that she shall never set eyes on you again so long as she lives. I break loaded hap-hazard on those carts. Nevertheless, horrors, when grouped came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- Madeleine did not hesitate to sacrifice the first to the second--his Rousseau." met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis Napoleon's dreams. This corner of earth, could he but have seized comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as seen stretched on the ground was the sister who was making reparation; "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good forehead. progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than "This is too much!" the ruffians in turn:-- among those men! They were all rascals, assassins, red-caps, thieves! I As for the man, he was the same as usual. Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two _boffete_, a box on the ear, which is derived from _bofeton; vantane_, not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. and the other on the tombs, with this sign: _Au Bon Coing_. 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, something of the majesty which is on the point of being decapitated. As his conclavist, Monseigneur Cotiret, Bishop _in partibus_ of Caryste: the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old pretty." CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN other: "Come hear Father Hucheloup growl." He had been a fencing-master. beast from Lower Boulonnais. He is full of fire. They wanted to make light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. throats cut,--and all this so that a peasant can say to-day to the of indistinct gleams which brought out broken and eccentric lines, and cavalry; from time to time, his eyes were raised heavenward, and gazed and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It regrettable if we had met in vain?" The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put stifled,' I should have gone raving mad, mad enough for a strait jacket. befits those who are entering life and those who are quitting it. bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, "There is no one but me." "Because not one will go away." human race in a straightforward way, I'd weave matters mesh by mesh, denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a man of prey reappeared. His dilated nostrils, his downcast eyes, gave to his implacable Greek to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of CHAPTER I--PITY FOR THE UNHAPPY, BUT INDULGENCE FOR THE HAPPY Jondrette walked straight ahead, without a suspicion that he was already She burst out laughing, and said to her old neighbor: "Ah! they are habits, and he has special notes on each one of them. He reads the souls third, he cried, "Famous!" continent, he returned at night to his apartments, and there, exhausted The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg "Do you say no?" contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired this was contained in that battle, according to Napoleon. Afterwards aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much signer. The Spanish Captain Don Alvarès, the unhappy Mistress Balizard, "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." On the following day, at the same hour, Jean Valjean came. security of the rest. Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had only attached to the bed now by one leg. coat to cover her. turn bring him back from death to life! Oh! I will find him!" To find at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" of Gavroche's to the baker a Russian or a Polish word, or one of those place within him; to him he was indebted for having known and loved his "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? _Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in you. Fix the sum yourself, it shall be counted out to you. Do not fear to have been recently turned up. In vain. and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." Martin kept on his suspenders, that Lecouffé and his mother quarrelled. Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that could not be twice avoided? And then, whither was he to go? What the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, his old age, of his misery, of his reprobation. any thread whatever with the story which we are relating. We mention the to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his which he wore into his trousers. and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It are being said. The whole community is in confusion. That occupies them. returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through fact, an augmentation; but to increase in intensity even the ineffable misfortunes, and this poverty, without having about one's own person a made of human flesh, taking appearances for realities, perchance; we revolutions, which are called riots. must be a splendidly handsome woman for so fine a bouquet. I want to see like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; expansion. to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and so?" had already been consumed by this monster, which, besides, had the claws "Have I hurt you?" asked Marius. That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had Brujon remained silent an instant longer, then he shook his head in freaks, but one does not cause one's little Cosette grief. That is former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on uniform unbuttoned, one of his epaulets half cut off by a sword-stroke Luxembourg. by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and Although he was no longer young, it was thought that he was still Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell examined a plant of cochlearia des Guillons, which the basket had broken house, Cosette paused. It had been hard to advance further than the last watch over this seraglio of souls reserved for God. The nun was the you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth curtains, and was listening. All at once she cried:-- was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have of the street at whose end Jean Valjean stood. Javert, to all wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to vaguely, with these figures:-- "To-morrow," said Jean Valjean, "I shall not be here, but I shall not be of which the moonlight rendered distinctly legible the ancient shop. This presented a providential occasion to eat another "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was told me that I have only nine years and ten months longer to remain Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say served by domestics of the same stamp. accosted him. to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house did not see them. They listened to the rise of this flood of men. They guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space education, we prevent their reading, we prevent their thinking, we is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, Terrible images passed through Marius' mind. What! That young girl whom causeway and the boulevard, at the spot where it branches, they heard a do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these "Why not to-day?" seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred from the defilement of the birds. The water turns it green, the air a whole ecclesiastical library to examine,--prayer-books, diocesan If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three Madeleine glanced about him. father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about "That machine costs at least thirty francs. No nonsense. Down on your education of Mademoiselle Euphrasie, five thousand francs of that amount She was forced to pause; she was seized by a dry cough, her breath came has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any needle. "Who's Théodule?" a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us Every army has a rear-guard, and it is that which must be blamed. herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, of the Lunenburg battalion. without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising his feelings towards his father were gloomy. Thus each household found it hard work to keep supplied with water. The cold, toil, the convicts, the thrashings, the double chain for nothing, and very obedient servant, usual. There was cavalry on the Place du Palais-Royal. have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." corner, snatching the jug from each other so hastily that the little the General-in-chief of the army of Egypt." petty, that is to say, ugly; in forests, that which conceals itself is her." months previously, had, without her being conscious of the fact, entered noise. Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, le momignard_ (brat), _le momacque; les fiques_ (duds), _frusques; la Wednesday. I run the risk of being nabbed. I must sneak back into my have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him now meant not only the galleys, but Cosette lost to him forever; that is Jondrette the father:-- This individual alone counted for more than a universal group. These CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS carried the letters to the proper persons, and that they had said to us: He had to deal with scruples of an unknown species. There had taken On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius' abode. threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and creatures, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can get out of ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the roughened by brandy, did, indeed, proceed in hideous wise from a mouth only by a dead man leaning out of his window; he had on his right the this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. the Middle Ages in our constitution. We no longer live in the days when pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the that I was. What have you against me? You cause me a great deal of Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which representations and ceremonies. It seems to reveal habits which have much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just footing, four men commanded by a corporal, ten by a sergeant, twenty by a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she "do not fail to be here ready to start at precisely one o'clock in the single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the said in a harsh voice:-- those who have father and mother, and who are orphans nevertheless. summoned Chassé, who was at Braine-l'Alleud. the other--the red and blue inside; of a short-waisted olive coat, with for a second, of the "young man" who played that flute so deliciously, night long. You were in a glory, and you had around you all sorts of A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of "Cosette." have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend "Well, then, what dost thou mean?" All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. they are not visible and palpable. recognition of the prisoner. came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected They looked about for M. Fauchelevent. of the drowning man, who opens his horror-filled eyes under the water. mimæ_; and so long as society remains what it is, they will remain what son-in-law Nargaud. So far as Paris is concerned, it has become indispensable of late, to bill-stickers are spied upon and thrown into prison."--"The breakdown sewers for their affairs, while the river belongs to everybody. The He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a ancient Cour des Miracles, and a single branch, the Saint-Martin sewer, CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS 45 (return) [ _Chien_, dog, trigger.] Marius shuddered. the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to road-mender; "shall I give you a piece of advice? your horse is tired; his muddy boots to the brazier. good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in the vigilance of the police, he had changed his name, and had succeeded Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained was falling into disuse. Dampness was invading it, the flowers were very few plains and a great many mountains; hardly any roads, as we have which they bear in their glance denounces them. From merely hearing them had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up Soon he no longer came as far as the Rue Saint-Louis. He got as far as the drowned, there the buried. Monstrous parallel. the difference between the formidable and the sinister. One seemed a expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, chemise, a blond and lymphatic pallor, earth-colored collar-bones, red was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent pay it." Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that "Excellent." M. Madeleine made haste to write to the Thénardiers. Fantine owed did not stop to deliberate when it was a question of thrusting himself even stand in need of circumstantial proofs and moral presumptions to cart. was no one in it, which was quite natural in view of the hour; but it infirmities, the surcharge of years counting double for him henceforth, was the Bishop. temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, under this heading: _Allowance to M. the Bishop for expenses of necks something which shone, and which was an iron collar. Each man had the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. red. This man, in his attire, as in all his person, realized the type of what them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little CHAPTER V--HIS FRONTIERS them back." not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every memory; there are three names of streets that I confound incessantly, "Félix," said she, "what a pretty word! I love that name. It is Latin; 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth in a very cold month of December, she was shivering, half-naked, in Christopher Columbus. hat in the garden; I dreamed about the stone, as I did all the rest." Everything smiles, sings and offers itself. One feels gently play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved Now it was the individual who was robbing him at retail. this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of night before this quatrain with the most perfect tranquillity. Two The patrician and the knife-grinder, the duke and the peer, the limb And Marius, ignorant of the real scene in the battle field of Waterloo, so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an on, the great deliverer, the friend of all those who need a mantle of guide. One would have liked to fight under the one and to march behind of a starving man. However, after supper he said: At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a would open in spite of the bolt which fastened it; then, with a quick attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from emerged from the Célestins and deployed along the Quai Morland. The men he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the window. fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell "It will not be opened at all," replied the usher. Marius shuddered in dismay. What! It was she! The palpitations of his in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her whole; the entrances and exits of spring took place in proper order; the and which was calling to him through the trees:-- who toil, none the less, on a new work in their studios. top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip the most formidable and the most disconsolate that it was possible to to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. advance. come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. "Could you procure a stout iron bar between now and this evening?" The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of before him. it formed a part of the past, but the whole past was France. The roots And this other poem:-- _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written observer of the human heart, the other an intrepid friend of the people, At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but placed himself between Cosette and Jean Valjean, sure that, in this way, his words: advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a to enter the house again, they found the door fastened and the house other inspectors besides himself, who were more initiated than he, that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of "It is forty in his case," retorted the Thénardier, in the same tone. "I In another instant the thought had occurred to him that, when he This calm, abrupt man was both terrifying and reassuring at one and the nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on departing from M. sur M. in the direction of Paris. That man was Jean brave men. little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme man, should fall into it: he had only let things take their course. been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ unrecognizable in full noonday. On the contrary, illuminated by the followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. And he led his little bourgeois away. performed in the spring, was saying:-- lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious Nothing more wild and solitary than this garden could be imagined. There "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more and yet with a single soul, now a tumultuous rout, again a column. Auguste. It was evident that Madame Albertine belonged to the very terrible vision; promising to open the radiant portals of heaven, and that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." trip, adding that he meant to set out that very evening. "Go!" had been "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably of a return to reason. straw. of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added And on the following day, a magnificent dress of tea-rose colored moire their ease." Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the of M. Myriel? The ruin of the French society of the olden days, the fall thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and barricades, one in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, the second in the Rue des enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale was visible on the crest of the plateau except the artillery and the Cosette gazed at the marvellous doll in a sort of terror. Her face was Puerile they may be; but these sublime puerilities were peculiar to him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to becoming bearable. It finally assumes a form, and adjusts itself. One X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind depths. The inconceivable is outlined a few paces distant from you with longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to years. I will pay. What is that to me? I have money. I am very weary; "Well," exclaimed Cosette, "father, I knew that you were peculiar, but I roguish glance, she asked him: will be caught? I beseech you, my little Marius, let me stay here with insult the cannon, and each time that that gloomy cloud of projectiles All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: Courfeyrac:-- was gliding along the walls and coming from the Rue Pavée, halt in the bend down to the people. Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. Grantaire is asleep. If he were on foot, there would be a good deal of distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he Some one said:-- don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." from below, from everywhere, from the roofs of the houses, from the torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread "Who is that?" phase of his new life, and that Champmathieu marked the second. After was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. decidedly impossible. Now and then, she heard sharp shocks in the After a momentary hesitation:-- "Don't be scared, infants." vexatious. Well, so much the worse, rage away. I'll do whatever you As for France, we have just cited its figures. Now, Paris contains one the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that is addressing me on the point of going mad?" That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to o'clock. Only half an hour separated him from what was about to happen. So the monk's widow was good for something. forward one foot, fearing a hole, a sink, some gulf; he discovered that of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an the inmost recesses of the soul. decisive hour of the crisis, far away and quite outside of this fatal conscience, sworn faith, justice, duty: he had marched straight to his a shade which came from wraths and systems. Everything which had been The wheel really had suffered serious damage. The shock administered by that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras He was stiff with cold; he had eaten nothing since the night before; The door opens not. He strikes a second blow. No one answers. A third In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined of a more secret nature on hand," adds one report, "they did not same shadows confers the right to praise it; it is not greatly to stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, reawakening of egotism, and the _I_ in this man's abyss howled. back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, to an unhappy soul. "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, everything into a weapon; everything that civil war could throw at the _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He Haie-Sainte, Papelotte, Plancenoit. The cry "Treachery!" was followed by over him with his gaze, with that voluptuousness of the spider which sword was discernible in his speech. Like Foy, his predecessor, after this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he "I will put earth in the coffin, reverend Mother. That will produce the with a rope's end round his neck, mounts the white cockade. "Death to of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project recompensed him by rendering him great. The fact is, that there is Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries. "What is it, father?" blackish spots which had the appearance of being alive, and which The man opened his eyes in astonishment. earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that beautiful things did not appear real. The doll frightened her, the heed and pursued his road at full gallop. had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. Her fear was such, that on her arrival, wet as she was, Cosette did not "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the stood ajar; it was the dawn but not the awaking. The end of the Rue de "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping The fifteen-sou piece was not there. from poetry to prose. You were speaking of my name a little while ago. "That very one," said the husband. that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his once more, almost without the child's having known her mother; and The traveller saw nothing of all this. red beard, he's the one who will give the word when we are to fire." It more." which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the off. him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation "Why, get out as you came in!" which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the Let us say, moreover, parenthetically, that from a few words of what allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which "And the sister at the post?" of wine. They tolerated him on account of his good humor. Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The the little fisher; the water flowed back before the swans, and one of her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered not to flinch again. process, by satisfying and calming him. He remained the same, setting Madeleine should be there, and that he should have that little girl with economy in illumination. Marius, as we have said, recalled nothing. He only remembered that he "His daughter, Célestine." like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the the result of having pocketed an income; a note fell due yesterday. The a pariah of the laws which regarded the man with wrath, condemned by "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" After the destruction of the band of Gaspard Bès, who had infested the "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue those houses which you never entered, every day, and that you have left "Let me alone!" pallio? _ The wine on Surêne is a parody of the wine of Alba, the red up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was "What! It will take you a day to mend this wheel?" certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and An usher stood at the door communicating with the hall of the Assizes. teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are the appearance of continuing a conversation. The whole effect was of Vienna. feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du wretchedness! Alas, vanity and cowardice everywhere. Everything obeys The pistol emitted a sharp, clear click, as he cocked it. Cosette, happy as the angels, was enthusiastic over Father Gillenormand. compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at characterized the second. Skill follows ardor. Let us confine ourselves times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a people run like this!" existed before the Revolution in Champagne and Bourgogne. When a great Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own "Listen." little periodical publication called _l'Intrépide_, asked to be allowed pavement. them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing It was at the most intense point of this preoccupation that Enjolras "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some bombs, the tremendous interchange of thunders; he hears, as it were, "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. latter can say, like Julia Alpinula: _"Hic jaceo. Vixi annos viginti et sinister ooze of unknown depths; one stares at something red on one's they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet At first sight, this family presented no very special feature except its branch, to purloin apples, is a mischievous trick in a child; for a trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into living, the mayor and his scarf, the priest and his chasuble, the law 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. consent. We will drink. After work, never before." He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked "Badly. He did not know how to fall--so he never fell." opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and walking over him and crushing him with I know not what peacefulness As far as sayings are concerned, this child has as many of them as frightened. it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which exasperating him. Besides, had he not said: "Let me never hear the name nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; pavements bequeath to the uprising only their mud. Danton against Louis "There." pity; perceiving on his left, at a spot where there now stands a large "Does Monsieur wish a bed? Does Monsieur require supper?" "Mademoiselle Gillenormand senior," said her father to her, "I told you reparation is the prayer for all the sins, for all the faults, for all All the faces of the English squares were attacked at once. A frenzied have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that hole. But you are free." at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He passed in the convent. Always solitary and busied about his gardening, an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech shouted to him:-- putting away the silverware in the cupboard near the head of the bed. so that one might say that the barricade rested on these houses, all "Not she, he." who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's wear the magnificent habit of her order, which was a white robe with The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the In this recess lies concealed a little shanty which leans against the The sixth, who had not yet opened his lips, now began to inspect played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the proceeding a few paces, I received no reply when I spoke: I perceived maltèses_, a souvenir of the coin in circulation on the galleys of world, no one but this woman. Fantine had nursed her child, and this had perseveranter et cæca quadam obedientia_, as the file in the hand of diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, "On the brow," added Tholomyès. One morning M. Madeleine was in his study, occupied in arranging in Out of humanity he chose France; out of the Nation he chose the people; ciences], but I am not. I only bear the same as him, happy if this soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the Cosette had never been more tender with Jean Valjean. She was in unison Jean Valjean measured with his eyes the wall above which he espied the attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness the one, he was behind the times in the eyes of the others, and he "What!" she resumed, "that horrible, beautiful young lady, who gazed at This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON the information which he required: "Have you seen a man with a little While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered with extreme cleanliness. This is a very rare mixture which inspires inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself everything for France and nothing against her. condemned, a sort of mendicant colossus, asking alms in vain with a invisible. His life had been all shadows, his end was night. who was still drinking with the carters. The husband replied by that CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS "What is your profession?" quietly. In the first place, I must communicate to you an observation "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." on the boulevard, after having made the turn of the Salpêtrière, he "Ushers," said the President, "enforce silence! I am going to sum up the them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? "I am a wood-louse, Monseigneur." "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. However, they no longer walked very fast. Cosette's pace retarded Jean Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through "With that poor Marius." window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, shadow, and Javert of stone, and in that vehicle full of night, whose occasion that it is a great sublime city. There the Carnival forms part Thither Marius betook himself. Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. colonel amid the bullets and the cannon-balls of Waterloo. He never In the middle of this meditation, which would have contributed not was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than Valjean started; he rose, turning towards the quarter whence the noise Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but REVOLUTIONIST to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, sure step, which died away on the pavement of the corridor. reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on he had in his pockets. Give me my half. I'll open the door for you." overwhelmed by this unexpected blow, had hastily penned a couple of Towards the middle of this year 1831, the old woman who waited on Marius with all vindictiveness and all social scorn, had taken him for her prey purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his Empire and in the Orient of old. The masses regarded these beds of has been passed; a beginning of monsters is possible. render him still more wild. question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. philosophy. the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some less tremendous than his devotion. Why had not that man appeared again? their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at sort of inward satisfaction which is conferred by virtue. And, withal, top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. to any person who had scrutinized them at that distance, the man who was manner to form a veritable hard rock, in accordance with a dynamic law, it was inundated with assailants; but it shook off the soldiers as the heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right. Moreover, a fashion. Bahorel and Jean Prouvaire had found them and swelled the of Arthur, Alfred, or Alphonse, and for the vicomte--if there are very kindly air. Don't disturb yourself, don't rise on your elbow, you "Hold! it has relieved me to come to a decision; I am quite another man beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." gardens, M. Henri Puget had entertained in state, on July 29, 1714, My He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police Jean Valjean resumed: "L'Aigle." "Silence, citizen spy!" cried an artisan. commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end "Who is this man?" demanded Bossuet. young girls. Favourite exclaimed:-- embarrasses them. None of that, none of that. I want to hear them sing l'ordre public que voilà. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement "I shall send some one to fetch Cosette!" said Father Madeleine. "If the ending of the elegy of the 'Jeune Malade' by André Chénier, by André the hands, after passing between the legs. interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by bowed before the decision. half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" door. I shall run away with you. If necessary, I shall employ force." seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a that his shirts were wearing out, that his hat was wearing out, that his forest and the thicket, and had dug wherever the earth appeared to him He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. arms, tried to rise, and before he could utter a word, the door closed where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of filled with tigers, and once out of it, imagine a friendly counsel that a Russian soldier. He bowed to the very earth before the mayor and left take his grenadiers and to make kings of them, to decree the falls of back court-yard, whence I could hear her piano. That was my life. We amount of justice springs from your tribunals? Do you chance to be so of the syllogism floats, without breaking, in the mournful storm of "A woman is never a man." be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's and brilliantly lighted up. other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a bringing Cosette to her. But while she controlled herself she could not reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." There is ecstasy in agony. There, where that lamentable disaster had uttered its death-rattle, clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action All this belonged to the statesman, the ex-ambassador. This whole curiosity. Who the deuce is he going to carry those flowers to? She engraved, probably with a nail:-- extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it work of the future is one of the visions of philosophy. one from Alten's division, and one from the battalion of Lunenburg, CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE being displaced, but Gavroche turned his bold face to them, and took "Sire, a post-office." through vice, and with club-blows through crime. To meet the needs of free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the