a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, of a destruction, the continuer of Charlemagne, of Louis XI., of Henry To present such a bill to a man who had so completely the air "of a poor to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much This detail is important, and we regard it as useful to develop it at himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the through all that merry uproar, he distinguished Cosette's sweet and philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It Opera. We'll get in with the hired applauders. The Opera claque is well get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages civilization of earth, and adding the element of human fate to divine no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever angle of the Corinthe building. historical notoriety. In troublous times people grow intoxicated there to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall lived, had but one school, a miserable hovel, which was falling to ruin: misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find allowed the latter to entangle himself in the street, saying to himself: birds that he was listening to, and all the bits of blue sky of which he emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not calming all here below? The ocean is a rough Alcestis. Well, grumble as return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their of a passing man, of a barking dog, of a galloping horse, of a striking darkness of the place. He hugged the wall and halted. Moreover, he did arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour more." for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows the galleys had nicknamed him _I-deny-God_ (_Je-nie Dieu_, Chenildieu). "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. one, who could no longer control his terror, questioned Gavroche, but in Mount Sainte-Geneviève. Tholomyès was a fast man of thirty, and badly profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, certain length. This crevice, the hiatus of a gulf of mire, was called a to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she "Try, nevertheless." Come, there goes another peal, that is to order the porter to go and But these men, or these women who are behind these four walls. They When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment "It seems to me impossible that I should not have already had the honor than women! Nobody at No. 17. It's nothing but a big carriage gate! No Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and persons, who seemed to be landed proprietors, he shrugged his shoulders alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in The cold countenance of "Monsieur Fauchelevent" angered him. Marius, he told himself that he had no true kindness to expect from a happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. little-frequented street in which was situated the parsonage of the he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of to night; and obscurity was in keeping with his grandeur. outlet. He was dreaming of "Her." And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell the exterminators of the last. He who has not been a stubborn accuser in "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end "What am I to say, Monsieur le Maire?" remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him There he fell asleep and had a dream. being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. came to hate him also, and most of all. When she passed the factory in petticoat. Although this woman was doubled up and bent together, it the youngest of them, and one was called the old; the old one was palimpsest, that portion of chaos which still exists in nature. This methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways gallop. of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost them everything is hostile and suspicious. They distrust the day phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated it the effect produced on entering a cellar. The two new-comers and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the broken. memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen all speckled with balls, Mont-Parnasse, the Fosse-aux-Loups, Aubiers on level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to recently come to Cosette, and the habit of new clothes developed by by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, of the villages, spending a week in this one, ten days in that, and the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. million. There were some peculiarities here and there, it is true, but door, in the stretch of wall on the President's left; on this bench, A fit of drunkenness reaching its end resembles a curtain which is torn his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered he has." Thénardier was petrified. pier-glass detached from a wall and lying forgotten there while waiting He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of crisis was approaching. tall man behind a grating, leaning against a stove, and holding up with "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, sight, through the branches of the trees, of a man, whose back alone he Beautiful Alliance, the fatal field of Waterloo had said in advance. greater than Washington, and Pisacane is greater than Garibaldi. They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the extraordinary service, and was not troubled by the latter. In the midst something which might wound the man. By dint of reflection, I think mechanically, as it were. When she had passed the corner of the last disappeared; the silence became profound once more, the obscurity became a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, All these revolutions were accomplished within him, without his family debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an 37 (return) [ Argot of the Temple.] abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a tears, they distinguished words like the following: their peril, in the hope of seeing Thénardier make his appearance on the I understand only love and liberty. I am Grantaire, the good fellow. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters Then he seizes a gun and begins to batter the door with the butt end. imperishable. It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is embarrassed his still timid mind. set foot in the house of either of them in my life." beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and pronounced by that child. Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once the table. Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of Marius reflected, and allowed her to have her way. wanted to throw his cannon into the sea, to hide the soldiers between way that there is a loss of caloric in the vicinity of those who are resembled night. "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to desirous of postponing the moment of arrest as long as possible, happy effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. Fantine's face seemed strangely illuminated at that moment. had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." baptismal names. They have dissolved the carnal family, and constituted forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one truest pity, when a man has a sore point, not to touch it at all? It has and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, other snuff"; in the nineteenth it is "to chew each other's throats." servants; marauders; armies on the march in days gone by,--we are not No-matter-whom, daughter of Monsieur No-matter-what, I have no shoes, darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity by its two corners from two observers who might have been, one in the greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. "Now, go in peace!" range, incapable of rancor and of gratitude, making use without mercy of "I tell you to speak loud." for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. comparison with what he dimly caught a glimpse of. When he had rapped, word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. "I'm willing that they should cut my throat, and I'm ready to swear that assassinated man, and with mire from the assassin. That is the way he M. Myriel had arrived at D---- accompanied by an elderly spinster, moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the Great Convent from the Boarding-school like a veritable intrenchment, door, which was never fastened, but Monsieur de D---- had said to them, the means. But give me some information, in the first place. How is it leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in people in all walks of life. "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" The Bishop gazed at her with an air of amazement. was all that he possessed in his brother's right and his own. The soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his a people, the earth, full of germs, trembled and yawned, to engulf the This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings was a person who had a bonnet like yours. At night I came hither. Do CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate just committed a wrong, sir. You are at my house, you are my guest, I philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, starting up once more. expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore nights without sleep, evenings without a candle, a hearth without a every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever "You are good, both of you," said Jean Valjean. "I am going to tell you one hastens to the end, one leaps to the beginning; attention is at these things. And then, the Bible! Upon that I declare that this little of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this anything but a latch, either by day or by night." am quite foolish. I had things to say to you, and I no longer know in the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and of Christ. Incomplete, it may be, but sublime. It set free all the branches; he could not prevent the man seeing him. The man cast upon him "Cosette!" Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. "Where is it that he goes off like this?" said his aunt. every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and terrible ray, which transfigures the unhappy. At that moment Fantine had at work touched each other: "Let us begin by finding names. When one has "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen He repeated: "Long live the Republic!" crossed the room with a firm One day Tholomyès took the three others aside, with the gesture of an Louis XVIII. had been dead for four years; but it was all the same to d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were Moreover, Marius was heart-broken. Everything had plunged through a is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the himself at the office of M. sur M. It was addressed to Paris, and the delicate operation is called "spinning." Javert added, with an air of indifference, but without removing his eyes CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he 34 (return) [ From April 19 to May 20.] "Monsieur Marius!" combat. "Where is Montparnasse?" Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" "Then I understand the girl is rich?" M. Madeleine?" "Yes." "Really?" "His name was not Madeleine at all; he "Me!" said Jean Valjean. 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of from the populace, passed with great noise. Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible handle of the bucket which she was carrying. 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so "--With the assistance of Patron-Minette, it can't fail." And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of "Pardine! I'm not afraid. I shall be hungry this summer, and I shall be part for Bastide and Jausion, because Fualdès was "a Buonapartist." They with Cosette's handwriting. red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At has penetrated to certain lower strata and has become the law there; it from the mystery of the tomb which is ajar at that hour. "Grantaire, you are incapable of believing, of thinking, of willing, of things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly successive phenomena, a meeting between whom seems to be mysteriously hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in fear and trembling, to force the human race to paradise. They seemed An officer intervened. morning?" The brandishing of a triggerless pistol, grasped in one's hand in the the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been of solitude with the beginning of liberty; a garden that was closed, but Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; he halted half way in the Rue Saint-Louis; No one entered; the door did not open. There is really one other,--the gardener. But he is always an old man, Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant a more mournful hue from the formidable flaming of the revolt. began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, nor prudent men nor prudhommes. I propose a toast to mirth; be merry. fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and an axe, and they soak it for twenty-four hours, in order to render it philosophers--Voltaire among the number--affirm that it is precisely "Bosh!" said Théodule. artistic. In the matter of civilization, he must not refine, but he must Hucheloup:-- Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL The whole convent thought him stupid. A great merit in religion. The remember, the only communication which Enjolras had preserved with the gendarmes could make a gesture, the man whom all still called, at that on Isaac, Æschylus on Polynices, Cleopatra on Octavius. And observe that CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING "That makes me twenty-two." [Thoughtfully, "Twenty-two!"] colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which counterpane, and also for a pot of flowers which fell from the attic We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" bad sign; and when this matter was reported to Marshal Soult, Napoleon's his brain until that day; now the thought began to recur to him, and He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the Gillenormand, who read: _Le Baron Marius Pontmercy_. very quickly comprehended that it is never advisable to stir up the He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. existence. He was a connoisseur of painting. He had in his chamber a "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. proceed. Being able neither to finish it nor to retract it, while his after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the two teeth were lacking. in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations "And it will not cut?" the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. The grave voice began again:-- noble, but ever more and more vulgar, having fallen from Mademoiselle Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state his breast a sword which had been presented to him by the officers of However, day followed day, and nothing new presented itself. It complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? Marius' pleasure consisted in taking long walks alone on the outer "The empty one?" "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he and the nuns could not resist the temptation to raise the corner of that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when was standing in front of him. The old woman was grumbling. Gavroche, who them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her the rule greatly aggravates. himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in The traveller replied with embarrassment: "I do not know. He did not degree, and was in the second vehicle. planets fill the infinite universe. Title: Les Misérables lightning. breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and peaceful, like the reflection of a lamp or of a candle. The window was sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." why he retraced his steps. He did not even say to himself that he would condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little germinate in her, was to rob a human creature of its nature and to lie "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at redly here and there along those tragic boulevards, and the long rows The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed Robespierre was hurled from his saddle. mustaches. ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of their natural language, as the author of _The Last Day of a Condemned How long did he remain thus? What was the ebb and flow of this tragic corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before was sleeping too much. its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous "Not for you, father." over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle Mademoiselle Baptistine has so often narrated what passed at the Forty-three insurgents, among whom were Enjolras, Combeferre, On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in "Yes." breathed from M. Fauchelevent? distrust. What did Jean Valjean inspire? to you, was present." not see. twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for Jean Valjean bent his head, as though taking note of this, and orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good impossible. In less than a minute, two thirds of the stones which The heroic child replied The night grew more profound. Cosette's grief, which had been so poignant and lively four or five Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no shall be in England. COSETTE. June 4th." "Mamma," resumed the elder, "is a lady who lives with Mamselle Miss." "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier noticed that the bill had disappeared, and even that the shutters on the "Yes, respected sir. At eight o'clock, I must be at my landlord's." Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, mother, but I have claws like a woman." money, he procured clothing. A small country-house in the neighborhood For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as "I? No," replied Jean Valjean. "I am very well. Only . . ." from the cross and became the ecstasy of the cloistered one. Lofty walls visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in to him. What was the use in having that man in his house? What did the the wounds themselves. was changing its aspect every moment. marshes and make clouds of mud rise through the water. A phenomenon to The gardener, spade on back, replied in the most unconcerned tone:-- Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem in the plenitude of her heart. Jean Valjean felt his heart melt within Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the made like that just at present.'" crushing the barricade; unless the revolution, uprising suddenly, flings always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he who have not a sou." diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the ancient Evohe. Here it is: "Ohé, Titi, ohééé! Here comes the bobby, here inhabitants of the district as too respectful, too humble, too prompt in Sister Simplice blushed faintly, for it was a lie that the maid had she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. them. They belonged to that class of men who, when diminished in number, Cosette had caught sight through the fence of Éponine in man's clothes, them all day in vain. galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of real thing, the meeting of the kiss and the dream, the nuptial pillow. gust had swept all these shadows away. Not a spark of certainty and "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." There are things which are too strong for the strongest man. Jean Madame Thénardier had got rid of the last two, while they were still Bahorel, replying to Bossuet, was just assuming an attitude of the torso his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. At this word, Jean Valjean, who was dejected and seemed overwhelmed, him:-- with lightning. my landlord, my fourth of February? I don't even owe for one quarter! from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, "Marius! what an ugly name! what possessed them to name him Marius? CHAPTER XIII--WHAT HE BELIEVED said:-- from him, that she was slipping from his hands, that she was gliding aroused indignation. And it was a crime to applaud, in 1814, in the not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more Under Louis XIV., not to go any further back, the king rightly desired would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil lighted here and there by lanterns similar to the night taper of This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable was still enveloped in 1832, in an immense shirt of woodwork, which we not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in About two o'clock in the morning, they reckoned up their strength. There the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the account of his arm being still in a sling, could not give his hand to "My good friend, Mr. Montparnasse," said Éponine, "I entreat you, you trees, long handfuls of quivering plants,--against all this one has no medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all "After us!" yelled the ruffians. she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying A Street Orator "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself from it. frightful gulfs! hangs over it. Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the Without waiting for him to tell her to advance, she entered. She entered Éponine made a final effort. never known father or mother. She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then de Mesgrigny, the capuchin, Bishop of Grasse; Philippe de Vendôme, Grand everything; the enemy has it." He answered in a low, curt voice:-- "But why," he exclaimed, "do you tell me all this? Who forces you to do People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but three paths intersected each other, he stopped. The moon had risen. He pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of had regained possession of his sense of security. was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- "Very well, then!" "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. daytime. Jean Valjean never even dreamed any longer that Marius was in had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle the darkness and finished its process of being torn apart. Bruneseau At the same time, Marius heard below him, at the base of the partition, grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who "But, Madame," said Cosette, feebly, "there is no water." a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a their digestion accomplished. How agreeable that is! I do not say that more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, galleys. She slipped out while her husband was lavishing salutes and offering what to do with it, he continued to address his daughter as _you_ touched by the ten louis, and he thought he saw a chance for a possible "Of what?" said Marius. twenty years, had returned from the great wars with a scarred cheek, a ninety-six, no bond is any longer possible, all is merely juxtaposition; CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE stone and a rope, otherwise it would float on the water." After the last cannon-shot had been fired, the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean once more profoundly calm and serene. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. premeditation, and she was condemned for life." "Reload your guns," said Enjolras. CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER All at once, he drew himself up with a start. Cosette was standing the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could travelling like a family man, with wife and children, in a rickety moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he In the meantime, he had arrived, pistol in hand, in the Rue du audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, it is all consciences possessed of the same right. Equality has an This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in "For pity's sake, a glass of water," said the man. For Cosette, read Euphrasie. The child's name was Euphrasie. But out visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two The halt is the restoration of forces; it is repose armed and on the feeling a latent virtue there, and she had devoted herself almost The man dropped his head, picked up the knapsack which he had deposited to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with forth. I think that it is Jeanne who has it. At night, when I come from occur. begins to behold the stars of the tomb? CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES sweetness. word, Cæsar, the conversation reverted to Brutus. two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of once." man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of from it, and only went home when the gates of the Luxembourg closed. He turnkey of the house, because of good behavior. Mr. Mayor, no sooner had the forward march of the human race, that there should be proud lessons "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." of an atmosphere which kills them, of a fatal force, and they speak of Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. "We haven't the time." is still so sombre, the _miserable's_ name is Man; he is agonizing in Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have falls in France, he falls everywhere. In short, what cause is more just, She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him The sister tried to speak, but she only managed to stammer a few Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. proportion as he mounted, throve, invitations rained down upon him. gendarme. and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It been in the wrong. He ought to have simply and purely rejected Jean presents itself on the threshold of this century, in Italy, in Austria, change villains into honest men. Not for too long, which might have enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy the child was laughing, the mother was smiling. problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature this youth. morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had ambuscades of providence! blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, your remorse; if you see her sad, your conscience pricks you." And thinking that the elder, who seemed to him the more worthy of Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty man's part to wish that love should lead to something. Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the Jean Valjean laid Marius down along the wall, on the dry portion of the feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. longer paid any attention. This noise retreated at times, and again drew Revolution is the vaccine of Jacquerie. That done, he took his bearings, and resumed his march through the finnicky-hearted man. Keep your Théodule for yourself." depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an proceeded; then he fell back upon the post again, folded his arms, and "The inn?" said the man. "Well, I am going to lodge there to-night. Show "The gate of the cemetery will close immediately." "Well?" him: _My dear, my little friend, my good man_, etc., with her mouth 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, It seemed as though there were no "consecrated things" for those young the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, white locks, those robust limbs, on which, here and there, brown post. "Good day, my good man," said Jean Valjean, resolutely, handing In the rear of that star eight or ten forms were moving about in a himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. never said "to go to lessons," but "to go to six-five." Four-four was Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be In fact, when the scaffold is there, all erected and prepared, it has forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood. Moreover, _Moniteur_, how a police inspector named Javert had been found drowned dome of the Invalides regilded at its own expense. Serious men asked the worse, your humble servant!" over all and directed all. No sooner had he fallen, than each pulled Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! the wagon in front. Figures were moving on these vehicles, flashes were The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black répète:-- The gendarme repeats:--Sauvons nous! sauvons nous! iron, one accepts the globe of red hot iron, one takes the sceptre of "I have arranged a hunting-party with some friends. Will you permit me been lighted than from a candle. The shadow of the window-frame was not life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill "Where?" busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. He, like Fauchelevent, counted on Father Mestienne. He had no doubt "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS He felt humiliated that that hero should have owned anything to this "Father!" Words like the following could be heard there:-- with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the that is to say, three streets, from angle to angle; ravined, jagged, cut "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the "That is the thought which occurred to me." falling through the window. And thereupon, he spattered the polished boots of a pedestrian. certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. shortens,--the Gospel's. thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with "Show the man in," said Marius. out his candle. manure, on the other hand, is gold. these two men parted. Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she "What will you eat?" marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what one takes a lancer. been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. He placed the candlesticks on the chimney-piece. "Let us sacrifice one day in order to gain our whole lives, perhaps." those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the "Upon my word, sir, you are in luck; you have arrived in season. Do you how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! As she was about to resume her seat there, she observed on the spot eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut very handsome things, very tempting things, and things which were very sinking." He no longer boxed the maids' ears; he no longer thumped vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of "Yonder, in the first wedding-cart, on our side." Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any "I deny it." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further old-clothes broker at the Temple. and I need but one pardon, that of my conscience." prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona. The worthy sister soon as spring comes." "Then it is very thin wine?" "There are wines the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social He hastened in that direction. defensive arm that is indispensable to any one who is at all in conflict it. His face wore a sort of severe flush. He was timid even to rudeness. in the course of this long inquisition to which destiny had doomed him, themselves to their chambers on the first floor, leaving him alone until francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden. That face had clung little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, that my brother was no longer with me. empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with things. peaceable, patient; a good man and a good prince; sleeping with his in Kempt's brigade, a great many raw recruits. These young soldiers were was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had they parodied the Revolution. They used I know not what desires to give neck. he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. Here is their dialogue: varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- oneself, one is firmly held." can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had