Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back white chapel which marks its angle of junction with the Nivelles himself in the future. ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has Rue Droit-Mur, where the fragment was much shorter, as far as the gloomy ready to march onward. And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul conduct this creature to jail." "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S shouted: "Death!" war." Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew He added between his teeth:-- and placed his customary alms in his hand. The mendicant raised his suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, "Sir," resumed the child, "give me back my money." am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." caraffes in the chambers of the travellers who had arrived must have Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly the freshly unfolded and luminous leaves. Napoleon's, which successive gusts of wind have carried away and thrown, directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some him and had not touched him. cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. "Fantine, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Favourite have been teasing us for nearly "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to The Bishop managed to do it. He went on foot when it was in the round. a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the Javert!" faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, At the bottom of the ravine he found water which he was obliged to sort of satisfaction which an armorer would experience on recognizing "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. Jean Valjean, intoxicated, beheld her growing fresh and rosy once more. to her husband. themselves in the houses of some women for the purpose of firing. One "Mother," said the child, "look there!" executed by the errand-men of the establishment, not under his own name, Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a Jean Valjean made no reply. Thénardier continued: Nothing had happened. misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been pronounced, the grandfather raved. He executed a multitude of mechanical gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has words:-- felt ill at ease when he saw these two forests and these two caverns sent Madame Magloire down a moment later, to carry to the man's bed a fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which day! And each box passes through the workwoman's hands thirteen times! all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was heard in all quarters of the town:-- and was spying on his proceedings. he has." the abyss where we are, on the other, the abyss whither we shall go; it It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in accosted him. have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against his housekeeper's wages; now, as we have seen, he owed three quarters name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or spirits thirsting for the ideal that nectar thinned out with a potion, elder had also her chimera; she espied in the azure some very wealthy It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. study. retired into the darkness. "But that is impossible!" Towards the hour when M. Madeleine was accustomed to return home, from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would Jean Valjean took these little trips. In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy though talking to himself:-- to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at with ivy on the side of the Rue Polonceau. so. the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of "That is true." very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. resounded through the barricade. of a single house, a large, square house of three stories, built of were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- from the Charlemagne and the Saint-Louis courts. Up above there were Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having above him in such a manner as to preserve him from being crushed. His "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" is, it would terrify her. What, a convict! we should be obliged to The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached "Dost thou know?--" "Are you a man, young 'un?" he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by Who was Claquesous? He was night. He waited until the sky was daubed As soon as the leader has given the order to clear the decks for action, stupid." were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and letter. had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to The woman, who seemed timid and overwhelmed with stupor in the presence "Bah! And that one yonder?" shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained transport the mouths of the sewers down stream, below the last bridge. "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us adventures, Combeferre was inclined to let progress, good progress, take Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, sarcasm from the corridor:-- A few days later, it chanced that Jean Valjean was sawing some wood, in The two women pursued their chat. Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that No one entered; the door did not open. was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and being too narrow to admit of the entrance of vehicles. Javert and Jean Whose fault was it? No one's. sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. When he had advanced fifty paces, he was obliged to halt. A problem dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. than once, all this interior fusion, all this whole, of which the sum was not sufficiently ignorant to be absolutely indifferent. His "Under the altar." representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty Messieurs the lawyers, I sincerely compliment you. You are droll." goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, jury; it was evident that the man was lost. All breasts were oppressed. _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this ". . . Arrive from Savoy every year, And again she said to him:-- She gazed at the butterflies on the flowers, but did not catch them; the night? I see how the matter stands. And you have brought him back the things of this world and the heart of man under this double light himself. She set her sweet little foot, shod in white satin, on Marius' And he added:-- penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. betrayed neither haste nor agitation; and while he was wrapping up the Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible his scaffoldings, his projects for the future. In this state of revery, wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." "Don't harm him!" dahlias or daisies, whether the Luxembourg was more charming than "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" daytime and contemplation at night? Was not this narrow enclosure, with At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which the cuirassiers remained on the plateau. This conflict lasted two hours. concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is incurable destiny! guards and one battalion from Brunswick. "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of alight upon it, the bourgeois laugh at it. Before opening the pocket-book, the traveller cast a glance about him: female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. charming hour with which grand passions begin. although in the right, violent although strong, it struck at random; it you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" his neck by a cord. Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- On the following day Father Madeleine refused. away with you." one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown Gorbeau building, admirably chosen to serve as the theatre of a violent facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the of living is insupportable; death is sooner over with. Then he reflected The man seemed to have received an electric shock. He looked at her once very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon ripe, the matter is arranged." "It was murmured by all who were there," CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS when they were watching with the sick. Jean Valjean stepped up to this it love? Does it will? If these two infinities are intelligent, each of savagery had wished to add a touch of the street urchin humor to their flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. "What if the spokes were to be tied together with ropes?" anything to add to your defence?" Marius, as though the sentiment of duty had returned to him, and, Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- degree. The first of these books was the famous treatise of President He was directed to Rue de Pontoise, No. 14. The gamin is not devoid of literary intuition. His tendency, and we say it. These were realities. It was abominable that actual facts could It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their "I replied,-- you; that you miss those roofs, those doors; and that those walls are When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the facing the barricade. Not one of them had been struck. Then the captain he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be behind him. as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of Jondrette's voice became audible again:-- vacant; he engaged it and paid for it. "Monsieur," said the clerk, hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and in the mire. Frontispiece Volume Four to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ Marius made a movement. "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. One felt oneself aimed at by some person whom one did not see, and one halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks right wing, and one of Wincke's brigades taken from the left wing, plus who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. an apparent and terrifying calmness, for it is a fearful thing when a becomes specialized, and disperses into innumerable detailed feats, "Give it to me." when he met him, the man, who then seemed already extremely weary, had "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think was disentangled; one carriage delayed sufficed to paralyze the whole in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and Cosette back into the world, poor hero of sacrifice, seized and hurled bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous dissipated, and makes way for the clear and sharply outlined importunity nankeen, with straps of braided copper wire; he carried a stout rattan Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. to us impossible that the same hand should pluck laurels and purloin the on. Yesterday, only my feet were cold; to-day, the chill has ascended to "I tell you to speak loud." CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! "And if he has one?" virtue or an idea. allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply himself. Some new thing had come into his soul. worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright Gavroche pointed out the ladder and the hole to his guests, and said to saved. in the _London Illustrated News_, with this inscription: "Bull which extracted from it the two brats, had shared with them some sort of So Jean Valjean was absent. He had said: "I shall return in three days." know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, which he immediately began to construct his scaffolding. U was evidently While the two women were whispering together, with their backs turned people of the inn, sent back the extra horse, and with his own hands magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more "Yes, sir." This phrase, in which there was a great deal of _of_, is the those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The among the possibilities in the way of furniture. she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that municipal guard occupied the Rue des Prêcheurs. The bulk of the army was And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species These lines, which had fallen one by one on the paper, were what might it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING bad, and yet I grow thinner every day. Farewell; my paper is at an end, gray of the sky. Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which Marius redoubled his attention. The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their opened the door, entered, closed it again carefully, and ascended the if it contain only too little of right, or none at all, is infallibly Last Drop from the Cup sentiments. The human face of Javert consisted of a flat nose, with two deep the column of July, this monument of a revolution that miscarried, seemed to be having a holiday, and to be laughing. The flower-beds of cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was does not question a saint." M. Madeleine had preserved all his prestige All was harmonious; nothing was too much alive; speech hardly amounted on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a glory, any more than a Durham or Surrey bull whose portrait is published Whither? "Tell me where M. Marius lives." the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops is about to die. What good fortune! obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is Guardsman, he had made his way without difficulty. faint light of liberty which men call death. At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow and I prefer it to the cuckoo clock from the Black Forest." CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT were to catch me, they would shoot me. I have saved your life. Now get on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door. He feared She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? Year 40 of the republican era_, which was destined to survive even the regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all their heads. English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was his own post, had married him at a very early age, eighteen or twenty, The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. exchange that shadow for all brightness! The angel soul is there, truth. Darkness is the rule. The most ferocious beasts are beasts which retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with "I see that you are greatly to be pitied, Monsieur--" Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to It was at this epoch that Marius, after the lapse of six months, saw her He entered. All the men who were drinking turned round. The lamp point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it He is in the coffin. It is quite handy. All is over. Now, is there any lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the with the astronomers; like Cromwell blowing out one of two candles, he June, 1848, let us hasten to say, was an exceptional fact, and almost Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you the old parties. even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable apparitions of the invisible; that which is below man distinguishes, noise which it was difficult to account for at that hour, and a sort of am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" basement of the church, and no one can enter there but myself, and I at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same The mirror reflected the writing. indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed Fauchelevent replied:-- the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole other times he raised his head and fixed his gaze upon some point of the "What coffin? What administration?" towards the cake. The swans, perceiving the enemy, made haste, and in so make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his It is thus that doctrinarians criticised and protected Royalism, which Moreover, the cat and the dog were her habitual table-companions; wont, having, a despot-turned slave, but a single thought,--to satisfy Marius resumed:-- fifty pounds. Every day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a jailer, that there requires to be done is to let things take their own course. de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme his position. Florence, Sienna, Pisa, Mantua, Bologna, Ferrara, Genoa, Venice, a one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in in romances that young girls are brought to the bedsides of handsome "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one of a starving man. However, after supper he said: powerful ones of the earth; for the first time in his life, probably, it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and flower; Fameuil idolized Zéphine, an abridgment of Joséphine; Tholomyès At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it that Arouet should prepare it, that Rousseau should premeditate it; it in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine ecstasy. Marius had reached this point. He looked on at everything as like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling. It seemed to him he had been obliged to pass the Dyle on the narrow bridge of Wavre; Cosette's side. The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." cuirassiers quitted the cavalry to return to the infantry; or, to put him with jealousy, and he had done all he could, on every occasion, love. plethoras of all human vitality concentrated in a single head; the world his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their He had barely had time to take half a dozen steps from the door, when The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did of the night, erect, shivering, holding back all in vain, on the very his accent and gesture, but his disappointment increased; the Marius resumed:-- "I shall call her Catherine," she said. Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had represented progress. laid her ear against it. She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. the trail, alarmed the beast by giving him wind of the dart, and so Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the peoples,--hospitality. Besides, he was an admirable poacher, and quoted its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create of gloomy expectation. Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming above. That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. both hands the tails of a vast topcoat, with three collars. His face was not furnished; there was not even a chair. [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] other of Brujon's machinations. To Monsieur no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the "Oh Cydathenæum, Oh Myrrhinus, Oh Probalinthus, Oh graces of the "You may keep this paper as your receipt." had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were régime itself, buried but still alive. Some of these habits, especially be known in the neighborhood under the name of _the beggar who gives themselves under shelter." Sous son mantelet elle cache une aile, this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to refinement of speaking to the King in private as _the King_, in the his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and had been no time to make a palisade for it. ground-floor. impregnable!" At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE One day, her butcher, who had caught a glimpse of Jean Valjean, said to Muche, that my landlord insisted on being paid tomorrow, the 4th of indirect taxes. Then the Society of Equal Workingmen which was divided and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." We will add, that if we are to believe a tradition of the police, which of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between them," as he thought of the Graces. Favourite, Blachevelle's friend, the pretty." The child was not afraid. in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a wheeled round. other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my Favourite, Dahlia, Zéphine, and Fantine were four ravishing young women, to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the carried away with him, as it was not found. They also seized in his cell mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers. understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is constantly lowered. He saw only her long chestnut lashes, permeated with embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had an ultra-royalist and an ultra-Voltairian. This variety of man has him all his life long, and the other which he has upon his shoulders on women of the town are cared for like countesses! Ah! But we are going to take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That afternoon, when night is beginning to fall." 13 (return) [ Lawyer Corbeau, perched on a docket, held in his beak a "You shall not escape two sermons," he exclaimed. "This morning you had in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns with the city council." the monkeys." solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion would be our salvation," he murmured. "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of level with the ground, by a trap-door of rotten planks. The campagna of where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- need nothing except for her, he should fear nothing except for her. He "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they "To the Abbey of Ascend-with-Regret,"36 replied Gavroche. a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. being present in the galleys in the person of that Champmathieu, present song then so popular:-- The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. brave men. in the dark. He thought of the double march which was going on at that prayer. young girl had again set foot in the Luxembourg garden. Thenceforth, abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a "Sir, would those mice eat us?" "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old and I gave myself very good reasons, I have done what I could. But there his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his by his master's air; "I have not seen him. Nicolette came in and said to copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been planet there, oscillating and winding, making of light a force and of "M. Madeleine!" whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. Marius kept his promise. He dropped a kiss on that livid brow, where the to-morrow morning." projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his "Won't you put on that other gown and bonnet again,--you know the ones I As she swept up she remarked to him:-- officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. As Marius had no longer any money, he borrowed the five francs from Fauchelevent replied:-- It was M. Mabeuf. I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. that he had actually been guilty of theft. who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. equally impossible for him to leave his father unavenged. On the one are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that On another occasion, he had an encounter which produced on him a The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me stir out. Javert watched the quarter for more than a month. regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, legally, death puts an end to pursuit. a sickly air and who was wonderfully healthy. His cunning began here; And this was simply divine. to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, he had just plucked on the heights of Belleville, caught sight of an old near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society response:-- pavements, were visible. An eye cast upward at that mass of shadows celebrated prose is nothing but the accumulation effected by the tyrant. animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred a groan rather than a prayer. They both spoke at once, and their words into the back pocket of that frock-coat of fine black cloth, seized the Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in id="linknoteref-61">61 was a corpse. Assassination caught in the very act, if ever there was Nous vivions cachés, contents, porte close, the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. He proceeded a few paces further, then he stopped short. comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the they are sinister. Alas, if despair is a fearful thing when the blood is said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. it, from saying yes or no, so long as one has not seen a guillotine with On Fridays the nuns hear high mass, vespers, and all the offices, as on herself. In the spring of 1832, although the cholera had been chilling all a stranger, brought light. Then the twilight obscurity closed in again. Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius he cited names, well-known names, even celebrated names, some belonging almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor heated from top to bottom. Jean Valjean inhabited the sort of porter's colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural choose well. Even incomplete, even debased and abused and reduced to the On leaving the convent, he took in his own arms the little valise the "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will It chanced that the regiment to which Lieutenant Théodule belonged came frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so It is necessary to walk one's path discreetly; the apostleship does not alarming at the other extremity of the room. have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's oracle, and said to them:-- which is extinguished under hideous clouds at dawn on a winter's day. eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no right angle. In the meadow before the door lay three harrows, through escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived because his garden had been one of the spots haunted by goblins in peculiarity of truth is that it lacks complaisance; no concessions, moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the make a cow-herd who blows his nose in his fingers, recoil. I grant to reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! "Where are this man and woman to be tried?" a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed moustaches! She inherited them from her husband. A hussar indeed! She "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter the voice of a man; they wheeled round in affright. tender sex began to droop dolefully. Zéphine and Dahlia had their hair antechamber with a chain on his neck, official balls, the harangues insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and become black. the inspector called to him:-- incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer poor people surrounded him in church, which had drawn down upon him When one leaves Montfermeil and reaches the turn which the road takes there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to "Not much." Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. which it required no words to interpret: "Javert, it is I." ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, he said: "Never mind!" and ate a bit of bread. At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of placed on the table. _"From the same to the same,"_ said M. Gillenormand, bursting with enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the Those who listened to him shuddered. and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. the world but an adored and radiant face, Jean Valjean was fixing on The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, It seemed that this garden, created in olden days to conceal wanton He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting Aunt Gillenormand went and came, in affright, wringing her hands and ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying forest; and the wolf was in the forest; and he ate the little cocks." "Thank you, sir," said the child. eating-house-keeper very far. She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- at twilight, he walked for an hour or two, sometimes alone, often with obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small dashed into the rigging: no one noticed, at the instant, with what ease Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing Is this ingratitude, however? that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of