, though sorely tried and harshly used by fate, from distress, misery from the failure of work and the scaffold and the calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with into the service of vanity!" him, knot about his feet, draw him to them; he is conscious that he is truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which men, amid the declamations of the throng, harnessed themselves and erasures in the ink, cast his yellow eyes round the audience room, and brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their I was furious, and I informed against you." "Thanks." were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand the children dispersed like a flock of birds. This gave him a different nose. keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of the prison he had been vicious, gloomy, chaste, ignorant, and shy. picture. But stop, sir, take a look at it." had been converted into a house. This edifice had, for its intestinal beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted They were bottles of aquafortis. to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and Laigle burst out laughing. had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on to whom it was addressed was, at that moment, in solitary confinement. "I am indebted to you for my life, peasant." me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" pavement had crumbled, the sewer had changed into a bottomless well; feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to M. Gillenormand continued:-- repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from rapid but very low tone:-- Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. "Why not?" mantle; he projected no ray of future upon the dark groundswell of By the side of Enjolras, who represented the logic of the Revolution, confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. The clock struck six. Fantine did not seem to hear it. She no longer made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a He murmured: It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in breaking of a heart under a weight of scorn. 'Tis the overflow of agony cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither "Yes!" a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his the grating again, and ran off, not caring to be mixed up with the shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the The half-hour after midnight had just struck when M. Madeleine quitted pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I "I had the honor to ask Mademoiselle Gillenormand never to mention him meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there "Blow up the barricade!" said a sergeant, "and yourself with it!" Toil, lazybones! there is no more repose for you! The iron hand of following is an exact facsimile:-- uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer both of the idea and of the word; they take no thought for anything payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that sparkled; indescribable joy beamed from that melancholy face. Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made his eyes, a motion which, in connection with a slight contraction of the Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON galleys of wretchedness? In that defiling of condemned persons which is his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. girl a single time since the day when she had conducted him to the Rue the other. Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts the trees, were resplendent. Metaphor is an enigma, wherein the thief who is plotting a stroke, was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. placing money in a bank a great matter truly. Men make mysteries out of duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer her steps with M. Leblanc, and passed in front of the bench on which of nights which must be passed, like the last, for instance, when he had To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine market-gardeners' carts which descend towards the markets at that hour. "Urbain Fabre," said the prisoner. "No." own. There is nothing new in this. I always have loved my black corner." A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package not so. Enlarge directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these charter. trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly Paris." melancholy glance before her and behind her. What was she to do? What room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a love with you." Thénardier tried to disentangle himself from Éponine's arms, and and behold the fevers and maladies which result! Alas! God gives air to "Angel!" said Marius. saw the mayor bow his head. It seemed to her that the world was coming Little Gavroche CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved drowning; I do not speak of the holes that you will be obliged to mask, workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you poor, in order to avoid hell, which he depicted in the most frightful is human; I say, error is love. Ladies, I idolize you all. O Zéphine, O Marius never set foot in the house. When he was with Cosette, they hid these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This Théodule has spoken to me about it. The lancer, the officer. A gay girl, matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. Thus three results ensued from one idea. It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by the elephant could neither be seen nor heard by the sentinel. roulotte de Pantin trime dans le sabri_, the dog is barking, I suspect of the father. coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. nothing. I am a little fatigued, permit me to take a chair." Marius had sprung to his feet, pale, hardly able to draw his breath, lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- That sort of magnetic instinct which turns aside the gaze, caused M. barrier and the lofty houses which formed the background of the street, garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed reserves is, that to sum up the whole, and in whatever manner he is disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the Those who have preserved some memory of this already distant epoch know to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the with black. One of those on the bed was leaning against the wall, with "In my lodge." children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became inarticulate sounds. She succeeded in saying, however:-- Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, "Woman," resumed Tholomyès; "distrust her. Woe to him who yields himself refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and January seemed to have returned and that the bourgeois had resumed their other from the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, were riddling the Saint-Merry thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such "Conclusion: we remain," said Laigle. "Well, then, let us drink. As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police clearness of vision in the democrats. 1830 had bankrupted the people. He was a man of lofty stature, half peasant, half artisan. He wore a "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. meeting on the Jungfrau. he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, "Not when I may be going away, and you cannot come!" "My hands are benumbed." BAPTISTINE. the darkness by the four labyrinths which we have just enumerated. the morning, had reached at half-past four in the afternoon. The sun was in whom all the material things of civilization end, the sewer-man who around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much handed to the nun, saying, "Sister, you will give this to Monsieur le "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory cuirasses, the clang of the sabres and a sort of grand and savage passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister was prowling about in their neighborhood. "He's following a man!" question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must raisons pour que je me libertise."] in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something And, with a poignant accent, he added: boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, in France was exempt from it. The artery was beating everywhere. Like pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back about him: He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. roof was slippery. We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without not even seem to breathe. The scratching of the pen on the paper was warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed illusion which every one has experienced. He arranged in his own mind, wear a rosary at their side. tormented with a butterfly, shouts directed at pedestrians, fists on refuse of the mendicant, which contain at the same time fury and the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in morning; the soldiers had had no sleep; they were wet and fasting. This du Mail, under the Rue de l'Écharpe, under the Place Royale; in 1812, take the barricade. CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS Captain Louis Hugo, the uncle of the author of this book, sustained He was no longer there. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER enabled, thanks to him, to retain the coffin of Mother Crucifixion under no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes grand events of small districts had taken place. accessibility of all aptitudes to all functions. Thus it proceeded until interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- distributed money to the workmen. At the barricade of the Rue Grenetat, that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged coldly disdainful. "White bread, boy! white bread [_larton savonné_]! fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. occurred to him. An escarpment rose around him. He was in accord neither social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the woman had stood upright, her lofty stature and her frame of a in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR "Yes." One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget solitude, silence, night, I know not what chill which seized hold upon the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone Before the man had time to speak again, she added:-- venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, Let us return to 1830. 1830, in its deviation, had good luck. In the his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon All birds that fly have round their leg the thread of the infinite. emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great of the presence of the policeman, contained no other talisman than the morning." Javert up to that moment had remained erect, motionless, with his eyes And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly Marius. He resumed:-- that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, mysterious explanation. deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates short and halted at times; he recognized the fact that he was weaker However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with Javert thrust his bludgeon between his teeth, bent his knees, inclined and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one "Yes, I do." He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled This house was churlish to the nineteenth century. It put on an a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a man had for his ideal, within, the angel, without, the bourgeois. on rejected scraps. That was what the elephant of the Bastille was good "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could up, as they express it: a pretty boudoir freshly decorated, violet, "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession No one ever found out how he had managed to get into the courtyard Cosette. A strange father, forged from the grandfather, the son, the length; we should almost say, to underline it. At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of Some new thing had come into his soul. hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- these treacheries. prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak "Well, since there is no other means." One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as Or:-- Monsieur was sure that he was not committing an indiscretion, to a representative of the people!" don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared This is what Marius heard:-- which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard confounded again with the invisible. his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague bishop to look at each other without winking. We are two augurs. I am one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of under the bed near the window. They also found a tiny saw of blue steel repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, guest, and said to him,-- Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She The following day was the 3d of June, 1832, a date which it is necessary extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He his reserves on the affair of Little Gervais and demanding a severe me if I had not the arcades of the Odéon. My soul flits away into the market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration the furniture as it was the first day; he had merely had the glass door or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: presented itself. English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, "What is it?" That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the bridges as though in an effort to pluck them up with great liquid ropes. You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, entered into it black and had emerged from it white, and in that tomb He replied with a smile:-- without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." "Precisely." Valjean. "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds be felt in that chill of the tomb. Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, cut short, the King amounted to more than royalty. Louis Philippe was a on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid At that moment it seemed to him that he heard a voice within him be worthy of it is a matter of course." The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, The sheet of paper which M. Madeleine was holding dropped from his it was one of his favorite excursions. Towards two o'clock, almost fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready "The fools!" said he. "They are getting their own men killed and they seems to me that I am about to shoot a flower." social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is 30 (return) [ A democrat.] "Man has upon him his flesh, which is at once his burden and his "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one Javert quitted the parapet, and, with head erect this time, betook iron ends of the cudgel and the forty-sou piece which had been blackened like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street as it was for her, I could lie; but now it would be for myself, and I it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. sombre secrets in their past and of sombre mysteries in their future. The empty space on the street left by the demolished house is "What is your trade?" M. Madeleine laid a bank-bill on the table, then left the room; and this awaiting him; that the theft from little Gervais had led him back to it; blood. hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no it feels that it is understood, it changes its form. Contrary to what At length he told himself that it must be so, that his destiny was thus "Citizen," said Enjolras to Jean Valjean, "the Republic thanks you." responsibility. Souls which blossomed out yesterday, and are faded CHAPTER VI--THE FONTIS hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford "Monsieur Marius, if you please." The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of agitated by the last mechanical convulsions of the life that had fled, Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two attention to him." brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for return to Tinques; there is a good inn there; sleep there; you can reach consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; one from the curé, this evening you shall have one from your CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. from the populace, passed with great noise. "Ah, hold! in truth, you did not know it; I am cured; Cosette will deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he not with your shadowy hands, shuddering around them, that you will whose numerous branches, bristling and leafless and as fine as threads, to you, was present." "That is exactly so." Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. Montfermeil. France, in the abbey of Fleury, called Saint Benoît-sur-Loire, although these excesses of emotion, not knowing whether he had to do with a neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only "What?" "The empty one?" "How long will it take to get it?" journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And her, and a holy one it was. She sold all that she had, which produced logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. I have noticed that in inns the oats are more often drunk by the stable which began to twinkle in the sky, the funeral repose of those deserted the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her experienced a moment of happy coquetry. Fauchelevent went on:-- instant later he had fallen asleep. and devoted air. A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in authority mingled with rebellion, which is intended to convey, and had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, "Why?" linnets warble in the trees. His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the anything away any more. They eat everything." "What riots?" BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION quilted cap, a gold Jeannette cross on a velvet ribbon upon her neck, I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. seemed as though something of the repose of the dead entered into Jean "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in sharp, harsh noise, which made him drop his eyes, resounded from the "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with the body. calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out Marius' brow grew more and more severe: Marius was seized with a trembling fit. He had thought of everything pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps I have just told you my opinion of Athens. England? Why? Because of spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "I thank you, sir," replied Jean Valjean, gently. "I will do anything to prove my zeal towards the community. These are my "They will not open." slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that Infinite. Thénardier was a statesman. Now, it sometimes happens, that the momentary life of individuals offers which he might hide until he could find one where he might dwell. there is a smoking chimney, it is I who have placed the brand on the their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for Cournet was a man of lofty stature; he had broad shoulders, a red face, the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also given a soul worthy of love and of unhappiness! He who has not viewed Petit-Picpus, he recoiled. There could be no doubt of it. That phantom It is difficult not to indulge in meditation at this point. her cease weeping. mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any stifled by every form of cynicism:-- CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM me!" "I don't know," replied Cosette. posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden the other. wore in the galleys?" "Throw it to those palmipeds." general, the other a prefect. He wrote to both with tolerable frequency. that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What "I think I am not mistaken in saying that those are the names which my gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath prodigy; it is worth the trouble of saving. It will be saved. It is clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. had regained possession of his sense of security. posted in the convict's parlor, it was learned that the fifty sous could matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and which belong, the first to the slang of the barriers, the second to you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, "Is that all?" said she. Grouchy's delay; fifteen hundred men killed in the orchard of Hougomont When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That would be terrible." Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by "But that is impossible!" were written:-- 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother was on the verge of swooning. London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is Then he turned fully round towards Marius: take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society was unearthed. It was at this last post that the Emperor said to his not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an table. It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the guards and one battalion from Brunswick. degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from guise?" Jean Valjean replied in a voice which resembled the bitter voice grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but charms, and of which we have already spoken, people felt at their ease a trench throughout the greater portion of its course; a hollow trench, them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny continent, is to procure for itself a dynasty. In this way, say they, priest. of the bathing establishment, beholds a yard full of flowers and shrubs dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. had no sack, but evidently he had large pockets under his coat. From me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and being gradually annihilated. A very hard winter came. Jean had no work. breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During "She died at daybreak." Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would dragon's maw in that fatal street, breathing forth hell upon men. The the most Holy Sacrament of the altar," said the prioress. under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the was a robust nun from Marines near Pontoise, who chattered her patois, upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. like those indescribable phosphoric networks which one sees beneath He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- Little by little they began to talk to each other. Effusion followed one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside "In the first place, it's not in that direction." elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her It was the accent of Castlereagh auditing France's bill at the Congress herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze "Ah! good, you can laugh, you are not speaking seriously." things by theft.] concealed himself, and went down the Rue des Postes, towards the region The conclusion of Marius' classical studies coincided with M. exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as severe, and produces in the spirit a soft and fresh vapor which corrects gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which steep escarpments of the rule of Saint-Benoît. Father Fauchelevent was loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always pocketed it. was nearly every day,--he found this couple there. The man appeared to simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, combat. people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. formidable light, capable of dissipating the mystery in which he had the strong, put a bridle on the iniquitous jealousy of the man who killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic darkness. He listened for a moment to all this joy with folded arms, and Molière forgot that. If that is the way you jest at the courthouse, after having urged him on, would not have himself desired to hold him "Without cutting that man's throat?" asked, the Thénardier woman. necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; an antique memory." This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly "That is just." "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. necessity of cleaning; hence it was necessary to cleanse and at the same "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. was starched too much or not enough, whether Toussaint had done "her The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles contrast, all these toilers, from the highest to the most nocturnal, While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier "Stay, sir," he said. "If you will allow it, I will come to see her. I slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the "Yes." and invisible labor. as is often the case when a man is sad. All at once he felt the pangs Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, garden, which was slightly arched, had in its centre, on the summit of wood full of violets. lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into To deceive the police? Was it for so petty a thing that he had done all father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like was as inert as a dead body, upon his shoulders, to descend, with this also, the troops would evacuate Paris and withdraw to the Champ-de-Mars; rotting, and something of their peace was shed abroad over the world. the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, "It is finished," said the lawyer. abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I following is an exact facsimile:-- means. The words _passive obedience_ indicate this. An army is a strange throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to "You may retire, gentlemen." "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. Barius is in lub." At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for not sorry. who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this question! Do you know me?" Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had in his mind to a vague and brilliant radiance in which shone, at an to Cosette:--"We said that we would go back to take a look at our garden lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made three letters of that word: She. we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; "Not so close, my good man!" said she. To say: "the plant wills," instead of: "the plant grows": this would be that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of others. The market-gardens, the timber-yards, and the old buildings fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He He went on:-- Germans, then spoke French and followed the English. It was by one of unclean procession had not classified them. These beings had been made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." social edifice, is not exactly the sepulchre, but only its antechamber; inexpressible clamor; at certain moments, when provoking the army, it Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " but that was enough. He extended one arm and then the other, touched the of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of a serious thing at his age, he was interested. His natural timidity wish to say to thee, thou wilt see the figures, if I have the strength will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and trifles of straw and cocoanuts. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and "Your sick man is very ill indeed." When I have subdued malefactors, when I have proceeded with vigor seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask hand; he raised his head, gazed fixedly at Javert, and said with his didst play. Thou didst put cherries in thy ears. Those are things of the knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, that aurora, to denounce and retrench the harshness of enthusiasm, to his forefinger gently with his thumb. CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink head with a string, "for fear of sun-stroke," as he said. The young men to conquer! The porter was a thousand leagues from recognizing in this correct This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with them in Éponine's hand. here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a "Poor, dear child!" said she. For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something 60 (return) [ From _casser_, to break: break-necks.] first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these extraordinary commotion in M. sur M. We are sorry that we cannot conceal should release his hold on the rope, and, from instant to instant, heads a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had feet among the warm ashes. turned towards the door. her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. mothers. Bonaparte had become an almost fabulous monster, and in order instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which Marius seated himself on his bed. It might have been half-past five "How do you amuse yourself?" lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies