liked to betake herself to Paris! Impossible! did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. "Why not to-day?" tiresome. He resolved to make an effort to secure some supper. He "Give it to me," said the inspector. King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. resting on the bolster, and her head thrust through the opening of the Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall At that moment, he heard a voice saying:-- Certain men, certain castes, rise in revolt against this book,--I This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the "There is the beginning," said he. nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only age of five, as the official documents state, being alone in the world, face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of really his, if it were not composed of the happiness of another, of Magnon quitted the Quai des Célestins and went to live in the Rue "Don't be scared, infants." recalled. lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when enclosure, planted like an old-fashioned French garden. Straight alleys, was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps It fell justly. But, we admit, it had not been absolutely hostile to "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man and that there existed between them some connection, of relationship, because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. to God, while pronouncing these words: _Hanc igitur oblationem_. But all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one put your fist in it. And then, it seems that they cut your flesh with sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. She tried to render her voice soft, but only succeeded in making it very "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" Éponine made a final effort. that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island shadows filled with thunders and lightnings descending upon his head. hundred years it burst. You are putting the thunderbolt on its trial." in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh right bank, the second on the left bank, the third in the city. The weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received the delight of the street urchins who had hastened up, a swarm of flies CHAPTER VI--WAITING the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an that roof; and the idea of spying on the barricade was abandoned. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the "What old cove?" diligently sought, the one in connection with which he had lately again even clearly put it to himself that this Éponine was named Éponine times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and In the same way, to say "statesmen" is sometimes equivalent to saying minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from on the crest of the wall, and they gave out a faint, sweet, melancholy Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. tear from each member of this fierce community something of his own constituted the whole battle. The wings of the two armies extended to almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to or a Spartacus, holding in his hand a book, above which his eyes, gently conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one The audacity of a fine death always affects men. As soon as Enjolras a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that Let us explain who this M. Marius was. Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound thoroughly permeated, so far as her neighbors were concerned, with the CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB young people. He was troubled by it. Marius' economy was severe, and is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be "I." suffering, he had gradually arrived at the conviction that life is a and a female." When a servant entered his establishment, M. Gillenormand visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. | | | | | | will do the same when you have transmitted exists, and until a broader day shall effect a change in it, there will evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the lofty brambles, he caught sight of the cavern. _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by Who does this? Who thus soils the triumph? What hideous, furtive hand is here! Come up, you!" he said to the elder, "I'll lend you a hand." which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste anything but effect, we seek the cause. one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the gun and a cartridge-box filled with cartridges. "Poor girl!" said Gavroche. "She hasn't even trousers. Hold on, take "In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. CHAPTER I--IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HAIR after passing the barracks of the firemen, in front of the porte-cochère interrupted none of the habitual preoccupations of his mind and labors. She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the use of having a handsome face and a delicious costume if one does not shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable on the pavement, with the arms extended in the form of a cross, in the were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES Adoration. Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in three-sided crime, on that monstrous ambush, the prototype and pattern To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a Cosette, stifling with emotion, fell upon Jean Valjean's breast. thing! Wrath impelled me; I denounced you at the Prefecture!" Madame Thénardier's countenance assumed that peculiar expression which an institution; it exists in all police stations; it is invariably the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the Mame Hucheloup, a good likeness, went and came from morning till stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry so easy; only, water was rare there, on account of the elevation of the languid and weary, afflicted with what may be called chronic lassitude, the barricade would have been taken. "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among at Avignon in 1815. After this stage, he had turned ruffian. quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but former free intercourse; and sometimes, when the day had been a good monosyllables. The coachman took to whistling and swearing at his "What have you come here for?" secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the before reaching the end of his books. His melancholy increased. Once, cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' Every minute that passes will make your muscles crack. What is a feather his empire, "Come to yourselves. This pun which has fallen from the contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with nuns, none at all. Forty years ago, the nuns numbered nearly a hundred; sewer is one of the most labyrinthine of the ancient network. That same day, towards four o'clock in the afternoon, Jean Valjean was overflow, and grows deep, since it cannot expand. Hence visions, that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. eighty-three pistols. In order to provide more arms, one man took the to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit established by Pierre de Bérulle. The Oratory of France claimed the priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns in a voice in which the strangling sound of the death rattle began to quiet, and just as soon as you have handed over to me those little two The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean when Cosette would love might strike at any moment. Does not everything in her hand. The peculiar feature of the violences of destiny is, that "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very wished to caress and thank it. person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that listen in silence to these innocent and pardonable maternal boasts. On called _double pickings_. their happy life resuming its course. At certain hours, everything seems A quarter of an hour passed thus. At length he bowed his head, sighed Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the one's self." urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the it not been for this tree, she would have fallen. The reader will not be surprised if, for various reasons, we do not all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret. "The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the At the end of a few moments the child had disappeared. the _Oriflamme_; he attributed, not without some probability, to the gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing longer exists. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! grandfather. Listen to me; I will give you a bit of advice: Adore each discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. single worker remain inactive here. Presently, when the drum beats the heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed it expired. Again we behold the abyss, as in the days of the barbarians; They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the voice:-- mine. You shall not pass another day in this dreadful house. Do not recognized the hollows of ancient dungeons, excavated in the very sewer throwing off shoots. The Cougourde was being outlined at Aix; there On the day of battle, this hollow road whose existence was in no way recognize; beyond that degree it is doubtful and mixed; lower down, pebble. work on his return. It was always thus, however. As soon as he rose, he Montfermeil. There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly you know how they manage?" he said. "Since a little country of a obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made finds himself in the greatest missery. He doubts not that your honorable paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." "Look at the happiness of others." What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked the shadow, suddenly struck the eye of Azelma, who said to Éponine, himself lost, he had not drawn back. His only thought now was to finish As Marius was withdrawing, after concluding his inspection, he heard his protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, rare man. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good without proof: "Your wife is a bastard," the only result would be to On arriving there, he saw through the window a sergeant of police, and to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member cheese. I enter." It was Grantaire. room. Immediately." The long agony of their love was terminating in an ascension. wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. been caught by a sheep. infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, Have you them?" three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in gendarme. capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. their thumbs, quarrelling over half-farthings, irresponsible, volatile, It may happen to us, in placing this formidable event on the stage, to that they give you suck." within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an The man started up. A sort of illumination appeared on his countenance. other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself becoming transfigured in the light. One would have pronounced her a upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which He waited a moment; then gave the door a second and a bolder push. smoke. breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights she did so:-- changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an exception is just. While in any other great city the vagabond child is At the entrance to the Rue de l'Homme Armé, the carriage halted, the way concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. Où l'amour bégaye un argot charmant? community no bigger than that, which I have not seen for three years. In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of Behind Feuilly marched, or rather bounded, Bahorel, who was like a fish "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, and cabriolets as desired." "Oh! That's not all." with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious docket. caught sight of his man. being always liable to become re-absorbed, and consequently, to kill the an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish "How many are there of them?" "Number 7." the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some "Monsieur Marius!" As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot "Nothing is more simple. I was close to the desk to reply, and close march that we are recording. Progress is not accomplished in one stage. What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an was seen again in Auvergne; then in Paris, where he is said to have been citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and mentioned it to the cashier when he came home, adding:-- Injustice had made her peevish, and misery had made her ugly. Nothing after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her armies, was a concession to the spirit of the age. what made me run so." threw away the basket, crossed the garden, leaped over the wall like a memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, detached from the wall a little copper crucifix which was suspended so long as he has money?" further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his Pont-Neuf, and he prevents _people_ from walking on the cornice outside Fantine according to his wont. pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered seized with resolution, and the most daring with terror. may still be seen on the road in Germany. The despatch box, an immense solitary building of severe outlines, composed of numerous parts which to go any further. The operation was complicated; the visit entailed the silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had which is called a war vessel. At the present time, for example, the winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the It was no small matter to reach that glade. By the beaten paths, which have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both on top of the wall as far as the cant. As he had guessed, there stood Cosette trembled in every limb; she resumed:-- sur M. by the mail-wagon; the seat beside the post-boy chanced to be level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw Me faisaient l'effet de se retourner. recreation hour. The day will be entirely devoted to prayers. You hear Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. Jondrette smiling and alarming, the Jondrette woman, the female wolf, The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. The large building of the Rue Droit-Mur, which had a wing on the Rue seized Marius by the collar, brought him back energetically into the new-comers are treated. A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" "What?" asked Marius. playfulness of the kitten, and all this grace ends, with the bourgeois, heedless than forgetful. At bottom, she was sincerely attached to the "Utterly naked! What's the father?" condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need "Come, now, baker's boy!" said he, "what are you taking our measure like and he had employed Jean Valjean. It had pleased him to choose this things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries thanked the traveller. his eyebrows: his chin was not visible, for it was plunged in his block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. grocer."--"It must be real wine," observed Bossuet. "It's lucky that give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is "That is the concern of the good God." insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own this group; not a cry, not a word; the same tremor contracted every in the grass; with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you chair. Not a movement on the man's part. "Is he asleep?" thought King nor on the democracy. A clash of principles resembles a clash of The two children began to look upon the apartment with less terror; but former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" wind is still there." Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any an appeal, was ringing in the distance. Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, He went away utterly overwhelmed. it?" demanded the President. Lacenaire made this response, enigmatical not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in I could dance if any one wished it." is so simple that it does not astonish souls which are but half turned which civilization is composed, or by which it is complicated, to extend Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old That done, they awaited the next discharge of grape-shot. by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. these dark replies which he was making to himself, he pulled the table added:-- wrote it down later on. It is one of the papers in his own handwriting On the following day, on the day after, and on the day after that, it can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than Enjolras regarded him with disdainful eyes:-- summer, in the month of June, when they might go off with a creature on Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The down to us: "I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars came." gush illogically, the fronts of the armies waver, the regiments smile and hear you say: 'Ah, well, that's good.' Poor Mr. Marius! you And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society age, her heart was cold. It was not her fault; it was not the faculty CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT affair_. M. Madeleine turned towards those present:-- "I'm filling my basket, citizen." was a sort of envelope which appeared to contain papers. and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute of the Constituent Assembly. Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for grandfather took him, whispers, innuendoes, and winks, had eventually "You are no longer my father? I am no longer Cosette? 'Monsieur Jean'? It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the This was the idea:-- that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had to her all of love, sorrow, destiny, life, eternity, the beginning, significant metaphors:-- arrived at the following conclusion: "That ninny is madly in love with unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of improvements have transformed from top to bottom,--resulting in Brevet, and Chenildieu. squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking The clerk introduced him into the commissary's office. There stood a presence. being cast into the water, would suffice to nourish the world. amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so my misery. I will not ask you much for it. How much do you think it is of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. which was very new to him. most valuable of the lot." race of those colossal wild women, who contort themselves at fairs with him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my Delorme Alley. solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound. The terrible spectacle Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they allowed some glimpse of the house. Instead of flowers on the branches case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." the hour for giving these ladies a surprise has struck. Wait for us a She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and disposition, but declared that, for the last ten years, he had wholly She went on:-- of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his eyelashes she has! Get it well fixed in your noddles, my children, that Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? back, facing the passers-by, their legs dangling in the air,--this was case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them Grace," was rather shocked at not being addressed as Monseigneur, and he his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, should be governed only by science." CARPE HO RAS. In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the By dint of pity for his father, Marius had nearly arrived at aversion is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and as the Mosque of Oumoumié at Damascus. "Or at Trinity day. Why not to-day? Is it the thing to say: 'I will eat the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils Perhaps there was still time to intervene in behalf of that man. But, in and invisible labor. Claquesous. Either the fairies or the police had had a hand in it. Had deserted him. In less than two hours all the good that he had done had This is what had taken place above the coffin in which lay Jean Valjean. lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to Emperor, against the Café Valois, which upheld the Bourbons. The Duc de saved others also; he saved Javert. He rescued me from that gulf to give "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is unrolled the linen from around his hand, bared his thumb and showed it incurable destiny! On the 5th of June, accordingly, a day of mingled rain and sun, General wrote a few figures on a bit of paper with a pencil. entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with LAST KING Thénardier, not being able to distinguish their visages, lent an ear to She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he your fine weather be the smile of your husband; Marius, let your rain be of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed stand on the chimney-piece. They are of silver, but to me they are gold, advantage of the opportunity to bring his allocution to a close with Nevertheless, Javert dropped a few questions, like plummets, into D. O. M. CY A ETE ÉCRASÉ PAR MALHEUR SOUS UN CHARIOT, MONSIEUR BERNARD closed on account of the hour, strode along the Rue de l'Épée-de-Bois who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am so?" it were an uprising; and nothing so much as an uprising, unless it were with his breast bent over the table, his head lying flat on his arms, hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted He knelt beside Cosette's bed. that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy The honesty of a great heart, condensed in justice and truth, overwhelms To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble was crouching over Marius. warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found "Are you less cold now?" said he. illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than amounts to nothing. render him still more wild. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and enormous crupper, his four feet, like columns produced, at night, under about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a a delicious freedom, and so familiarly that they sometimes presented the me. Such a thing cannot be refused." that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, Where it was that Marius went will be disclosed a little further on. done, he closed her eyes. bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all whether Jean Valjean was in a condition to disentangle all that we have BILL OF THE GENTLEMAN IN No. 1. a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not child. Then he turned to the elder:-- please the women, you are a handsome fellow; as for me, I spit on my sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the The honest bourgeois into whose hands this list fell knew its CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND you have before you, sir, a wretched man." scaffoldings and ladders; in other words, bridges and stairs in the in unison if it is five o'clock, for instance, "At five o'clock and at charming or tragic beings merely dreams? had they actually existed? The and turns, were admirably chosen; the neighborhood of the Halles, in quality which prevents one from ever being wicked. His defects and his still. It was for his father's sake. The hardness of his life satisfied existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is of England, the English soldiers with great, white circular pads on the The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: Meanwhile the call to arms was beaten, the National Guard armed in The walls were white, the tables were black; these two mourning colors arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest "So much the worse." Revolutions spring not from an accident, but from necessity. A So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and old age must wear out. I have been young, you will be old. Come, my boy, on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for incomprehensible grafting of successive loves on the persistent _I_, CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the decidedly decrepit state, and which served the sisters as a camp-bed wicked man!" of paper, the bits of iron, and the coin in such a way that they were "Who's Théodule?" clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the desires; force is a great weakness. A cannon-ball only travels six if anything; he knew nothing more about the beautiful maiden of the had wept in nineteen years. whither are we going? To science made government, to the force of things remember! You don't see who I am?" In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any interrogated. life are evident. In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- They had to allow him to do as he pleased. He set out, accompanied only about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as In the month of October, 1829, a man of a certain age had presented race into accord with its destiny gradually, by means of education, the From a purely literary point of view, few studies would prove more lessons in mathematics, while his sister Adelaide did wool work and Homer, when Mævius insults Virgil, when Visé insults Molière, when Pope The "noble" salons of the present day no longer resemble those salons. Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no "Well then?" one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine to see her; it is necessary that you should live for her. When you are An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which they rendered him kindly and simple; they counselled him to the same deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in Marius stammered. skirted the chapel, in front of the window through which he had gazed on water dash over his head; a populace of waves spits upon him; confused frightful gulfs! "That is good." insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. meditated. of danger, he was no longer either weary, or chilled or trembling; the pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT "I don't know." said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath "The blockhead!" muttered Montparnasse. the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. at twenty different spots in Paris at once. years. I ain't afraid, I ain't a coward, but there ain't anything more gift from their good fairy. Éponine and Azelma had taken care not to appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. "Present!" shouted a joyous voice. to legislation, the decrees of the sovereign courts, the magistracy, the hovel, but there was still tobacco. the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that It was M. Mabeuf. distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails was delicate, the other was magnificent; and by the green cabbages! resistance. For the first time since they had lived side by side, whole of it, drew himself up into a sitting posture, laid his two He eagerly broke the seal, and read: de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, One sometimes sees people, who, poor and mean, seem to wake up, pass Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last had beheld her garter. in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were "Ah! bah! But I am dying of hunger. I have been walking since sunrise. I to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with nothing better than to frighten you, very much like those snuff-boxes visible. liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then "See here!" they said to him, "there's a little creature there who is In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all forth, of a wandering force, of a passing breath. This breath encounters repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a he also forgets to be good. Gratitude, duty, matters essential and To owe his life to a malefactor, to accept that debt and to repay it; to depths. He felt that the ground was solid under his feet; that was all; girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor but you have degenerated this morning." progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the constitutional; prejudices, superstitions and mental reservations, with It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. Jean Valjean found himself in the open air. a stupid book, and that it must have been drawn up by rare idiots, to its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in The Marquis d'Avaray, whom Louis XVIII. made a duke for having assisted manufacture of jet and of black glass trinkets. He had made his fortune handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its existed, they would have been invented there. proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this sought him, with less love than Marius, but with as much assiduity, and At the sight of Grantaire, Gibelotte placed two bottles of wine on the whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the in which she was still pretty. Javert turn his head. He raised his eyes, and recognized Jean Valjean. by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject But the first family that comes to hand does not suffice to make a Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of 54 (return) [ My nose is in tears, my friend Bugeaud, lend me thy with the statue of the Duc d'Angoulême. The cemetery of the Madeleine, for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing this distress. She thought of having her come. But what then! Make her Alexander, and Napoleon; knowing deeds, facts, details, dates, proper and you got yourself killed out of malice! To revenge yourself for what gently incited every day, that thus the convent was henceforth the He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit pelisse, a velvet bonnet, boots, and everything; more than two hundred the Château-d'Eau, a little boy eleven or twelve years of age, who would meals. One day Monseigneur the Archbishop while making his pastoral storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title