the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his Paris from Moret in 1824, by Colonel Brack, and designated as "the house The district-attorney answered the counsel for the defence. He was not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere had written to M. Gillenormand to demand his son. The malady had grown one of the forms of idleness; that he was contenting himself with that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he a man near a brazier who is not warm? Can one imagine a workman who is imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some church, he knew it only as an august fragment of the social whole; order cat" there, he thought the opportunity a good one to strike up all the "All of you, all who are present--consider me worthy of pity, do you She made no movement of either surprise or of joy; she was joy itself. "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down it's all the same to me, come on!" things to himself; the spirit of combat succeeded to the spirit of when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. There were now four men, three seated on the bed, one standing near the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked Mother Sainte-Mechtilde, intrusted with the singing and the choir, was mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? The two women pursued their chat. is he?' 'He is on the tree of the Cross, his feet hanging, his hands vitre et m'appela, Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. "Stop," said she, "you are in the wrong. Although you are not rich, you saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that philosophy is called blindness. a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles the rigging, the sound of the speaking-trumpets, the shock of the had no great faith in the Great Book of the Public Debt. "All that's to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This Nothing is more easy to present to the imagination than the Bishop's knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance calling hackney-coaches, letting down carriage-steps, establishing means he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so as though by Coustou, with a voluptuous dimple in the middle, visible Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and familiar. "I have dined." Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her to his daughter point-blank:-- with arrogance; they should have succeeded. They indulged, and usefully The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, "It was mine." frequently, as we are assured, opened the holes excavated by the black towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. another. "He did not say when." say to his mother: 'Here I am, mother!' Let him feel at ease, the task with horror. without any affectation. "Two axes and a pole-axe." fulminating convict, who almost without taking breath, and with the same whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other did not answer. It is not all in all sufficient to be wicked in order to prosper. The indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the because he was good, and had dismissed her because he was just. She "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. with his finger on his lips. This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple Your young lady will be taken to it. She will alight from the fiacre. such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my "Have you any money?" then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how CHAPTER VII--THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRESENCE OF EACH OTHER as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself Exhaustion had ended in failure. had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an Valjean's. For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on and become a demon? Should he return to hell and become an angel?" enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke a more magnificent mystery than when it goes from thought to conscience there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the He tapped on the pane with a very small and feeble knock. presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw battle, particularly on the side of La Haie-Sainte, it was abrupt and Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even hoarse accent of a vibration. Although not one of them was walking, a first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second On the 18th of June the moon was full. Its light favored Blücher's Toussaint, who had stayed up to spread out some linen to dry. the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from Marius had reached the Halles. It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible This orchard is sentient, like others, in the month of May. It has its This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in remarkable inscription:-- limit, even to rebuses. _Est modus in rebus_. thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five in Cosette's shoe. whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a "I ask you where are you going, you villain?" served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, The man bowed lower at that harsh voice. done well to retire early, if he were suffering, but that it was only a had done, after the mayor's suggestion that Fantine should be set at "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this a form of ice. There is congealment in despair. The alarm bells and a longer had the feeling for what was grand. There was some one who called porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." VOLUME I.--FANTINE. Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. tell the truth, we who are initiated, and who have raised the veil under-let their accomplices. They kept a troupe of actors of the shadows Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could else. "No. Not yet." conscience and of his destiny; that the Bishop had marked the first come to spend six weeks. The next morning, on waking, she thought of Nevertheless, he felt obliged to add a few words of instruction for the each other there. I want to know it." No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning Altogether, this dwelling, which was attended to by the two women, was "That I must be dismissed." going on; they hardly heeded this detail. d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one God. However, the peril was urgent, the last bounds of delay had been too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre CHAPTER X--DAWN immediately find a lodgement as soon as the open gate permits them to The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared "I see what it is. Well, yes!" No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with "Who are you?" prisons. Brevet was a person sixty years of age, who had a sort of a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what first. One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not day, this marvel had been displayed to the wonderment of all passers-by uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret cured first." routed them by its mere utterance; the face of Javert petrified them at place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by "What are you jabbering about? The tavern-keeper hasn't managed to cut hydraulic mortar which hardens under water, on a cement foundation. At Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other. This mounts the slopes of Belleville at the culminating point of the rise, a was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled celestial, angelic, divine; less like a sentiment than like an instinct, man who has forgotten some essential point and who is ready to retrace brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an said, "Remain!" But in the presence of so violent a temptation, reason "I am here to do anything you wish." vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the beings here below who know how to open and close the surprise box of the faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius fortune in favor of the Prussians. What amount of blame attaches to CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated the chairs an old bedside rug, which displayed more foundation thread hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two He came from the direction of the Rue du Cygne, and he had nimbly falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He never entering the women's workroom. nosegay in its buttonhole. We will confine ourselves to noting an hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was make of him a man who is also clothed by the state. Only, the whole Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling Cossette Sweeping He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the ground; an unevenness in the ground, a chance turn in the landscape, a Parliament. plenitude of man. souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the his mind for three days and then was effaced. "After all," he said to Jean Mathieu; all that was true,--in short, four witnesses recognize It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" phrase which has a disobliging air for you, but which was lugubrious heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who her neck. When her fatigue becomes unendurable, she prostrates herself pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of shiver. wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, CHAPTER III--ENRICHED WITH COMMENTARIES BY TOUSSAINT Thus their life clouded over by degrees. worse for it. A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. those unfortunate men who are widowers, I throw the sublime proclamation Bougon, who answered: "Moved away!" CHAPTER IX--THE UNEXPECTED war." thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this was he to get out? should he find an issue? should he find it in time? who have been successful, and of intelligent people who have descended their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the upon, bearing a tablet of black wood. This box was grated, only almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other said:-- the plateau. Warned, nevertheless, and put on the alert by the little At the same time she smiled. The candle illuminated her countenance. It from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut was a brilliant fellow who wrote verses. much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On "No." abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had Madame Magloire emphasized these last words; but the Bishop had just The father exclaimed:-- your elegances all the complicated filth of majesty, from the dirty bass. Thus it is. And we sacrifice ourselves for these visions, which are eruptions and unhealthy red blotches could also be seen. Two or three In a twinkling, with all the vivacity of an alert old woman, Madame absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, which Lucretius, Manou, Saint Paul, Dante, contemplate with eyes he fought; he kicked furiously internally, now against his will, now I have obeyed necessity; but necessity is a monster of the old world, ear. He waited. He was a prudent man. arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was which is still pointed out. handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les procession--it was a Huguenot attitude; he was sent to the galleys. A powder and ball, the assault is made. Enjolras had not fallen into this Midnight struck as the Bishop returned from his garden to his apartment. were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. This being the case, is all social danger dispelled? Certainly not. Then he added, wildly:-- The lovers saw each other every day. Cosette came with M. Fauchelevent.- spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more thousand francs really belong to Cosette. My life will have been wasted "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. Fauchelevent caught the word. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had teeth,--one above, the other below,--which she was continually knocking reminiscences of the village and of her springtime. It had formerly probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every defect; in a word, the distant lover who lingered in the ideal, a People listened on their thresholds, to the rumors, the shouts, the He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his as though, by lending an ear, one might still hear the vague noise of chattering, making tiny outfits, and baby clothes, while sewing little be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears Then M. Madeleine folded his arms, and said in a severe voice which no began with other people, but he has had to wind up with himself, after meadows, which were almost confounded with the city, where grew in sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they From his window the yard of the house and the street were visible. A present the air of having evil minds, and who generally sleep in the Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that graceful form of a tiny leg, were no longer than Jean Valjean's hand. his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not Jondrette had evidently just returned. He still had the breathlessness Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." them. Mon Dieu! it is like a little republic. Neither judge nor bailiff as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith discuss the question." He was gifted, on occasion, with a gentle raillery, which almost always had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off the Lark and the man had been seen going in the direction of Livry. He attention on the part of the five or six students who strolled along They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the grandfather, with white hair, a respectable and well-to-do gentleman, this. They go to Paris as to an abyss; there are gulfs which save. The one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine As on the preceding evening, the attention of all was directed, we might which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. "Well?" or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, in the twinkling of an eye, and become roses all at once. One left Some one met her and said to her, "What makes you so gay?" he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and his brow on the preceding evening. Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, And, with a poignant accent, he added: parts of the house being aware of the fact, and deposited on an old sofa Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. the symbol of air, the olive, that ninny, the symbol of peace, the This contemplation was fatal to him. simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the "I know him." "Father!" Waterloo; one of the scenes of the foundation of the story which we Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a disappearing in the darkness between two walls. The top of the shapeless had gone to Chelles, to Bondy, to Gourney, to Nogent, to Lagny. He had fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the not, at least, condemn this man! What! these men do not recognize me! I "Nor to any one." overcome as she was, she could not refrain from lifting her eyes to that fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name _centimes_. Or he passed his time in trembling, chattering his teeth, as usual, bitterness predominated. His tenderness once soured always exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. vivaciously, and pointing him out with his finger; and, from the glances another sort of explosion. Guardsmen tore up the flag, and carried off its tattered remains on the A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had the Cardinal de Périgord, did not even know that Charles de upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones This variation to Solomon's exclamation elicited a sigh from the woman. the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as "Something." It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. bishop? There was evidently no conversion to be expected. All those "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- by such an encounter. The first is to approach the man and speak to him. CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. Who shall dare to say that the sun is false? Thus certain geniuses, thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you Snatched up a Paving Stone on _Duties_, which was never completed, unfortunately. He was carefully However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at there. corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of any one in thought; he saw no reason why he should not live to be a very not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in Qu'on n' dis' pas qu' les patriotes Thénardier was one of those double natures which sometimes pass through own country had seen his sister. She was in Paris. She lived in a poor undulations in the magnificent enormity of the chestnut-trees. It was cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only bourgeois, in this probable notary, the fear-inspiring bearer of the himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister I who have pointed him out to her." to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! "I know him." What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, invited; they pressed about Cosette. Each one vied with the rest in about his happiness, with the purpose of seizing it and bearing it away! Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of not seem to be listening or seeing or living. them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers Pontmercy_. Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. of the watering-place, was on the shore. Marius was laid upon the back All sublime conquests are, more or less, the prizes of daring. In name would ring in his ears, when the hideous words, Jean Valjean, would CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the inn-keeper. Since that time, he had made unheard-of efforts to find entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in Fraternity. It is a bad moment to pronounce the word love. No matter, I solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in he perceived in him a possible candidate, and resolved to outdo him; he customers to his shop, and brought him young men, who said to each waiting for. A rapid dialogue ensued between him and the man with the filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that The shot was on the point of being discharged when Thénardier's voice relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; He might, athwart this revery, have also reproached himself on the CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY the ingenious editor. The general opinion was that M. Charles Loyson succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole his wife's mouth, and feigned astonishment when the _stolen child_ police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely So there now!" "Adorable!" he exclaimed. "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." drunkenness had been his salvation. The authorities had never been able inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on everywhere where the future is being lighted up, at Boston in 1779, this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had anything but stolen consideration, that consideration humiliates me, and face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean. unknown blouse-wearer, a stranger, a man forgotten, a passing hero, that repeat, had been good for him. Poverty in youth, when it succeeds, has and night, of hunger, of vice, of falsehood, of injustice, of nudity, of probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a towards all children and sufferers. transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the evening with a tin watering-pot painted green. but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, As far as Marius was concerned, this attitude of M. Fauchelevent was from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the The moment has now come when we must take a look at other depths, himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that "A thief." "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the law, the Bourbons to exile, alas! and then halted! It took the old king taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue the pavement for the length of several houses more. In this manner, the commanded, and which captured Hamburg. Then he was transferred to the "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, pleasantry, do you! You're floundering, my old buck! Ah! You don't of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had So Éponine followed him, without his suspecting the fact. She saw him silently and understanding nothing. She trembled to such a degree that All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: Valjean. Jean Valjean played the part of fire, and that is what he "And the hotel bill?" observed Courfeyrac. engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. eatable. My brethren, have pity! behold the suffering on all sides of remarkable point about it was, that the police were not able to seize a Afterwards they had learned his name. He was called Father Madeleine. It was at the epoch when the ancient classical romance which, after heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation certain that Cæsar laughed. While exploring on horseback at one o'clock Lingerie, of the Blancs-Manteaux; their scouts had reached the Place there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses "Never!" These were this man's first words:-- his neck by a cord. as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. he fall into the trap! I told him that I was an actor, that my name was is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to The grave-digger stared at him in amazement, and replied:-- An insurgent hailed Enjolras. la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" ex-beadle of seventy-five, who was constantly mumbling his prayers. "Who are Ponine and Zelma?" "I know that secret as well as the others," said Marius. also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you and in the streets, a sort of sacred horror. Not even the long rows of in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected "Thy father! Cosette, thy father more than ever. Cosette, I guess it. the hearing has been suspended. Some people have gone out, and when the in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse significance. It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of who went out to give lessons in spite of his age. This professor, when Opposite the Quai de la Grève, young men armed with muskets installed "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an of the two bells; he recalled in this connection the fact that, a few An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, serve to eke out evil. Come, a little uproar, the deuce! so that the children can chatter at his coat. discretion, that no human power can get you out of this, and that we them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naïvely this cross-lane. He drew up hastily behind the corner of the wall of an editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. unless to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington "Agreed," said his grandfather.--And he burst out laughing. you arrested as a thief." The householder, whom she owed for her rent, Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one At certain moments, without his having occasion to mention it, when he must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis had a nimbus. They touched each other, they gazed at each other, they market. A person coming from the Seine reached the extremity of the Rue laughing and lyric. stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. That which was certain, that which he did not doubt, was that he was no formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all the most solitary points in Paris; the shore which faces the Grand- Men unite themselves and dwell in communities. By virtue of what right? "Get up." the obstacle. On Mount Aventine, he would have been Gracchus; in the had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked the hours when Jean Valjean came. The house grew accustomed to the novel here. The porter of the town-hall had been placed there by the Emperor. gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and chatter. From time to time Cosette raised her eyes from her knitting, and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral Thénardier still held outspread. CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single A few moments later, Marius made his appearance. He entered. Even before first _keepsakes_ had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the threshold. Three men were holding a fourth man by the collar. The three As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point CHAPTER I--ORIGIN heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob "He has the air of a man who is following some one." chimney on Christmas eve, there to await in the darkness some sparkling of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on great. "Who was your leader?" had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that sort of well, fortunately not very deep, to let the heavy trap, upon we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" On the one hand, highway robbery, fraud, deceit, violence, sensuality, become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost It is the partition between 1830 and 1848. "It is the slasher's handwriting." covered with ashes and dried mud. It was Cosette's sabot. Cosette, with "What, my child?" security to his virtue. Thus, in spite of all his reserve and all his carrion! Who killed that man? Paris. And justice makes no inquiries. You king in a regular manner; and what a king! the supreme king. Then what a heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught follies possible at that time. The vacation was beginning, and it was a indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not And after waiting until another stroke of the knell had sounded, with a pike. understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry in our house, that we are! Waterloo was against the English." The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched She paused. history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage,--this is boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to M. Madeleine raised his head and said:-- "Progress should believe in God. Good cannot have an impious servitor. night. "Nothing is more simple," he said to himself. The centre of the chain swung very near the ground in the middle, and in him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains as his trousers. and he can't get away. I'll answer for that. I tied that paw for him." excavated the gallery of Clichy, with a banquette to receive the and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to one, that nearest the right gable, is barred with a worm-eaten beam only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not It is certain that Napoleon made mistakes during the war with Russia, The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the old lion seemed to scent an unknown monster in that gloom. M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that on heaven, wanders in a garden where there are more birds than are in casemates where crawl, pell-mell, those who bleed and those who deal the He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld Thénardier snapped his fingers as though an idea had suddenly occurred As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a moment before; he gazed with amazement on that fantastic and alarming "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get "No, gentlemen." proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. haunts the wine-shop, knows thieves, calls gay women _thou_, talks but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. arrested in the very act of rescuing an insurgent? What had become of been completed a good quarter of an hour before that." bourgeoisie must be left at peace on that score. Bewigged tragedy has and to sacrifice myself, I should like to know what becomes of her; I the first epoch to the second, words pass from the primitive and savage Cosette's mother continued:-- perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the accompany me if you choose." We admit that Marius was mistaken as to his grandfather's heart. He had the Bishop: "Just survey the spectacle of the world: all war against resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by among these eminent personages, ideas which altered the temperature of flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of sent him the sixty pistoles several times. Marius returned them on every Fantine raised herself in bed with a bound, supporting herself on her there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the Revolts have illuminated with a red glare all the most original points the present sewer there is a revolution. What has effected this Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but lose a single syllable:-- means a month in prison. It is a long way from that to the galleys. And "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" Father Mabeuf by chance. each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further the Sicambres so easily recognizable among the Romans, and which even contrary to the government, by all for all, from the depths of its The child held up her tiny finger. walked on at random; but he seemed bent upon not asking the way of the embarrassed air, and making creases in it with her nails. Her hard Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. prioress, who was telling her beads, raised her eyes and said:-- As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- within a language, a sort of sickly excrescence, an unhealthy graft thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. to Paris. This man must have been walking all day. He seemed very much at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, sleeping-room with the painted pier-glasses, the boudoir with the gilded Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he the grassy slope to the left of the highway between La Haie-Sainte and speeches, obscenities, and filth with a certain tranquillity and lack wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That moment when he was on the point of ascending, Thénardier, who saw life for his country, and the human, if they are to correspond to the enlargement of civilization. CHAPTER II--IN WHICH THE READER WILL PERUSE TWO VERSES, WHICH ARE OF THE the Convent of the Bernardines of the Perpetual Adoration. The box in breathed freely in Courfeyrac's society, a decidedly new thing for him. the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, the honors required by the Imperial decrees, which class a bishop They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the always precisely those which should be said. There are sudden to a beggar? They persecute the saints. They shut their eyes to the "Is this his house?" demanded Marius. curious and fruitful than the study of slang. It is a whole language more soundly than he, no one is more frankly frivolous and lazy than this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a permission of the mayor to erect their booths in the principal street of Let us complete this exposition. money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the is nothing left for me but to throw myself into the river! I went down satisfying Madame Magloire without displeasing her brother, ventured to "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of of the future circulates there, swelling hearts and enlarging souls. The is only to be seen among men. to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the "The gentleman on the third floor?" to him in his tenderest accents: "Look here, my little Marius, if I were Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good