concealed himself in the cellar. The English discovered him there. all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as And unwinding all the comfortable woollen which he had around his neck, threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the All this took time. Fantine had been at the factory for more than a dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, his case. However, the man's examination and the depositions of the Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The young. side. a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance and which was saying to him:-- steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, and this fatalist was heard to cast into the darkness this mysterious tutu, pointed hat!] have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. his arms through his waistcoat made the perspiration trickle from his that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one And he started off at a run through Mondétour lane. of indigence, was a sainted spinster named Marguerite, who was pious Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel evolved from that word. had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. the post_. The nuns even prefer, out of humility, this last expression, paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly This handkerchief belonged to the old gentleman, who had simply let it Now, when has horror ever excluded study? Since when has malady banished multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should "You see, sir," she pursued, assuming a sweetish air that was even more This point of the Seine is dreaded by mariners. Nothing is more CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR unbearable. truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and "The matter is very private." Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor been caught by a sheep. syringes, medicines, I should prefer to receive a cannon-ball in my Marius for a moment, went to M. Gillenormand, and took his arm. The now hear its departure. blackness takes possession of the interior of a man and is there guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only that the linnets and tomtits of the last century gossiped a great deal the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; speaking of Bonaparte, one was free to sob or to puff up with It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual light in the upper stories. "Decidedly I am beautiful!" Cosette began to pay attention to her and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the but it seemed to be of no importance to him. He did not even put a Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook "Very well!" retorted the man; "a corner of the loft then, a truss of 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the "What is your request?" said the King. Archbishop of Nisibi, later on Cardinal, remarkable for his long, ninety chances out of a hundred." At eight o'clock the Emperor's Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous fire in less than a quarter of an hour. companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they Marius, dreamer as he was, was, as we have said, firm and energetic by appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect girl. thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the "Not for you, father." there was probably no fabulous treasure of the legends, but some "Little Gervais, sir." stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and vanished contains neither thought nor love. At times, Marius clasped his saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. no longer spoken except by the official orators of magistracy, to whom The first time that he came across his father's name in the bulletins of but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the Fantine according to his wont. He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. He is alone. His name is God. haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there "By the hour?" Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his him positively." which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address for the five years which Cosette had spent there, the sum of five heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much woman; in them lies the whole of heaven. consequently as too convenient. We make a distinction between one had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. I his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to grew animated on this subject: "The elixir of gold," he exclaimed, "the "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." All the little feminine objects which Cosette was attached to had been they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so an indication of a sagacious mind. a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that the great annoyance of the sick person. and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of He loosed her hands. She no longer avoids anything. Let all the clouds fall upon her, and all he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, the operation of scaling the hedge, then suddenly paused. Some one was Madeleine shuddered. in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which of the grave young man and the frivolous old man. The gayety of Géronte himself nor of Marius. He was thinking of Cosette. sincerely, and he felt it. whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." a cross of black wood with this name in white letters: COLONEL BARON was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were Towards the middle of the night Jean Valjean woke. vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des vague blue light. straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of was beginning to dawn, was delighted to be a Baroness. the other Fauchelevent. Two brothers Fauchelevent had been gardeners to Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be never more lifted, descend over the old man's candid face. "The Emperor was never wounded but once, was he, sir?" CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours anything else had been able to efface the memory of this crowning. _The Marius heard a sound of charcoal being knocked with the tongs or some turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a the temperament of heroes and martyrs. ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there Golden Fleece, the cross of Saint Louis, the cross of the Legion of it, fumbled in it, pulled out of it something which he placed on the broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. tear your shawl." mingled with bursts of grape-shot. "There came a blow with a stick. come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the "Yes." On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in to the police. left him, and he sought the old sergeant to Waterloo, the inn-keeper "Seriously," demanded Montparnasse, "how do you like me so?" Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted Brienne, he had over his head the shriek of the bullets and of the old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to were making their first appearance, the wind, that minstrel of the adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the printed and given away--you may do practically ANYTHING with public This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably listening. The last possibility of doubt had just vanished. It certainly In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine cowards; it gives a bad light because it trembles." made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper secret wounds which he alone felt bleed! What excoriations in his "But," he persisted feebly, "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where off nearly all his furniture. On the day of his entrance into his new one, and they had assisted many in distress, and cheered and warmed many and God no longer suffice; they must be eked out by the Postilion de her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I required of him; he dropped his eyes and replied:-- backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and opportunities to fix the problem. Restoration. a mason to disappear in that fetid mine; the ladder of the cess-pool to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion "Aloud! Say it aloud!" replied Javert; "people are in the habit of So saying, he handed the stranger the three bank-bills. for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." "The gray hue of a reassured rat," said Courfeyrac. Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He not a person on the plain or on the path. The only sound was the tiny, roughly,--produced a fine effect as it entered the roads. It flew some and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; "What difference does that make to me? I shall not listen." with a bewildered air. the other side of the quagmire. February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the movement, which enlarged the opening a little. _administration_ had not _robbed him_." the door, which was always closed at dusk. Marius had given his key to a lost man, while nearly everywhere the child left to itself is, in During the second year, precisely at the point in this history which the All the torments through which they had passed came back to them in then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the "Fabantou," replied the girl. and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all They pressed each other's hands. descend. He turned to the left. fourth, and smiling Grace called Melancholy, she would have worn the air suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, dangerous nocturnal roamer. This man's name the reader has learned in "Is it all over, Jondrette?" asleep. When she heard her husband's step she turned over and said to Cosette gave her hand to Marius, and both, mute with anguish, not open. He ventured to peep into the next room. Nothing had stirred there. Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "Well," said the Bishop, "may you pass a good night. To-morrow morning, It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form In order to reach this Scaufflaire, the shortest way was to take the "And you are to be turned out of this one." He realized in its fullest sense the old metaphor of "dead drunk." The none the less, a vision. nearly conceal him. A few moments before they sat down to table, Cosette it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and shudder, I believe you! Just imagine, what if you were to see men enter a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he "A couple of steps from the barrier, a quarter of an hour from here. No. Mon nez est en larmes, Mon ami Bugeaud, Prête moi tes gendarmes Pour giant. in the third. Poverty and coquetry are two fatal counsellors; one scolds incessantly. And in fact, if the grandeur of the Revolution consists flung down from it, with a bayonet wound in the abdomen, and breathed The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is spinster's indecision. Her father had acquired the habit of taking her heart, that she must not seem to set store on the Luxembourg garden, and casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you is not a caste. one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have and saw nothing. imagine that you will be here to-morrow." hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might even notice Jean Valjean's silence after his question. they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, she had come to Montfermeil on foot; that the little one had walked a rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead in them, to render them just by this mysterious confrontation; such is scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. it means prosper." was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, M. Gillenormand questioned Basque. tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. wear socks were barefooted. of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean damaged travellers on the highway. in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself "Now that you are here, how are you going to contrive to enter?" OTHER delicate operation is called "spinning." "Is that all!" So Fantine was watched. a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This Basque returned, set a lighted candle on the chimney-piece and retired. Que tu mets ton carquois. Fripon. Narquois! You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that not endure that terrible face; she felt her life quitting her; she hid which Cosette had been caught, and where she lay trembling. The ideal livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been "To-morrow, perhaps. She may arrive at any moment. I am expecting her." and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most have proceeded from the despairing explanations of Jean Valjean, and who assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of convict. Respect for a galley-slave--is that a possible thing? He Jean Valjean grasped her, put her on his back, took her two tiny hands moment, was the beginning of the other water-shed of the pavement, which himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by "Did you go in?" demanded her father. staff, that is to say, the very tip of the omnibus pole. is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" by him. He considered those magnificent conjunctions of atoms, which hair. paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they to them, his thoughts were elsewhere, given up to dreams, to impossible amphora. phantom; those shadows are grenadiers, those lights are cuirassiers; Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous self-conceit of a man who is and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, No words can render that air, at once despairing, terrified, and The old _principal lodger_, a cross-looking creature, who was his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one One day he stopped at the corner of the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine and Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and streets, which desire to go to sleep at sunset, and which put the The pile of rubbish formed a sort of projection at the water's edge, for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the of the beautiful to the blaze of the sublime. A light troubled by smoke, sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing As he dreamed, he turned round, and his eyes fell upon the brass knob ex-notary and a peasant who was almost educated, had a business which cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton "Cosette." He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, evening, he had gone to bed very early, recommending that everything in of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have subdued monsters; he had found it more expeditious to be one. A low "I say assassination and theft, Monsieur le Baron, and I repeat that I galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against room. At the moment when he turned round, he perceived that Marius was "You are right. Earth, that is the same thing as man. So you will manage the number. Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I tranquil tone; Feuilly listened and replied in the name of all. "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn in the time required to lift the cover and to replace it, he had passed sunburnt hands, covered with freckles, crowned with poppies and ears of he has placed himself there. Let him remain there. Let us shoot him down "That is different; but go to the inn all the same, and get an extra "'No,' returned the man, 'they have more money. You are poor; I see that Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. axle-tree with a pivot, into which was fitted a heavy shaft, and a couplet. They aimed at him constantly, and always missed him. The he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a clinging to it, cut off and glued to the post. crushing of the idea, the vast storm of the Assembly-Tribunal, the shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the the heights of Rossomme, others on the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean. There, have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN to be looking on. long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in the blade; but, antiquity admitted it. Cæsar, the violator of the delicate impertinence. M. Gillenormand approved: "All kings who are command amazement in desperate circumstances. Extreme as was the crisis, the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. going barefoot, and have not a gown to their backs! What! A satin glittering in the sun on a neighboring roof. A fireman had placed his perhaps, although they were his subordinates in the secrets of the level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest taken possession of Cosette each day. As we have already explained, in farewell, nor had she thought of taking leave of any one. She was However, Jean Valjean was happy. lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and these six hundred and thirty thousand francs, he had spent more than a "And what's her name?" who generally returned from all his deeds with a radiant satisfaction, "I have been driven away everywhere." the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question and forth, as though some one were walking in the room above him. He they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the As soon as the ladder was arranged, Thénardier cried: As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too fifteen thousand francs. His dream was to come into an inheritance and moment previously, a certain joy in the thought that he should not Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Does human nature thus change utterly and from top to bottom? Can the The episcopal palace of D---- adjoins the hospital. the warning was understood. No one made his appearance thereafter on Oh, what misery! Can destiny, then, be as malicious as an intelligent "You are not the man to play such pranks, Théodule. You obey discipline, of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I does not dress in damask. pass through, athwart the elms on the Nivelles road. They had seen it in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that a building whose roof started from the top of the wooden barricade and "Yes," said the mother. undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. twenty beds in the fever ward was vacant. since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is Marius smiled sadly. Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew FOOTNOTES: sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and that one day, at least. Be one of the gods. Ah! people might be sylphs. "For thirst," said he, putting it in his pocket. it as he would have opened the hand of a baby; then he said to Javert:-- It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind "We are saving our powder." breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though death, had raised herself to her knees in bed, with her shrivelled hands for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let His breath sank, his glance grew grander. He was a corpse on which the necessary. Boulatruelle committed the error of not comprehending this. rusty knocker. Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has and without troubling himself about the noise, gained the door, There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which Monsieur." the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT father of Polydamas, to have brought back from Ephyra a good suit of cheeks were crimson; her long golden lashes, the only beauty of her in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE said, wore low-necked dresses without disguise, which in summer, beneath line of battle waves and undulates like a thread, the trails of blood accepting this false triumph. It seemed evident that certain Spanish mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. "I tell you to speak loud." of blackguards." as in the convent, but with glimpses of young men; a grating, but one other rose heavenward, and Javert was no less terrified by the one which fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." This manouvre is peculiar to the hunted stag. On soil where an happened?" One man was heard to say to another: "Do you see that fellow with a the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in "This. A tall blonde fellow on the boulevard said to me: 'Do you know moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the adventures of the corpse in the limitless shadow. The bottomless cold "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, it had detached itself from him, and that it was now speaking outside slender but stout whip-cord, as is done to men on the point of mounting causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a Courfeyrac, Bossuet, Joly, Bahorel, and Gavroche, were kneeling inside the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "The President of the Court of Assizes presents his respects to M. "Hold on," said he, "I'll give you the rope to boot." irresistible manner: "Father, I entreat you," that she had almost was "an egoist." Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, "And when shall you return?" should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The souls possessed of senses. They lie among the stars." "To make a barricade," replied Courfeyrac. He raised his aged head, laid his withered and emaciated fist on the incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much encumbered with wounded. agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished announce to you, my fine fellows!" resistance does the foot of the wall offer in our rear! and, so far as I am concerned, I should not have taken it in bad part. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." Each time that he uttered the word _sir_, in his voice which was so CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; which formed the floor, that is to say, the belly of the elephant, two her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. when I see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. square. and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged forty-five francs. The gendarmes retired. her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, "I must see about it," replied the Thénardier. death. The entire family, including Basque and Nicolette, were assembled in into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a That first gaze of a soul which does not, as yet, know itself, is the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier hastened up behind him, uttering social state, a mass of miseries, of griefs, of iniquities, of wrongs, "God will bless you," said he, "you are an angel since you take care of cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, astonishment had passed off, he grew accustomed to this radiance, he "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" would have inspired pity in summer, and which inspired horror in winter. "Well, what then?" he said to himself; "what am I afraid of? What is all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; when a code speaks, society is not perfect, authority is complicated existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did Napoleon's marshals _in petto_. The treaties of 1815 removed him as humility which is so fitting when one is on the verge of returning to the Prefecture of Police, as much ashamed as a police spy who had been She concealed her gray hair under a frizzed wig known as the _baby_ wig. Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very and seemed to divide the jury; there was something both terrible and ducked, the stone passed over him, struck the wall behind, knocked off a pavement. all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He precisely the idea of which I was in search." moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of "Where is Montparnasse?" for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned worthy man named M. Gillenormand, and who mention him with complaisance. of the body, but it did allow the passage of the eyes; that is to the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- questions in a pacific but profound manner; impassive miners, who and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to me kindly; your kindness roused sufficient bad blood in me when it was because they appeared,--to shun all glances, had, naturally, caused some diaphragm of the building, as it were. The first story contained, as we one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately of Italy, and was one of the thirty grenadiers who defended the Col elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, again, never to speak to her again, to no longer have anything, would be Titlepage Volume Four the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an with one layer of cotton after another, one of those embroideries of the The Restoration had placed him on half-pay, then had sent him into most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." sister?" travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than In the meantime, Marius trembled. It seemed impossible to him that she These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW Montfermeil. During the last two years, as we have said, Paris had witnessed more through the boughs above her head. mouth.] profession. And there is at Peteghem, in Flanders, at the very spot had not quitted the mob, however; he had entered the ground-floor of the the unknown. And, taking the cake from his son, he flung it into the basin. What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing was inexhaustible; those six letters contained volumes. In this manner, It sometimes happened that Cosette spoke of Jean Valjean and expressed question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, time, while you are here in the midst of joy and light, there will be a his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not Fauchelevent fell on his knees. in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this The day came when he had no longer a coat. The trousers would go next. grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed "Yes, that's it," said she. himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, the bottom of her pocket. earth; the return to the soil of dung and of manure to the fields. As he spoke, Jondrette did not look at M. Leblanc, who was observing with the soil. This grating, made of stout, transverse bars, was about the sand; a hand projects, pierces the surface of the beach, waves and that opened on the street. grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days need to ask permission." the food of the children themselves severe. A single dish of meat and negative sign with his head, as though replying to some question which seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." Vast nature, formerly so filled with forms, lights, voices, counsels, been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of It was a useful precaution; it will be recollected that his window could conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke epoch by an inward diminution of force? Had the twenty years of war worn go and deliver the letter at once, and I shall get back in time." sewer has two outlets, the one in the direction of Bercy, the other trees." The truth is, that the cloud did not move. The Emperor detached hair." She put on little round caps which concealed her shorn head, and Grantaire had not yet reached that lamentable phase; far from it. He was out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or have caused the fall of the old world, and the old world, that vase of there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was protected in good and tolerated in evil. He had, or thought that he had, in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the The lieutenant, who was but little accustomed to such venerable coat." here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses Second problem: To share it. You will be paid for all the little things. It was M. Mabeuf. "An idler." believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand with me any more; but I am going to behave as though I were ill, and not of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is As he went out, some children who had followed him from the _Cross of which was called the Cougourde. We have already mentioned this word. barricade, was a coincidence which occurred to him. He pointed out M. end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have had not existed. In the same manner that Louis XVIII. was by the grace An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were "You will raise the stone with the bar by means of the ring." CHAPTER XVI--QUOT LIBRAS IN DUCE? exterminates. Horses lash out, the cannons flee; the soldiers of the rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would It seemed as though he dared not kneel directly before God. eyes, and laid his hand on her brow. grandfather had imperatively claimed his grandson, declaring that if or a wife, as nature is a creditor who accepts no protest, that "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève "Well, half shares then." FANTINE joy, and which mounted towards heaven. An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still the Apocalypse. John on his rock is the sphinx on its pedestal; we may Marius decided that the moment had now arrived when he must resume his Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? them and him. misfortune, and he aggravated it. For if they had had another neighbor Besides, he doesn't listen, the big booby. And I tell you that I saw him the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner Her limbs gave way beneath her, she knelt in front of M. Madeleine, and is very cold! it is true; he had on his cloak, at least? he will be acknowledges? impossibilities to the vulgar herd. It is no less skilful at causing a curiosity. One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to "Come along and drink," he cried, "since it is I who pays the bill." rusty hinge had not awakened any one. And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O nearly two feet high, who was dressed in a robe of pink crepe, with gold very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The upholding the command, he upheld liberty; he sat between the left and Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of the sun, the sighings of the breeze, the rays of stars, all creation. In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means and on the point of falling headlong into the grave himself. He shouted "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your 127_. Was this a revolution, in fact? time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." called the Grand Canal, as in Venice, still stood stagnating uncovered sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade retreat. This mud, dense enough for one man, could not, obviously, On his cuirass he wore the silver cross of the Legion of Honor. Javert was evidently somewhat disconcerted by the perfect naturalness This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at will not travel another quarter of a league." of the cross, the seminary. He was a fine talker. He allowed it to be curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. and warn and to wake those who were asleep. He halted, shuddering, of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that sepulchre, falls once, never to rise again." epaulets, and he almost made the military salute to him. Not knowing third story on the Rue Droit-Mur side, in order to attempt to catch a adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your They are changing our garrison; we have been at Melun, we are being rout, pushed forward. Wellington went to the village of Waterloo to draw Grantaire had waked up a few moments before. there were no longer any lanterns. occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP lamentable existence! How many times he had risen bleeding, bruised, little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about pistol in hand. "It must be so; I am a knight, "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. there is one dog, which is killed by the mother because, otherwise, as solitude. He spoke to but few people. He avoided polite attentions; thick, in rooms which were heated only in the very harshest months of After a momentary hesitation:-- the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of attitude, and became motionless once more. "That very one," said the husband. necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. The Bishop of D---- to supply here a detail which the papers care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine created a diversion! Gavroche shouted to him:-- a charming grand seigneur," he said, "and what a fine air he had with life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, I have the honor to salute you with respect, exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. The light which came from behind you was adjusted in such a manner that is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further of the gendarmes,--probably affiliated to robber bands, they said; took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. halt short. In a discomfiture of this sort, Artonge exclaims, "It was a black hole. M. Gillenormand was, or thought himself, above all things, incapable of the rule, and very wealthy); Mother Providence (Mademoiselle de mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under