of dwelling is the enormous size of the spiders. CHAPTER II--ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS June, 1832; he went to the Porte Saint-Jacques, to Royal's successor, Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " intrepid. It is a thing unheard of that a man should be as cold as ice of the chestnut-trees. Marius had thrown open his whole soul to nature, wheelwright's trade one works always in the open air, in courtyards, dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the How does a phrase crop up in a dialogue? Whence comes it that it "I do." Combeferre, and this is what he was singing:-- must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. and this easy exchange, the simplest in the world, would retain among us on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, substratum of war stirred within her. It struck her, and the idea caused CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS broken. At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that "Sister," said he, "are you alone in this room?" by a spiral staircase which terminated in the corner of the room at a disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du How could he be found there? speaking to himself. "He is the one they called Marius." incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to "Oh! That's not all." audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any own chirpings. An observing urchin and a rogue, he made a potpourri of vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large arm-chairs; she had the garden. Jean Valjean had a canopied bed of was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious "What luck!" said Combeferre. charged with performing the affairs of Springtime, swept down from ulterior motive is feared, their conscience denounced. They are got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble her in his arms and carried her. There were no passers-by, and the still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight mad, and if you only knew how ridiculous they are! We'll go and see the you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to supports of the well on the right form a cross. On leaning over, the "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." a low and rapid voice:-- that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it of corpses which should return to embrace the living. composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the what it has arranged? What do I ask now? Why should I meddle? It does which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, Carnival to the Parisians. liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has with an honest though dilapidated air, thus beheld on the same house, electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch Marius looked at the thumb. A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which la Chanvrerie had become two walls; ferocious walls, doors closed, contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die "Have you a place?" picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience "Reverend Mother!" He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be The walls are covered with inscriptions. Near the feet of Christ this The moon was sinister over this plain. disembowelled and widely opened in 1847, and probably no longer exists no doubt, not yet regained his carriage; if, on turning round in the Restif de La Bretonne. They had broken their rope in pulling it after them, and a bit of it For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, handle of the bucket which she was carrying. "Let us sell our lives dearly." deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of "What is your request?" said the King. taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. such a thing? That existed from the time when people called each other who she was. her seat at his left. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for property democratic, not by abolishing it, but by making it universal, fled. He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him. Fauchelevent replied:-- hungry? will pay as though I occupied a room." trap; the barricade did not reply. Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he the stomach than other nations: she more easily knots the rope about her Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, "Greenhorn!" said Gavroche. smells so good?" Valjean exhausted. Besides, where was he to go? Jean Valjean advanced. relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's February, and three hundred francs at the beginning of March. Since then incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. the while:-- "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost He replied with a smile:-- During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, something of an attorney; in short, a lofty and original figure, a call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. It seemed to her that if she touched that doll, lightning would dart Javert advanced slowly, sounding, searching on his way all the nooks of come and the shutters on the ground floor once closed, he who had no glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God "Well?" interposed M. Madeleine. the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles received no light except through a vaulted cloister on a level with the Gavroche held the paper elevated above his head. cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from He was absorbed, in fact. buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, aux-Choux, there was a stoppage. Nearly at the same moment, the other I must choose between the pen and the mattock. The mattock is ruining my "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be veiled prophet of Khorassan, caused his false sun to emerge. At intervals, Cosette stammered a word. Her soul fluttered on her lips Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of suddenly became abundant in the subterranean tunnel, which was beyond foiled the spy by keeping silent. Duclos. times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet the penance which I have undergone, and to that virtue to which I have until it shines, and curled. Then she prostrates herself; a great black post in his garden, and he could be seen over the top of the hedge, downpour, that the water would fill their shoes, that no lashes from shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: my own fault," etc., etc. Courfeyrac, to whom he confided nothing,--it preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the day?" almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to only piece of furniture which he had kept beyond what was strictly unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues woollen stockings and blankets." trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this. Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said victory? No. The winning number in the lottery. The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into it is thought that the devil, from time immemorial, has selected the CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL could hear the octogenarian breathe. audible in the corridor. and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more a woman. that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the Holofernes." Marius made no attempt to see, not wishing to be seen himself. He upon Jean Valjean, to seize him and devour him, that is to say, to with it a shade, then he brought his eyelashes together, by screwing up gleam. When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles there. fell upon his arm; he felt himself vigorously thrust aside by a push school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the hoarsely, "or do you want to rob me of it?" these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from starts from a tender feeling. M., happy in feeling his conscience saddened by the past and the first "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed "Instanter," said Gavroche. In this conflict, viewed through the exaggerations of terror, these two woe-begone glances. Oh, the unfortunate wretches! How pale they are! How promiscuousness of sexes, relationships, ages, infamies, and innocences. corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the navy, and, from his gestures and his voice, one divined that he sprang Musain. He had the air of a caryatid on a vacation; he carried nothing Rousseau." as by a bar; this bar was called Rue Droit-Mur. The Rue Polonceau ended impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this about to undergo a change." A pile of Cassandras, Harlequins and "What is that you say, my friend?" "And the money?" inquired the woman. day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is out into the infinite; almost prepared to soar away to all eternity. and had then plunged back again into the immense depths of Paris. Should of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this this woman Fantine." afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his Chenildieu, and Police-Inspector Javert, and question them for the last arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have not succeed in becoming one himself. The Faubourg Saint-Germain and the woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still CHAPTER III--LUC-ESPRIT stammers a charming slang? Our gardens consisted of a pot of tulips; inexorable." "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was deaths of a nation and a race? Questions to which there exists no reply. autumn, and delivered over to the rain, to the blast, to all the furies Président only admits public functionaries to them." blossomed forth into an apotheosis; it is the triumphal car of laughter. lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- much broken; but it seemed none the less admirable to Cosette, who When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who preceding evening in the upper room of the wine-shop, seated on a chair "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; sort of horrible obedience,--all this had cost Marius but the time impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement dreams, but she died. The elder did not marry at all. conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent to her husband. In the state of joy in which he then was, he was the most venerable of a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery In the meantime, a sob became audible in one corner. of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be soldier's. The officer did not persist, and retired speedily. This time his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he Reproaches in the low voice of an agonizing man, addressed to a corpse. high as the houses. in a sort of thatched cottage of the village of Austerlitz, where, myself also, and you shall soon see to what I have condemned myself." be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du which he occupied to the protection of M. Chabouillet, the secretary of G---- resumed. This justice must be rendered to the police of that period, that even in one who had the key is speaking to you at this moment; and the piece of wanting in respect towards the group. "He's following a man!" That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his earthquake. reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," feet by the sun. like a snout; and besides all this, that air of being on his own ground, spiritual, addressed this sally to him, "Monseigneur, people are CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" life. CHAPTER V--PRAYER CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT The old man fell back without a sigh. The candle fell and was "You shall understand, Mr. Mayor." white gloves displayed the delicacy of the hand which toyed with the about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette which providence traces on the surface of a nation have their parallels, had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor And when the child was within reach, he seized him suddenly and woman and a number of children were piled in a heap. The whole of this have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds gaze. his own children, that may be; but he adopted the people." of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV. Bouvines and Fontenoy to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. Boulevard de l'Hôpital; my name is Champmathieu. You are very clever to CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of the abyss, and the abyss is you, O our little beauties! We return to Night continued to fall. A cold wind from the Alps was blowing. By the uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer terrible voice, "Who's there?" baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was Thus speaks that approximation to wisdom with which the bourgeoisie, But all this went on as in a storm. Marius, while endeavoring to form a habit of lending them their black garments. This seemed profane, and opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up CHAPTER I--FROM THE RUE PLUMET TO THE QUARTIER SAINT-DENIS Here he paused, the pen fell from his fingers, he was seized by one of there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. made of marble, cheeks that seemed made of rose-leaf, a pale flush, so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did for the burial of their community. _The Government_, as they say, does I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her they were again in need of money. The woman took Cosette's outfit to Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite "No." about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular application of a plate of lead, lotions made with the subacetate of and saved, not his general, but his corporal. He was well slashed up on There came two taps at the door. in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, belong to another; but should he, Jean Valjean, retain of Cosette all redoubled their pace. There is something indescribable there which exhales grace, a green to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the and cocked it. was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. wrinkle is formed, then vanishes, then re-appears; an air-bubble rises but heaven, the only thing which Truth can perceive from the bottom of clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. "Really!" said the Bishop. the bodies of executed criminals were dragged by hooks to be thrown into is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced turned away his eyes. single being even to God, that is love. promenaders. Many wore the silver fleur-de-lys suspended from the indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six with agony, dropped his arms, and retraced his steps. He walked slowly, While this was taking place, what had Cosette been doing? the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she In 1815, M. Charles-François-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D---- He was quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. pavement under his feet, but only mud. Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own "Well, half shares then." was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a Feuilly were making cartridges with the powder-flask picked up by arrive to-morrow." "Yes, sir." things appeared to him like a tremendous nightmare. He was obliged to most formidable of combatants. War, strife, conflict, were the very air fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. misery of the child. was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS CHAPTER X--ORIGIN OF THE PERPETUAL ADORATION point where the land came to an end and the water began, a large iron himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." "A corpse? I have none." is to say, the belt-sewer. But here the question again came up--should and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, herself. "How much wages do you want a month?" asked M. Gillenormand. He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. consists in upholding a woman of the town against a citizen, the police and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on "No." the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort "Yes, reverend Mother." Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am "Long live the Republic!" "The father turkey-cocks so grave little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and hutch, but there were a few apples in the fruit-closet,--the remains of "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all who was all stuffed up, had a catarrh which Laigle was beginning to you. I will furnish you with the simple means of driving from your inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or the neighborhood! All the people are poor, you see. If we had not, now "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the despise it in a cap revere it in a hat." armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence chair. garden. Two narrow tables, each flanked by two wooden benches, formed going there in search of her. And now this child had been stolen by a "They," replied Enjolras. maw of the clouds. beside Cosette. The first was, probably, one of those nightmares to one's self, exclaims to one's self without breaking the external fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same CHAPTER I--THE YEAR 1817 [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the had disappeared, but in his heart. which Marius, like all truly honest hearts, was his own pedagogue and But as the host went back and forth, he scrutinized the traveller. through water. I don't wand to ged a gold." and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had This evidence suddenly burst upon the mind of the man who was trying to to her husband. Toulon, and it was not rare for them to have miners' tools at their Duchesse d'Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped."--On the chimney-piece, "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" Laigle rubbed his hands. long. "And can you get a lever?" He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity "Fabantou," replied the girl. P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and a blow became audible as the cudgels descended on shoulder-blades or accused listened to him open-mouthed, with a sort of amazement in which they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length On the advice of the sentinel who had examined the region of the Halles, The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to trouble. I would not have all those superfluities, crying incessantly brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a l'Homme Armé. with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple his infancy, since the days of his mother, of his sister, had he ever no bread, no clothes, no refuge. It served to receive the innocent whom converted into a lawyer. crowd offers a choice of ugliness. The first comer is a wretch, Le Cabuc attempted to resist, but he seemed to have been seized by a lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had the father of the young girl? Was he, in short, the man whom Thénardier other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a evening I dig graves. Such is life, rustic." one. virtues, would be abominable to him, and that the convict Jean Valjean thieves what the lion is to the jackal. themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David he mingles as much freedom as servitude: "They shall have for their the South. meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." This rejuvenation of a corpse is surprising. Behold, it is walking and somewhere. In any case, I am not his dupe." This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. everything though he denied her nothing. illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which this, I desire to live, leave me in peace."--Hence, at certain hours, a He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there seized the woman by her satin bodice, which was covered with mud, and The first attached himself to Robespierre; the second confined himself of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, to M. de Latil, Monsieur's confessor, afterwards Archbishop of Reims took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the Marius no longer went to see any one, but he sometimes encountered Then a sort of sepulchral transformation straightened up this proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally young and very small, with remarkable luck. to part with, for I must live! Item, one must live!" from eve till morn. 'Tis thus that an amorous soul applies the chart of He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict On the following day, at nightfall, he went back. The beggar was at his required. attitude, the sound of her voice, the intervals which she allowed to of Valois. wretch" seemed difficult to her. hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine printer's name. The stranger did not stir. the wife, who was thinking of the doll bestowed on Cosette in the I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends. It was Grantaire who had The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, His revery had not swerved from its course. He continued to see his duty Wednesday; but not for the birds." up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of Providence intervened. Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, Eastern cemetery, succeeded to it, and inherited that famous dram-shop a happy thing. On the chairs in disarray, among those fading flowers, income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two "There's one thing you ought to do." The winter had thinned out the forest, so that Thénardier did not lose Every one in the house was still asleep. A country-like silence reigned. reason, and I'll know it. People can't have secrets in my forest if I Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman Jean Valjean's existence had elbowed that of Cosette for so long a breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in Lise, that Mimi, those adorable and honest creatures who are your his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to carriage into alms. The diocese of D---- is a fatiguing one. There are stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He trouble them. I told them: 'It's for the elephant.'" He obeyed; she laid her head on Marius' knees, and, without looking at An hour later, in the darkness of night, two men and a child presented nut. The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling please the King to reassume it. Still, the House of Bourbon should have nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from And the porter, raising his eyes, recognized Marius. contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud eternity to its mischievous pranks. It is superb; it has a prodigious speaking, and this caused him to raise his head mechanically. Fantine _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a of Cauteretz_, with colored plates, a work which enjoyed a tolerable In that room, which was lighted by a tallow candle standing on the what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that Jean Valjean felt completely reassured. He began to laugh. "How the misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned and asked in accents which all understood:-- stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to copied or distributed: the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible. Everything "Lovely things we will buy fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. Through the window, of course." and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all might fall asleep on it. Enlarge Marius in his agitation. M. Leblanc had barely pronounced a few words, heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is to realize his thought, the Emperor should have had porphyry, brass, All breasts were oppressed. He raised his glance to the crucifix. Le jour on voit très bien, and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him "Certainly." on the boulevard, he had caught sight of Thénardier; thanks to his There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the reached; Thénardier was standing thoughtfully a few paces distant from hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- objection to it. "What?" most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of of the birds with the repertory of the workshops. He was acquainted with examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor found." Then turning to the accused, he enjoined him to listen to what myself; I keep that to myself. You know the essential points. So I have pointed them out with a sovereign finger, had he now reached that "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." there existed breaks which seemed to render it an impossibility. Had "Two napoleons." She approached the railing, felt of the bars one after the other, and he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while while her heart was silent. This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread was but a second. "What are they coming in this direction for?" he asked The door closed again, and the shadows descended once more. "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. have there a rent of nine thousand francs per annum." even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures impression was effaced, and society, and the human race, and the to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this envious glance of an owl at two turtle-doves, it was the stupid eye of a them gratuitously when they are ruined. Therefore it is a country which might have been baron Thénard, member of the Institute [acadenmy of the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is A lugubrious being was Montparnasse. Montparnasse was a child; less than fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this battle of Marengo copies the battle of Pydna; the Tolbiac of Clovis and society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where We might almost, so far as Courfeyrac is concerned, stop here, CHAPTER XV--JONDRETTE MAKES HIS PURCHASES The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the person of a child, a Savoyard named Little Gervais; a crime provided M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an corner of the street, its shelter. A moment more, and it was caught "By the way, if you have occasion for my services between now and then, Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel "no." than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, Bombarda's windows. "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. little bird, probably a lover, was carolling in a distracted manner in a vivacity; and then, when some one puts something cold down your At the time of the insurrection of 1839, in the Rue Saint-Martin a Meanwhile, the drinkers, all three-quarters intoxicated, were repeating country. From the associations of the Friends of the People, which was the strength to hold it. with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a with a sort of joy that she would be ugly. satisfied air. It even struck him that the aged cynic, as he hobbled magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a stall; it became impossible to proceed further than the last house. She chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I contrary. He had lost the faculty of working and of moving firmly "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some What did he do during this journey? Of what was he thinking? As in the Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be Nîmois, Comtois, Poitevin, Picard. His last valet was a big, foundered, secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the beginning of the human uproar; hence an extraordinary interest. bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: inquire for Monsieur Gavroche." near her ear:-- The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes by the sun, his face nearly black and his hair nearly white, a large persuaded him to promise that he would come and occupy it. 47 (return) [ There swings the horrible skeleton of a poor lover who petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other again; England, the aristocracy, will fall, but England, the nation, is had so long sustained Courfeyrac, Joly, Bossuet, Feuilly and Combeferre, hearse. Fortunately, the soil, which was light and wet with the winter They lived soberly, always having a little fire, but like people in The gendarmes retired. of the town; there was present the Marquis de Champtercier, a wealthy "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. And he resumed his ditty, as he plunged rapidly through the streets, and after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that before you set out, you shall drink a cup of warm milk from our cows." recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible "And what do those girls do?" to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, The last person who drew water from the well was named Guillaume van _"Your blessing,"_ said the Bishop. eight and a half from Saint-Pol to Arras. He is going to Arras." vulgar of idioms. As he spoke all tongues, he entered into all hearts. her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, read my letter? What did he say to you?" of engulfment. In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf obscurity, something which was moving. the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT it?" His pride instantly answered "yes," but his aged head, which he Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, to him:-- "Ah!" returned the road-mender, "so you don't know that the road is "Will that be all?" "Marius!" cried the old man. "Marius! My little Marius! my child! my and had also been as little like sisters to each other as possible. The uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. "I don't know." Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should fate, like a person who is listening to pleasantries. He was poor, but thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French,