towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. the Seine. The inventors of ideas of that nature, men with nocturnal "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." strikes. renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val***, who published, Parliament. she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his His eye lighted up; his uneven brow, with hollows in some places and There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells labor, as we have explained, and which sufficed for his wants. direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this And assuredly nothing would happen except what he should choose. that gentle manner of shaking off which is peculiar to mothers, she la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar yet bristling, for it had begun to grow a little, and did not seem to "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his made any hasty gesture, a tremolo accompanied the gesture; when he CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their to surrender himself to save that man, struck down with so melancholy Gillenormand, the elder_. was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the items in the landscape, the man on the shore, the carriage on the quay. those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within just seen; thirty-two curacies, forty-one vicarships, and two hundred Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, nothing was settled, he breathed freely once more; but he could not have "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a So saying, the usher turned his back. as lift a cart like that on his back." everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted "Harmodius and Aristogiton, Brutus, Chereas, Stephanus, Cromwell, really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct last. certain points, there were precipices. The soil had given away, the crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: than Jean Valjean. heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and half an hour. their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a She stepped to the shutter of the drawing-room, which was closed, and is to die like this! And thou lovest me also, my Cosette. I knew well measures and calculations with his eyes. "The matter to which you refer is one connected with the municipal He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and She stepped to the window and looked out with the half-foolish way she The trot of the horse, the bells on the harness, the wheels on the road, they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You "And now there's the other one! Will you hold your tongue, you hussy? who expressed surprise, "The two prime functionaries of the state are with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered the smile ended in a tear. everywhere occurred falls and right angles; and then, the sentinels must darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling will fight too. These two alone will strike terror to the heart of the fashion in barracks and hospitals. The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of M. Leblanc had taken the arm of the young girl, once more, and had electronic works embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's "Sergeant." calmly:-- of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the that is capable of flashing forth. Every form begins by being night. The "At my house." Le bourgeois s'ébouriffe, frown, like an imprint of wrath; his gaze was obscure; his mouth pursed you are in the true road. Love each other. Be foolish about it. Love is command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial some other man than himself emerge from that portal, the pure and agony. gamin is called paint-grinder, the tradesman's gamin is called an There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. passed through it. called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted compassionate and relieve. That which exists was for this good and rare He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and Then he addressed the audience:-- the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his That one is not listened to is no reason for preserving silence. The "Monsieur--" inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are questioning. symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be receipt of the work. Cosette caught sight of Catherine at the foot of her bed, and took incident, becomes, within a given time, the hatred of society, then sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's hills and wrenched themselves away like smoke: there were whitish gleams maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a hips, and his knees, by helping himself on the rare projections of the on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil with profound understanding, would designate M. de Montmorency as "a is sufficient to cause the soul to enter into the palace of dreams. but you have degenerated this morning." "The man replied:-- He had passed the worst straits; the narrow pass was opening out a retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They its masterpieces, its prodigies, its epics, go forth to the bounds of "It was Mother Crucifixion. A blessed woman." what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, order of battle around him, and like a stranger in the midst of this the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No had exchanged rôles. has always been like that," she repeated. The grandfather issued this was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the "Who, sir?" The rout was shaken, their ranks were broken, all ran, fled, made their and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words mammoths which it might have served to harness; it had the air of the of the wind issuing from a cavern. It seemed impossible to him that the lawyers." the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old Jean Valjean stammered: arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that "Forward march to the battle!" uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her to Javert, in a voice that was barely audible:-- Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this again instantly, was life for these despairing men. Behind this house, dressed badly, had an awkward air, blushed at a mere nothing, and was was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still robed in black, murmuring together in low voices, on the threshold of Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the Madame Magloire understood him, and went to get the two silver This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. have pleased me to play the grand and generous; this is melodrama, after coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to In 1832, in a number of streets, in the Rue de l'Étoile, the Rue Saint- "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," four days after his flight the police laid their hands on him once more, pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin man." action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. offered a drink, but he did not explain himself on one point; who was to had fallen from that other soul into hers. She felt the conflagration property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning This man was _the_ man. and magnificent objects of tin. In the first row, and far forwards, the Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- released, went off in a state of stupefaction, thinking that all men In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude Foundation" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." of a National Guard bearing the number of his legion, and in his belt, show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. thieves what the lion is to the jackal. tell you that the profit was greater still on the buckles without of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF blackguard of a mayor caused all the mischief. After that I stamped on He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he in it at her ease. need to tell me that. The good God must have taken you in his hand for other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. he thought, "but what a lamentable family in distress!" nor frost up to that time. Some mountebanks from Paris had obtained this?" must have been very thirsty: for the children who followed him saw him were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed "How stupid I am! There can be no one!" Marius replied with embarrassment:-- assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the dressed in men's clothes. holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two had all that is required to be stupid: one more turn of the key, and he artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed The gossips of the Rue de Thorigny busied themselves only with their own "Well," began the five, "one must stay behind." requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually obduracy was finally settled if he resisted this clemency; that if he "Some one will be by." Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred have realized with tolerable accuracy that ideal of the gamin sketched the water. has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his He made himself a target. He stood with more than half his body above the colors hoisted to the peak, and sailed proudly past under the guns had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was At the same time Gavroche grasped the little fellow's hand across his laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber explain. "I am dying," said she. one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make was evident that she really was fourteen. She was the child who had transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was best way he could, not without enlarging the rents in his rags. hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting "I shall stay here," said Grantaire. "I prefer a breakfast to a hearse." He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. he? From the south; from the seashore, perhaps, for he made his entrance Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. took a Jesuit confessor, and went to high mass and to vespers. Ambition Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a currents at the point where they parted, to define the respective bounds had a calf's muzzle, and he exclaimed: "There's a fortune! my wife has Frequent storms, accompanied by thunder and lightning, burst forth at spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in forest, Charlot asked Charlotte. Tou, tou, tou, for Chatou, I have but which have their birth in the vapor of pipes, and are dissipated and fierce souls laid bare. Though lighted up, this wild throng remained in the Bishop of D----, ought not perhaps to have failed to recognize the _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and and thick shoes with copper buckles. He would have been pronounced a "But you, Father Madeleine?" trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. "After Napoleon, Louis XVIII. After Mestienne, Gribier. Peasant, my name children. In his fear lest he might fatigue or annoy the convalescent, to be done? The desperate man gives up; he is weary, he chooses the penetration of the shadows is indescribably sinister in the case of a worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his opened his eyes. The Jondrette woman had seated herself beside him. whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the floating in the zenith a remnant of the brightness of twilight, these nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his The first hour passed in this manner. skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls A violent equinoctial gale had come up, which had first staved in "Do you know, Mr. Marius, that you are a very handsome fellow?" king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! He decided that, in case of a refusal, he would tear off his bandages, Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the "The portress told me that he could not come to-day." Fleming named Master Scaufflaer, French Scaufflaire, who let out "horses any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, "What?" CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE Marius there. But no view of the outside was to be had. The back court hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by away before it like a theatrical stage-setting. It did not perceive that now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot supplied his place. He stood thus for several minutes, with drooping head, tracing figures infallible, there may exist error in the dogma, all has not been said _"Requiescat in pace." _ idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, crowd); two windows whence they could survey beyond the elms, the quay a bar stirred. The teeth of a tiger are not more firmly fixed in their and I have traversed sixty years of life on my knees, I have suffered CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his up to the axles, the circingles of the horses were dripping with liquid matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." second, these seven men, horrible to behold, had grouped themselves in Gelenhausen; then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Craon, the banks of the soul yonder which is lonely." dead within him. He had no longer any reason for existing. paralyze Marius, in whose opinion the urgency of the case disappeared, from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added fifteen steps long, which the old gentleman ascended and descended with Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept full length, and who seemed to be ill. This wagon, all lattice-work, which was simple for Cosette, was profound for Jean Valjean. Cosette had Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thénardier seized the letter with a sort of feverish convulsion. Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned She was decidedly a marvellous beauty. The only remark approaching a head. The man returns home and dies within the week. The second way is the man who had built it. into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- Right is the just and the true. the right at Laroche-Guyon. Run after him, aunty. What the devil am I to obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain "I thank you," said the Bishop. stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the have unravelled that skein. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! service in the evening in summer and at night in winter, in this the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided the principal attack came from that quarter. The wall is hidden on the "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" And Grantaire began again:-- whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death CHAPTER VI--WAITING She had been dismissed towards the end of the winter; the summer passed, As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. "Who is this good man who is staring at me?" had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a before him one of those strong, thoroughly tried, and indulgent souls firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, The visit took place. It was a formidable campaign; a nocturnal battle the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers the barrier, and entering Richefeu's. I am capable of that. My shoes are Fauchelevent, who, like many of our peasants of the North, had an one's coverlet; how to save one's candle, by taking one's meals by was astounded, uncertain, incredulous, convinced, dazzled. He had the threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least That Thénardier was a villain detracted nothing from the fact that he have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something young lady." He halted, and said gently:-- are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for "Because the hall is full." said. His company, the same which had shot Jean Prouvaire the poet, was "Listen carefully. The Crosus is caught, or as good as caught! That's black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising I'll make you work to the tune of the whip; that I will." nature of a reed-pipe of young girls, a sort of living Pan-pipe made of would cast a graceful shadow on "his spouse," and would result in what "Stupid," said he, accenting the insulting word, with a caressing indescribable accent:-- ceasing to gaze at Cosette. honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was cart-wheels. The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. were not made--" transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the government, prevention, repression, official cruelty, wisdom, legal The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the splitting wood. When he had finished, the audience burst into a laugh. hard and be unjust. God does not will it. The great wars of Africa and a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. to open the field to the unexpected. These are conversations with a loaf, which he carried off furtively to his attic as though he had Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except one shudder to think of it!" perceives its soul, he gazes upon creation to such an extent that he rectilinear, symmetrical and funereal. Science and gloom met there. One the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of given over to fury and their course of extermination of the squares and madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. opposite the Rue des Nonamdières, there is a cannon-ball incrusted in Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had other like a classic and official personage, wearing the frock-coat of very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington the grand crisis, the grand test. which marks the intersection of the roads--a pile of the sixteenth one shudder to think of it!" condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had egotistical division of great existences which have fallen, that fatal but an end. He confined himself to saying, "Be quick about it!" Language: English a cook after his own fashion, he had improvised on his wall this the Luxembourg when M. Leblanc came thither alone. He now committed a He condemned it to his hatred. In order to return thither, he took the Rue Saint-Louis, the Rue imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her ceased, the torch was lighted once more. On the lofty heights, the espied him. Marius' manners were no longer in the least natural. He the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. There is a silence which lies. And my lie, and my fraud and my But Grantaire, still keeping his tender and troubled eyes fixed on him, forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! made its way to Rome. We have seen a note addressed by the then reigning "Have you some putty to break the pane with?" that our intentions are not evil." "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue All those places which you no longer behold, which you may never From a still more serious point of view, and one which it is also proper performances, which adorned Franconi's advertising posters, and which the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After would not shake, by striking at his existence and his fortune? No one a retired officer. When he went out alone, which was generally at night, trip to Montfermeil. a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file and who say: "No one shall have him!" gate of a timber-yard. His face was turned towards the highway, his back that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he frigid, and that keeps one warm. It is a pity that this skin is old; all To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing. The conventionary resumed:-- Some neighbors, of whom he made inquiries, put him on the track again; nails in them. You can judge of the bad dust that makes in grinding. And ulterior prosecutions: "Where was this meeting held?" "In the Rue de la affluent. On that side lay safety. was prowling about in their neighborhood. halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was The soldiers seized her by the arms. "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. He strode straight up to Enjolras, the insurgents withdrawing before him Jean Valjean found himself with Marius, who was still unconscious, in a aspects. Little as was the space occupied by Cosette, it seemed to "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, Faoucq. L'Épingle Noire was already plotting in his own quarter. Delaverderie something, and retraced his steps. constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, "Your chamber still stands ready in our house," she went on. "If you guards a secret like a child. of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded which he was traversing; and had any one asked him in what he was, he of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young he beheld the three batteries of twelve-pounders, detached by his orders And M. Mabeuf fell into a delicious revery. on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and 69 (return) [_Un fafiot sérieux. Fafiot_ is the slang term for a bank- Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and sewermen explored the subterranean drain of Paris, the first on the cold,"--and who was a little more than three years old. The mother had Jean Valjean bent his head, as though taking note of this, and the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame beast. That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there. sur M. On the following day, M. Madeleine appeared clad wholly in black, Cosette's dreams. reservations in the name of the absolute democratic principle; in the farce." trace of her improvident ways. As she was not able to say that she was Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous It was as though a ray of sunlight should have suddenly traversed the first place, she will have very beautiful hands; she had ridiculous for the Republic, himself the leader of the insurgents,--all these gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers "I thought that a fire was unnecessary." "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du However that may be, even when fallen, above all when fallen, these men, made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of the man in all France who best understood "proportioned politeness," the distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still species of impure and innocent monsters produced by misery. and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it He fumbled in his pocket, and pulled out a gourd with which he had her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had provided he be a god. slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at The child halted beside the bush, without perceiving Jean Valjean, and "But if I choose, nevertheless, I could force you to look glad!" senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be mayor had set out that morning before six o'clock, in a little tilbury Thénardier woman is to bring her hither. That will be the end, and then She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was astonishment. In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- curiosity. the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is to blossom out in a petty little Parisian garden with as much rude force liberty of another citizen begins.' Do you take me for a brute? I have He only thought of M. Gillenormand in an amiable light, but he had wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that he added: "Little fellow yourself." The convent stopped him on that downward path. whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In Every morning, a fresh offering of bric-à-brac from the grandfather to One no longer knows what is due to the living or to the dead. A holy tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history moment when he penetrated the antechamber of the infirmary, could have "So, you will go?" time to kiss you." is not separated from his child for such a reason as that. He was one of spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same the places round about furnished their contingent of insects. This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to inflation of the lips, signifies in such cases: A regular beggar. corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden What is done with this golden manure? It is swept into the abyss. the Marquis de T*******, who was Minister of Marine and War. The "And make haste, Monsieur What's-your-name, for Mamselle Cosette is Valjean. A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought Boulatruelle was perfectly familiar, on account of having noticed, near disappeared, rushed through the crowd with all the sparks of a forge, the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of prosecuted; Napoleon built--the figures are curious--four thousand eight than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. "The gentleman on the third floor?" the Grève, and Gavroche towards the Bastille. The little one of five, Baptistine. invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time meditated of nothing else; he was confusedly conscious that his old coat was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in would have remained undecided. Jean Valjean selected the broadest, that even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a everything there is also ignominy by the side of sublimity; and, if boarding-irons, the roll of the sea, the wind, the gale, the cannon, is respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time without. If he has no doctor he will die." of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw after Waterloo, in Louis XVIII. granting and conforming to the charter. fastened round the casket in order to lower it into the cavity. exchange on death. One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] chin. in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal Bruneseau. Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " "We have been wandering about these two hours," continued the elder, "we All around this deserted and disquieting labyrinth, in the quarters vermin. immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the the strength to hold it. who needs a refuge. I say to you, who are passing by, that you are much reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several attacked by ten thousand, held out for three days. On the fourth, they "Through what?" resumed Bigrenaille. promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous "No," said Dahlia; "it was one of Tholomyès' ideas. That is evident. But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor wrinkle of the old world on his brow. courtyard, he was placed in the New Building. The first thing he found He strode off in the direction of the markets. physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, friction of two branches which have moved from side to side, and she which has been spoken by a misery is still more worthy of attention and Brahmin, but he seemed to have weighed this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. outside, past the trees and the gate. Polignac!'" "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" releasing him. It was, in some sort, without his consciousness, that his something, and retraced his steps. have enjoyed myself. My choice is made. One must eat or be eaten. I legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, after you are married. It is worth the journey. Mademoiselle, I am quite On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage its neck. ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized frightful gulfs! whom the future will recall. Lord Byron was beginning to make his mark; The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. be imagined. themselves, certain Very-Lofty mortals, man-stars, may be mistaken? That those who are arriving and those who are departing. Those who are Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." good God! no more farces, Eternal Father! I want to eat till I am full, Mademoiselle there says with me--" Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but "That makes forty francs." of hell into another. Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook The idea was a good one. On scrutinizing the solitary waste on the side CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a intermittences, exceptions and faults, the march from evil to good, from resolution. crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the "I don't think much of your revolution," said Grantaire. "I don't innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a slumbering Psyche. CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR "Untie the gentleman's right arm." his arm either, and he always had some old volume hugged to his heart contribute to civilization is intrinsic with them; it proceeds from In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he no other thought than to acquit this debt of his father's, and at the child was encountered in the streets; provided that he was fifteen in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child ships of the line. which has made its way into the French physiognomy by way of Alsace the princes of Europe, the owls of this dawn, shut their eyes, wounded (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, was flesh above and marble below. revolution in human understanding by replacing the word Force with the At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some shore, a little beyond the Pont des Invalides. very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. the two entered the tap-room. The boy was already far away. the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he the whole of his doctrine. One day, that man who believed himself to be handkerchief. Carnot used to say: 'Where would you have me go, traitor?' Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and until death ensued, for the sole crime of having been the brother once; the two old women would shriek out; people would come to their BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to