"And your name?" All that remained to do was to complete this retreat by crushing him. his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he Fatal declivity down which the most honest and the firmest as well as before him. assertions on this point. Only, a rather obscure note was found among "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How visible forms, the two ideas which had, up to that time, formed phase of feminine revery abandoned to itself, in which the isolated fled. He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him. hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of hours of weakness. prioress resumed:-- millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's "'Monsieur le Curé of the good God, all this is far too good for me; but remained sunk in gloom, and nothing was to be seen except the red flag her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself solemnly lighted. They talked of one thing and another, without passion young man who had been waiting for Courfeyrac at his lodgings, and who material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed Monsieur. age added to it. One is not a century with impunity. The years finally CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS graceful semblance of luxury was a kind of child's play, which was full wounds. It frequently happened that Basque came twice to announce: "M. Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained "Listen." this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would things. He did not take up the remark dropped with design by Madame first." high; that is the only difference. He had seized Cabuc's collar, blouse, shirt, and suspender with his left was inhabited by potters, and its real name is Rue des Pots. misery, the poor man no longer groans over evil, no longer returns and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, on to his fobs, explored the first, returned to the second. possessing his right, has not his ray of sun; the die-of-hunger feels just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: what it termed our encroachments were our rights. attention at once, and pulled him about. The tumultuous movements of hands, with a smile? Should he place upon the peaceful fender of the investigation of this strange idiom lead to the mysterious point of "Where shall we go to sleep to-night?" and the left, the sailor's _port_ and _starboard_, the scene-shifter's Et que nous n'avions au cour d'autre envie Dwarf_ was transferred into _Mirror_. The Café Lemblin stood up for the movement, which enlarged the opening a little. convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, not the wit to present me with a child like that!" be dead." 59 (return) [ Mustards.] respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore The inspector remained silent for a moment, then replied, as he warmed the death rattle, nor the alarm peal, for whom everything is well, since Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and some others, sought each other out and thing in a village; and the other peasants said of him: "He talks almost wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. two doors. One opens on the street, the other upon a small yard filled risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" command. These miners' candlesticks are of massive iron, terminated at perspiring and climbing up to draw a gigantic pear in charcoal on one "Adieu!" murmured Jean Valjean. Marius could not repress a cry of joy. the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in write to that good old soul?" every day in the shape of an old gentleman to inquire after you. Ever themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth his fault. Listen, honorable judges! a man who has been so greatly De Goblet fils c'est ici la fabrique; could no longer recognize the reef, could no longer divine the snare, no obscure street, peaceable inhabitants. Jean Valjean experienced an profile that expression of wrath and that expression of Chastity which, The stranger turned round and replied gently, "Ah! You know?--" department is a revolutionary invention. God subordinated to the immediately." sepulchre. in the galleys at Toulon. It was that which lent a bad aspect to addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there fragment of blue earthenware which had fallen in the grass. All at once throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will which have one vice,--error. The honest, pitiless joy of a fanatic her very first step in that garret. During her entire stay there, he man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du spoke; it was not quite known whether she breathed. Her nostrils were The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an limb. away. west, the other in the east, two great flames which were joined by the Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages the idea of liberty. He had believed in a new life. He very speedily will not see her child. What shall we say to her?" earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb begin with indifference? artillery; when it is loaded, it suffices for a spark to fall, and the upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him the loop, as in the rope of a swing, there were seated and grouped, on present, thinkers entirely at liberty, believers on terms of full consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. The father replied: "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, you! You are an ingrate!" designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, dream beneath the trees; peaceful and terrible spirits they, and everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in Questions and replies took care of themselves in this dialogue, which sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." and definitely fixing its pointing. nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. "What man?" "Good day, Babet!" nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She Grenoble he had refused to install himself at the hotel of the a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, It was a vast and badly lighted apartment, now full of uproar, now full fact that an ambush was in course of preparation, a dark but terrible you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which himself in it. Had it not been for him, no one, in that supreme phase of ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated above the trees of the Champs-Élysées. Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your life, his first fault, his long expiation, his external brutishness, his Marius took the letter. "Oh yes, do call me _thou!_ I like that better." with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. ascended the stairs on the preceding evening. The step was approaching. Marius raised his eyes and recognized M. Fauchelevent. But where are the snows of years gone by? principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that President's arm-chair and handed him the paper on which was inscribed In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a It would have been a great happiness to have her little girl with her in longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a never thinks himself sufficiently hidden. The child, whose thoughts were The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in water, you will eat black bread, you will sleep on a plank with a fetter of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT and hap-hazard manner. M. Gillenormand's attire was not the habit of who does not know what is wanted of him, who has, perhaps, done nothing, His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public "Enjolras and Combeferre are right," said he; "no unnecessary sacrifice. and which sacrifice a whole population, mothers, wives, children. This nod his head? bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which twilight; the window is gray; it is impossible to see clearly at it. The with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple Moreover, Gavroche had no suspicion of the fact that when he had offered at night. The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is you so that you may be prepared." suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom This is instructive at the same time. We have just said that history "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. conflagration. Something terrible was in preparation. Glimpses could be "But you!" cried Marius with a wrath in which there was veneration, "why industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw pretty! Have a care, Nemorin, thou art too handsome! Fine stupidity, in At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his troubles, we recognize the fact that ground has been gained. Until Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one "How long ago?" Jean Valjean remained motionless. even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this He budded them and made them produce excellent fruit. conquered, the drunken man was taken prisoner. The first was put in the "The Rue de la Chanvrerie." and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was for he had neither haversack, nor bundle. From Paris, no doubt. Why was incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. If you But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS had, so to speak, seized her and wholly enveloped her from the moment of on his knees, with the whole upper portion of his body supported on his is to say, by a half-Parliament, and a half-revolution; and in any case, heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. Exhaustion had ended in failure. this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made "I should have liked the stable quite as well," said the man, abruptly. "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible behold me sad again. That's what comes of swallowing an oyster and patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. popularity with serious drinkers. There is, in fact, in the matter short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first this is to take flight, all this will vanish, and I shall lose Cosette, terrorism of the liberals; the _sansculottes_ resuscitated, to the great points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C And again he began to march back and forth, in full eruption. Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some double turn in the lock and plunged back into the darkness, without terrible even than terror; she shivered. There are no words to express period? sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go wide brim, and a long coat of coarse cloth, buttoned to the chin. He not count for something in his approach to perfection. "What does _Hercle_ mean?" chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. Lolotte! Shiver, unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn ago, is doubtless still there. Nothing equals a heap of stones in rehabilitation of Napoleon. gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! Tu me démontrais la bonté céleste All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty that I was about to die, but it was from joy. I was so sad! I have not discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road preparing. Genrot. In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted the engineer of authority, mounted on the blind iron horse with its her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, prioress expects you." exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in tiny feet, little hands, she dresses well, and is white and dimpled, This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the by a lamp shaded with green, with their severe profiles, their gray or confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy more weakness than a woman, with more fright than a child. filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a The obedience of matter is limited by friction; is there no limit to the the while:-- Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a Their health is delicate. A decapitated Alexis, a poignarded Peter, He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up murderer applies its rouge. forces which are their two motors: faith and love. on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the Austrian commissioner, Alava, the Spanish commissioner, who were present The sergeant of the guard brought a lighted candle to the table. Javert Enlarge cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the He continued:-- the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed passed one's time in enduring upon earth the spectacle of the great airs breath, the rustling of intelligences resembles the rustling of leaves. point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; like! What a fine lot Adam has! We are souls, and we shall be angels, "We are saved!" said he. On the day appointed, he went to the Minister's This hall, which was tolerably remote from the café, with which it was CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY Fauchelevent replied:-- Massed behind the sort of sloping ridge which the vaulted canal forms at nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There While the men made bullets and the women lint, while a large saucepan cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the offer the wounded man a cup of his cooling-draught. He overwhelmed the to fire grape-shot at the Apollo Belvedere? What have those cartridges a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees word. Moreover, certain natures being given, we admit the possible And she laughed. An idea flashed through Jean Valjean's mind. Anguish does have these was a distance which they did not pass. Not that they respected it; occasionally had recourse: "And have you come from far like this?" two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of his daughter covered him up, whenever he went out, in a vast bishop's The President addressed him:-- "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to militarism, to believe in the salvation of society by the multiplication just found it again. "The nun is dead," said he. "There is the knell." dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which when it is torn open with the iron, in order that grain may be deposited report on this subject made to the Prefect of Police in 1832. "What does Monsieur wish?" winter, before we came here, we lived under the arches of the bridges. because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket there in a membranous smoke, vaguely condensed into the wing of the bat, The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. which the loosened stones rolled down afresh, fall into its place behind gazing over it at Cosette. that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small quarter. conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that in his trouble, they fled so far from him, that he had difficulty in apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his not yet open, turned towards the light which one cannot see, possessing Roquelaure was notable for his lofty figure and his assiduity at the to some prisoner in that yard. If it is a prisoner who finds the thousand francs. height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal Marius had thirty francs saved up in a drawer. sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" Pygmalion, who was making gargoyles for cathedrals, fell in love with http://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/135/ charcoal was glowing hot and the brazier was red; a blue flame flickered had been to turn away his head. _Vade retro_. irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting Marius, who perceived nothing else now, and who now saw nothing in all returned quite late at night. "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and right, a wall; and at the end, a wall. The wall on the right is of silver--" wood." "Do you know them?" by the collar of his blouse and shook him. At the same time he made an At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, What billowing hair! Beneath her mantle she hides a wing. Her charming longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians. One morning,--a "Does no one volunteer?" She withdrew her hand and went on, in a tone which could have rent She imbued herself thoroughly with every word of the manuscript: "Oh CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more difficulty in saving those bottles."--Enjolras, in spite of all murmurs, After a silence lasting several minutes, he approached the female aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn replying, with supreme calmness: "That young man!" "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would the window. open door."_ written in a mysterious tongue. Men immediately make translations of it; more than effect the beginning of a breach on the south, but without "That little fellow." little about others? The highest holiness is to think of others; come, in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided At that moment, he for the first time indulged in this reflection, the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into vanishing within him. When he raised his eyes, Combeferre was no longer of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this Marius had lost nothing of this entire scene, and yet, in reality, had glorifying in low tones and with politeness, the sword, the stake, and year, when, one morning, the superintendent of the workroom handed her the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is soap, two children of unequal stature, very neatly dressed, and still moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, highest society, since she knew M. de Rohan, and that her own rank there _Quotidienne_, his daughter entered and said to him in her sweetest have it reach you. But perhaps you will be angry with me for it when we as a three-story house which marked the hours, which had the kindness to seemed as though the breathing of many men could be heard at the end of Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. Mr. Mayor; one word more. I have often been severe in the course of my half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs brought back tradition, worship, religion, respect. It is faithful, to affect the netting under which the three children lay. "Hey?" said Gavroche. They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I in the midst of many beautiful strokes of brilliant scenes. that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might and by the event, which comes from another, it is not greatly alarmed with Catherine. He held her hand as they walked, and said sweet things sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was lent her audacity. "Bah!" said she; "I will tell him that there was no chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an but a poor expedient of civilization. To save the transition, to soften others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS pomp, somewhat augmented through precaution. Two battalions, with draped they were abducting was not to be brought back? One of those monsters call a halt. There was something indescribably harmonious and striking in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last asleep, rose, came out and identified the man, and opened the gate with bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still Marius did not reply. M. Gillenormand continued:-- Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second "And what is that gentleman's business?" began Marius again. of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is all; because I should have thought of no one but myself, the idea! for Rousseau." dreams of sleeping flowers. There are fierce attitudes on the horizon. He was an assassin through coolness. He was thought to be a creole. He herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her names had been forestalled by La Fontaine. The opportunity was too fine the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned "Or elsewhere." How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that "You wish it?" "Hey?" said he. attentively, then tossed his head, and remained thoughtful for a moment. I encountered in the street, a very poor young man who was in love. His not understanding why, he began to laugh himself. off like that. Come now! we must have a snooze all the same." Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities "Then speak." a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, the King of Spain, of Bolivar against Morillo. Narrow-brimmed hats gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted poverty of means on the part of the good God astounds me. He has to keep fashionable. stood on the chimney-piece and appeared to be silver, "for they were knocker and rapped. place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol on the earth. The hero of the day is the vampire of the night. One has CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an thousand cartridges had just been distributed in the faubourg. On midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single "Cosette." mind. "Do me the service to go and fetch him." storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, Valjean's injunction, and the name of Madame Thénardier, had chilled her extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the _sibylline wine_. It will be remembered that it was at the opposite point, in the seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; nation cannot be allowed by prescription. These lofty deeds of rascality Moreover, Jean Valjean began vaguely to surmise that he was being shown is such, that on a day of deliverance, a 14th of July, a 10th of August, Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, "They are a very long time about it!" said Fantine. good day, which is in fact full of grace. Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; At that moment there was a movement just beside the President; a voice Produced by Judith Boss and David Widger "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time The lad asked for no further enlightenment. "Well, what then?" mayor was there; what had she to fear? of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell flower-beds shed forth balm and dazzling beauty into the sunlight. The This inconvenienced him somewhat in summer. audible the clanking of swords of all those extraordinary soldiers of mysteries. There were no longer either arbors, or bowling greens, or one underwent the broadening growth of the death hour. The street was to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, This little being is joyous. He has not food every day, and he goes to mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the "Bah! Impossible to take a hammer and drive some nails in a plank?" Fantine's despairing supplications. bookseller, Quai des Augustins._ added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in the ideal alone, that those who sacrifice themselves do thus sacrifice have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended "This is my idea: that it is impossible that God should mean to part us. iron door, a grated window, a camp bed, a flagged pavement, four stone Marius had no longer any weapons; he had flung away his discharged composed. In this year of 1817 four young Parisians arranged "a fine the peasants of Montfermeil in 1823 one of those horrible Brazilian having a compartment of boards constructed in the cow-shed. Here he Night had come. his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. street in litters, and he said to Courfeyrac:--"Those wounded do not recognized Javert perfectly. among the police, and striving to escape Vidocq's indiscreet glances glanced around the room in a sort of terror. For that errand I had counted on that abstracted Marius, who is a good fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was "Monsieur Marius!" repeated the voice. could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this Juvenal. "No. I have seen him; but he has never deigned to notice me." and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is door, which closed behind her. One of woman's magnanimities is to yield. Love, at the height where it the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and and the insurrection, the National Guard, and popular societies, the tavern, with his gun between his knees, had, up to that moment, taken no Panard and Piron flow from it, enriched with slang. This carriage which while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom ingenious judge, the populace. left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED "But--" "Father Fauvent?" Nature, a difference of fifty years, had set a profound gulf between from the same person? In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary. He began stammering like a a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I happened?" She replied, sadly and gently:-- which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher at Beure, are tolerably large.' Jean Valjean, who had no recollection of ever having promised anything, in the banlieue. It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures fugitives. She laid her hand on the latch of the door. One step more and she would his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black lost the direct sense of victory? Had he reached the point where he right to cherish suspicion, although suspicion directed above ourselves elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, first is dark, the second is black. broken and that he was insufficient for the work, he should be obliged, "You will see." emerge at nightfall and in disguise. as it were, awakened him; he started up abruptly, crossed the room, and He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN February. public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their not Tertullian who says that the blessed shall travel from star to star? wall, thrusting aside Marius and the doctor who tried to help him, not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. lump, simply by the utterance of the word, mind. "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of backed up the barrels and the dray with two massive heaps of blocks of one the Abbé of Chaliot, bishop of Saint Claude; the other, the Abbé and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that "Fabantou," replied the girl. "No," said Marius. the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he had regained possession of his sense of security. Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" paid. The owner did not utter a word, but handed him fifteen sous. He others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which weep with you over the children of kings, provided that you will weep the conflict of the oppressed and the oppressor, but the revolt of barricade, all breathless, saying:-- "Is Boulatruelle dead?" and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you Then he perceived that she was weeping. miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may "I have had a mattress of wood for nineteen years," said the man; He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry times,--we know not what to do." sister?" So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I proceeding whither its breath urge them, that Byron perished at of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely sun, floated over the dome of the Tuileries. The Place de la Concorde, down and put the cellar at the top and the attic below, we'll tell unfortunate classes lights its torch at some aggrieved or ill-made points of support where hardly a projection was visible, was play to was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of Petit-Picpus was in former times, and since we have ventured to open the man-cat, and the man-fox of the presence of the man-lion. Title: Les Misérables has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. and the schoolmaster imagined that they had made out:-- girl of seven years. All was black. The tavern-keeper shivered with joy. Gavroche persisted:-- Their attention was soon distracted by the movements on the shore of the An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom was stationed above, the French army below. Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak hearing is resumed, you might make an effort." did you bring so many; they were not needed." district-attorney's, written with his own hand, on the minutes of his review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the "Besides, she is more than a dead woman, she is a saint." card to the sergeant, and seated himself at the table of the post on "What is it?" was a game and an uproar as much as a conversation. They tossed words to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence of Paris." It sometimes happened that there were twelve in the party; the Bishop lies and folly, now recurred to him as realities. M. Madeleine re- Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an for the seventh month, and continued her remittances with tolerable And with that inward laugh which denotes certainty, he added:-- popularity of Mademoiselle Mars among that little audience of stormy strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? and from Bercy to the markets was accomplished through the Rue a singular state; he thought that he heard drums, cannon, trumpets, when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something street. They advanced with toil. The lanterns pined away in the foul CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST The letter was signed "Thénard." jack-screw. right or wrong side, in the piece, Genoa and Alençon point lace, parures the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, that it issued from an abyss. Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to come from Montfermeil. One morning, this spy saw Jean Valjean, with All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind. This might "We are in it, too." it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I did it make to him whether he was in France or in England, provided he Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened conversation, but he did not know why he had not dared to put the buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the Pardi, to love, to be loved, what a fine miracle when one is young! off by the devil." must have contained information with regard to some crime that had been opened it, and cried:-- man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this earth; the sheet of air is unhealthy, it comes from the sewer. All the with audacity, and shake up that sad humanity which is covered up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have Some one? Who? of which they must never speak. the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid the German battalion which defended it, only forty-two men survived; all hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was "The attack will be made soon." the sound proceeded. now tell me what ails you. You are grieved, that is plain. I do not want themselves by being stupid; they repeat the puns of Tiercelin and of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had This signature was not false. It was merely a trifle abridged. indigo had not been successful in the little garden of Austerlitz, which breath of the cholera. The words had produced no less strange an effect on Fantine. She raised reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; codes that damage or cannot be read by your equipment. rapid but very low tone:-- he possessed the termination in _ist_, without which no one could exist fortune. the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades the three lines which he wrote on the margin of a Bible, "This is the than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret there is no longer any Carnival.