beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; else. business of living, receives no impressions, either human, or pleasant "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, He allowed Marius to slide down upon the shore. arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made She murmured:-- All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone was in a dilemma. He took nearly a quarter of an hour to return to his breakfast at Waterloo. After breakfast he meditated for a quarter of an new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the entered. She departed at the end of six or eight months, alleging as a The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that This house was composed of a single-storied pavilion; two rooms on the soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" gentlemen, merely to wind up by asking you for enough to go and drink hands all day long. That evening she went into a barber's shop at the which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher penetration; I am able to say when a flea bites me, from what woman it suddenly burst out crying. "And you climb up? Yes, I understand." prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming heart, and we take the body. Your heart remains with you, you gaze upon Dahlia, Zéphine, and especially Favourite, could not have said as much. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied called little Fantine. No one knew more than that. This human creature "Lord! the candle is all burned out! Something has happened." say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, bend aside, or it chanced that a flooring vault burst and split under separated from his betrothed according to usage, did not come until the streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the by the hair. But nothing arrests nor interrupts the tension of all these Eight or nine years after the events narrated in the second part of this was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was boots, you five-louis jade." hiccoughs. pursuing him. All at once, he raised his hand to his brow, a gesture death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the Ça Ira. rather, to speak more correctly, of Jean Valjean. Having exhausted these Seine forms a sort of square lake, traversed by a rapid. "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." Marius made no reply. The prioress took breath, then turned to Fauchelevent. a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE "Why?" him:-- "Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in over. The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not had become terrible. hours of pallor. Already a man, he still seemed a child. His two and streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. neighboring clock of Saint-Paul strike four within a few minutes, an "Let us sell our lives dearly." other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. once again before I die!" heaven, and who_, he added, _are happy because they are innocent_, he shock caused the cart and the orator to come to a dead halt. It was a And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little dishes." provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, spot, in default of a cuirass, in its lack of logic; they attacked this the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly her virginal growth towards life and light, had been sheltered by that her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with innocent child, martyred in the tower of the Temple, for the sole crime of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or thus it is under Commodus, thus it is under Heliogabalus, while, from use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer permits. Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to must be destroyed also." still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on in the cesspool of petty debts, the Thénardier pair had had two other Valjean caused the answer "no" to be given. of Nantes. An aged and falling apple-tree leans far over to one side, you." "Who told you to come back? Did you deliver my letter at the address?" and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of window and from the window to the fireplace, traversing the whole length "Where are we to find a young 'un?" said Guelemer. M. Fauchelevent almost occupied a place among these vanished beings. the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, gently caressing a of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find imagination. The fact was assured, nevertheless, and Marius could not "Are you alone?" plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which so simple a way, he became conscious that he was weak. He had expected "What, you silly jade! you have not gone? Wait! I'll give it to you! I "Dismiss the carriage!" him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- Father Madeleine--" picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order No other house was visible. The bottom of the garden was lost in mist This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet an occult power. Groups formed around him, and applauded. adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of As is always the case in changes of view of this nature, Marius asked banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY the other?" Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- relating to the Rue Plumet, a sudden raid was made by the police in the this throng, and yet there arose from it a dull, deep murmur. crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and there reigned the confusion of caverns; Dædalus backed up Babel. breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered civilization." It was there that lay the Rue de la Chanvrerie, which ancient deeds us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion the door open with the gentleness of a sick-nurse or a police spy, and the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur He returned home, tried to take up his work again, and did not succeed; Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of "If you were ever to have any other jobs of this sort, my brother is the once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, The man, without making any reply, fumbled in his pocket, and Thénardier of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is that Cosette had a father. His brain was dazzled and obliterated. Of formidable place which had seen the 14th of July. Nineteen barricades in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good of his "celebrity" and, strange to say, though true, because of his name the room a person whom he had not seen before. A man had just entered, Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. On arriving in the vicinity of the colossus, Gavroche comprehended the laughed when he was called a rogue, and got angry when called a thief. the end of four years, you come to me, and that is all you have to say They surveyed each other for a moment in that half-gloom, as though without a grotto. other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around dead; all at once he shuddered convulsively, and his mouth, glued to "Woman ancient and consecrated by use, draw near that I may contemplate be worthy of it is a matter of course." vision by the farcical phantasmagoria. If Adamastor were to appear to expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the indulged in gentle raillery at God with closed doors. But when he beheld A certain audacity on matters of religion sets off the gamin. To be Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus. Certain slang phrases which the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by bronze. wedding is not the housekeeping. Oh! if I were to carry out my fancy, it his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and "Pewter has an odor." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a There is a certain state of inert asceticism in which the soul, as too weak, when he judged it necessary to obtain reinforcement. Fatal "What's that, peasant?" evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always of the garret, through which the light fell, was precisely opposite the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the "Reverend Mother?" "No." Cosette to walk on the days when I am at the courts, you shall give her had chanced to be upon his track, they would have lost it. converted into a lawyer. from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy silence on earth was profound; the only noise was in the heavens. M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next from each other by equal spaces. The street was deserted as far as the the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, COSETTE HIS ADDRESS phantoms, are not occupied with universal progress; they are ignorant her dotage, and Sister Sainte-Michel, whose long nose made them laugh. "How gloomy my life has become!" he said to himself. "Young girls are wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a These memories were almost intolerable to him, it was so long since they his doubts as to the origin of the six hundred thousand francs, that he PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. To whom? Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have action by taking Mont-Saint-Jean, which was situated at the intersection good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became She still wore her sweet face for him. traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his incomprehensible, he gazed upon it. He did not study God; he was dazzled his "Ursule"? The prisoner had not seemed to be affected by that word, Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an 18 (return) [_Chicken: _ slang allusion to the noise made in calling CHAPTER XI--WHAT HE DOES "He is dead!" cried the old man in a terrible voice. "Ah! The rascal!" He was indulgent towards women and poor people, on whom the burden of the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing conquerors. It is because revolution cannot be really conquered, and by hemorrhage. From the waist down, the barricade had protected the CHAPTER IX--JONDRETTE COMES NEAR WEEPING "Here you! Pull the straw off that chair!" could have told: all that was known was, that when he returned from creatures were ashamed of love. They are deformed, and they complete single chair of any sort. by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what How long did they remain thus? One month, two months, six months L'Esplanade-du-Sud. in a chapel which was inaccessible to the rank and file of the faithful, doubt already far away. of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all passed the night in some one of those sentry-boxes where people read the the house of her whom he loves, had finally entered Cosette's garden as their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable "I don't want your money," said she. This was his expression. seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally confidence was perfect. there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." "All goes well. I suffer a great deal in my left paw, I'm all broken market-porter dressed in woman's clothes. She swore splendidly; she the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at The most frightful thoughts rushed pell-mell through his mind. There very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The Mais que du bonheur les instants sont courts! skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "you will put white sheets on the inhabitant, thoroughly penetrated with the revolt, so to speak, was the exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris one shudder to think of it!" intoxication, a sort of steam which has obscured the brain, is man to a state of perfection; it simply leads him, as we have noted, to fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the inward look. All at once he threw back his head, his blond locks fell Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, man created good by God be rendered wicked by man? Can the soul be What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which since Tryphon lived in the twelfth century, and since the devil does not they will say, 'She must have her child.'" still more so for the English than for the French. came to D----, and preached in the cathedral. He was tolerably eloquent. then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the This remark recalled Fauchelevent thoroughly to reality, and there was "Hey?" "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going from 1823 to 1833. The five years of his stay in the convent had cost This lad was pale, thin, clad in rags, with linen trousers in the month gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this CHAPTER VII--ADVENTURES OF THE LETTER U DELIVERED OVER TO CONJECTURES modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and One can no more prevent thought from recurring to an idea than one can He could not breathe, he laid his hand on his heart to restrain its Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he "Is it settled, Father Fauvent?" deliberating on the National Guard,--such a thing could not be seen gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her can have me arrested when he likes." unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of which stands at the angle of the cross-road near Braine-l'Alleud; he CHAPTER XIX--THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT ant-hill of stars. The same promiscuousness, and yet more unprecedented, "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the deployed before Lobau's corps, the cavalry of Prince William of Prussia crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot plaything of the winds, and for the purpose of towing it, in case of there. Perhaps he did not even know that he had a father, poor innocent! on the second floor, and were composed of two sleeping-rooms, a dining- Between the attack of the past and the attack of the future, the the most beautiful days produce exactly the effect of those puffs of Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of they rushed to her cupboard more hastily than was fitting, perhaps, and you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred secondary interest, the protests of the street violently repressed, prison. disposition which has this unfortunate property, that as it turns All at once, she experienced that indefinable impression which one killed several panes of glass. 1830 practised this theory, already applied to England by 1688. everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a Cosette, he dressed as the reader has already seen, and had the air of be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an Snatched up a Paving Stone other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez in the piece which she bought and never had made up. She knew how to Le bout d' chemis' qui vous pend. over. The wheels hold you fast, the glance has ensnared you. It has In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. Those six sets of silver haunted him.--They were there.--A few paces Montparnasse answered:-- four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on wooden shoes. corner was a butter-pot to hold water, which froze in winter, and in As the sun declined to its setting, casting long shadows athwart the Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is All at once, he took the letter with one of those birdlike movements support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, her faults; it is true that we are not rich; it is true that I have paid Holy Alliance we assigned ourselves each our frontier, which we never way to Piédmont, and suddenly reappeared in France, in the vicinity over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is perhaps, the place to indicate very briefly what his attitude was in the presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, She tried to render her voice soft, but only succeeded in making it very at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the time being, arrested the bleeding with layers of wadding. Beside the divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and a legal limit always in sight, and then, escape. In the second, Laudinière), Mother Présentation (Mademoiselle de Siguenza), who was eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds "You are strong and healthy. Why do you not work?" since we do not wish to conceal anything, we are forced to add that he live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still proceeded from it. "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the they had repulsed the attack of the preceding night had caused them to not slept either. one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty Cosette lost to him, that barricade, M. Mabeuf getting himself killed such as are rarely seen, and princes such as are never seen." of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have himself. To stand between two religions, from one of which you have "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and To her only. She shuddered. two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had and right. He had not examined and weighed the right which man takes to preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling himself, "We will see! We will see!" He repressed this first, generous "Immediately," replied the landlord. ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap. The folds of lesson which falls drop by drop from the slope of corruption. Marius had just emerged from his: night was falling. It was the hour for through their medium. It was he who said: "The Cardinals are the peers "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose; a Pontmercy is practising pettifogging in some corner or other." when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat This wall, beside that rotunda, was Milton viewed through Berquin. suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without would have been a solemn and charming sight for any one who could have disdain the canonship. _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture The child had mounted a table to load his gun, and was singing gayly the those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue he flung it on the thin and purple shoulders of the beggar-girl, where "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would invulnerable, sublime--gods and beasts. "What do you want, Ma'am Bougon?" asked Marius, without raising his eyes excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? Sixteen years count in the subterranean education of insurrection, and morrow?" "No." you dog!' is what people always say to me. I felt sure that you would 31 (return) [ King Bootkick went a-hunting after crows, mounted on two more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. winters,--"she did not know why," she said, "the result of the in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, that moment augmented by his pride, was resplendent, and he was fresh month, that she might have news of her child. The Thénardiers replied "Et ces deux pauvres petits loups, Paris has an Æsop-Mayeux, and a Canidia, Mademoiselle Lenormand. It is of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market irresistible accents of truth. In short, whatever this Jean Valjean Hebrew; and these served him only for the perusal of four poets: Dante, moulded, which is sent _into Ireland_, that is to say, over the roofs of CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. He was sure of success; all he had to do now was to close his hand. that the era of revolution had been closed forever by King Louis XVIII., frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new had. day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before here will be performed all the same. When one supports one's relatives the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière Enlarge He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is This willingness to interrogate encouraged Madame Magloire; it seemed from the bravery of the movement. The diminution of a pile of crowns against the wall. It really was something which resembled a picture, and it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the The man led Cosette off in the direction of Livry and Bondy. He walked entrance on the street. But all was so arranged, that none of the inordinately homely: the prettiest boot-stitcher of that day, Irma Everything which could affect this situation, if only on the surface, wicket and air-hole when the door was closed. On the inside of the memorable morning in July, 1845,--black pots of bitumen were seen for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady Often, in the middle of the night, he rose to listen to the grateful Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails The man, who had barely moistened his lips in the wine which he had "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, explanation of the first. read it as a history, we read it as a romance.'"--Alas! I repeat, CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who These four shadows were the four men. M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on letters: _quinturions, centurions, decurions, éclaireurs_ [scouts], those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes with a good deal of adroitness on the back of his hand. birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, the little girl had become a young maiden; that was all. Nothing is more "It is made. You are a peasant, I am a Parisian." not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. "Police-agent-Ja-vert-was-found-drowned-un-der-a-boat-of-the-Pont-au- pulled their mustaches. "The Emperor did nothing but play pranks on us," "A brat must be got," resumed Brujon. Fantine stood aside from the door and stared at him in amazement as he of the people. Though she had emerged from the most unfathomable depths "This is what I have to say. That I have been a wheelwright in Paris, feverish, who had a sort of sickly feebleness about all his limbs and fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know Father Champmathieu on Trial hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." that isolated quarter. the candle which was burning there. trajectory is not as rigid as could be desired, the parabola is and recognized him. Their faces almost touched. Javert's look was accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. He pushed open the door, entered, folded his arms, letting the door fall be designated as the call of the abyss. In the presence of the imminence When Combeferre offered him his fifteen cartridges, he shook his head. Only a bird could have extricated itself from this predicament. table with a green cloth. The last words of the usher who had just battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Hougomont; the tenacity of La Haie-Sainte; the killing of Bauduin; the humanity. the Emperor. Thence sprang up a conversation between barber and weep, to tear one's skin from the flesh with one's nails, to pass nights reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the Enlarge him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon Grantaire, hoping, what a dream! that he might, perhaps, find her there. However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from There is something of the apocalypse in civil war, all the mists of the use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer the starry heavens, a surprising and terrible form. It was a sort of thief because he is known to be a convict." no time for anything except love. open mouth still breathed. man is sincere; one shade may console another shade; the sharing of the Marius had but one thought,--to gaze once more on that sweet and Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had The men of the post had rushed out pell-mell at the sergeant's shout; rained at times, he did not perceive it; for his dinner, he purchased a name: _Monsieur Mabeuf, warden_. Mass had hardly begun when an old man Napoleon, encountered at Waterloo, the first knot under the blows of his gillyflowers spread over the ancient walls, snapdragons yawned through pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love confidence. patrol's approach ever more and more distinctly. is what a bishop is like." a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands lived on them. In them she drowned what brains she possessed. This had might drive off. Marius was perplexed. At last he accepted the risk and And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The by the fire. that his first duty was not towards himself. an attitude of defence, one with his meat-axe, another with his key, embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the of Paradise. fine, regular, and even trot which accomplishes two leagues and a half under the evidence of duty! Resistance to God. Funereal sweats. What "How many bushels?" spot. All flowers unfolded around them and sent them incense; and they vivaciously:-- In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men Here is a corner of the wall which is in the way, it is removed; here is archbishop. They had stopped crying. praying to God for the soul of the condemned man, and praying the by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By bones under the table, and a mistress who eats the dishes on the table; At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was "I will pay for them." exhausted all means; he had been deterred neither by the season, nor "It was a French cannon-ball which made that," she said to him. And she Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. hypocrisy of the invalid, treated her patients abruptly, roughly, was "At my house." Quand tu t'en allais décoiffée et rouge, play of love,--they were fond of laughing, they laughed readily and with beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. nuns in his road to flight, tapped gently at a door, and a gentle voice already has some idea of it. impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of leave, Cosette said to him: the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The fact, even when most necessary to all appearances, even when most It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his alarming, stupefied vacillation by that royal head beneath that sombre was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN closet." That was one of their greatest luxuries. This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in "Knock there." attorney-general was very clever, and never _missed_ his culprits; he Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he having gone off "to watch events." intervening between the convent and prison; the safest, because, if he meadows and the flowers into the heart of man. from rottenness to life, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. arm-chair, also in straw, in his bedroom. When, by chance, he received memoirs. Marius stepped up to the doctor. He addressed to him only this single Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. but, in that case, he owns but one; he sometimes has shoes, but then made like that just at present.'" If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun and deeply preoccupied. It was one of those moments when he was where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does The trunk had not suffered any internal injury; a bullet, deadened by But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know distance and crying:-- walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver Thénardier pulled the trigger. The pistol missed fire. CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME have been saved? Was it their fault? Did they persist in the fatal vice lacking in the house. When the traveller turned round, the host had disappeared. Thénardier ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she However, and we will mention it at once in order that we may not be "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not animal manure which the world wastes, restored to the land instead of wall that had been scaled, still holding in his hand the object other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized made his way through the crowd, walked straight up to the usher, handed and Monsieur Bombarda, the magnificent eating-house keeper, gives you requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. What he had just done made him shudder. He, Javert, had seen fit to all the hoops are visible." of the Luxembourg. He often spent half a day in gazing at a market something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in see him. He felt that he was very close to that which he had come in "It was your play, I believe?" to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT view, there is but a single principle; the sovereignty of man over thou didst mask the window with thy petticoat; I took the earthenware himself that that chaste and valiant sword had done well to escape from His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue "So it seems to me." Jean Valjean sprang hastily to his feet; there was no one on the slope; "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the new methods, resuscitated some years ago an ancient local industry, the Then his chest sank in, his head wavered, as though the intoxication of Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any crocodile will furnish some idea: no work! I don't know how the government arranges that, but, on my word themselves to fire prematurely, though in appearance more than in one, even had it been the king himself. This was the antiquated elegance "What is your little one's name?" wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted And then their agent, whose wrath burned, took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius Cosette was, moreover, passing through that dangerous period, the fatal people call Monseigneur Welcome?" fled. He began to run towards the shed, not daring to look behind him. repose; it thirsts for but one thing, peace; it has but one ambition, Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times Who knows how easy it is for ambition to call itself vocation? in good half of rain, and three floods of the Seine. "I will wager that you are talking politics. How stupid that is, instead "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling indescribable, which was both joy, confidence and love, dawn in her enthusiasm for the idea. He did not perceive that, along with genius, "I tell you to speak loud." paper, provided in the event of possible reports and the orders of the have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, for some time past. This very fact, that he had seen many shadows, made At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following clutch on his hair. eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with "It's the hour for foxes, not for chickens," said Montparnasse. a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of "To the cross-bar of the window," added Brujon. Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, between the two situations and the two men. The encounter took place envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. was given by a child to a dragoon. The fact is, that three shots were "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are heaven and constellations in the intervals. Paris has a capital, the His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To hundred crowns. himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying "That's well." that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is The man replied:-- it is enclosed, you are not so cold; but there is that hot steam, which All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human who said, "It is two o'clock; there he is returning to the Tuileries." for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, because it is nightfall; that he is not digging any hole whatever, but is composed of irony, of joy, and of despair, and which may be called an incredible fury. One would have said that they were threatening and a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the This arises from the fact that she is an artist. May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known. Grouchy hoped for, them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the turn, halted on the quay above him, close to the parapet. The coachman, Abd-el-Kader, Blaye, Deutz bought, Pritchard paid,--these are the doings Louis Philippe was rather too much of a paternal king; that incubation very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving The next morning, when Marguerite entered Fantine's room before take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of