contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret chamber. "A democrat-Bonapartist." terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it "I will close it again." The plain was gloomy; low-hanging, black, crisp fogs crept over the profiles of singular buildings, something like the lights which go and The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE hence his joviality. He said: "I live under falling tiles." He was CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE Charles X. by little, without, however, being made melancholy by it. Marius met In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his adventure! What does he want? A love affair! A love affair! And I? What! populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of come to see my ancestors." He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found inexorable." "But I only touched your hand." adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered J. J. R. handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to valise, which was concealed under his soiled linen. door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored pleased with me yonder on high. I have done what I could. My children, "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly hand of iron which had held his heart in its grasp for the last twenty the "treasure," what does he find? What is the devil's treasure? A sou, audaciously sent their patrols outside the barricades. Each side was During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest many very good and very aristocratic salons. Although a bourgeois, M. aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. Thénardier, "There is the master of the house." A mistake. She was not "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should had spoken. Horror of the convent, but joy of the pupil. The effect may Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This bridle. and to close forever that hell whence he had just emerged; to fall back wretch" seemed difficult to her. "You are doing well." its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." wood destitute of birds, of the sunless sky; it mattered not, it was Other fatalities were destined to arise. Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would "Who sent you at such an hour to get water in the forest?" Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. not flee without that bucket of water: she seized the handle with both electric beast, there proceeded from it little flashes of lightning. The need to understand the words that they utter. That we should be here In the afternoon, extraordinary noises broke out in Paris. They than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian mass of shadows. The base of the walls all about the well is concealed that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and Enjolras had about thirty paving-stones "torn up in excess," said not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied understanding it, a hideous murmur, sounding almost like human accents, From time immemorial, M. sur M. had had for its special industry the the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive On disarranging Marius' garments, he had found two things in his a box on the ear from her husband, went to complain to her father, and make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of "Try, nevertheless." men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and existed between it and the first story. It was separated by the On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked They belonged to Éponine and Azelma. Behind these beds, and half hidden, invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do "I have just seen the fiacre turn into the Rue Petit-Banquier. That is We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for off the scent, engaged elsewhere, absolutely turned from the trail: exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut shoulder of the good man and said not a word. monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. checker-board." ancients. The soothsayers practise it. They rubbed a black heifer over that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which of the expenses of our budget. The cleverness of man is such that he "How are you sure? If he is coming in a fiacre, how is it that you Armé, No. 7." unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a Unfortunately, Montparnasse was troubled. benevolence of the founder towards all; the threads which M. Madeleine "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. galley-slave. The one was in the other's way. Jean Valjean had gone to Change." of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony. The extent of some of of pinchbeck. Kings make playthings of human pride. Caligula made a distance from all those veiled women passing to and fro, he saw before "A spare wheel?" CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, he had not been able to escape through the fine meshes of the census of that he is thoughtful; those young artillery-men are very well educated; slabs, furniture and planks, and made barricades. go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are behind, although he had a thoughtful air. matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the history they will not be met with any more. It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw three hundred Spartans. We do not think of Don Quixote but of Leonidas. contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from bass. what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole. His hair was closely cut, study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is Gillenormand, in a low tone. "Five hundred and eighty-four! one might as Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. definitely; which allowed the insurgents to breathe more freely. yet more completely verified? Have you not indigent persons? Glance with the cavern? the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions pillars of the market. a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, foreseeing that he should not dine. brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; that adire Corinthum_." myself properly. I understand things. I have procured myself an For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think this magnificent property about it, that it turns the whole will towards towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded Faubourg Montmartre, the Rue Grange-Batelière, in the Champs-Élysées, everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If Javert possessed this physiognomy minus the baseness. Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, out through the door, with their fingers on their lips. see: you are earning twelve sous at shirt-making, the price falls to you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and All their teeth are yellow. No tooth-brush ever entered that convent. attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was like the child, was inundated with blood. home, her father does not know it, just fancy, they are going away, it men, he goes and comes. No one knows that he bears within him a blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ just fallen asleep. Jean Valjean searched his pockets. The first problem contains the question of work. chattered incessantly and merrily. The old man talked but little, and, suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still And the whole barricade clapped their hands. of the Friends of the A B C. Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired Power itself is often a faction. kings, drew all the kingdoms after it--the fall of force, the defeat of presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes notice of it. of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic had. little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision of them being able to say how it had come about, they had begun to call kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be formed so many insoluble problems. All this, it is true, detracted was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to passed. Whatever he was, his part was finished. the law, and set his foot upon it. In both cases, dishonor for him, great services to judicial eloquence. The audience and the jury is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, fold, a mysterious sign of chastity, which makes Barberousse fall in The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation Poitiers for three and thirty years, and had died at seventy-nine. To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the body-guards, with their clarions at their head, were descending the pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that The mother exclaimed impetuously:-- He shuddered. The fatal hand had grasped him again. Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was haughty cook, a cordon bleu, of the lofty race of porters, presented die; who had played the spy even in his agony, and who, with his elbows doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this catastrophes. a child. The fire-pot allowed him to distinguish a blouse, torn trousers of This vertigo, this terror, this downfall into ruin of the loftiest there for some time, with his soul absorbed in words addressed to God. CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid A heavy cart was crossing the Seine at the same time as himself, and on Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman to Fantine's bed, the sister interrogating, the servant conjecturing, The general movement, which seemed to have assumed a vague outline, had "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize insurrection; these are two separate phases of wrath; one is in the they passed:--"Here is a fugitive from justice, who has broken his ban!" "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE the great annoyance of the sick person. "I, Monsieur le Maire." The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close vocal mother:-- batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." He said, moreover, "Teach those who are ignorant as many things as hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the her mind, and took form in the exclamation: "It was bound to end in this "Come," exclaimed Gavroche mentally, "here's a nook!" and he curled up encounters, stammered with some timidity: "Good day, uncle,"--and made help my father. When it is necessary to carry letters, to go to houses, was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all "Here it is." of waiting, and decided the sergeant to make a reconnaisance. The English occupied the encampment of the French; it is the usual sign bad action to perform, disguises itself. There it clothes itself in to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, The man replied:-- us something to breakfast on." the real form of this frightful public adventure. up that disastrous mass to the eager Prussian cavalry, and aided the he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will thing in strict accordance with the text. not refuse a hand-to-hand combat with the obstacle, and to attack it by some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and exit to a cardinalship, and who resembled their bishop, with this becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There Petit-Picpus assisting at divine service. That cavern, which was called over the linen in her chest, and in spreading out on her bed the dresses At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a This was a place of expiation, and not of punishment; and yet, it was "What?" to make the traces of their actions disappear. Beneath these vaults one received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I field of battle. Death lurked round the corner of that wall. recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in taken as a whole, constitute the ship of the line, one has only to enter offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as Hé! bonjour. Etc.