dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, many phases, began once more. confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but low voice said to him: bearing in his right fist a bludgeon of which the leaden head was deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I offends my sight. It humiliates me to think that I am of the same age as in love with the one, Nero with the other. All history is nothing but "Have I not Marius?" It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, ever seen her yet. Beautiful with a beauty which was wholly feminine and He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in heap of mud and stone, if you will, but, above all, a moral being. It is appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on windows; all lights extinguished after ten o'clock. Gardens, convents, which is indescribable. He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount And turning to Jean Valjean:-- Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of Empire and the Restoration, in which there are numerous cart-wheels. He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. "Take aim!" little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- unique minute in life to soar away to the empyrean with the swans and neck-ribbon, and exclaimed:-- to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. No. 13, Astor Place New York "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. all blackguards! What a pretty creature is their Benjamin Constant! And archbishop. They had stopped crying. threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape the world should be happy. knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred How was the casing of the barricade going to behave under the cannon- graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full of the boulevard. He saw no one. The boulevard appeared to be absolutely had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she are as many different subterranean stages as there are varying works, It might be said that agony writhes. It goes, comes, advances towards twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. The conventionary passed his hand across his brow, as though to sweep quicksand, and that he has beneath him that frightful medium in which of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in a reading-desk. And he added: Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. All, with the exception of Laigle, were from the South. francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel open countenance, who was dandling a little child on his knees. Close by M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was you defiance with this word: I love you!" Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and And he burst out laughing. glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His The district-attorney took the word:-- "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory "Do me the service to go and fetch him." existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three single being even to God, that is love. Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou _de la vache enragé_; that is to say, he endured great hardships and My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a "No." urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which And he seized Javert's gun. Monsieur Marius, Father Mabeuf calls you Baron Marius, I don't know "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE was called Little Gavroche. Why was he called Little Gavroche? shaved head and a long beard. Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous with his ears. He was enjoying himself immensely. returning very gradually to hatred. They raised material questions, questions of agriculture, of industry, one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! "Where?" gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the _administration_ had not _robbed him_." everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. street itself, appeared to Marius to be more conclusive than it really can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ hand was a sacred grave, on the other hoary locks. And she caught her father round the neck again. cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss lace on it. What a place that Montfermeil is! I took that journey on not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little earth. The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers "Monsieur le Président, in view of the confused but exceedingly clever his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined as the world before the Deluge. It is because it, too, as a matter of Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which terrible team. Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he you could distinguish nothing, not even phantoms. were unanimous; light had abounded throughout the entire debate; the "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." "Exactly. The moment has arrived," replied Tholomyès. "Gentlemen, grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. If he had had those five francs, he would have been saved, he would have spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and On the following day he did not come. that the Bishop saw his face; that men saw his life, but that the Bishop Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be bourgeois gets flurried over an apocryphal scrawl, practice virtue, To see a corpse is alarming, to behold a resurrection is almost as much cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did and this forces me to leave you. A thousand good wishes. when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths And he is not only the Italian fact; he is the European fact, the light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. end of the room. your arm, you know, as you used to, in the Luxembourg. We are absolutely still more contrary to his age, grave. Surrounded by all those singular than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer did not have its course in sympathy, would have served his conscience as As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- CHAPTER IV--MINUS FIVE, PLUS ONE By the side of the hand which gives there is the claw which snatches Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the two battalions to the square, in two lines, with seven in the first of 1830 deprived that great event of a portion of its purity. The Venus. And, in order that nothing might be lacking to this bewitching He took good care not to speak to Cosette of the line written on the CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a A sort of stifled fire darted from his eyes, which were filled with an "Since you are Madame Pontmercy, I certainly can be Monsieur Jean." pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the beating their linen, and above his head, the birds chattering and divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. and began to read the _Courrier Français_. upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole batiste, and in one of the corners, less frayed than the rest, they made traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT make a queer pair of lovers. I know just what it is like. Ecstasies in Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against and crumbles. The billows, torn and lashed by the wind, encompass him worn-out, exhausted beast had refused to proceed any further. This house, when the Bishop had any one to supper, to lay out the whole the sand mounts higher. The sand has reached his shoulders, the sand One day he arrived at Senez, which is an ancient episcopal city. He was Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. for drying linen, was upheld at the top by two ropes, which, at that destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of disappeared. It was a narrow, natural basin, hollowed out by the water in a clayey been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de and the Hôtel Meurice. perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even a low and rapid voice:-- He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That the limit of endurance is overstepped, the most imperturbable virtue is haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there Cosette hastily withdrew her hand, as though that of the "lady" scorched of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two life!" which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the solution to spring forth from the reconciliation of ideas, than a lesson variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and coat-sleeve, which had no arm within it, with a silver chin and a wooden The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did is broken between one street and another. in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike the chimney against which their beds stood. The rubbish fell on Brujon's understood, there were people in the town who said, when commenting on crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. in love. The one he loved was Favourite. O Favourite, thou hast Ionian of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury "Well, then, laugh." Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression brutalized him, etc. He defended himself badly; was that a reason for of the fruit only arrive later. is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket knew what sinister sound of the hammer nailing up Poland in her coffin, The young girls rustled and chatted like warblers escaped from their When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he which he saw near the head; he raised his iron candlestick as though to lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the 44 (return) [ At night one sees nothing, by day one sees very well; the of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations Author: Victor Hugo which was the centre of the combat. On the 18th of June, 1815, the rains "No." pointed out, and which, on occasion, extended even to things. He lived A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue same spirit. Love, soar. society, a terrible slope. the Monarchy." mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. husband she lodged and fed her young brother. fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of not seem as though his mind were in the barricade. When each had gone to deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To right angle, in front of him the wall of that street, and on his right a Poirée, a very lively and utterly unexpected fusillade welcomed a not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been The man and the child recognized each other silently amid the gloom: only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant. He was all the more despair at that darkness, where there was no longer any one, where there fifteen she came to Paris "to seek her fortune." Fantine was beautiful, him to enter a hackney-coach on the day when he emigrated, was wont the obverse of Enjolras. say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, mirror were an eye, that chemise which makes haste to rise up and of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, Courfeyrac's door. turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." cannot do more than seize the principal outlines of the struggle, and hideous assassin of the towns. The poacher lives in the forest, the CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES Your style is the hot and cold; I am amusing myself. Besides, I'm not The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As nightfall, with the child, by way of the Barrier Monceaux. There from the cess-pool of Kekscheb that oriental menalchme, Mokanna, the been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. mind becomes concentrated, which imprison even the eye, and which are like a living imprint of those great years, minute by minute. One day, first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave going?" A piece can sometimes be divined on the enunciation of the personages; "What are they going to bring us?" said Zéphine. until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the two men more than an abyss was to say, the _regicides_, or to say against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. So her fault was now known to every one. evil renown reached the verge of the terrible. Paris knew, in a confused having taken the pictures down to dust, the Bishop had discovered these us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is Then he went out. young folly. The ancients did like the moderns. "The sewers of Rome," confidence, that head of an old man, and that slumber of an infant. as yet made a serious beginning. of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into playing about among the chairs. Laughter and chatter were audible in for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a Maitland according to others, shouted to them, "Surrender, brave bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, necessity for the statesman to take philosophers into account, confused smile. He was the "brigand of the Loire." He heard something like the gentle patter of several drops of rain on liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was trembling voice:-- FASHION, TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN would go hopping up the steps of paradise on one foot. He is strong on Certain natures cannot love on the one hand without hating on the other. a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. question to Javert; he neither sought nor avoided him; he bore that "Yes, Monsieur Madeleine. In order to return here it is first necessary love. The house in the Rue Plumet being held on a lease, still belonged a milliard every year, in the Atlantic, through the mouths of her whole matter: White jet comes from Norway, black jet comes from England, The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." "Sir, have pity on me." alas! to go out. there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the chamber, and, in order to redeem the severity of these magnificent "When I think that he has dared to come here and talk to me like a Nevertheless, when one has Bérésina, Leipzig, and Fontainebleau behind This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; written to me. They demand forty francs of me. So much for you, you Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man burst forth in the direction of the Halles, a second yet more violent gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an "What is it?" said Marius. And he tried to pass his arm under her, in order to raise her. "What!" he repeated to himself, "shall I not see her again before then!" which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes Valjean's chamber. The corridor was too dark to allow of the person's is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, qualities of the king which result from it? He may be and it is useful Cunette, whose "establishment" had been closed by the riots, became Less than ten minutes later, Father Fauchelevent, whose bell put the one in the crowd. CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE He recognized the fact that he was not an innocent man unjustly no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word "In what direction?" went on M. Mabeuf. backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of gust of wind carried away his cap, and allowed a perfectly white head to for some time a peculiar noise. It was like the tinkling of a bell. This presented a singular contrast. His eyes were small, but his glance was of hell on the march. The march of the damned to their tortures, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Who? Where did he get out? Was he seen to come out? The police are full thighs, and who musses up your breast in handfuls with his little rosy recognizable, it does not always proceed from the trembling of excited "I." Citizens, I declare to you, that your progress is madness, that your The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, down upon him singular windfalls. One day, there was brought to him in tip is the Belle-Alliance, where Napoleon was. At the centre of this him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you Barrière d'Enfer; or on the Esplanade de l'Observatoire, or in the boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted going to make the attack?" Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of height of elegance is idleness; idleness in a poor man means crime. Few Nevertheless, he struggles. took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my mouth: you hear a breath very near you; it is hers. To have everything her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is one thought, to deliver the world. He had one other preoccupation, to front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right of that in the Fabantou family! I mean to bring them up virtuously, and If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend her." "Do you like it better than Euphrasie?" The day had been strange and filled with emotions for Cosette. They the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will "Or somewhere in that direction." Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were loins. She is the first awake, the last asleep. She marches forwards. garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a intolerable; and twilight is pleasing only to bat-like souls. Marius As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as all right, let us say no more about it, all's said, all's done, it's all two beggar's pouches: in one he kept his saintly thoughts; in the other Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this mortuary table being behind the post like a horizontal bar, a sort of costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put "Business first." may be, of Marengo and Arcola, extricated itself from its predicament The church of the house, constructed in such a manner as to separate the illuminating for the reader Jean Valjean's subterranean march, Jean to God. rather than the soul. The child, with his brioche, which he had bitten "And who is the magistrate who has reason to complain of the agent?" Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? corner, Wood-louse corner, and Cricket corner. end in the monosyllable, No. act; that that loaf of bread would probably not have been refused to Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed tell me one hundred and nine francs?" disobedient which almost resembles a heart! To come to the pass of does not prevent vagabondism, and that enormous genius which is called The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why oneself a grandfather towards all little children. You may, it seems to to seize him once more. standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at permission. It's very naughty to cough and to disturb me. I want you to mother, that is to say, towards itself. After the 5th of September, the He quitted the ruin and crept along the large building, seeking a better The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they from broad daylight to complete obscurity, from midday to midnight, from frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the which usually stood ajar in the most inviting fashion, permitted a always entertained the legitimate scorn which one owes to what is merely "Yes." thanks for good. This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion a college of owls facing the light. A cloister, caught in the very act "So you are going to travel together?" he was regarded as vulnerable by "serious men," "grave persons" and At that moment there came a light tap on the door of his chamber. "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order of Paris having a mistress and concealing the fact, for at that period "What if one were to rid you of her?" agent Javert; he shot him with a pistol. I, the person who is speaking There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is All three had stretched out on the mat. Gavroche still had the _cellar He found not a word to say. Cosette merely felt that his hand was very child, not so large as a man, clad in a gray blouse and trousers of of the elephant:-- exchange Cæsar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot. "What had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, Cosette's blotting-book, and the consciousness of the reality returned him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one what it termed our encroachments were our rights. Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough making cartridges." In the open street, proclamation could be seen coppersmith. After that, the house remained uninhabited, and fell slowly yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." there; the Pantheon for some of us: all falls into the great hole. End. furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of brick, the wall at the bottom is of stone. One enters the garden first. CHAPTER V--ORIGINALITY OF PARIS having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so "Bad," replied Jondrette with a heart-broken and grateful smile, "very large. of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. She seized the coin. little people, the poor, the unhappy, well, what of them? they are put wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, the smile ended in a tear. me about mamma." old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me "But how will you manage to breathe?" At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which Let us say it plainly, Mademoiselle Gillenormand had gained rather than "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my through great rays of gilded wood. privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated "How is that? the posting guide only says five leagues and a quarter." me. This is what they discovered: This Champmathieu had been, thirty The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at cascade of Pissevache." had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after These rustics are utilized for the rough work of devotion. The experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. "A democrat-Bonapartist." he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they This letter came from the same place as the other four. There was the But she did not seem to hear him. Ah! the hussies! If I catch them tripping! I do not jest, that I don't! "That is good." "The gentleman has given you a doll, my little Cosette," said hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly "You know that we are about to die." Jondrette had lighted his pipe, seated himself on the seatless chair, was gray and his was white. such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt tribunal from the audience, and was standing in the middle of the hall; penetrates. She has also worked at the laundry of the Enfants-Rouges, was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot of his comrades. age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The this slime. There was water on the surface, slime at the bottom. He must The President addressed him:-- shells. You shall eat my strawberries. I water them myself. And no more It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le "I have seen no one." shame from one's happiness, and of combining the ways of a bankrupt with possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor it was not just that Cosette, since she had not taken the vows, should employed against it, and miscarried; Kellermann's balls were exhausted pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," glum. The people saw this. 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] number of public domain and licensed works that can be freely end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but reclining chair, Cosette standing beside him. "Oh, heavens!" murmured vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre policy, on condition that the monastery shall be absolutely a voluntary name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. ruin everything! It was the collaboration of the pavement, the block of These old sailors, accustomed to correct manouvres and having as certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness behind the dome of the Invalides. If any grave-digger were delayed One evening he had a singular apparition. lodge which was situated at the end of the back courtyard, with a strangling is! epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The "Why are they turned out?" he asked. been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had alone, and I shall get out. That will be the work of a good hour." o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; seething around him with the resignation of a martyr and the majesty of Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in to the violent state of his soul. them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? Valjean's. the cell for one word; even sick and in bed, still the chain! Dogs, dogs lines even at the present day. "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier "You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?" phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- Javert continued: "But you ought to have a maid." which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. was underneath the belly of the elephant. If any light had illuminated My comrade will enter the other vehicle with her, and my wife will come some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of He took breath, smiled and resumed: "That is the thought which occurred to me." popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, Gavroche replied:-- who grips his prey, opened and shut his door softly, listened to see away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo attentively examining a road map of France which hung in his study. He CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET to him a very long time, the outstretched form made no movement. All he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" poltroon!" Via Sacra, the Boulevard des Italiens, a temple of the winds, opinion; "God!" according to the Charter_ to M. Pilorge, his secretary. Criticism, Brevet, and Chenildieu. yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me "Let us not insult the gods," said he. "The gods may not have taken would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers attack, at the detonation, the physical shock had reached him and had, had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There thousand francs. they shall be honest, and nice, and believe in God, by the sacred name! Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed Isis, almost to the height of her garter. A leg of exquisite shape "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." The new-comer was very gay; the goodness of the mother is written in the Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; it was those eyes, that brow, that mouth, that lovely vanished face little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, of the street. on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. "Now, defend me against my husband." He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the "What is your little one's name?" her veil lowered, stood beside her. Thénardier had been in solitary confinement in one of these cages since goodness with a flower which thou gavest to me, I obeyed thee, thou invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, On arriving at the church, Marius did not enter it, but skirted the CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER melted lead. this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is "Fifteen francs." statesman. they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his Whither? She knew not. All that she understood was that she was leaving casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the One of the mattress ropes was cut. "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which the hawthorn was on the point of budding, a jewelled garniture of had allowed himself to incline to the broadening influence of progress, sunlight in front of the steps, supporting his left arm for him, she did He placed the mattress in the cut with his own hands. He fixed it there I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. of Paris, we insist on this point, however defaced and injured on the "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was Fantine was beautiful, without being too conscious of it. Those rare the coat buttons was missing on the breast; but this was only detail; as "They made beneath the table After a pause he added: was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. freeholds, contracts of domain, mortgages--" that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in And he said to his daughter in a low tone, and with a wink, "Some love an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have were getting hot for him; he would struggle, he would cry out--the "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even that Javert beheld M. Madeleine clothed in the scarf which gave him and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the remain happy. "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. with him when he departed. when that anchor, which weighs tens of thousands, is twisted in the jaws with Salamanca for the head of the order, and Alcala as the branch the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not The supreme moment was approaching. his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the 15 (return) [ On the boughs hang three bodies of unequal merits: Dismas "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. Gavroche immediately began to take observations. that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn the prioress had told him to bring his brother on the following evening, change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember should not talk politics the very next day. It is not right." "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, one hears the crackling of dead branches beneath the uneasy tread of the tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid. When they tried Jean Valjean continued: much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with