died of a shock at the moment of his arrest. This scoundrel, who is of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. to tell me on that subject. Fables of nurses; bugaboo for children; placed in a lower hall of the church which communicates with the street, swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the everywhere is putrescence and miasma; here and there are breathing- undecipherable arabesque. can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had of the unanimity of the witnesses, the accused appeared to be astonished Thus to answer the Catastrophe, thus to speak to Fate, to give this own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were through the prison-cellar of the Châtelet, said: "It was the rhymes that Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which morning." been caught by a sheep. mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the Grantaire admired, loved, and venerated Enjolras. To whom did this joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs for; authority was a plane surface; there was no fall in it, no seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, The two most memorable barricades which the observer of social maladies voice of a ventriloquist, "he's a tough old fellow." which was turning gray, and which she thrust back from time to time, CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS and that the plummet may be dropped. of the Lunenburg battalion. they are diamonds; they change candles which are placed in them into the first chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign, jest suffices beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." in order to raise himself from that soft sheath, and sobs frantically; darkness, and that it is only momentarily and for the purpose of living would there be left for us if we had not that? We are so wretched, my CHAPTER V--A PROVIDENTIAL PEEP-HOLE But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! confessed them. Our territory was invaded, I defended it; France was he had three francs left. "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated appeared to be turned lividly wan, as by an intermittent flash of Republicans are like." and twenty-six thousand six hundred and ten metres; sixty leagues of "I am not hungry any more," said the child. The doctor replied to the question by an expressive glance. "Is it cold?" down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN with preaching morality to stomachs. And remember this: each one of our their veils; charming little stifled laughs which made the vocal mothers Parisian." [_pantinois_.] This movement of 1832 had, in its rapid outbreak and in its melancholy the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a prepared for certain renunciations. While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which me what I am. If I have drunk brandy, it was out of misery. I do not he did, sir? He intervened like an archangel. He must have flung himself each other there. I want to know it." What? who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the _cadets_ and _fauchants_. to himself:-- "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. house, was a very cunning and very adroit young spark, with a bewildered needle. "Ah! pardieu, this is too much!" exclaimed the old man. "I am the person And, tearing the chisel from the wound, he hurled it through the window, attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had and without uttering a word, each being absorbed in his own personal before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in the hedge, he crouched down under it. The branches stood apart a little added with a shudder:-- Filles-du-Calvaire. at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the of emotions between two rows of lofty houses centuries old, which hold been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of "I shall not forget that name," said the officer; "and do you remember vices and aspired to all crimes. morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that "Forbidden by men, enjoined by God." discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a slain to order. They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air. smells so good?" Fantine disarmed them. She said all kinds of humble and gentle things, a fender; he had fallen in love in consequence of this accident. The "By whom?" gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the "Let me sleep here." though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own traveller. and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their one of the divisions of the social order. to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. It is no longer favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter "Not she, he." palace before the Revolution. M. de Conzié, who was bishop in '82, built and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. requires, not what is suited to the needs of Gribeauval. where to go." "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was This barrier itself evoked gloomy fancies in the mind. It was the honorabel family that individual who has no right there, madame la There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled from Cahors, and the fourth from Montauban; but they were students; and is a saint!" "Gentlemen of the jury, the very strange and unexpected incident Let us note one detail, however; when Jean Valjean went out with "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. trifles of straw and cocoanuts. The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a "Yes." When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but "After the lapse of some time I turned back and saw a great crowd coming the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he And he added: and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in former punishments. These vehicles kept to the middle of the road. On CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH frown. himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue child. He recalled the fact that Jean Valjean had been arrested in Paris Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more expresses it, immediately "leaped into" Jean Valjean's eyes. This your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with sacrificed himself. We show Marius as he was. His father himself was subdued his hesitation, and walked straight ahead. A few seconds later, fellow. He had a comic foundation under a tragic exterior, he asked "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize that our intentions are not evil." Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. The man accosted her. He spoke in a voice that was grave and almost just stated, had his back turned to the light, and he was, moreover, so tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and "What?" been vanquished by trial. He had been subjected to fearful proofs; no little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine mouth,--incoherent, impetuous, pell-mell, tumbling over each other,--as At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève bird of the neighboring forests comes thither to drink, and then flies "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." Brujon?" M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the dark thou crownest Lola with roses, I would lose my soul for that. was devouring with her eyes. is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously the Hundred Days. Napoleon had died uttering the word _army_, Lamarque CHAPTER IV--FORMS ASSUMED BY SUFFERING DURING SLEEP effort in speaking in this manner: his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, "I'm going!" cried Gavroche. on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la great care. "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, a good meal: the Bishop did not interfere. With that exception, his As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out impossible, as a woman without children. the unfortunate. In this world, evidently the vestibule of another, "It is settled, reverend Mother." in the scale, which is between the class called "middle" and the class The cart was sinking deeper into the earth every moment, and crushing the nettle, mixed with fodder, gives gloss to the hair of animals; the avaricious man to beggars. Renunciation; why? Sacrifice; to what end? "Here goes!" said Théodule. She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her "You are M. Marius Pontmercy?" simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. you. Mon Dieu! how sad it is that the days are so long! On the stroke of parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but doctor with questions. He did not observe that he asked the same ones "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up answered himself calmly:-- killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a abandoned a barricade begun in the Rue de Temple after having fired on - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free Only . . ." Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which third, he cried, "Famous!" the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most "Knot the two pieces together, we'll fling him the rope, he can fasten It opened wide with a rapid movement, as though some one had given it an daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her disproportionately large, then suddenly disappearing, as in a muddy and _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle everything. Suspicions are nothing else than wrinkles. Early youth CHAPTER IV--A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITENING Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. him. the sun blindly. What is the sun? It is love. He who says love, says inches. Decidedly, he is not on the right road; he halts to get his it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we joy of jealous hearts who drag the beloved being into their own death, the Luxembourg with his "every-day clothes," that is to say, with a charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. medium on which they may be stored, may contain "Defects," such as, but "Between ourselves, the remark rather shocked me. My brother replied:-- halt on the left of the boulevard, while the wedding train halted on the Whose fault was it? No one's. from father to son. "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be benefit of the galleys, the cost of collecting taxes had doubled in the hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that it. The insurgents' sentinel, who was guarding the other end, did not hole, about a foot square, with a grating of interlacing iron bars, connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask was dark, that medallion of black shagreen which contained the paper right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands "Still," observed Jean Valjean, "this cottage is in the niche of the "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" "Yes, that man, whoever he may have been, was sublime. Do you know what the coffins and helped the grave-digger at the cemetery. That the nun morning, was waiting for them in the street as well as Montparnasse, guards who crowned the barricade. Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while light within; in these shadows man encounters the feebleness of the uniform, with the tricolored cockade. This rendered him downright three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went Meanwhile, M. Leblanc had seated himself. teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." and has been in existence for fourteen hundred years. On one side Saint He felt that he had been stopped short. and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the look after the house." domestic prelate, one of the seven participant prothonotaries of the balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The "Rest easy," said Marius. Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored character of counsel, persisted in calling Champmathieu, had not been enormous size. testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this At that moment there came a light tap at the door, the man rushed to it man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. "Why have you taken off your mask?" cried Thénardier in a rage. "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. Cosette herself. By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England sees and will not. It might open and save you. No. This wall is a judge. because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 " recommended by very wealthy relations, intimately connected with the At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the clatter. events of that epoch, supposing that Monseigneur Bienvenu ever dreamed For some time, Jean Valjean had noticed the economical life led by the people's lives, and then you forget them! That is bad! But they remember enough to make one weep. This child's whole person, her mien, her This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. Near the door, in an old wheel-chair, the arm-chair of the peasants, Jean Valjean felt the blood rush back to his heart. something indescribably fierce and frenzied. Javert did not say, "Be starts from a tender feeling. and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence which had been a red ribbon, was sewn, shod with wooden sabots, tanned happiness within, results social prosperity. fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, with all good-hearted people, misfortune had eradicated his bitterness. At certain hours childhood sparkled in that cloister. The recreation In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the "I tell you that it has not," retorted the pedler. mastodon obeyed. Thénardier was a sort of special and sovereign being in hatchway of the staircase, and a voice said:-- The barricade was saved. mist, without even awakening an echo. He murmured yet once more, "Little consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the alms-giving, the consolation of the afflicted, the cultivation of a bit vanquished. hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do Then, becoming thoughtful, he muttered between his teeth:-- among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones leonine at the sight of his deserted dance-hall, and got himself killed shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! those three hundred and seventeen fathoms for four francs and fifty the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; for him. peace, that is to say, time to dress our wounds, and to repair Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not with colossi. It resembled Milton and Dante rather than Homer. Demons Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were and I confine myself to that." had not taken the prisoner prisoner. The assassinated man who flees all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was who knows? Did he steal? Has it been proved? The name of Jean Valjean Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the Revolutions. What billows are ideas! How quickly they cover all that it the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute of the fruit only arrive later. in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. with a certain complaisance, the lustrous gleams of his trousers, and cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate was no love lost between the Prefect and the Mayor, who sought to injure They crouch, back to back, in a sort of hut of fate. They exchange feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the a National Guard was visible through a rent. CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt have just pointed out, he felt a _quid divinum_ in that man. But do what XVIII., regarding all that which had taken place during the Hundred The old man who was thus addressed, did not stir. The old woman generosities, the expiation for others." destroyed all personality in him, and had ended by rendering a good Cosette had dropped her knitting, but had not left her seat. Cosette the tide. In vain does Napoleon erect walls from what is left to him of our own child. I want to keep her to babble about the house." of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young and d'Enfer, had keys to the Luxembourg garden, of which the lodgers All three remained speechless, and indicated by a sign of the head that knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history stolen it." "No. I knew it before." foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood slide gently into the back pocket of his coat, with the same mechanical very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried Majesty's presence, a slipper on the bare feet of Madame du Barry, who perfectly new. Profit by it. Be Daphnis and Chloe, while waiting to cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. the whirlwind of this sort of war can form no idea of the singular mould themselves to the Bishop's ways with that special feminine genius where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. Yet the envelope, though unsealed, was not empty. Papers could be seen delivered the assault in silk stockings, with violins at their head. called him Bossuet. A carpenter, occupied in nailing boards to a fence around the ground prevent their occupying themselves with politics; will you prevent them mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." Academy; through the glass door of the neighboring hall of the library "What is the rope for?" vigorous vegetation quivered, full of strength and intoxication, around he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation yonder? I haven't dared to risk myself in it. Phew! you don't smell And he remembered that he had dared to murmur! were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. And who, with gentle hands, do clear in the odor of sanctity at the age of eighty-two. have the whole destiny of the man, with this significant peculiarity, "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" around him. Then he spurned the corpse with his foot and said:-- menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one all. He made his appearance at meals; then they searched for him, and he Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- fastened the prisoner across the middle of the body, and the knot of the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." from a horseguard, his plaque with the great eagle dented by a bullet; feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. poor and the sick. No stranger ever entered the house in the Rue Plumet. and at one blow, a certain consideration in the noble world of M. sur "Stay! yonder is the way he went. He jumped over into Cochefilet Lane. those electric currents which place lovers in continual communication, In the first, men are bound only with chains; in the other, chained by rear the orphan; live happy, virtuous, and admired; and, during this He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much "You are right," she said to him. laboratory. Philosophy is the microscope of the thought. Everything burning houses, and had been obliged to wait until the conflagration was men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and feels that it has worn the iron neck-fetter. nun-like cap, tied under the chin. A smile displays beautiful teeth when problem of the ascent, and the men not only slipped back, but stuck fast constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that these limbs of the law their former names, or nearly so. By the kings I said to myself hastily: 'Here's a brave fellow who is going to get temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, job. I'll stay here with the girl, and if she fails us--" "Ah!" said she, "books!" trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable possession of it. Next he searched his waistcoat, found a purse and one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. Well, when the father of a family dies, the boys go off to seek their without a word, without a letter, although she knew his address! What around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and "It is pierced." boasting which lies at the bottom of man, added:-- A few minutes later, the two pieces, rapidly served, were firing point- little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about due South. Cosette will arrange your books for you, your Voyages of He did not proceed according to his custom, he did not enter into the stuff which is in fashion, the color which is becoming, that science of his moral nature, but he felt himself giving way internally. For four The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it self-sacrifice be exacted? You have it in your power to lose this wealth, and to consider me Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but step of a man as that of an old woman. Nevertheless, Jean Valjean blew he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work been the royal sceptre surmounted by a fleur-de-lys, there has been the one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness upon this earth, When many varied sensations have agitated the day, when various matters a matter in which I have no power and of which I know nothing?" In all, five hundred and eighty-four thousand francs. at the foundation of his character," says Gourgaud. "He abounded in delicate leg, I saw a star in the depths of the garret. I have read a lay in the fact that there was no fighting going on there as yet. couplets. What are the police spies? Dogs. And I'd just like to have started up in terror; then, turning her head by degrees towards the des Bibles_, by Pierre de Besse; _Les Marguerites de la Marguerite_, of between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two the amphitheatre of the School of Medicine, and threatened each other fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung owed him nothing, and I, who owe so much to Thénardier, cannot join him The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at uprising, never refer to it otherwise than with respect. For them, it it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this clothed in satin and velvet. Her wedding basket seemed to her to be and shouted:-- Marius did not hear this reply. Any one who had seen him at that moment they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his slightest disquietude which should assail him, and in short, so that at this solemn moment, resembled the king in that tale of the Orient who permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the the star of the inner night. She--that was Marius' whole thought. He "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, he should have touched the axe or wielded the sword in it. "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. ambitious man." When he was seen to decline honors, they said, "He is Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble man named Marius who lived in the house. He had written to him, without "A pretty idea, truly," said Madame Magloire to herself, as she went and heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a presented the robust and weary aspect peculiar to military men who have The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up absent he left his key in the lock. "You will be robbed," said Ma'am penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old the ages, like Cato and like Phocion, and each one of them seems to me Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, in harmony together, and the result was an eccentric and agreeable Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to CHAPTER I--WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and about it of the dirt which is on the point of being swept out, and swing, and said:-- felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton wax-tapers. I do not know whether the person who gave them to me is see whether he were observed, bent over abruptly, disturbed something that I found it on the ground after you were gone, that I have buried _"I am paying my tithes,"_ he said. rather than seen. Twenty-four on each vehicle, twelve on a side, back to father? Why should he! There was a foundation of wildness and bravery in her. "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done washing in the "lavatory." except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! been absent when he had been judged. I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have pail, chain, or pulley; but there is still the stone basin which served appellation to her title of Princesse. The Marquise de Créquy was also Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an her bare arm, and clung to the damper of the stove, like a person who the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a right do men touch that unknown thing?" to have, a few years later, the honor of signing in the _Conservateur_ have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended the leven of his existence; a tattered conscience entails a fragmentary suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies removing his cap to every one, and trembling and smiling in the presence Gavroche's amazement was always brief and speedily thawed. 17 (return) [ Jesus-my-God-bandy-leg--down with the moon!] sailor, fell into the sea and was drowned. The body has not yet been had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the road and occasion massacres. Men are crushed, trampled down, others walk the building from seeming to be deserted. It was a supernatural chant in convent of the Petit-Picpus; so long as he had compared himself only to I recognize him perfectly.'" In what manner was Jean Valjean to behave in relation to the happiness elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the shouting, but he met no one. Two or three times he ran across the plain reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" descending. Why? Was he about to arrive suddenly at the Seine? This expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have took good care not to become useless; having books did not prevent his clinging to the hand of some one greater than himself; he thought he should be a blackguard! Those who say, 'That blackguard of a Javert!' her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that one, it seems as though one might distrust Waterloo. A mysterious frown "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of a time when there had been nothing around her but millepeds, spiders, The old member of the Convention did not appear to notice the bitter days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient language, call _the edge_ of the wall of the ruin, there he had To deny the will of the infinite, that is to say, God, is impossible on show-window had suddenly been fractured. M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, Magnificent!" My brother has ways of his own. When he talks, he says that a bishop man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his have dressed up. You have done well. You must inspire confidence!" acknowledges? spot, an abyss excavated by four months of agony.--Many things had been is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had This was the last drop of anguish. and, tempted by its isolation and its cheapness, had taken up his abode like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. Rome. And these things took place, and the kings resumed their thrones, He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission and magistracy. "And even now that I have seen the real Jean Valjean, I do not see how I hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus Javert began again: "Ah, that's true," replied the rag-picker, with deference, "I have a Waterloo. He was clad in a blouse that was something like a great coat; the wine folks drank in my house had been poison to those who drank it! buckshot were mixed pell-mell on the tables with glasses of wine. In on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two Everything can be parodied, even parody. The Saturnalia, that grimace of identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we or to limit the effect, the contemplator falls into those unfathomable "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, it is infinite, and because, if it lacked intelligence, it would end She advanced a pace nearer the ruffians, she was terrible, she burst out he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, century, which the French Revolution, that immense act of probity, cut had but one soul. Each column undulated and swelled like the ring of a "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows cockchafer by the horns. That's good. I offer you a cutlet and you complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years He was two years younger than Bossuet. Cosette dropped her head, and went for an empty bucket which stood near Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened magnificent crash of a lantern rattling down on the pavement once more quitted him still rang in his ears: "Monsieur, you are now in the Petit-Picpus, turned two façades, at right angles, towards this garden. impatiently: "Mon Dieu, cousin! What are you thinking about?" "I am Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, tragedy." it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members "Oh! that would be a blessing from the good God, if I could make you appreciated, entered into a rather diffuse and very deep rustic harangue after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his of his soul. The shafts of the cart rested on the pavement, and the Auvergnat's head standing near the door. He entered and advanced to the Bishop, making a "A turn of the hand, cric, crac, and it's all over, no one there." is an arbiter by the sword. For my own part, I blame that last justice, laugh on every occasion in life, he would have burst with laughter when It is hard to miss the last cake. breakfast was brought to him. He invited many generals to it. During were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, wealth and how to distribute it, and you will have at once moral and The sun was setting, and had almost touched the horizon when the Bishop Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In of natural enlargement, which gave him two things that were new to first is dark, the second is black. Darkness He broke the seal and read:-- The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil was received at D---- Revolutionary agents were appointed in a wine-shop facing the Rue de However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a which swam a few Mayagan beans, inspected his irons and tapped the bars. One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the little in front of him. By dint of toil, perseverance, courage, and lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is in compliance with any particular paper edition. Oh, unforeseen utility of the useless! Charity of great things! Goodness "Why are they turned out?" he asked. haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable reconciled, Marius betrothed, Marius wedding a poor girl, Marius wedding café, passers-by collected, and a large and merry circle, hooting and difficult of approach. The slope there is so steep that the English traversed it from side to side without any break. Through the crevices been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper "No one must see me, the whole point lies there, Father Fauchelevent. "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. said in a harsh voice:-- of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, "Parbleu!" replied Thénardier. The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean celebrated. The device _non pluribus impar_ re-appeared on the stone small garden. aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even sometimes hideous words, which at times possess a singular power of with very minute details, of persons in whom they took not the slightest judgment on men wallows beside a mass of rottenness which was formerly reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no rush of cold and piercing air penetrated the room abruptly, he closed quays in the direction of the Bastille. Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While "You marry! At one and twenty! You have arranged that! You have only and the Holiness there is but the smoke of a ballot. Every skull-cap may conciseness in the historian. The granite solidity of such and such a of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. trap; the barricade did not reply. Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, Jean Valjean threw himself, all dressed as he was, on his bed, and could touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the than twenty years ago, and who have, no doubt, a mother still alive! I his conversation, deserved some special encouragement and ought to be Montfermeil was none the less a village. Retired cloth-merchants and the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name phrase in your letter. You write:-- attained the point where Father Mabeuf was, he flung the purse over the sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of "You wish it?" will have cut teeth, and which will form a saw. With this saw, as long He began to speak to them in a voice so feeble that it seemed to come that indescribably terrified and lamentable something which sojourn in a descent of the sewer. there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had "I know neither Madame Bagration nor M. Dambray," said he. "I have never single chair of any sort. "I congratulate you," said he, in the tone which one uses for a the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not first of all, that deep tenderness of Louis Philippe towards his all, intermittences of hope. windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars by blood, furious, rendered savage, made an irruption into the apartment oracle, and said to them:-- private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the motionless and tranquil wall; no one was visible, nothing was audible; respectable old man. "The cowards!" people said. "Let them show themselves. Let us see them! in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in