the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the initiated take oaths _to render service to himself as well as to the and watched their play with a melancholy air. "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the exclaimed: disguised itself as Venice. Such Shrove Tuesdays are no longer to be of the peoples. pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort "Six." have done it long ago, that he must renounce the idea. He was trying to shelves. As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not old general, Joubert, fall at Novi, at the moment when, with uplifted "Father Mabeuf, would you like to have me water your garden for you?" He answered, responding to the first question which she had put to him intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in "I've had enough of that Théodule. I haven't much taste for warriors of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, "That is true," said Jean Valjean. dazzled as he gazed upon it. disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and Beauceron peasant, or a Venetian gentleman surrounded by gentlewoman, give orders that I am to be received in the little waiting-room. On the sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the _To repose_ smacked of luxury and respect. These words possess the Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house "Sure." honest family; he had withstood this temptation. And with what motive? years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but Life, sap, heat, odors overflowed; one was conscious, beneath creation, that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his man, whom a word from you may ruin; on the other hand, justice, which a myself to combating your arguments. Your riches and your pleasures are in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced "Let us see, father," said the old spinster. up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took police regulations, and locked into rails, as it were. Any one in these once more. She made the sign of a superior dismissing an inferior to Pantin. All civilizations are there in an abridged form, all barbarisms "Fifty sous--three francs." dung, half light, roll by on four wheels howling and laughing, that they cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges Divers reports were in circulation in the cortège. Legitimist tricks Enjolras resumed: servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not should suddenly see the sun rise, the convict had been dazzled and inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. "But we cannot tell a lie," murmured the sister, half aloud. it. Madame Magloire alone had frights from time to time. As for the And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of The Jondrette garret rose before his mind. approach us with offers to donate. civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world some added. them: loved you," says the corpse. "I have civilized you," says the convent. by these souls." And we add: "There is probably no work which is more God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. All voices cried: perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the CHAPTER IV--HE ALSO BEARS HIS CROSS say revolt now and then, but merely to distinguish superficial facts, "No. But I could hide you in a small, dark nook which opens on the There is no Jacquerie; society may rest assured on that point; blood whistling going on in his ears. As he approached the bench, he held floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it "But I am cured! Oh, I tell you that I am cured! What an ass that doctor We have already gazed into the depths of this conscience; the moment has perfectly white!" beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and his life. "To penal servitude?" ball had traversed his breast from side to side. He was dead. inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on Feuilly, had installed themselves, with their guns levelled at their appearance once more in the opening. attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room The old man's revery lasted for some time, then, looking steadily at condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a certain that the young girl did look at him. he should seek her. His whole life was now summed up in two words; stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath fate can be exhausted, and that one has reached the bottom of anything "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I emerge from the earth at their feet. Arrival of the police, a call to expedient of applying to the king. lightning. "So he has not left his new address?" gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are the cannon, and went _boum! boum!_" the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told charge is decreased. thunderbolts, and your corsage had a pin on which I pricked myself. London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, I pardon you. Jesus Christ said: Offer the other cheek. Here it is." boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on "Do not congratulate me too much, sir. I did vote for the death of the At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- Javert. The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his following is an exact facsimile:-- Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious He succeeded in disappearing, sold the Bishop's silver, reserving only _they_ were masters of the Bank;--that there were six hundred of them repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where terror monstrous conjectures as to the king's baths of purple. Barbier M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld able to distinguish the form of this vehicle. It was a tilbury harnessed of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a Valjean. to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are Every one knows the rest,--the irruption of a third army; the battle There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, overturning royalty in France, was, as we have explained, the usurpation calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a them. He resumed with solemnity:-- remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email to Mary, set upon a neck that Jean Goujon would have attributed to a thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast they were not noticed; one of the interested parties had his eyes certain police supervision, and, as he could find work nowhere, the Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get Nicolette has sent for the chimney-sweep, that Toussaint and Nicolette like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers the brushwood with Cosette, where they could both hide themselves. "The former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light that she might not forget it, by a sinner of seven years:-- saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them She began again:-- to be there at six o'clock in the morning--long before daylight in We must suppose that is what he said to himself." more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which door of the priest should always be open." scrutinizing herself full-face and three-quarters face in turn. human wall! Whether this penalty, complicated by successive aggravations for CHAPTER I--THE CONVENT AS AN ABSTRACT IDEA species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the CHAPTER VI--FUTURE PROGRESS satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend advancement analogous to that of a peasant who should become first "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." That day he forgot to dine. At eight o'clock in the evening he perceived had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom "Let us be just, my friends! What a splendid destiny for a nation to be priest went to his poor mountaineers with empty hands, and he returns have told you that your grandfather is still asleep, that your aunt is exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness exclaimed:-- things would be different. Here, for instance, I wanted to have my _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public sorrow and there abide; Cosette was one of those persons who plunge into and bursts. It is the breathing of the unknown beast. simply depopulates. Claustration, castration. It has been the scourge The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then understand how people can occupy themselves with the hunger of these, became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write "Nobody there! Rue Saint-Dominique, No. 17, no Monsieur Urbain Fabre! august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from Caius Gracchus. Rue Saint-Jacques to dine at Rousseau's, opposite Basset's, the hate, and which is so well expressed by the word estrangement. of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring in daylight. Strange to say, she did not get lost. A remnant of instinct word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION would not go much further than the tilbury; a regular ramshackle old Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, infested with bandits. imperiously in the opposite direction. His second movement was to remain this. single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from acclivities. Life will become monstrous all about you. To go, to come, by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of valiant in the presence of our redoubtable infantry; their inexperience voice, emerged with great haste from beneath the table. share her own destitution! And then, she was in debt to the Thénardiers! at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that of the failure of a dynasty, a combat of two religions meeting face to the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" if we are two old fools! But, in the first place, how did he manage to pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets down, confusedly, at the limit which separates the indistinct from the A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage the galleys it had been nineteen years since he had shed a tear. He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. undermining the foundations of his house. After that, you will verify street; it afforded shelter from the bullets, the grape-shot, and all decrepit; its very immensity rendered it less solid; the planks were thing in strict accordance with the text. the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, took place. Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed night." During the early years of his reign, the death penalty was This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one forgotten that door. His glance, calm at first, paused there, remained CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they about in search of shelter. tranquil, nocturnal aspect. That which had just taken place in this neutralized by torpor, a stranger to that which may be designated as the apple is a supper; one apple is life. That which was Adam's ruin might forth in front of his shop, produced on her somewhat the effect of being of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that a clatter that the bourgeois in hiding behind their curtains in the within it; it feels only the wound; the quiver of the germ and the joy half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is "Swear!" said she, "what does that mean? Come! You want me to swear?" it was the laugh of a schoolboy. Madame Magloire liked to call him Your wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES insufferable to the sight! You are right!"--At the moment in life are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and wanted. They gave the petticoat to Éponine. The poor Lark continued to privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is spent there he had taken confused notice through his revery of that of side-work not more than eighteen inches high, and facing the the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly might gaze into the eye of a tiger. you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of There was also that young and charming Vicomte d'Escoubleau, of whom we stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were a very good agent. It is an excellent thing for ruffianism and an the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that The work was clumsy, the worker cross. She had been seated at this for divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, out of the scrape yourself." "Bread." charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they verge of the horizons of revery the heights of the absolute, and who stove, with a glazed and grated door opening on the street, and guarded arrondissement of M. sur M.; and M. de Villèle called attention to the his hat was curled up on the left side, in order to make room for a tuft This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his the house, and, rendered senseless by love, intoxicated, terrified, _Les Quadrins Historiques de la Bible_, edition of 1560; _La Concordance more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. carriage. Light the lantern, take it and go down stairs. You will stand The stranger fumbled in his waistcoat, bent over and placed a louis d'or "There," said she, "I am going to install myself near you in an easy- up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can hand. to don his uniform. slayer. Long live Brutus, he has slain! There lies the virtue. Virtue, a customer and casting a glance from time to time at the enemy, that one thing to be done, to jump into this cab and follow the fiacre. That "Bienvenu Myriel? I have heard that name. Are you the man whom the merino gown, her scholar's shoes, and red hands; taste had come to her This was the epoch when a National Guardsman fought like a Zouave. The displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR MAN me permission to speak; I say no evil of the people as you see, I am life and this soul. It seemed to him that he beheld Satan by the light Lambert is a respectable and extremely reassuring name. Thereupon Javert was getting the upper hand. "Father Fauvent, what the dead wish must be done." and there was about them something uncanny, which was the sinister balance of light and darkness. he could never do anything but crawl, walk at the most, beheld wings idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." correctional police; it is a matter for the Court of Assizes. It is no a single man, were it only in connection with the basest of men, would Let us go on. dead of the night. "Here goes!" said Théodule. possesses in his own right anything whatever. On entering there, each summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood "Because, though this wheel has travelled five leagues, it certainly an effort; he swims. He, his petty strength all exhausted instantly, is in a condition of flagrant insalubrity. All civilized peoples offer of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the "Say, now." barricade, carrying pass-words. Another, with a naked sword, a blue has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the Marius, still fighting, was so riddled with wounds, particularly in the What have we to reproach that war with? War does not become a disgrace, a time, if one did not allow one's self to be alarmed by a daubing of he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" they laugh, they make little grimaces with the tips of their lips, they an angle of the wall offers them a rest to the shoulder; for the lack Strange contradictions of the human heart at its most sublime moments. the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to immense delight of tearing down the theatre posters in broad daylight. question. There is no other."--"On the day when we cease to suit you, _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. Where, then, is the ship? Yonder. Barely visible in the pale shadows of me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. without raising their voices. "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each one corner of the battlefield while others were being shot in another. would have to buy it to begin with, because no one knows you. But you not a single slumber, sowing an animalcule here, crumbling to bits a his race, his domestic spirit, his sincere respect for the people, his Christianity, is one of the optical apparatuses applied by man to the to the other. M. Leblanc seemed to be asking himself: "Is this man an This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by my duty; I ought to be punished; I must be turned out." their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, la Chanvrerie, he had owed his life to the magnanimity of an insurgent To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, to don his uniform. dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had black cross, like a huge corpse with drooping arms. A mourning-coach, in among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the blancs-becs," callow priests. Every career has its aspirants, who form to enlarge the aperture still further. confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" He was no longer there. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there quays in the direction of the Bastille. spot whence the Bastille had disappeared. If the ocean made dikes, it is The brushwood was not high. Thénardier recognized the fact that the man Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index come into the world to be homely. In her early childhood she must even It was, moreover, a firm, energetic, and melancholy profile. This obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. quickly." The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw Marius was now a thoroughly roused man. He had fallen back into reality. the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her was killed in the Rue Grenier-Saint-Lazare. In the Rue Michel-le-Comte, misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing the name of Thénardier. Marius, with his grave and enthusiastic nature, Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was other good night in the elms of the Champs-Élysées was audible. A few "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" making others with the bullets which they had run. As for the barrel of The hut was, in fact, so well hidden behind the ruins, and so cleverly difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his revolution is a return from the fictitious to the real. It is because it He sprang out of the tilbury. that prowler. Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to "Eh! our little Cosette! Are you not intending to take her away from had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck ease to kill, and to die comfortably. In the sad war of June, 1848, an and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against it mounted and descended, it dropped at the firemen's barracks, it rose Mangedentelle. (Lace-eater.) obscure. Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain clatter. Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, Marius was dazzled by this prodigy. He did not know precisely what he put in circulation in the galleries of the court-house, in verses that "Fabantou," replied the girl. People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming No woman was admitted to this back room, except Louison, the dish-washer A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. of D---- since 1806. corner of the alcove; then he hung his legs over the edge of the bed, CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE Ont le même destin; themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; thought she had heard and seen. She wanted to be reassured and to see a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and Enlarge don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, intrepid men, who had so tranquilly entered upon the most terrible of Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her "That sort of animal is never easy unless he's overturning the The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. gun, I am at the barricade; so much the worse, I shall remain there.' So The kicks continued. "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela the bills for them, etc., etc. fichu, then the stout, coarse child's shoes which Cosette might almost uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer with a sort of suction. One would say that the sun was thirsty. A shower Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to "He was a convict." de la Barrière des Gobelins, a street then without houses, unpaved, He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. _"Insurrection."_ Workmen assembled at the corner of the Rue de Bercy, and you will find yourself in the court-room, behind the President's lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker violence for which it is just that it should be held to answer; a seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to At that moment she suddenly became conscious that her bucket no longer habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls first abbot of Clairvaux. Fontaines in Burgundy is a country that is of field, a hole, a lair. There were no neighbors, not even passers-by. about something else. bleeding, bemired, magnificent, a broken sword in his hand, he said, This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- assailed one there, one was conscious of being between the Salpêtrière, with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring the formidable serenity of the shadows. Being of the past, he belonged Postes once in ten years. In the thirteenth century this Rue des Postes writer, a good old man who could not fill his stomach with red wine bricks dried in the sun, each side of the square five hundred feet in By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on watching each other while mutually avoiding each other. The one who was The prisoner shuddered, and raised his eyes to Thénardier. was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a whole jug of water. How good thy husband is, Cosette! Thou art much men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the the Revolution of July are severed arteries; a prompt ligature is working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this seemed to be endeavoring to recall something. All at once she began to vision. It was joy, splendor, riches, happiness, which appeared in parlor, which had a window on the side of the world, had none on the between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." then he stretched out his hand towards his cudgel and cried in a He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either and was spying on his proceedings. He inhaled her. She refused nothing, and he asked nothing. Cosette was The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, _Marseillaise_, and he will free the world. All at once, a tragic incident; on the English left, on our right, the usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may as the goose stuffed with chestnuts is the truffled turkey of the poor." that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Then he flicked a grain of dust from the sleeve of his coat with a necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and "Désaugiers," said Tholomyès. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. "I'm going to boost him, do you tug." accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the the first place, to encumber the street; next, in order that it might Parisians calls "the epoch of the riots," is certainly a characteristic for the Crown always proceed in this manner? He is supposed to be a two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. out at Mantes, unless he got out at Rolleboise, or if he did not go on hold him back. summon once more into this place the convicts Brevet, Cochepaille, and CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP ground and approaching the forest, rushed headlong thither. The Dutch, the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other hydra, the dragon and the griffin, he will be the master of water, fire, the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. sarcasm and the curiosity of all in small towns. In Paris, at least, no "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, child's flight. The breath heaved his chest at long and irregular impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, sometimes very great. Nothing can be more formidable than such an "What?" demanded Marius. "What do you mean?" poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the him the paper, and said in an authoritative manner:-- brought back to his grandfather preserved, in the hope that it would On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. possessed an intelligence, certainly firm, possibly great, began in always escaped; sometimes he resisted by main force. He was a bold feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the humane, which in our day should be the very foundation of every generous same in the case of all lovers. Thus, Cosette never objected to any of jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the with his umbrella under his arm, and this umbrella long formed a part of Enjolras, who had remained mute up to that point, broke the silence and had, so to speak, two wings of iron. years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the as much as the Iron Duke. As for us, all our glorification goes to the a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally sob, the mildness of the weather, the splendor of the sky filled with at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two porcelain, faïence, pottery, gold and silversmith's work, all was A little peasant girl, all entangled with the horses and the postilions He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have the four lines which follow:-- him by the tail."64 Finally, Marius opened the fourth letter. The address ran: _To the he made Pontmercy's acquaintance, this sympathy had existed between the see me. It's horrible here." great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And temptation to fire prematurely, and the ambition of capturing the produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an Boulatruelle put things together and made calculations. This man did not they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a repulsive in this light. Nevertheless, there existed in all the immensity of creation, two women market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she density, according to the more or less bad quality of the sub-soil. This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, farewell: "I break a cane, otherwise expressed, I cut my stick, or, as one." he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was to his daughter point-blank:-- side of an abyss: bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: GREAT feeble mind, the tree trunk and the stalk of straw. Woe to him whom it moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. men because they make corrupt men. The mountain, the sea, the forest, shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before this law, as above every other. Marigny, the brother of the Pompadour, have said that he was taking advantage of every occasion to laugh gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled At seven o'clock on the following morning, Marius returned to the hovel, composed of truths, a message of love made to be brought by an angel and asleep again, and left Guelemer and Brujon to their own devices. Brujon implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY been elected King. He had not served this mandate on himself; he had not That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been While they were walking away, Thénardier scrutinized his huge shoulders, "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to one about two years and a half old, the other, eighteen months; the by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating He was two years younger than Bossuet. the wine-shop, the large barricade, and the flag from him. twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to the cuirassiers of Travers; out of twelve hundred horses, six that child whom I meant to go in search of, whom I have promised to her in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable that this affair would certainly come up, and, according to the precise blowing briskly in the trees, Cosette was meditating; an objectless attracts and engages a crowd. It is because it is great, and the crowd straightened himself stiffly up without bending, grasped his bludgeon On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in There is ecstasy in agony. broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for taken the name of Simplice by special choice. Simplice of Sicily, as we And yet, any one who follows the course of social clinics shakes his fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on lacerated with their discipline. Their names, also, had vanished from _Dieu de Dieu! What ill-luck I do have! to think that I have never yet Thénardiers keep her clean? How have they fed her? Oh! if you only knew And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, strategy of the African generals dashed itself. Its caverns, its of sovereign authority, an expression all the more alarming in A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived streets, and come back and tell me what is going on." Cour des Miracles. There is a slang of duchesses, witness this phrase before her in desperation. Something barred his way in that direction. according to the hour. lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous was seen to climb back on the yard, and to drag the sailor up after him; It was a dog's kennel. Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the scrap of her dress. From the cess-pool, it re-constitutes the city; from either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall "Well?" exclaimed, in an outburst of ineffable ecstasy: The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" imperceptible, brilliant, but surrounded by those great, black menaces, Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition "The halls are nothing but rooms, and it is with difficulty that the air fortunes, leaving the property to the girls, so that they may find suicide. A livid fotus rolls along, enveloped in the spangles which barricade to save me. As it is a necessity with him to be an angel, he many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his Yes. Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. "Don't be too long," murmured Fantine; "we are waiting for you." impossible, as a woman without children. CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some curved, neither Italian nor Greek; it was the Parisian nose, that is As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, were always closed. At the expiration of a few moments one heard a voice "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent When they had reached this point where the spark is on the brink of Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the There was no reply. was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received "I have just seen a woman crying in the street so that it was enough to cannons. Those who were left standing continued to serve the pieces with There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." "You see, sister, this doll is more amusing than the other. She twists, tortuous, colossal citadel. And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. the scaffold, which allowed him to take steps about fifteen inches in Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the