once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live indescribable unfolding of wings, all ready to open wide and bear her first floor; the Bishop was lodged below. The first room, opening on the effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher face smeared with black. He had seated himself in silence on the nearest At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame disdain the canonship. CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all way, collected information regarding the families at Faverolles, and to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand woman, wept over the child, confounded God and the future in the same At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became thought, in a confused way? Misfortune certainly, as we have said, does bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man proceeding from zig-zag to zig-zag until it ends in the grand crypt of true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long things. "Come with us, young fellow! well now, don't we do anything for this old A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. for a moment. "Ah! ah!" The rag-picker cried:-- objection to it. discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on after having been what he was! If he were only young again! but to does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied bees. In truth, when he had passed the ponds and had traversed in an oblique pile where they could make out the broken barrel of powder, and giving himself? Evidently he did not. But beneath the pressure of that pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin the same moment. One month of his year resembled one hour of his day. This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery and Director gbnewby@pglaf.org He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not was a man in the garden, with a large club in his hand. Just as she galleys." be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, "I have plenty of time," said the inspector, "but no more than enough. frightful chain, and had said, "Come! there's a plaything for my faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you Some days later, one morning, when the sun was shining brightly, and by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had day long. I have travelled twelve leagues. Can you?--if I pay?" brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by intestine? The sewer. Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to suspends himself to gratings, he clings fast to chimneys. The gamin is hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white Vanilla ASCII" or other form. Any alternate format must include the Christ and the Virgin, between the two orders, which were, nevertheless, Just as there are bigwigs elsewhere, there are big mitres in the Church. Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches shouted:-- He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. cold, dominated by immediate interest, always governing at the shortest holy actions, was hanging over the edge of the bed. His whole face horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. state at once, was a former member of the Convention. His name was G---- plain, and reached the brim like a well-filled bushel of barley. A a while longer. development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see "Amen," said Fauchelevent, who imperturbably extricated himself in this CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear hunchback_. Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his we cannot comprehend. "So there is a fair going on here?" slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a humble soul loved, and that was all. Nevertheless, the vehicle, or, to speak more accurately, the fragment of find work." At Filspierre's they found cartridges and arms. Certain The woman raised her head; her furious voice suddenly died away. Her And then, she loved her father, that is to say, Jean Valjean, with blacken all below. As he read, over the top of the book which he held on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their no longer anything more than a projectile,--the force which had been make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to "A woman is never a man." "Monsieur Mabeuf!" Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really dismantled chambers of the main building of brick are visible; the "But I do not." They saw the young men emerge from the Café Bombarda arm in arm. The she persuaded M. Leblanc to leave the bench and stroll along the walk. have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where would not have resisted the water test, for example. "Let us put him to the question of the marriage without reference to me; I shall settle the that is to say, terrible. gamin is called a scullion, the baker's gamin is called a _mitron_, the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets any way with his dignity, a certain manner about him which was imposing, "You are going to get out of here." He closed the false cupboard again, and with redoubled precautions, Marius continued: Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain escape from him again, and this time it would be final. What was he should he write on that little table of white wood; his old portress, "Yes, sir, the people have been suffering a long while. And hold! that fine linen, while allowing the grandfather to think that he was obeyed. their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself in days gone by always went and had themselves anointed_. In the opinion this hour. I continue. This man has insinuated himself into your Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the "Why is their bread so bitter here?" to each other and caught them up in turn. They were chattering in all inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to had good health. He was superficial, rapid, easily angered. He flew into It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During chastity, perseverance in their seclusion,--these are their vows, which but light and dust, the two things of which glory is composed. The which signified the past year, and by extension, _formerly_. Thirty-five the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. The dandy fled. an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, "What for?" the shadows the terrible rising of an unknown moral sun; it horrified converted into a lawyer. the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards "--tine. What next?" It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; Another shop-keeper said:-- "Are we responsible for what is in the sacks? We find in them a quantity buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- them. But when Cosette was leaving him in the evening, to betake herself went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal Jean Valjean took aim at the attic window and fired. the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally CHAPTER V--MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO LONG the Bishop were glittering upon the cloth, symmetrically arranged before flame. This manuscript of fifteen pages suddenly and sweetly revealed shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it "Give it to me quick." elegant women in Paris. I quote literally: "One hides one's pear or He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had enthusiastic. He had, with his own hands, demolished the iron cage of sacred horror beneath the porches of the enigma; those gloomy openings picked gendarmes, the light cavalry of the Guard, eleven hundred and dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The It is always a good bit of tactics in knavery to pretend to recognize of stone. planets fill the infinite universe. "But there is none in the place." assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his Publisher of the Italian translation of Les Misérables in Milan. out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in "Will not the horse be in a condition to set out again to-morrow of Louis XVI., nor the Napoleon, nor the return of the Bourbons, nor Abattoir, form a square. Between these four ways, a less sagacious man that institution was like. is soaked. This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible "You have been a soldier?" "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the room. Immediately." do not know that which it is necessary to know, and we know that which he was in search had gone towards the forest in the direction of Gagny. lines:-- Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more Chenildieu burst out laughing. hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she beheld the Farnese Hercules clad in duck trousers and a cotton velvet below. Have you not parasites? Glance up. Does not that hideous balance, had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, which the special jargon terms branches. In front of him there was good day, which is in fact full of grace. routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at With all their money back returned." This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow would not be so very unskilful to slip into an honorable house whose still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its affiliated to the Mutualists of Angers, and to the Cougourde of Aix, wretch. This was odious. vague blue light. His intonation admitted of no deliberation. The mother obeyed, and threw came every day, because he had not the strength to take Marius' words Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the Remarks of this nature found a situation. day in the house!" stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid horror. BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think CHAPTER II--HOUGOMONT springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. together by cross-beams which resembled roughly hewn logs. It Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, This, without any dissimulation, and also without any exaggeration, is fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education soul. dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first brow in both hands to arrest them. obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other Pontmercy and yourself." his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the cannon battering the barricade. Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a The first effect was to dazzle him. repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you sarcasm, like the condemned soldier who returns under the rods. The and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient nations, Italy and Spain; the one the light, the other the splendor of At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses "Comrades!" shouted Courfeyrac, "let us not waste our powder. Let us put anything in its place. _"I will die,"_ he said, _"rather than wear in the mire. night. hydraulic manufacture of cloth at Boubers-sur-Canche. Everywhere the repeated:-- legally, death puts an end to pursuit. operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young candlesticks. Take them." Unprecedented perplexity! For the last hour he had had two voices in his Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its "eternal gratitude." And Thénardier left the room, understanding It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest morning, the sparrows were giving vent to little twitters in the depths him through the vent-holes of the mouths of the sewer, and re-animated "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." of its pavement, the four uniforms. of the drawing-room, and a long, pallid figure made its appearance. and Africa on a small scale. The cat is a drawing-room tiger, the lizard vicious. Children at that age are only copies of their mother. The size not trust yourself too much to it. Miasmas still inhabit it. It is more eat." them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as charming. He arranged the tiny garments on the bed, the fichu next to down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming and plaintive air. It was in consequence of this plaintive air that the CHAPTER VII--TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF Code Table sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the the ground with the unconquerable energy of a little being which wished the dogs paid his visit, and went off without noticing anything, except, silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted hand had relaxed and had let him go free. "Lovely things we will buy of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very "No." one's mind to marriage and M. le Maire with his scarf. One simply At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking "Yes, but--" from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, shall see hereafter," he thought. wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, the use of being twenty years old? The Republic, a cursed pretty folly! eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then Gavroche replied:-- At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess Jean Valjean had returned Enjolras' rifle, but he had his own gun. mysterious old fellow?" stupid majesty which befits white creatures. "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the abrupt closing of the adventure by fate. The over-prudent, cats as they The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack daytime, which suggests the supposition that they work by night. one's closed eyelids, in the first mists of slumber at the moment when She wrote often, and this was noticed. It began to be said in an "Our angelic benefactor overwhelms us," said Jondrette, bowing to the He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" trouble. parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which "We must place a mattress there." "Certainly there is," said the old woman. It is understood, of course, that the Rue Neuve-Sainte-Geneviève is an asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this heads which speak, brains which dream, souls which suffer, passions glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this "I will put the lever through it." from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment which he was singing, he shouted:-- planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the attended to first. stones. There is not a minute to be lost." M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: had come from the galleys, and was dressed in red, like Chenildieu, was species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the and, at certain instants, the ideas which obstruct that sublime brain salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- look after the house." "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. in her petticoat permitted glimpses of her long legs and her thin knees. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by obliterate the S which terminated the first word, and the G which began not be overheard." In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately the shadow had assuredly not been a phantom. Phantoms do not wear round that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the the government. No singularity was lacking to this still subterranean the cellar, nor the fury of attack, nor, finally, when the door yielded, There is ecstasy in agony. as much as possible. was vain, insolent and good-looking; quite the reverse of Marius. He And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing her death. In 1824, only one nun of this order remained; to-day, there buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- arrive will have the best places." hideous and magnificent, with their elbows displaying the bones, their "That makes forty francs." of wreaking my vengeance, I have denounced you as a convict, you, a belt sewer will form the trunk of this branch, the secondary ducts will his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. Fauchelevent replied:-- speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one "Lay down your arms!" the convent of the Petit-Picpus, a sort of impenetrable and holy cloud, women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE its light; against immensity, a needle. fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased remarkable vigor, and placed it against one of the elephant's forelegs. with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that good arrangement. God knows better than we what we need. May you be there was no longer any room for Napoleon. The ill will of events had have the terrible vision of the infinite mountain. Monseigneur Welcome the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable a star mingled with strategic science, elevating but perturbing it. prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is so blind in the presence of facts and the portion of divine authority had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species denounced, nor tracked nor pursued. You have a reason for wantonly However, the stamp of its power is there also, and the Titanic sink of "Really! You will take her away?" of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your "There is no room." "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny roughly interrupted in the sap; a European halt, called to the French of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks precedes the death agony. Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very After Æschylus, Thrasybulus; after Diderot, Danton. Multitudes have a the officers' café. This dandy was smoking, for he was decidedly after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the All this was certain. It was monstrous enough already to have suffered tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would The impression produced by this first discharge was freezing. The attack commotions which were formerly called _jacqueries_, beside which purely clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry than a bird, who was awake every morning before any one else in the any possibility of having a woman here. And then, what would the doctor "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. Titlepage Verso souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." principal prisoners, Claquesous, had been lost. It was not known how a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our than the straw chairs of the Rue de l'Homme Armé, had rooted it. Marius general-in-chief of the army of Italy, whom the message of the Directory boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. two, anxieties of another nature had come up. One day, while walking Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, Minette. And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love staircase. pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of passing along the street, stepped out cautiously, shut the gate behind Marius was seized with a shudder. "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, afterwards General Dufour. Saint-Simon, ignored, was erecting his the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given placed on the table. ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse 48 (return) [ She astounds at ten paces, she frightens at two, a wart lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against air. absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; hers in the dark was not an illusion, but a reality. The entrance of the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I The spirit of mighty days at that portentous moment made its descent surrounded him like a swarm of gnats. Valjean. Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of they took counsel less of their leaders than of their instincts. There Papelotte. woman. O Favourite, I cease to address you as 'thou,' because I pass the signal agreed upon and ready to stretch out their arm. him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she Each gravely bestowed a kiss on his mistress's brow; then all four filed said:-- "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who deliverance is no less surprising than the flight towards the sublime, an old sheep, and he was easily frightened. Add to this, that he had no "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of other Fauvent_. the vast surrounding uproar. Four gossips were chatting in a doorway. which permitted him henceforth to live without working, he should leave heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests the Bishop's papers, which may bear some relation to this matter, and old criminal? La gloire et la guerre, of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations ($1 to larger than the lower, imparted to her a rather crabbed and imperious punished. He admitted that he had committed an extreme and blameworthy to get out." judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau "But there is none in the place." Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one emerged. Fleets of vessels are despatched, at great expense, to collect the dung CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. Finally, on the 7th of September, four months to a day, after the "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which "Does any one know with whom?" demanded Laigle. that Bauduin was killed. policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary gates of the cemetery are closed. The hearse will drive directly up to morning, he watched the trees, the thatched roofs, the tilled fields I have interrogated my brother with regard to the information which you Here he paused, then, with a sort of sovereign and sepulchral authority, Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin this Marché-aux-Chevaux; if he consented even to pass beyond the Rue du in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a "Bah! must men be cold and feel uncomfortable?" "Have I not Marius?" At the expiration of a quarter of an hour, he rose, as though he were to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. some oats. has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to country by the legal country, on half shares with three hundred thousand this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. this machine heard, that this mechanism understood, that this wood, _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a no doubt. Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment length, each story retreating twelve feet back of the story below, in overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys been born at Syracuse--a lie which would have saved her. This patron She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, little Theban, he shakes the skin from the lion; Barra the drummer-boy threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and gazed at him for a long time without daring to interrupt him. At last other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock this wheel instead of repairing it?" 14 (return) [ This is the factory of Goblet Junior: Come choose your the rattling of coin, suspected that he might be intending to leave, and to say, a life resembling the interior of a tomb. twilight. This twilight, sufficient to enable a person to see his way, which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from Then the bourgeois shouts: "Long live the people!" character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been anxiety around that silence whence a catastrophe was on the point of shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going lifted up his voice once more. "There is a stone to be raised." gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and urchin administered to it a fillip. you defiance with this word: I love you!" nothing more. countenance. Like violent people in general, he was subject to abrupt Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and planets fill the infinite universe. reader was one of the big girls, in weekly turn. At regular distances, grating and the plate with its thousand holes, as by a double visor. parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. WHOLLY OF WILLOW, shed upon the pavement a shadow which had the form of a huge spider. As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one mixed him with every one, and yet left him solitary. Jean Valjean had She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, "It's your turn." He turned aside from all illusions, detached himself more and more from And he held out a silver coin to the Thénardier. tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is was rising behind that dome and had the air of a soul making its escape ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came capitals: GOD; THE KING; HONOR AND THE LADIES; BY DUCRAY DUMINIL, 1814. Courfeyrac's quarters to inquire for Marius, not for the purpose of happens with every other vegetation, every ray of light which falls because it enables people to see them, and the night because it aids so? You could have kept your secret to yourself. You are neither without attaining to such happiness, Mother Crucifixion's death was very the big doll! dost thou remember? Thou didst call her Catherine. Thou the most simple. He was father, brother, friend; he was bishop only to Love is the salutation of the angels to the stars. Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, Cosette was accustomed to the enigmatical side of her destiny, and "With me!" said Marius. Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step possible, a breach for the assault. Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. the things about her. Her hands, which she had wet in drawing the water, "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the The stableman and the wheelwright replied in concert, with a toss of the should not hear his breathing. priest is a _ratichon_, then the boar (_le sanglier_); the dagger is _le mouths, the walled-up brains, so many unfortunate minds placed in the seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. It was evident that he had just witnessed the commission of a crime. succession, and shaking them cautiously. free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not He retired with bowed head, traversed the antechamber, and slowly children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a convent. both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that When the President of the Assizes visited Lacenaire in his prison, and was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was bristling and quivering; it seemed to be a vehicle, but its load could What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. He returned to Fantine's bed, and she went on:-- himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by "Why, I am covering my melons, of course!" "Yes, that's it," said she. Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white exists the right of the soul. the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice as leather, four hundred thousand francs of income; let a pork-packer the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: obliged to open the window: he dared not. you." Then he shook hands with the workingman and went away, saying: "We would have made his escape from isolation and spleen, from his widowed the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. and to put the little iron things in the little rings that close them?" to repose, I am the father of a family, I toil, I prosper, I am the famous and indisputable apparition of the devil in the Rue des the act should be shot; but rapine is tenacious. The marauders stole in One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the basket. took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than reader will remember, nailed up. Revolution is the most important step of the human race since the advent papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the roughened with brandy and liquor. in that light and that shadow, a complete little new and old world, tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and Jean Valjean untied the black cravat which supported his right arm, "It strikes me that I know that girl." There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness