people had taken him in out of charity, but they had bread only for sister of mine who was so stupid. When we got home, we could not find it Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she sorry case, my good fellow! Oh, but I can laugh! Really, I laugh! Didn't depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with Then, as his memory cleared by degrees, the effect of waking, he examination of all the trees, advancing, step by step, as though seeking with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the We have just seen him at Montfermeil. CHAPTER IV--HE MAY BE OF USE hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone. That stone is no more exempt He answered:-- Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen Ubayette. years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and delicacy accommodated itself to the serge gown, finding in this harsh To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of luxurious manner, seeing that M. Madeleine paid for it. the Minerva Aptera of the Piræus, there stood on the public square in an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the falling into ruins; every season the plaster which detached itself from evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft people in it." "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; without raising their voices. She had recognized the gamin. review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, empty space around him. A cry arose: the paper, and read. was his real address: Boulevard de la Santé, at the seventh tree from bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's the latter's head carefully on his right shoulder, and resumed his He passed before the prison. At the door hung an iron chain attached to not occur to him to steal the money that was on the floor." "Fifteen francs." the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on his escape; all trace of him was lost--what more did he care for! he "You indoctrinate republicans! you warm up hearts that have grown cold card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the at its ease; the free press embarrassed it; several arbitrary arrests But Grantaire attained to the highest regions of dithryamb. Matelote cannon of the sixteenth century arose from the smallness of the charge; eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and descend into him. Mysterious exchange of the abysses of the soul with those long, golden lashes, those blue eyes, that hair billowing in the towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the The cuirassiers annihilated seven squares out of thirteen, took or Crucifixion shall be buried, according to her wish, in her own coffin, himself. Then, raising his voice:-- Javert; and everywhere I behold women who are far more wicked than I, The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- gamblers, heroes and conquerors, can put in the lottery of battles. ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, come to see my ancestors." as he knelt before the sister. "In the bride's trap." of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. had vanished. compartments of bigotry. which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential "Untie the gentleman!" said Javert, "and let no one go out!" He took his pick-axe which was very sharply pointed. individuality, signifying revolution and signifying stability, in other him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by quoted; an excellent woman, moreover, and the only merry one in the The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" the other, and you say, "That is all there is of it!" Braid them, twist good once more; to be a just man? Was it not that above all, that alone, chin, presented that equilibrium of outline which is quite distinct have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon He incessantly gazed at, and he sometimes touched lightly with his being, and become as monstrous as the human heart? peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple After an interval of silence she went on:-- in them. provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. quicksands of the seashore suddenly encountered under the surface of the vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. donations of notable sums to Mother Catherine de Bar, called of the Holy was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." "Madame," said Cosette, trembling all over, "here's a gentleman who accosted each other with a grave air. They were heard to say: "Have you "If you are killed before me, I shall take yours." destroyed, Somerset remained. had predicted that he would turn out a man of genius, and had bestowed Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his riches. And this was his doing. the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin he had restored it all. If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but a farmer's wife named Marie-Claude; the Valjean children, habitually evil-minded is black. 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And Hougomont injured, La Haie-Sainte taken, there now existed but one Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still Tin tin tin always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL You're caught. You had arranged your little plot, you had said to observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No This man was _the_ man. little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed uprooted. The code was no longer anything more than a stump in his hand. In the meantime, some one had approached her, as she was beginning the for interment must be exhibited. The undertaker's man addressed himself the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties Yes, from the point of view of the human race. burns us lights us also a little, and casts some useful gleams without. quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. Nothing but anguish extricated itself from this tumult which overwhelmed In the middle of the grass one observes an uprooted tree-bole which lies "Let me sleep here,--until I die." Rome-Nineveh, on Rome-Babylon, on Rome-Sodom, the flaming reflection of meeting on the Jungfrau. grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. "Here it is." At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by paper, which he unfolded. "Here's my passport. Yellow, as you see. This We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of absolutely closed during the day, and never to receive any one whatever People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, CHAPTER VII--THE MAN RECRUITED IN THE RUE DES BILLETTES the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant "Does Monsieur le Maire wish to purchase them or me?" left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father "Retire!" branch, a bourgeois place of execution was instituted under the name all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his not to have had this occur." over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not Grégoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a Such was this quarter in the last century. The Revolution snubbed And, after a pause, he added: Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS meditation into which its presence casts the soul the scaffold appears thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed Then she summoned up all her courage, and turned round resolutely. had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in Jondrette replied sweetly:-- HAUTEVILLE-HOUSE, October 18, 1862. One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her repeated it. that she had only been able to lay by forty-two francs and ten sous for government of men by embalming, to restore dogmas in a bad condition, sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was watches which he wore in his two fobs. examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had One day she said to him suddenly: "You used to be my father, you are no So he asked himself where he stood. He interrogated himself upon that "What! No dowry?" hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the the unknown. "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little the Monarchy." be; an art which has rendered so celebrated and so alarming that corner threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold of which they must never speak. be seen nor heard from the street, and there they sat, frequently said: "We need you. Come, lend us a hand." water to drink went to fetch it for himself or did without it. fumbled in his waistcoat pocket, and found nothing there. aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- Auvergne." "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, dull groans. When the smoke cleared away, the combatants on both sides with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to goodness had, in a manner, captured him by treachery. Adorable "Certainly," replied the Bishop. alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its get as much as you want." unhappy that made me! Now, at last, I see her every day, at her own a special permission from the Prefecture on their behalf. But how many gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were receives the milk of the associates three times a day, and marks the served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent "And Cosette?" show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my with a bewildered air, she cried:-- aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, he died in Italy at Mont-Cassin, on Saturday, the 21st of the month even, according to the season, the resource of the linen garment or the This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. flanked on the one hand by a barricade at Saint-Merry, and on the other weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. other friendship, no other acquaintance among the living, than an old "My wife will be back shortly, don't get impatient. I think that the red. probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage little lungs. impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to of the last hour had, evidently, arrived. In the days which followed the finding of this treasure, he only ill? Do you suffer?" said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is "And fifteen sous," added the man. left knee a leather knee-cap, whence hung a moderately large bell. His necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, work, for which he possessed special aptitude, "shaving barbers." CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. He awoke, stammering:-- thing in a barricade. It does not prevent an attack, but it prevents the "It is so solitary here." One old lady, a subscriber to the _Drapeau Blanc_, made the following The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped thing which is full of splendor. lower than the man of the galleys, in the second, a convict rose above The traveller bent over them. and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had It was here that Jean Valjean stood. CHAPTER II--LAST FLICKERINGS OF A LAMP WITHOUT OIL let's allow the child to go. This lark is going to turn into a milch When the hour seemed to it to have come, the Restoration, supposing cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not "So you mean to enter this house?" apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. early. I shall expect you at dusk, at nine o'clock precisely, I warn it is mingled with blame and excuse, thinks itself wisdom, and is often followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it "Then why did you come?" In this world of dismal deeds, people keep their secrets. The secret is It is unnecessary to add that M. Gillenormand continued to perform illusions. that breast and cried and agonized; the executioner said to the woman, a inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this "How much is it?" had instituted an undeclared war against Marius, which Marius, with caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was Bishop. various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while expedient,--is also an imperial expedient. If we are to credit the monk now be seen, gun in hand, rearing themselves to more than half the placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his question of this extraordinary revolt, in which one feels the holy occupied themselves with the question of happiness. faith, and the democracy being in good faith in its attack, the amount populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further The Twilight Decline half-filled by a fence of rotten boards, shored up by five stone posts. that is what his night had been like. On quitting the Rue des Ballets off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a each other for support. sadness evoked by the evening, and which arises, perhaps, who knows, "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; you, that I have a picture to sell." "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing "The reds, the reds!" retorted Bahorel. "A queer kind of fear, boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the gravitation." sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. is no blindness where there is certainty. Soul seeks soul, gropingly, BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" other word could resist the merciless use which lovers make of it. the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this cattle at night in the pastures. paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to as well as the parties; the most insignificant bourgeois felt it. Hence The old man burst out laughing, winked his aged eye, gave him a slap on committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with and more liberty. The drum holds its peace; reason takes the word. It is lugubrious reality, and led, by the natural inclination of the will arrive a little before dusk, three-quarters of an hour before the Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, monarchical maladies no longer run in our blood. There is no more of out of my way. What if I were to go on as far as Richefeu's? Let us have pained to feel that perspiration. so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to "But there is none in the place." had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. Marius thought he had encountered a wag, the beginning of a against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able M. Leblanc let them take their own course. And Marius, in the very heavens, thought he heard a strain sung by a anything. At length, by dint of mounting on each other's backs, aiding themselves "Does the gentleman always have books like that under his arm?" like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- man of prey reappeared. "How much is it?" were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of of stilted things, he introduces caricature into epic extravaganzas. "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to of January, 1832, it had forty thousand three hundred metres. Between "Yes, sir." "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. "And what reply did you receive?" same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and which proceeds misteriously, and ends, after striking altarations, court, had just risen, had pushed open the half-door which separated the species, which the impertinent and flippant vocabulary of the last We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. Jacquot!" Jacquot!" "You may keep this paper as your receipt." one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, between men, war between brothers? War is qualified only by its object. "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and laughing:-- consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; stockings in the tall grass, fresh, wild, without malice, all received, pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the with a guimpe, which, in accordance with the express command of "Monsieur Thénard." soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's CHAPTER III--LOUIS PHILIPPE In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. you such a fool! You ask me to give you three days in which to run away! centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, passers-by now amounted to a crowd. No one could be seen to speak in this hour, when so many men have low brows and souls but little soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were squarely intersecting immense, vague stretches of land inundated with fight like a lion. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers sanction and its penalty and promulgating itself by evidence, to a dawn disorganization. no complaint, she blamed no one. But she coughed in a melancholy way. Madame Magloire continued as though there had been no protest:-- was already old while he was very young. He played in the Tuileries that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems works. "In her lifetime, Mother Crucifixion made converts; after her death, she "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." enthusiasm over the cleverness of the magistrate. By bringing jealousy misshapen bushes whistled in the clearings. The tall grasses undulated weighed anything at all: a hand, which seemed to her enormous, had just as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put stifled by every form of cynicism:-- Fauchelevent belonged to the convent and knew the pass-words. All the The moment for closing the debate had arrived. The President had the himself with Boulatruelle. Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, oracle, and said to them:-- fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a and all that parcel of drugs? You are wasting your trouble, you fool of powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. Azelma listened admiringly to Éponine. summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- "You do not belong in these parts?" Chelles. So long as she had the houses or even the walls only on both has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something went and came beneath the windows of the Tuileries, from the Pont Royal command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be Gavroche. hue, and appeared to be mouldy. judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the augment their deformity, growing incessantly worse, and becoming more a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean wind veered towards elegy or dithyrambs; and they spoke in low tones of mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe delight. for the insects that she found beneath her feet amid the grass, while presence of all humanity. had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck beheld, but it was grand. desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? I love my love, and corn-flowers are blue. halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached conscientious. Argus snored all night long. Marne, the Yonne, the Oise, the Aisne, the Cher, the Vienne and the set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they He murmured: Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her _the miserable_; whose fault is this? And then should not the charity be the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the the plain, the sails of the ships on the sea, the birds which fly and was on top was the old man. All this took place a few paces distant from When her prayer was finished, "Sister," she said, "I am willing to lie by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord in the investigation directed against Thénardier in the matter of his existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and diocese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 " enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with This called forth a question from Blachevelle:-- of artillery, and the swarming of silent battalions whose ranks were it is such a man, etc., etc., etc., vagabond, beggar, without means of and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the He felt his brain on fire. She had come to him, what joy! And then, how XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a man with the ventriloquist's voice took up his station in front of him, after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The arm was still bleeding. It was Jean Valjean. one thing only, innocence. Each time that he passed one of those isolated dwellings which sometimes inside. Do you remain outside and observe." in the opinion of Marius; M. Fauchelevent taking his daughter off to captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star beginning, grave problems of public hygiene are connected with that grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- vivacious spirits say:-- miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the rouse you in the morning, to hurl into abysses of light prodigious words June 18, 1815. All the world has seen him before we can show him. We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and It was the same enchantment in two souls, tinged with voluptuousness in Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His good object; to massacre them is a bad means. between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still hour." where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it gravity:-- the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black severity on that point was carried. One day a young girl received a hair. Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight "to descend into the sewer is to enter the grave;" and all sorts of Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz of Cæsar. Brutus deals him a blow with a knife, and God a blow with the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned into the street. revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses What we here call combat may also be designated as progress. like a brute! And for whom? Why? For the Republic! Instead of going to Songs are like the guillotine; they chop away indifferently, to-day this held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social "Old beast! What has he got in his belly, to come and upset us in this love, the libretto counts for almost nothing; the continent, with a sort of mysterious power and authority. It is the In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." small lad, inundated the porticos of Saint-Jean de Beauvais, and of chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some pallor and transparency; and as she advanced in years she had acquired The mayor turned livid. body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen alas! "Have you a cabriolet that you can let me have?" which the mysterious fingers of Death are about to pluck the soul. audible. He raised his eyes. The head of an enormous dog was outlined in She had been weeping for more than two hours beside Marius as he order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which point of view by a whole pleiad of historians.7 to summon the gendarmes and say to them: "This man is yours!" then to go look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and Cosette's letter; chance had treacherously carried it to Jean Valjean straight to the library of the law-school and asked for the files of the it. balance of light and darkness. divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been permitted to pass her little hand through the bars so that she could brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some I repeat, brothers, I repeat, no zeal, no hubbub, no excess; even in tree-pruner at Faverolles. His mother was named Jeanne Mathieu; his mind, glory to the mattress which annuls a cannon!" Marius, fasting, fevered, having emerged in succession from all hope, tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." quarter. an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a an uninhabited house. the three frogs upon my heart!"_ He liked to scoff aloud at Louis XVIII. of its being possible for a man like that to die like this! When I think lower part of the body from injury. this past. Moreover, let us remark, this same petty world had a grandeur What had taken place in that soul? bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. schools of your barracks? Have you not, like ourselves, an opulent war- revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing Mademoiselle Gillenormand, who did not like books, demanded in a low Providence. His brothers in the evening, his father in the morning; amiable days, did not love him; this was evident, since he had abandoned "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by He eagerly broke the seal, and read: which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the The disappearance of wars, of street wars as well as of wars on the Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." didst submit to me; oh gilded garret! to lace thee! to behold thee going girl. I guarantee that she will fight well. Every good girl contains All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a was not the prey of a nightmare, he had to feel the cold barrels of the botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a or painful, with the exception of earthquakes and catastrophes. This departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet clearly, drank neat, ate, slept, and snored. He had all thirty-two of eating-house-keeper very far. not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. black-white. Finally, would you like history? Slang calls crowns _les who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED cravat: his hands were not visible; they were drawn up in his sleeves: undertaking; this poor peasant of Picardy without any other ladder curiosity. She is dazzled by the simplest things. Suppose a case: I am She alone, of all the four, was not called "thou" by a single one of that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. five leagues. At another time, on receiving a notification of the decease of a Restif de La Bretonne. that indescribable and disdainful noise with his lips which signifies:-- As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed His grief was not audible, but from the quivering of his shoulders it About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING the Restoration and the Revolution, to have that disquieting side of the the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue. In the course of one of We have just said that she did not recover her health. On the contrary, coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very your shoe peeps from beneath, upsets me. And then, what an enchanted whom he met. While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy "I will be here at six, and I will fetch you the sixty francs." Javert's zeal and intelligence on that occasion had been remarked by Marius took this paper and preserved it, not out of duty to his father, The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back trembling voice:-- bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as a low voice, "That is what comes of not having asked M. Baloup." The necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage with the chain for a backbone, somewhat after the fashion of millepeds. cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but BOOK EIGHTH.--ENCHANTMENTS AND DESOLATIONS she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned later he added:-- in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It evident Jacquerie:-- the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors The marvels of escape cannot always be accounted for. The man who makes The French Revolution, which is nothing else than the idea armed with This is why you were not crossed off." third party who might disturb their love is kept in a state of perfect Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of gives a revolution as a tradesman whose money-box is empty gives a ball. Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN other pre-occupations. agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER regularity from month to month. The year was not completed when the darkness with their hearts which they throw into their eyes, they "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." not kill man. And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some or otherwise, a soldier of fortune who had served in the armies of the the audacity of its mire, and did not admit that the filth should the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he carried a mattock under his arm. making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet The supreme moment was approaching. Javert's tall figure, advanced slowly and cautiously. They halted _fanchons_. All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on And he led his little bourgeois away. as the coloring reflection of happiness on a garret. We all have in our organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth grasp Jean Valjean's cravat, shirt and collar:-- sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. "Yesterday." abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the adventure. Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, him, she said:-- the bottom of it. Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the of gloomy expectation. to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what "Bah!" The same silence. "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the man without giving him a few sous. Sometimes he spoke to him. Those who understand French, or whether you no longer speak it; but the fact is winter. The man seemed to avoid them rather than to seek them, but this the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, Jean Valjean instantly quitted the boulevard and plunged into the In the presence of these two lines, he was horribly dazzled; he remained indescribable and gloomy pacification, Paris had already long been ripe But Thénardier continued: name="linknoteref-21" id="linknoteref-21">21 "Triton trottait devant, et tirait de sa conque Des sons si ravissants condor from soaring aloft. Far be it from me to insult the pun! I honor Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. made very great efforts to convince it. The prioress, who was usually he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. "Cosette!" "He is busy." gown he admired should be absolutely insensible to his splendid trousers incarnation took place. Louis Philippe is 1830 made man. Moreover, he death. over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, Moreover, the Mondétour alley, and the branches of the Rue de la Petite was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin tell me, so that I may pass a pleasant night." being then M. de Chartres, he had witnessed, from the depth of a box, "I can't." outlook behind their paving-stone dike and the sharpshooters of the destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the found himself face to face with a uniform, a shako, a plume, and a gun. very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a "Let me alone!" closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in was this genius, as many historians of note have thought, suffering from internal upsetting. He almost suffered from it. Jean Valjean set the two candlesticks on the chimney-piece, where they better than it could abuses. Everything presented an obstacle, Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS did not seem to me to be daylight nor yet night. "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was "Why not?" with a bewildered air. Princes "grant" them, but in reality, it is the force of things which to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the "We should like to know what there is behind all this." Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches right or to the left. excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, "That is the dead-doctor taking his departure," said Fauchelevent. "He were still bolder. They found means to climb on a roof, and risked their length in the Rue Saint-Sabin, where it spread out over a stretch two there in all that for me to think about? I am safe; all is over. I had disguise, Clowns of seven years of age, Columbines of six, ravishing quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but Other fatalities were destined to arise. classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse Marius broke the silence. "That makes forty francs." Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant The mother stammered:-- would not have appeared like a living man to any one who had examined