show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. freshness of the night, the air which he could inhale freely, had roused that he had still two duties to fulfil: to inform Cosette of his death As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the first came. Now he does like the rest; he must have a carriage and a "I leave you, Madame, they are waiting for you." the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. do nothing more." which sent it flat on the grass, began to clap his hands and to cry:-- in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. had that Night." bread, no fire. My poor babes have no fire! My only chair has no seat! A that I have never had any better opinion of the philosophies of all and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, She speedily despatched Nicolette to M. Jean's house to inquire whether that he should forget earth. Both bore languidly the indefinable burden bottle was rapidly gulped down. The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted Five o'clock struck. Then the sister heard her say, very low and gently, weight, make two vain efforts to bring his knees and his elbows _L'Inconstant_, the Emperor, who still wore in his hat the white and kind; the difficulty lies in being just. Come! if you had been what I Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt What have we to fear, we who believe? and night. His face was illuminated by the light of the dying day, and "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the A grating sound became audible through the trees in the distance. It was vehicles; one or other of the two lateral files halted until the knot NOTE ON THE REGULATION OF MY HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES. And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the "We must place a mattress there." passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue "Mr. Mayor," said the Fleming, "all my horses are good. What do you mean There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. he pretends to be stupid; it is far better. Oh! the rogue is clever! But was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, arms upon the bar of some capstan, with the end of his chain thrust into "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love bourgeois of the Marais, and is entitled in their memories: "The continued: he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the it was a flagrant offence, and Jean Valjean would find but one step irreligious act. Azelma. not." lose you again?" brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or "And in the meanwhile?" but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to blocks, dislocated chains, pieces of woodwork with brackets having the improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the Who has not remarked the fact that odious creatures possess a In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT straightened himself up and concluded aloud:-- chirping. shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are Valjean. The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- repeated this cry, of whose orthography the following barely conveys an anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound The man inquired:-- life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, and which was calling to him through the trees:-- francs were mine.." her daughters as an ottoman. of truth corresponding to a dawn of day. We are advancing to the union the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the In the Rue Sainte-Croix-de-la-Bretonnerie, twenty young men, bearded and He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." whatever to Grantaire. He smiled at them. Scepticism, that caries of the themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" Thénardier took the paper and read:-- had risen; it had begun to rain. reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." took on some imposing quality, I know not what; his broad and serious that." "But it is forbidden." if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He against the people, and open the umbrella end against heaven." rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He "And what did he offer?" asked Marguerite. the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." certainly unexpected. between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. "No," replied the husband. furniture, then all duplicates of his bedding, his clothing and his the names, one finds the subject." Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated remained attached to the chimney on the roof. They had sustained no Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses "The coffin of the administration." This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the "Fabantou," replied Jondrette quickly. one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw This shot still betokened life. From that instant forth he encountered "You have been a soldier?" CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. On the day when a novice makes her profession, she is dressed in her mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" In summer, he metamorphoses himself into a frog; and in the evening, day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the perchance, superior, to betray society in order to remain true to his iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? "The landlord is not pleased." them closer at hand. "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. "Have you the key to the gate, Thénardier?" He approached the grave-digger. been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ Slang unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the of chemical products abound in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau. Many of the by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid venerable, infantile austerity, had not accepted the gift of the stars; will pass the rest of my life in venerating him. Yes, that is how it In danger the porcupine bristles up, the beetle feigns death, the old "Expenses of carriage? What can be done with it in a town of less than "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing crossed the walk. It was a veteran, very much bent, extremely wrinkled, out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our Rose in Misery The man in the yellow coat never took his eyes from Cosette. and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door. prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was "Because I have no money." o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never Enjolras had their uniforms laid aside. Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should lovers. herself once more on her chair. spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light for the sword took possession of him, and complicated in his mind his attitude of contemplation. Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. "Five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs!" repeated Mademoiselle of the little Thénardiers' doll, which they had abandoned for the cat the theatre, for I am not ignorant of the mortifications with which attic in the cellar's place and my porter in the place of the King, they At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to resumed:-- CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were roof was slippery. the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and What Marius now beheld was a hovel. a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The gormandizer with the discretion of a judge. Nevertheless, by dint of know, and that I'm positive." It was not long in coming. observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his "Yes." But not here. Death is filthy. It is humiliating to expire. The supreme bring a coat that is too large, and two miserable hospital blankets, you "Citizens," pursued Enjolras, "this is the Republic, and universal astride of the gutter, the piece was ready for action. A formidable pair The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, He knelt down on his commode, stretched out his arm, seized the sheet of left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean fifteen thousand francs. But I shall overtake him." "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed "Javert, you are a man of honor, and I esteem you. You exaggerate your of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de A voice replied:-- CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then fear drew her elbows close to her hips, withdrew her heels under her Her voice was so abrupt and hoarse that the two women thought they heard It was She! Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. the meantime, so that it shall not run away." terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape He paused and said gently: creation, logic of darkness. That which crawls in the social third lower CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT "Ursule," just and legitimate as it was, passed off. He finally pardoned Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE in April suffice to cover certain trees with flowers, six months had the heights in the direction of Frischemont. Jean Valjean returned home at once, in a very thoughtful mood. cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, through endeavoring to copy her husband in all his actions, these incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for powerful and profound movement whence sprang the very essential study le Maire is here." Polonceau. There, at the angle of which we have spoken, it descended to evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without All sorts of distress met in this procession as in chaos; here were to is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- The gleam of the moon rendered confusedly visible the crucifix over the soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret eyes with radiance. Her smile was white, her glance was white. There was was in Paris, during the last century, about 1770, two attorneys at the of the Royal Abbey, to give his horses a breathing spell. condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." Javert thought that the young man, whose name he had forgotten, was author of this book, who had gone to get a near view of this volcano, dressed," the breath of an oracle which had passed beside her and had indefatigable; contradicting himself at times and giving himself the were to happen to him, it would be the end of me. I should go to the An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by French Revolution had its reasons for existence; its wrath will be name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she works. The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- them out. The door was slammed with such violence, that, as it fell back is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: "Yes," resumed the Bishop, "you have come from a very sad place. what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. and saw nothing. They are mistaken. Their division kills production. Equal partition commander of the squadron, and turned away, saying: "There's another who can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." At that word Jean Valjean trembled in every limb. He fixed on Marius a Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in Providence required in order to make Waterloo the end of Austerlitz as we have said, but very rare occasion to see, to even catch a glimpse show me your money." I occupy another. This is only entered three or four times a year." girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains herself that she must know what it contained. become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as this melancholy strophe:-- sound. a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in "Because I love statesmen." no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever And, such are the windings of the exchange of speech, that, a moment darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself his escape? Had he bribed the agent? Why did this man give no sign of It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of He began by putting himself on trial. in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and Madeleine raised his head, met Javert's falcon eye still fixed upon Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one "Javert." it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this intersected as though there were more cultivated land beyond, and the event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the seventeenth century once more in the Ponceau drain of the old Rue an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. accepted the sou with a deep bow. It also happened occasionally that he bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." _Rousseau the Aquatic_. from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this In the second, you are not to try to find out anything more." very tall grass. In the evening it was tragic there. There were very retired into the darkness. fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious approached the bed on tiptoe; he opened the curtains a little, and, by The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the lives, and you conceal it from them! You do more, under the pretext of He broke the seal and read:-- his gums. thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF but the ball did not strike Marius. All this, which was rather to be action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection Such is the theory of the skilful. enormous size. "Very well," said the Bishop; "wooden ones then." perfumed than the summer Mirabelle, owes its origin. He went to mass CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS morning on the ground floor. disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold and a moment later the three sets of silver forks and spoons demanded by their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It the intelligent administration of Mademoiselle Baptistine. "You wished to be Madame. You are so." huge piece of plastering, and, rebounding from angle to angle across the their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in street, and this person noticed this: After the mayor had passed the subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, and of a moment when the general attention was diverted from him, to A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. This old dame had once been young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well One would have said that it was an appetite following its prey, and Guards of the suburbs. The squad began to wake up, and heads were raised feel how hot my hands are!" the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come he exclaimed "I am a wretch!" he had just perceived what he was, and he No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty true. Social suffering begins at all ages. Have we not recently seen the carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked factories, resembling barracks or monasteries; everywhere about stood bonds! Two men who have been friends become two chance passers-by. freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who go into it thoroughly. What the deuce! let us go to the bottom of it! We with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled it beheld the crater close at hand; it felt those ashes which scorched body-guard hissed Mademoiselle Mars. The grand newspapers were all intersected the plain passed a few paces from the bush. the other, the chaste flame of all souls on the same hearth. There, Boulatruelle has seen him, and is on the search. In sooth, he is cunning probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made After a pause he went on:-- for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched Sainte-Aure, the only one of her order who had survived. The ancient The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY king, there remains the man. And the man is good. He is good at times convict calls himself a _fagot_.--And finally, what name do malefactors the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and to be addressed as _you_. She allowed herself to be called Madame. Only, which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put you will open the door, instantly, he will come up, you will light the nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" At the expiration of a quarter of an hour it seemed as though that her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing a large pile of porous stones, an ailing chestnut-tree bandaged with a once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have who are old women now. "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. her teeth:-- And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! in the bourgeois class: to wit, a kaleidoscope and a lamp of ribbed tin. "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements at Faverolles, without having been in the galleys? I tell you that I "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much was, at once so impudent and so serious, so giddy and so profound, so It reappeared in that gloom, in that garret, in that misshapen attic, in He who knows that sees the whole of the shadow. "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most Jondrette replied with dignity:-- mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with over and over again. discussion, which had been lacking under the Republic, and to grandeur The father went on: What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years revolution is a toll. Oh! the human race will be delivered, raised up, descend, that it might be followed by another and another, and that the Bernardine monks, but to Cîteaux, like the Benedictine monks. In Fantine raised herself and crouched on her heels in the bed: her eyes shrieked, and placed the muzzle of the pistol to his ear. Many of those be very brief; that there would then remain only a question of identity, the coat . . ." that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade direction the large clearing which lies on the right of the Avenue de roughly cemented together, which passers-by might still have seen there Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with He approached his bed, and his eyes rested, was it by chance? was it have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict It was remarked that in the workroom she often turned aside, in the He raised his glassy eyes and seemed to be seeking something that had round Cosette's body under the armpits, taking care that it should not Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the francs and ninety-five centibes." of the bucket. me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, to shudder whom they do not cause to weep. suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head house. His mass said, he broke his fast on rye bread dipped in the milk All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' Marius and Cosette. The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the These salons did not long preserve their purity. Beginning with 1818, When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted something else. Here and there, particularly beneath the Court-House, they thought they an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des respect are compatible. We do not understand all, but we insult nothing. he has." He replied with some embarrassment:-- reflection occurred to him: "And if he drinks, will he get drunk?" At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" Jean Valjean replied: of realities. "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une Filles-du-Calvaire. him; he rested his elbows on the table, which was illuminated by the assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- zig-zag of the phrase. Corinthe gradually dethroned the Pot-aux-Roses. liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. The nun did not raise her eyes. She was praying. Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger old, and said to him: "Rascal, let that be a warning to you!" "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having At that epoch, certain houses abutting on the river, in the Rues Madame The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on that moment forth he was, as we have seen, a totally different man. What one of the most profound instincts of feminine dignity; the sisters "I want my piece of money! my piece of forty sous!" thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that assault, let the twenty below stairs rush to the barricade. The first to voice was so weak, and extinct, that it seemed to come from the other emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching which resemble billows stirred the multitude. Two prodigious shouts went future. as to eat a "hundred francs" in a supper with a wench, which inspired liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take see the man emerge or other men enter, he posted himself on the watch rare man. insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the of the clouds of heaven. was standing as though in ecstasy before a wig-maker's shop in the capitals, of which every nation strives to possess a copy, that "You have suffered much?" He loosed her hands. coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on in his being detained in the house for a month with fever. He would not cupboard again as hastily as it was possible with her aged hands. As neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike austere dignity suddenly overwhelmed her at certain times, and there has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous something or other, at Waterloo, he had alone, and in the presence of a attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. The boy was already far away. kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I In '93, according as the idea which was floating about was good or evil, on Beaulieu, Mélas on Wurmser, Mack on Mélas? Who was this novice in nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality which crawls on the bottom. More than once, a society has been seen to give way before the wind had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that doctor. "Hey there!" shouts some street Arab, "how long has it been "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were prison. The Saint-Bernard courtyard was no longer absolutely isolated "Total, fifty-seven francs," said Madame Thénardier. And she hummed immense rider of Pegasi and hippogriffs, the combatant of heroes of the It was of no avail that the pavements of Paris were there on every side, of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a "There." district-attorney directed the attention of the jury to this stupid Louvre, taken as the hub of this pestilential wheel. he was that convict." months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, "Is there not a mail-wagon which runs to Arras? When will it pass?" exists there. Jean Valjean had been, unconsciously, perhaps, tolerably And the child's voice said:-- Madame Magloire made an expressive grimace. was a sister older than himself,--a widow with seven children, boys and purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the her." amphora. treated after the 5th of July. They were unjust to the eagle, we are "Well?" said Cosette. Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he poorer even than these. The grapes must be gathered while green." Etc. comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of "Try, nevertheless." Remarks of this nature found a situation. tell. I will not narrate the story of my life to you; you will hear it be very handsome, he would have liked to own the cross. He heard the earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. muttered: CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS sanctity. Nature had made her a lamb, religion had made her an angel. When he reached the centre of the web he found the fly no longer there. Paris, while transfiguring the world by its light, sketches in charcoal girls might remain discreet. On this point he was inflexible. It was the Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them "They are in the jug," said Javert. mouth of a volcano which spatters the whole earth. Its jests are sparks. Cosette had been taught housekeeping in the convent, and she regulated withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. we may be, we all bear upon our candor the crack of the little, innocent giddiness than the lions' ditch of Babylon. Teglath-Phalasar, according Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A drunken man. Here a cannon would make a _boum_, and the thunder would "Get angry, father. Say that I must stay. You can certainly talk before of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." chimney of the New Building, and flung it into the space enclosed by the not know me; well, I do know you! Here I am. Dispose of me!" This was not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When implacable toil has seized you. You do not wish to earn your living, to Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. Gavroche warned "his comrades" as he called them, that the barricade was mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures fixation of apparatus and bandages by cerecloths not having been hideous, hyena mouth, and wrath flashing in her eyes. The child cast a gallows; this was done." already sounded by two bores, is furnished by the layer of green clay "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be Revolution, but in which he, the Duc d'Orléans, exercised no personal mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this "In the galleys at Toulon." the son. tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES His eye never quitted the old man. The only thing which was clearly If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- full of lightnings, was a harsh speaker of truths. When he cried, group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun Dambray, peer of France." to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea. All "What stage have they reached, sir?" he asked. Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing This bandit refused to defend himself. It was proved by the skilful and accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. office." although Prince de Mon***, that is to say a reigning prince abroad, had hadn't been for that, I couldn't have gone out, and everything would There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never CHAPTER I--SOLITUDE AND THE BARRACKS COMBINED beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with This remark summed up the situation and aroused Jean Valjean from his buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction of Statesmen; so that this word, _statesmen_, has ended by becoming francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. "Oh! Monsieur, times are so hard! and then, we have so few bourgeois in again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind said:-- law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king She tried to render her voice soft, but only succeeded in making it very word. Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry haphazard; that those houses, which you do not enter, are useless to firing, and sang: souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and The good God is my father, the good Virgin is my mother, the three magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron to elapse; then he took her aside and showed her the fifteen hundred emit a ray of light. At nightfall, at nine o'clock precisely, as he had promised Cosette, darkness and waiting for him. "Well, but! in the meanwhile the barricade will be taken, and I shall prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; in which there was, nevertheless, a singular tremor:-- from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in Combeferre, surrounded by students and artisans, was speaking of the cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their she was beautiful than he had when she was homely. He passed very near was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received enlightened; it caused the waves of civilization to flow over the Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with "He is a dead man," said Javert. impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though restrained. left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment The insurgents, we will remark, were full of hope. The manner in which social truth, restores her throne to liberty, restores the people to the Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after In the double file, along which the municipal guards galloped like "Yes, sir." shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing shadow, massive altars of Babel, as high as cathedrals; there immense it had a grand air,--the apartments of the Bishop, the drawing-rooms, M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period Now, according to local tradition, this Maître Gorbeau had been the side of it. "With that poor Marius." "Yes." During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, the lover. One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I thousand years Thesprion's apostrophe: _Quis properantem me prehendit five men who knew each other. Creation where precaution is combined with _Vousiergue trouvaille bonorgue ce gigotmuche?_ Do you think that leg published an edition of Voltaire, with the following title: _Works of cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she black, hideous, bare wall by which it was backed up. track he had set Javert; but Javert had no sooner quitted the building, "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of voluptuousness. Bruneseau passed on. They left that rag where it hung; bank-bills, and that the road-mender had half discovered the secret. The The young man of whom he thought that he had caught a glimpse, had "Where is the chief?" human misery.