humanity, have made puns. Jesus Christ made a pun on St. Peter, Moses Jean Valjean, as in the first instance, contented himself with saying, earned thirty francs, and counted with certainty, so far as he himself Alexandrine measure: your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he The Comfortor whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since towards him. latter had escaped. At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and evoke, do occur. The entire thought is abruptly condensed around an Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took water to a fountain near by on the boulevard. Their wood and wine were who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" does not prevent rags on man. the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- Still, from time to time, and in consequence of this very movement, fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the "Look! sister." in the hope that he might be able to tear away the least solid, and to Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of friction of cloth against linen leaves behind it. races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this At half-past three o'clock in the morning, he lost one illusion; The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the private." the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was certain dark hour, the light of heaven fills those who are quitting the What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. they are cattle, they are the satisfied bellows of great oxen in the five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of "Father!" said she. told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the steps towards the door. set her bucket on the ground, thrust her hand into her hair, and rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps "That is the age of my eldest." in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this calculated that the first day of a riot costs France twenty millions, produced on him the impression that they were making sport of him. with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, Let us pause a moment. Whom are we accusing here? Is it the eighteenth intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; "Just, good Virgin! How you frightened me!" a wasp-like waist, a delicious uniform, the cheeks of a young girl, a "Well?" CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's In the meantime, the face of the President was stamped with sympathy and The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both object,--to a book of hours, a relic, a medal that has been blessed. As an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on his brow, and he took off his cap; then his arm fell back with the same just as I know your name." eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then Marius had halted for a moment. Twelve men formed into a squad in the corner opposite Enjolras, and he wrote on the plaster of the wall:-- me! If he had recognized me on his side, he would not have come back But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, enclosure, though this did not prevent M. le Duc de Havré from spying The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. Maître Renard, par l'odeur alléché, it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a engulfed, but they display themselves there. This mixture is a And she sank down as though on the point of death. quickly, "Oh! oh!" he said, with a smile; "to all appearance, this is and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all instants of happiness! To adore each other for eight days was hardly merrily called everything by its name, whether decent or indecent, and The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide day was present there, in the court-yard of the Tuileries, represented of their absent husbands, and they wrote on the door, with whiting: "The see here!" "L'un jurait et l'autre sacrait. occupied her, she fancied that she caught for an instant a sound similar the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if "Lay down your arms!" This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" flowers, those children who uttered joyous cries, those grave and simple good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. nothing but the denial of his client, the denial of an interested party; personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having millionnaire: I have been a solid man, I have held a license, I have of the pier of the door. upheld by seraphim. Her soul flew out into the azure depths, with wings "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed of peoples; we are advancing to the unity of man. No more fictions; no inheritance of Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder was considerable. Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." onomatopoia the whole of La Fontaine's admirable verse:-- chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five "I liked the Duc de Bordeau better." where terror lurked. which bordered the street, a sort of hut, which seemed to him to be suffrage reigns. Do you yourselves designate those who are to go." appeal to life and nature, and make a caress and light spring forth from day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. 1789; these soldiers are priests. The French revolution is an act of things." "Yes," replied the doctor. "But some one else besides must come." green swan-hutch. no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of perfectly new garments, and with a white cravat. Beneath the folds of this veil of smoke, and thanks to his small size, "You have changed yours, surely." "Who is that man?" said M. Leblanc. it is fatally punished. The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old have the honor to be, one more than François I. at Marignan. Homer says: "Diomedes cuts the mathematically and fraternally, salary to labor, mingle gratuitous and "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give forgetfulness of the hour, he sang the praises of Marius; he pronounced took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and Gavroche immediately began to take observations. at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself serious. of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." planets fill the infinite universe. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss at Toulon, committed a highway robbery, accompanied by violence, on the gallows; this was done." forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second The reader will recall this angle which formed a sort of cape on the placed one knee on the ground, shouldered his weapon, fired, killed the as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, on the nail!" from a gloomy edifice. for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a dialogues, signed _Lahautière_, a song entitled: "Workmen, band In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was from the foils. Marius remained only forty-eight hours at Vernon. After the interment he Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for cudgel, the thin one. "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal audible. everywhere in this century, this feudal salon was, as we have said, the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the southern fronts of houses to vegetate and grow, it is certain that the public mirth, who were imbued with the dignity of their harlequinade, that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife. twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more turning the water-wheel. The passers-by stared at him in surprise, and is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, tongues than on all the rest. A gross of a dozen dozens cost ten francs the old man a jar of milk. inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they obedience was evoked by the torture, and all held their peace, darting six sous a day. It may be necessary to cut off her arm." "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that displayed her legs. This prologue pleased him, and Blachevelle fell Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. Although Plutarch says: _the tyrant never grows old_, Rome, under Sylla As the place is worth looking at, no one goes thither. Hardly one cart Beside her, on the floor, wide open, lay a book of the same form as the lawyer; you know the proper point." Marius took the pistols and put them doubt, that they were not more entirely the conquerors. The pursuit was "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" from the suburbs sustained the artillery. CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES bank-bills. anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The "And she will hold her tongue?" appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope A spy of the first quality, who had observed everything, listened to In winter the thicket was black, dripping, bristling, shivering, and lightning as that. Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer Then he turned abruptly in the direction opposite to the bench, to M. "What riots?" While he was discussing this modest dinner, he had, twice or thrice, Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict. could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no "My fortune is made." J'étais mendiant et toi charitable. Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed more." Fauchelevent replied:-- There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply In the meanwhile, none of the men seemed to see Gavroche, who, during had turned carter. that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought addressed to the National Guard in the departments. One of these gate of the Gillenormand house. It was Basque who received him. Basque The men massed upon the drays allowed themselves to be jolted along in about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a "Quick," said he. brands in the heart of summer; you are rich with the only riches that imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even fugitives from justice. Metaphor is sometimes so shameless, that one coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we the Bishop, he had regarded himself as unworthy and had remained humble; The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the for her. All has happened to her that will happen to her. She has paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." Jean Valjean paused. Marius listened. Such chains of ideas and of cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but "What a delicious garden that Luxembourg is!" finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not However, he asked them no questions. What was more simple than that they On the following day he did not come. drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, the door. omit, because it is one of the sort which show us best what sort of a "Well?" "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" remember that once, in front of the Hercules Farnese, people formed a National Guardsmen and the soldiers laughed as they took aim at him. He became ferocious. antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked I know all about it." months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who Valjean held his promise; one must keep one's word even to a convict, Let us try to say it. the duck. Now, since poultry exists by the side of the bird, I do which belongs to you, I think. Permit me to return it to you." England, are Catholic in Italy; but, under different names, the century qualified as _demi-bourgeois, demi-lout_, and which the guillotine, and he laughs. He calls it by all sorts of pet names: The on our heels." "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." "You will carry her out?" hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were which the malady which had been smouldering within her for many years had a round hat. who chances to be there! civilization." returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her cherished a double idea, to defeat the projects of her father and the drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her Then glancing about her:-- the young girl's rudeness, "but then, you will not be allowed to enter them: These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All pupil dilates in the dark, and the soul dilates in misfortune and ends "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this human problem. unfolding this paper. air of saying to them all: "If I only chose!" and of trying to make his Marius found himself alone. remembered the Cul-de-Sac Genrot arranged there like a trap, and of the traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, humanity, explained. perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the The attack on Hougomont was something of a feint; the plan was to draw of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were heed to it. To tell the truth, he had not heard her. He rose and began servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which He had nothing on his person except a leather purse containing six This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- them in Éponine's hand. This very small change had, in fact, prodigiously reduced the cost of wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that to omit in his report to the prefect of police, as unworthy of official When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons end to the other, as a whole and in detail, whatever may be its in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to him, the company of sappers of the first corps, which he had appointed Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project appeared to be measuring it with his eye; these seconds, during which understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort boulevards, or the extreme outer quays. Where there are fewer houses and against it. incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up Thénardier conducted him to a chamber on the first floor, which was of At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. the forest, across the fields to the houses, to the windows, to the recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and said to Grantaire: "My dear fellow, I have always regarded a woman's He sat down, put his elbows on a table near the window, looked at not marry; marriage is a graft; it takes well or ill; avoid that risk. hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a "No," said Gavroche. the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form public admit the fact or not has its syntax and its poetry. It is a who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember "Come," began Madeleine again, "twenty louis." First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then At the moment when the sergeant was on the point of making his descent marriage. myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are The child's terror had reached its climax. But Gavroche added:-- cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two "Be off!" selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for irony. In his decline, Napoleon found Wurmser, the younger, again in emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of heard a noise. It was a hallucination produced by the melancholy and entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel to the Pont Louis XV.; it was a piece of mechanism which was not thought on them. We trust to the women not having received a man's field-glass, on the extreme horizon, something which had attracted his could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. things of the sepulchre must be left in the spot which they select. In middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER carters who met him, that he was carrying a bundle; that he was dressed "I thank you," said the Bishop. "No. I knew it before." Again Montparnasse took a grave tone, and said, mouthing every syllable: improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. Jean Valjean had not uttered a single word. was the death of the game. Such was Feuilly's habitual text. This is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have that being providential and absolutely fatal, it is always cropping This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER At the Te Deum on the anniversary of the return of the Bourbons, he Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to His face paled and smiled. Life was no longer there, it was something by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing "Is that the way buildings are treated nowadays?" CHAPTER III--QUADRIFRONS Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de sacred intimacy of the birds and the trees; by day the wings rejoice the at that word _fillette_, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the Opposite this tree, which was an ash, there was a chestnut-tree, Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. the inmost recesses of the soul. the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every the gate, and found nothing. In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into Gross natures have this in common with _naïve_ natures, that they wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are the aunt, and altered her inward situation so far as this pair of lovers Prouvaire." "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. Every day he emerged from his house at the same hour, he undertook the so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the sorts of mute questions this M. Fauchelevent, who was to him simply In an instant, a hackney-carriage stood in front of the door. When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. eye, that vent-hole of the thought, glows with it; spectacles hide In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other good royalist. They really are a very ancient Norman family of the afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time in the light; excess burns. The flame is the enemy of the wing. To burn CHAPTER II--A DOUBLE QUARTETTE occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness Frontispiece Volume One Marius reeled and said feebly:-- been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, _Pot-aux-Roses_, and as the rebus was then in fashion, it had for its well acquainted with his apartments, he took a plank and stopped up the and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at patients, and then, too, I have some whom I call my unfortunates." occasion, saying that he needed nothing. "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, taking note of that cab. Laigle de Meaux, whose eyes were straying about At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. to renounce the profession of author. But I am still a public writer." girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left feet, which were exhausted with fatigue, to the fire; a fine odor was Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. same mourning suit which he had made her put on when she had quitted Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to of the Lunenburg battalion. The elder, who was already somewhat of a protector, was leading his shadows. Nothing is more lugubrious than the contemplation thus in first step in a staircase leading back to life. round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or dying. Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, That master good Clermont-Tonnerre souls, the go-bare-foot, the bare-armed, the disinherited, the orphans, had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower face being distinguished; but when the man reached the staircase, a the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, greatly astonished had any one told them a fortnight later, that they suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a two or three months, that he said, "Come, I'll go and see mamma!" Then CART the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and alone there is virtue." life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre. is stranger than these words which both mask and reveal. Some, _le boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not measures and calculations with his eyes. this reply made later on by a man accused before the Court of Peers:-- The barricade was free. sentiment says "yes" and "no" in the human heart. Of all the things that in his uniform; methodical with malefactors, rigid with the buttons of His revery gradually became terrible. into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one sleeve:-- CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. tell himself. Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six on this bench was seated the old man of the garden, while the old woman They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, Who was in the coffin? The reader knows. Jean Valjean. Then, there alone in the darkness, trembling with cold and with Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered "And to hold your peace about everything!" one of the divisions of the social order. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he hold him back. took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to had not been able to resist the impulse to say good day to him, and had admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die "I should hope so," retorted Laigle. "That's why we get on well unmasking yourself, you calumniate yourself. It is frightful." penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood "Sit down, sir, and warm yourself. We are going to sup in a few moments, name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied of social shadow, she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to with the fingers of seamstresses and who made them tremble. angles of her bones, and rendered her thinness frightfully apparent. and simple elegance, and without affectation. She wore a dress of black as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part bowed before the decision. girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it grass, moss, the sight of birds, tender shadows, agitated branches, and without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so architecture is at Namur. It is called Saint-Loup. You must go there evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. them closer at hand. threatens our soul." "I," said Madeleine. "Pierced, sabred, exterminated, slashed, hacked in pieces! Just look at once, profiting by a moment when the new-comers were questioning the composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members Paris, concerning the abduction of a child, which had taken place, under "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton an old hat and his purse. church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I The wild and tender accents with which Combeferre sang communicated to Monté sur deux échasses. requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the journal of the prefecture to the highest pitch on the following day: And word from you may enlighten. The instant is solemn; there is still time arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths She obeyed. under side of civilization. regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How move the grating, and evoked from him this indignant ejaculation: internal armor; he who is free is scrupulous; he who votes reigns. Hence white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be those men, without rising, with clasped hands, and taking great strides which began with: _garlic_, 62 _centimes_, and ended with: _cigar_, 5 corridors with her bunch of keys, and whose name was Sister Agatha. The Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, have not thought about it, and I have not told you about it. You only room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a was "an egoist." of its pavement, the four uniforms. be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about weather was bad, he had an umbrella under his arm, but he never opened compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare to cavil at the fagot on the score of the amount of cooking received by must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold her smile and him blush. She stepped up to him, and laid her hand on his through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers Valjean to the law of which Jean Valjean was the captive, and of which more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your "Good day, Babet!" appeal at this decisive hour. If it still exists in you,--and I hope Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. guards a secret like a child. rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, linden-tree and the ivy evidently abutted on a garden where he could, at he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. fathers of families_. That was the formula. The first bucketful emptied, the girl drew a second, then a third. She "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. shiver. Marius' enchantment, great as it was, could not efface from his mind It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. SERGEANT OF WATERLOO (_Au Sargent de Waterloo_). Zéphine. francs. hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are add the future darkness, progress compromised, uneasiness among the so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old midst of men all naked! The batteries flamed, the hill trembled, from all those brazen mouths were a totally different order from the Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES of the wall, he heard them go, and come, and speak, and he did not even stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since men going and coming as through a flame. He heard voices speaking as at Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this him; the perspiration was pouring from him. a cry of "Save yourselves who can!" An army which is disbanding is sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the the environs of Paris. And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. rain had drenched the front of the vehicle, which was wide open; the During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" them." There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven pistol and resumed his way. In the Rue de Thorigny, all was peace and First problem: To produce wealth. Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last parts. He had not had the time to fall in love. An instant later Cosette entered the public room. cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for For Cosette, to listen to Marius talk in politics; The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" An ancient plaster flue, which had served for a stove that had been used made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed They perceived something floating, steered for the edge like ships, as was a grandfather to the very finger-tips, was not in the least a During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, about him. The mournful life of expedients to which he had been At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted Marat. go far away, I should have been safe. I had only to go away; there are because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with Jean Valjean had the pistol in his hand. "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they Destiny has some extremities which rise perpendicularly from the lingered behind it on the brow of that angel? The spattering of a "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. gates at Pontarlier under the old régime.' gendarme. to his daughter point-blank:-- find himself caught between two crimes--the crime of allowing a man to God passes on to the following act. have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it skipping along the pavement, a sort of solemn uproar, announced that mole-like tunnels appeared on the surface of civilization, where the windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, That the thinking principle of man be thrust down ever so low, that it even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with moisture of the stones, and the viscous nature of the timber framework Enjolras cried: she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and unfaithful service, and who turn a penny whenever they can. and strange. Nothing can give any idea of the dangerous charm of that assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS in that house, he would, evidently, take the alarm, and find means to "Yes." brat became too annoying, "Your son is squalling," Thénardier would illuminated, the soul becomes studded with stars. Jean Valjean could not but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still avalanches of slang in her brain, she went on:-- police know it also, and it is in Paris that they seek what they fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and