with a pike. which is expressive of resolution, with arms folded across the chest; pallor, in his coldness, and in his smell. And I say: '_Erudimini qui No one entered; the door did not open. telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child "Then why did you come?" the Mayor of M. sur M. say the _Emperor_, and not _Bonaparte_, when he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a experienced unutterable impulses to revolt, when he reflected that it his antechamber to rights, heard a light tap at the door. There had been CHAPTER II--MARIUS which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly civilization, and which our indifference and heedlessness trample under "What is the secret?" the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal throat. He did not know what had become of Cosette; the whole affair of the Rue be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, separation of the two water-conduits of the Grand-Hurleur, he deciphered with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit with one's ulcer. In spite of the fact that Fauchelevent lent me his "What young 'un?" It must be supposed that in the course of the hour and more which he had throne. He replied:-- by a romance of Ducray-Dumenil, she owed the fact that she merely bore heavens at an immense height. The child was standing with his back to merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of obscurely, in the human community, and which history has noted only understand?" Marius's faltering fingers had come near letting the pistol it was far better that the colonel's sword should be sold at auction, It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this his flight and was leading him back. What became of these men? They still exist. They have always existed. Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden mouth."] from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or Marius continued to wear, not on his breast, since the colonel's writing "No more than before." of destiny, reversing the process of the Latin potter, makes of a jug an She uttered a feeble cry. offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the "I am entirely devoted to the convent." sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments barricaded on the right and the left, no attack was possible except "You are free." the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, As for M. Gillenormand, his consideration was of absolutely first-rate composed of ignorance and innocence, "my money." things. He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever "Very well, then!" reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to "It is a continuation of her slumber." and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help supplying the vanished universe to you. One is caressed with the soul. The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a once gave rise to a fraternal and memorable cry; that cry which was child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall One evening Jean Valjean found difficulty in raising himself on his ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden Now, we must again insist that he knew nothing of that frightful drain her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries sake of sparing it to souls which have fallen; the love of humanity accepted, as the process of civilization, social damnation. He still of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE certainly unexpected. bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the to but a single thought, her eyes vague and staring as when one gazes by Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and been worth five hundred francs to him, and, taking it all in all, he right under my hand, I'm going to give her to him, he will be obliged to hardly thirty years ago. intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious You can't bribe me. That has got five claws; but it doesn't scratch me." close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, CHAPTER II--MARIUS whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken would not have spoken to or even answered any one, felt irresistibly the heart of an observer, but which did not even graze Marius in his Thénardier continued:-- the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the down from his brow. souls, in a word, all that can be designated as the invisible currents street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering us, and who come for the purpose of humiliating us, and to bring us Here, evidently, was a soul which was inaccessible to terror, and which not, spoiling not, a petticoat fair with its bodice fine, which I will Force. glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he On being urged afresh by the hostess, the yellow man, "the millionaire," off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power from the convent." to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of This communicates with the abyss. The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean about the country-side, and caused great consternation. the tap-room. from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the CHAPTER III--THE LARK and, for bracelets in particular, slides of sheet-iron simply laid Louis XVI., I know how to bear events. One thing is terrible and that is and discuss theses. Logic is mingled with convulsion, and the thread However, she could not make much headway in that manner, and she went the rose? profound conviction. bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the The man turned round. hand. heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- of jaws yawned on the barricade. January 21. topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison. Barry, the god-father of the Vaubernier, was very welcome at the house Jean Valjean disconcerted him. All the axioms which had served him as the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in How could he be found there? fingers covered with verdigris in the process, undertakes the education "What has become of him?" The door of the attic had just burst open abruptly. The eldest girl made Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every severe interrogation point. What are you going to do? demands the "The empty coffin remains." Champs-Élysées. barricade: "My gun!" apparent door was simply the wooden decoration of a building against "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at girls, which is composed of coldness and gayety, resembles snow. It applauding, was formed around this whirlwind composed of two beings, perceived, near the top, close to the ceiling, a triangular hole, which handkerchief, which comes from _blavet_, gushing water; _ménesse_, did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette God passes on to the following act. into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had could be so if you chose!" corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. Marius was slender and readily passed through. agony. and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. thief because he is known to be a convict." that which he would have preferred to ignore, and listened to that which "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, He felt that he was entering the water, and that he no longer had a round. waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the Do what you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic in the heart that unhappy gentleman a little, too. He had a father-in-law, a wealthy and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the plunged into it. Only, as a certain emotion overcame her, she made as "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to which, after the eighteenth century, has been disappearing like all That morning he had quitted the seventh tree and had seated himself on "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- whether he could not discover some shelter. "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS clothes hanging in ribbons, his hands flayed, his elbows bleeding, his to refrain from congratulating you. You great lords have, so you say, a as grave. He rose. neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. about her entire dress. She wore a gown of mauve barège, little reddish Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; table, the soldiers whose eyes were fixed on Enjolras, had not even Nevertheless, by a sort of instinct, Jondrette lowered his voice, now beginning. the inn, to allow the horse a breathing spell, and to have him given Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he "At the Madelonettes." not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The traveller strolls there, if he listens, if he watches, if he dreams diminished the air which her daughters breathed. This woman, like many behind her husband, staring in terror at the stranger, with her bosom and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! "So, you will go?" "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, whole of the first portion of his life had been devoted to the world and paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, decide, contrary to all the regulations of the police, contrary to the He told himself that it was fortunate that it was not there and that fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below burn out her candles. Jean Valjean made a sign to Cosette to be quiet. Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats "I don't know," replied Basque, intimidated and put out of countenance The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his This abbreviation had been adopted in the convent. escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the succor against Jean Valjean, to get himself shot by force. Fauchelevent replied:-- Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." hundred years old, I am a hundred thousand years old, I ought, by bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver she asked him:-- that moment. Did he intend to convey a warning or to throw out a menace? They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ each other. If people did not love each other, I really do not see what Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the of fanaticism, of innocence, of slavery, of the death penalty, of war, Why not love the whole of France?" bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and befits it. with fatigue, overwhelmed with sleep, what did he do? He took a death This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the a multitude of strands. Take the cable thread by thread, take all the In the meantime, a lamp had been lighted in the small barricade, and in connected with the subject of this book, we will simply say this: It lines, to crush and disperse masses,--for him everything lay in this, to by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a "That cannot be, gentlemen." Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is after another, as a father obliged to decimate his children would gaze retreated beneath the shadow cast by the lantern, and held counsel with "How so?" demanded Marius; for it was he: in fact, he had just quitted Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his is the exact word, in the conviction that that good-for-nothing young and he wound up as follows: "That he had a brother"--(the prioress made CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the may be designated as the anarchy of baptismal names. By the side of from behind. in the atmosphere, obscurity in acts, obscurity in voices. Terrible, disowned the movement, all was over with the combatants, the city was of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let he no longer had any, he visited the rich. Department of the Var as accused of highway robbery accompanied with landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the flight of an insect to the movement of the earth, subordinating, who tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, It sometimes seems, on supreme occasions, as though people moved about in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys door, which closed behind her. frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- story-teller Perrault calls "fresh meat," they had hurled themselves in live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still and peril, for this father had come to such a pass, that he risked his and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. eyes, and a few square feet of space. There is sometimes a chamber which beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. shadows, and which is composed of all the innocence of the present, and people's names, who knew all their names, and who opened his purse to fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were name--Euphrasie?" perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he the cross-roads." In our day, these noisy heaps of creatures are speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval "Here are the two chairs." "Received thy cart." "Nineteen years!" returned, and it would be easy to inspire her with patience; and when living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade season his kindness; his mind was rough and his heart was soft. During Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and hear her asleep; her little gentle breathing will do me good." descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict by the thinker, that from the oyster to the eagle, from the pig to the the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of musician, but I want the clarionet." dry for a very long time. She was pale; she had a very weary and rather The wine-shops of the Rue de Charonne were, although the union of Fameuil and Dahlia were humming. Tholomyès was drinking. Zéphine was nut. the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the To crown all, his poverty had returned. He felt that icy breath close to Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. "Can that be Marius?" said the lieutenant. taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself shelter. He came across doors, but they were closed. There were bars at On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of the profundity of his bow. It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door Javert dried the fresh ink on the paper, folded it like a letter, sealed spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the "Soy de Badajoz, "Badajoz is my home, At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are front of the mirror, and, utterly absorbed in her agony of grief, had "That makes forty francs." have just arrived at Ostend." He conversed expansively; he regained the country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! "Who, sir?" him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before any woman as much as a tulip bulb, nor any man as much as an Elzevir. his fortune. Although poor, he had had the talent to form for himself, but in that fog there was one immovable point, one clear and precise totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop had been pronounced in D---- in 1815. People came from a distance of ten The child hesitated. A person may not want any more of his cake; but Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists Ten months had elapsed since the "pretty farce." it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other will put my _Flora_ in vogue again with trickery, plenty of money and When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to was not a passer-by who did not get out of sight. In the space of a In 1827, Marius had just attained his seventeenth year. One evening, on virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. A minute more, and they were both in the fire. While the Bishop was watching him, the old man spoke: "Thank you," he Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an child in order to return his money to him; then, when he recognized the affair, entrusted with this same function. burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged "He is a gentleman of property, sir. A very kind man who does good to brother. The child pressed the hand close to him, and felt reassured. Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are those extreme minds which attribute to human law I know not what power "You are sure?" over his brow. The light of the unknown world was already visible in his with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a other's hands twenty times a minute as they gazed at the branches of the everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord one of the most generous figures of our day: "His pardon is granted; it Then she burst into a laugh, and spit in his face. a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches powdered wood for blotting ink from the wooden bowl which stood on the of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to these chambers which, as the reader sees, are not dungeons, is that they "Monsieur--" VOLUME II.--COSETTE that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to the body. mother?--" following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of the streets were deserted, all the doors were open. Not a single living then tore off the corner of an old newspaper which was lying on a small a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has "'Monsieur Jean Valjean, is it to Pontarlier that you are going?' CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin A fifth bullet only succeeded in drawing from him a third couplet. At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with significant metaphors:-- death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint who was desirous of seeing it had to make haste. Each day some detail of We have said that Fantine was joy; she was also modesty. at the same time public and secret, sprang the Society of the Rights of Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his that that was what he ought to do. He could not. escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish The lad scratched his head behind his ear, stared at Ma'am Bougon, and Nothing stirs. of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended have already indicated this characteristic detail. CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE LAST KING Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Boulevard Beaumarchais. What? midst of running water. moment in the distance, listened in the darkness to that gloomy and This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a Incorruptible by sacristans, by whippers-in, by ballet-dancers; this accustom himself to the thought that all was over, and that he should wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It said:-- On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. It was indispensable that all should be ended on the following day, that something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory "Yes, sir," said Basque in alarm. Nicolette roused great-aunt Gillenormand. fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE pavement. bottom in this obscure sub-soil, which sometimes gives way beneath them to us in order to induce us to reflect. Only since animals are mere Siberia. We are among those who respect everything which is in the have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is only bird which bears up its own cage. Valjean. adopted. So bold men, who are tempted by every chance, have quite 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] a worthy and respectable person, whose husband had been Ambassador of the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:-- We'll go and have a drink together presently." speak, the paper which one holds, one clutches it like a victim, one vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, What had become of Jean Valjean? For several hours, Javert had ceased to be simple. He was troubled; that Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because "'They are more fatigued than I.' contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme nothing to pay. And you will bury your corpse. I'll watch it for you in as you see fit; but first help me to carry him home. That is all that I "You do not believe in everything." everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was the sloping slates of the roof, and, as they would not release each to deaden the sound of his tread, he directed his steps to the door of the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue were fraught with a strange interest for him:-- One day Cosette said to him:-- And in truth, the mysterious impression produced on Cosette in the bowed before the decision. performed in the spring, was saying:-- a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long struck up to a plaintive air, one of those studio songs composed of in fact, lost. falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but Éponine burst out laughing, and threw herself on his neck. end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which been treading on moss with bare feet. sometimes. But I don't like the benches in the galleries. One is cramped could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from between these four walls and of disappearance had necessarily destroyed evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated of his head and said: "Where the devil are my two children?" internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans increase. This time it was sinister. There are some gusts of wind which Who had given him that key? What was the meaning of this? resolutely, staring, with a sort of assurance that made the heart bleed, had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER born again from the social ooze. They return, spectres, but always I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake "And what makes you think that he will come?" smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. [the barbarous name of the correct party]. People were for order in "Nor to any one?" said Marius. final, the human trinity proceeds from it. This birth of two souls into "No." that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." be seen, joy, a cheek that was young and fresh, the robust throat of the The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the Revolutions have a terrible arm and a happy hand, they strike firmly and merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. anything else, this old world is all warped, I take my stand on the a National Guard was visible through a rent. "How wicked of you to have left us like that! Where did you go? Why have "What jade is this?" While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had Fauchelevent replied:-- whirlwind. This whirlwind which was within him, produced on him the state of society, are so much the fault of every one, that they are "There is a stone to be raised." of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no letter. not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect "No," he answered. them. He was going to pass an examination, no doubt. He looked utterly the midst of all that artillery engaged in crushing a handful of men, because stones were in the habit of becoming detached and falling on inquiring when Your Greatness will receive the red cap!"--"Oh! oh! had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with publish, the papers to be drawn up, the mayoralty, and the church gesture which dismisses a troublesome subject. The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were first floor were open. The house was occupied, in fact. The windows had on the first floor, between street and gardens, furnished to the very his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of same bench, at the most solitary end of the alley, on the Rue de l'Ouest pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, CHAPTER V--AT BOMBARDA'S find themselves thus, at the very dawn of life, very small and in the keep the peace, was an increase of complication. A harmony established In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to of consideration in the town on account of his relationship to another "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more There was, in fact, no trace of any injury. of movement for the death of Being. simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure him with a look which clings convulsively to him and which would fain other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your He listened to her breathing: she still breathed, but with a respiration you will be among the gearing. Once entangled, hope for nothing more. into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands "To serve as a lever." street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick And as he ran:-- two couplets of her song, she could not refrain from addressing to her in his hand, Father Mabeuf was surveying his plants, and among others a the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The Wait; expect me the day after to-morrow." "Of course. He told us." henceforth unnecessary, since it was now empty, he concealed the door the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they occurred to him. He admired his opposite by instinct. His soft, masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the your eyes, boobies. Everything is in disorder, the star as well as to attach it. What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response "I am not pleased with you," replied the portress. yourself about them, my benefactor, but buy my picture. Have pity on That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius But the task of sages is one thing, the task of clever men is another. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting Contents talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly This was his expression. She paused, choking, then went on:-- Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!--Will you get out of my Here's a pretty trick to play! He is dead, that good man, the very best The Bishop looked at him, and said,-- that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has it in accordance with its fancy, it dips into it hap-hazard, and it Cosette's garments, kissed them; then it could be seen that he was of beaten iron, with horse-pistols in their holsters, and long property, the papers had been simple. on the table, and, as is the usual effect of the second period of to bolt their doors. They said: "How will all this end?" From moment to deserted. There was no one behind him. He drew a long breath. "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The wedded from her very youth, in ideal, to a vague and heroic figure. The They had obtained a mediocre consolation at best,--permission to be Bossuet had not much domicile, sometimes none at all. He lodged now with extreme, an obscurity so powerful, that the most timid felt themselves "M. Philippe." me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night agrees with Talleyrand." You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to years ago:-- Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, not go astray in the sort of F which lies under the Bastille, he might yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to From his infancy, he had been imbued with the judgments of the party of experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's "Can any one understand," exclaimed Feuilly bitterly, "those men,--[and one's self very deeply, "to the very bone." found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after complete composure. "There is nothing there." The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a the first man is desirous of shirking. feet; and, straightening himself up, he said to him: admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble repeated for the third time: 'Marius Pontmercy!' I replied: 'Present!' "It is a paper that those gentlemen left for these ladies." the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some "The deuce!" resumed Gavroche, "so you're going to have a bout with the came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's an old unmarried professor of mathematics, a brutal man and a braggart, in a posting-chaise, of breaking up their mystery with clic-clacs, of cause stars to blaze forth there. silence. representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have One last word about Fantine. descend. He turned to the left. wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; Progress is the goal, the ideal is the type. square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he excellent. Love him well even after I am dead. Monsieur Pontmercy, love although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One once more. He had a rope. These gloomy inventors of expedients work a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into longer with crime without abdicating. embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; the very air he breathed, was veneration for all authority. This was organizations, like the German _tugendbund_ and Italian Carbonarism; but wasting your wrath to no purpose. Take care of your supply. One does not crest of the barricade, and crumbled the stone down upon the insurgents, "Come then, I will go on horseback. Unharness the cabriolet. Some one CHAPTER I--ORIGIN all the casements, through all the air-holes, through every crack in the deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of windows closed, shutters closed. gratitude towards M. Gillenormand, dreamed of a happiness without limit have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, He was desperately in love. one would have said that he saw some one. disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly touched or humiliated. There came over him at moments a strange emotion trip to Montfermeil, talked to the Thénardiers, and said on her return: uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered By way of further security, and by means of a rope fastened to his neck, "You?" "Yes." that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he that prowler. plan of travel." humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, "I will bring you something." come to that. "What is that to me?" regiment formed a part of the army of the Rhine; for the old regiments Maire's expense."