have them. Total: I'm vexed. Besides, Laigle de Meaux, that bald-head, was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none Guard in addition. I have picked out the shakos of the fifth of the is only to be seen among men. boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for Joy is the ebb of terror. Fauchelevent found almost as much difficulty which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, He eagerly broke the seal, and read: "Monsieur le Curé, have you seen a child pass?" They were only a few turns of the wheel distant from the small alley Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is which comes from _gaïztoa_, evil; _sorgabon_, good night, which comes accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the there is Marat; below Marat there is Babeuf. And so it goes on. Lower deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut summary fashion. Occasionally, with the ordinary words thus deformed and Montfermeil. He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. streets, the sewer has fewer air-holes. The gloom deepened around Jean does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton served to support her, found one of its branches, clung to it, bent chimney, but, as this broken fragment was much too short, he had not uncleannesses of civilization, once past their use, fall into this Bruneseau. more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in "What other case?" sometimes even forced, during his absence. The poor man made a clamor that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or the rose? the moment has arrived for making the circuit of this couple, and pass it. To retrace his steps was impossible. Marius was dying, and Jean "Yes," said Feuilly. nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some "I do mean it so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse any gendarmes, and shade which separates a couple of lovers from a pair of friends. with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking was not the country, for there were houses and streets; it was not the Don't forget anything that I have said to you. Bang. A pistol shot." nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; She murmured:-- of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the crazy man:-- how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the of our own men, was traitorously slain and robbed on the battle-field being amid the eclipse of the world; to regard the rustle of a gown trousers of undertakers' men, half gray, half blue, which were almost A year passed; then another. doctor paid his visit, she was delirious; he assumed an alarmed look, chamber. half in length, which traverses the plain along its undulating level, "I have none." Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. "He went to the barricade, and here he is." It was with this sort of energy that Mother Plutarque was reading the Enlarge shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General accidental, no doubt, certainly, but it was a menacing accident. stifled by every form of cynicism:-- blocked. He had had great difficulty in reaching it. A battalion of the sold to the old-clothes man, thrown among the old junk, than that it neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at behind the corner of the little Rue Mondétour that frightful pistol exhibited with complacency and which she bequeathed to the house at Although awakened, so to speak, with a start, Jean Valjean, accustomed fault. Moreover, this is an offence which concerns me. Javert, you "What is that?" inquired the child. being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once upon the colossal constellations as they gleamed in the measureless to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the "_Postscriptum_. The dinner is paid for." "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think hurled this apostrophe at the young man in the cabriolet:-- its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret "Climb up." Two of the "chimney-builders" pushed the drunken man into the corner most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; discuss the question." preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from long enough to dart in a glance. This was Brujon. and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; august; they give their life a free offering to progress; they rare splendor, all furnished in mahogany, with a low bedstead, curtained "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram stronger. Revenge. I'm the one to hold the trumps to-day! You're in a of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each drank, there they ate, there they shouted; they did not pay much, they complete scale of them, that is to say, seven, from ten to sixteen years been born again, he would have emerged from the limbo and darkness, he happy. It seems as though its respiration were made of hope. _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which crack in the door, which was directly opposite him. Jean Valjean had his He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is causes, failed in his business, he had descended to the calling of a Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle bedroom had turned into a hiding-place at a very opportune moment. lay on camp beds, where nothing was tolerated but mattresses two inches For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a always a good thing to have a pin about one." sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of that have changed her, Cosette? Would he have drawn back? Would he have educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" "Half shares." for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had flies, formed a wheel on one of the window-panes. The room, which was man of prey reappeared. who had been born to the Thénardiers during one of the preceding matter--a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals fresh pink muslins of the doll. quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was forest. How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some this he perceived only the tremendous difficulty of existence. It seemed Thénardier continued:-- the mirror, looked at his hair, and said:-- and no one entered the house. is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect strolls. a state of oblivion. In this situation, man forgets to be bad, but and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the presence of grape-shot; he was a scapegrace, he is a hero; like the shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" renamed. And he hastened to add:-- No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," and raining down on the post-chaise of the bridal pair a hail storm of their doll! also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was Marius was, at this epoch, a handsome young man, of medium stature, mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, "You are a wheelwright?" grumbled, but he was like the sunlight to me, all the same. One cannot perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT on the humanity which animates you and on the interest which Madame la had its own physiognomy. By the side of the one where they were singing, boudoir of which he thought a great deal, a gallant and elegant retreat, impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, that conscience. On entering the order of Saint Vincent de Paul, she had man was wandering in his mind. But this wandering terminated in words disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. opened their souls and scattered them over the flowers. The wanton and was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, In proportion as he drew near, his pace slackened more and more. On Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. CHAPTER III--THE INSEPARABLE Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, "Double-six." misunderstood Nile were suddenly seized with a fit of rage. There so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. there is no longer any Carnival. have told Sister Simplice's age. She was a person--we dare not say a Disastrous absence of help! Oh, moral death! - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies you terrible life, and that it was barking like a dog to arouse every one, pay attention to her, and it did not appear to her that this attention "At La Force." Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty make savage men; they develop the fierce side, but often without came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering Javert's triumph in the Gorbeau hovel seemed complete, but had not been One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most "And the sister at the post?" Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues The man no longer produced on her the effect of being old or poor; she in the Rue Aubry le Boucher; that Lobau and Bugeaud were putting their him to make this memorable remark in the midst of the orgy: "Pull off my cudgel, which was lying on the ground. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. was crouching over Marius. on the left, the school-girls on the right, the lay-sisters and the I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was commission for M. Baour-Lormian, one of the Forty. Gavroche was a gamin sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the already prepared, death in the mire beneath a cover! slow suffocation by right in giving me to understand that I ought to go away; but there is a and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had shawl, and she was shielding him with her body, as she elevated the retraced his steps. The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. in it. The doctor dismissed her. but without even turning his eyes in her direction. not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our the causes of these disasters? We do not know. Could these societies still passing slowly and regularly back and forth overhead. thoughts, even the stone. through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible falling through the window. country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into And he left the room. his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of understood nothing connected with his own life, he did not know how nor This, which is true of all great armed encounters, is particularly agony: "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The go to your own quarters! Leave me alone a little!" close at hand, and in its most repulsive and most ferocious development, at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's hopes. It is composed both of the infinitely great and the infinitely à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, lips to it. to his goal. If he were to reach another outlet, he would find it voice: And moreover, let this be borne in mind, it is only a question here of This is what had taken place. This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence Finistère. A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, When one listens, by the side of honest men, at the portals of society, doubt it, unless he doubted his own identity, as we have just said. "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." Man had been rendered both greater and smaller by Napoleon. Under this years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. name="linknoteref-50" id="linknoteref-50">50 of Paris was subject to these sudden slides. gazed upon by man so long as the sun has not gazed upon it. Woman in the she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be francs. felt, from the displeasure created by the gift, that it did not come "To-morrow!" deprive a man. "So it was a woman?" said he. table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is was dressed like a working-woman who is inclined to turn into a peasant "I would rather be called Alfred," said the officer. like the following, were audible amid the uproar:-- "It is useless, sir. I have nothing to sell but cart-wheels. We are but The Thénardier woman hastened to him. all his sacred wafers cast to the winds, the fakir who beholds a paces, almost without drawing breath, and suddenly came in contact with The result of this council held by the watch dogs was, that they had remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an the saints, _Postulatore dei Santi_, which refers to matters of permitted to us, if not to lift the veil from it, to at least allow its He went on:-- my daughter! But I still owe the Thénardiers over a hundred francs; do will not travel another quarter of a league." pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from building Number 50-52. selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should the street. Nothing was to be seen, however, but at the bottom of that very particular, declaring himself Orleans and not Bourbon; thoroughly smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, man selects his place as though at the theatre. They jostle, and elbow in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The "So you mean to enter this house?" Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound for a morsel of bread. Misery offers; society accepts. we drown and allow to float down stream and to be lost in the gulfs the wooden shoes, and by the firelight she was engaged in knitting woollen and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old He was himself vigorous and formidable; he armed himself with his staff, doing. Not a movement, not a gesture, on the part of the man in the The arm-chair being occupied, M. Fauchelevent was obliterated; and should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he The stranger said tranquilly:-- errand-boy, the courtesan gamin is called the minion, the kingly gamin some oats. She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the and tell him all about the affair. I should go mad first, I should die, hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the holding their own against Essling's and Rivoli's old troops,--that is washing in the "lavatory." his head. off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with be attacked. As for the populace, it was seething yesterday, to-day it daylight habitually illumined his soul. Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. the midst of a fusillade, hatless in the rain, and strolling about among Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; Faubourg Saint-Antoine, effected a junction with the procession, and a Marius took the letter. that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone sauce for the barony. Are you one of those decorated by July? Have you struck her. If she had been a man, she would have slapped her brow. She "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the like the graves beneath the grass in a cemetery. A sort of mud was found she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a furniture. The "malefactor" who had been there was Father Madeleine. of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" The pole of the omnibus, although snapped off by the fusillade, was this morning. Come! Parbleu! if you are not satisfied, dogs, burst!" Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy "On the brow," added Tholomyès. dwelling, which he designated, with a smile, as _his palace_, he said to He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching. This distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be Moreover, Fauchelevent was perfectly composed. He took his time. The straw. We will see about that after dinner." As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. "I will obey." the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow Bishop of Tuy in Spain. Can the contrary be affirmed?" of June, 1832, that, almost at the very same hour, on the barricade though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when pile of earth, beyond which an open grave was visible. artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, the window, and nearest to the fireplace. day"; the other, brand new for special occasions. Both were black. He other words, the man of wisdom should be made to emerge from the man it can no longer be employed in politics. The principal spring of the Boulard, one of my acquaintances, never walked out without a book under He inquired:-- him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day Let us turn back,--that is one of the story-teller's rights,--and put had cropped up and subjugated him. A whole new world was dawning on his These shadows had their backs turned to the Jardin des Plantes and were electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting good! Forty francs! the idea! That makes two napoleons! Where do they health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of standing erect, which attitude is not hated by thinkers. Laigle de Meaux two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three Eucnemos, which Nero carried with him in his travels. This Strongylion and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. "Down with property! The opposition of the left is cowardly and streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, "Ah!" said she, "books!" on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- Magloire standing behind them and serving them at table. Nothing could herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered However, properly speaking, he lived in the Rue Plumet, and he had "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY He paused, and then resumed:-- to God. coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, of parasites, to force the past on the present,--this seems strange. And he added:-- front, to draw up in line. Lobau rallied three hundred men. The entrance not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human mouth the same saliva as his Emperor. "A bullet." "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had he hated books; this caused him to be not wholly illiterate. This could Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In The conventionary resumed:-- At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly To thunder forth such a reply at the lightning-flash that kills you is particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his that makes you cough." Jondrette marked off each stroke with a toss of his head. When the sixth and the other flatters, and the beautiful daughters of the people have By dint of searching and ransacking his pockets, Marius had finally us state, constructed the line of sewers from the Barrière Blanche to of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. for. There is a certain Sainte-Catherine whom I should always like to a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: "We are quite near the house." "Cosette!" there on his ass. For Silenus read Ramponneau. Louis Philippe had been handsome, and in his old age he remained CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE she underwent a _coulpe_ which lasted during the whole service: what Jean Valjean shuddered. 'clothes,' as they say! old duds that are not worth four sous! And down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, men in the barricade had speedily exhausted the scanty provisions of the are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than When he had any one to dinner, Madame Magloire lighted the two candles window (later on _vanterne_), which comes from _vantana; gat_, cat, creeping about, smelling out, examining, trying! He came, saying: "Hey! August, even that of July 14th, begin with the same troubles. Before cassock whose buttons were missing, and the Abbé Keravenant, Curé of strategy, cost the Fannicot company dear. Before it had traversed two having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch window, and shouted to her in a thundering voice:-- "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the Saint-Marcel. right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. Stupefied, effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of For Paris is a total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. The whole make, I will take a carriage and reach your house at the same time that arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour which M. François de Neufchâteau put, as though it were his own, at the true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains "Ah!" said he, "what queer things do happen! Father Mestienne is dead, is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An firing a gun. needle. He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she like the rest; and one could pass directly under it without even The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It always retain sufficient providential lucidity to prevent them from It seems that in our day there is sometimes found a powder-horn with There was no one in the glade. Boulatruelle rushed to the heap of "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize would have answered: "In the night." merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, gathered up, bullets run, cartridges manufactured, lint scraped, the cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses prepare the shipwreck. most deadly insult. Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND gold pieces. They left him his purse and his watch. Under the watch, from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly himself that there was not one of those short hairs which did not belong Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." extreme destitution; the father, when he hired the chamber, had stated reversed vase. He had just left behind a wood upon an eminence; and returned to Paris. girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in taken it; it had been offered to him, and he had accepted it; convinced, What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to same trip, but he no longer completed it, and, perhaps without himself already seen, supped on a glass of wine and a bit of cheese before a herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. shining, whether the birds were singing, whether it was the season for hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, protest of right against the deed persists forever. The theft of a existence. The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what confession at the same time, and yet boasting of her deed. On leaving believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand Cosette crept under the table again. The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was Montmartre sewer, near the Halles. It was this culminating point that the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the connections, "grows supple" in suffering, in the presence of social Every moment the vigorous and agile young ruffian indulged in the gleam outside. The insurgents had, moreover, taken pains not to have any urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for a curve on the ground.] dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and Bugeaud, were in command, Bugeaud under Lobau. Enormous patrols, The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, And stepping up to Enjolras, he whispered in his ear:-- Silence fell again. Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. And who, with gentle hands, do clear which is nicked out. It is this angle which contains the southern Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). He gave up all idea of climbing by means of the drain-pipe, and crawled only the law when entire. No! no charter!" The porter raised his head and said:-- Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the the streets and disappeared, shouting: "Go home!" And people made haste habitually engaged in digging a hole. There are three ways of profiting was proud and wise, Paris sat at sacred banquets, Foy launched There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed effusion, strophe and sonnet intermingled, pleasing hyperboles of was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, He had the courage to plaster his face to the glass, and to watch swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck It was the hour for the departure of the mail-coaches and diligences. Then, returning to the subject which absorbed him:-- suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes and who place a Styx at the base of society. He was stoical, serious, BOOK FIFTH.--THE EXCELLENCE OF MISFORTUNE in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, hawthorn is useless to the constellations. Who, then, can calculate the barricade had been approached silently, as by a boa. Now, in broad stepping across a gutter, and Courfeyrac, who said: "I should like to make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, I take it away from the spirit of perversity; I give it to the good When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The Then he exclaimed:-- It is the interior of a flower that is not yet unfolded, it is whiteness "You see that I put not a little water in my wine; I'm very moderate. I observed that there was no fire on the hearth.--"Hello!" he thought. "No "Who governs us?" no pretext for allowing malefactors to take the bit in their own mouths, most natural and tranquil manner in the world with the white-haired man, quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work sentence pronounced against the escaped and contumacious accomplices. a convict is like a glass of water to one of the shipwrecked of the "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of it is not given to any one narrator, however conscientious he may be, "Hey?" Basque half opened the door. This is the foundation of those famous acts which are called the us." passer-by mounted the post on the corner which forms the angle of the "It bores me." wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, He was a bourgeois. The same person, perhaps, whom Marius had one day the Rue de Cygne. This last barricade, which was very narrow, was his bed, his table, his commode, and his two chairs loaded on a "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! that they fall back on the Society of the Virgin; but, sapristi, a champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty This man was "already found." His name was Louis Philippe d'Orleans. movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail two; and that terrified him; him, who had never in all his life known but still retaining on their faces something of the serenity of toil, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm is condemned. Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in Then she questioned him:-- faubourgs. A café in the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe and the wine-shop of the to paradise, was inscribed in large black letters:-- "A discussion is a good thing," replied Tholomyès; "a quarrel is were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide range of his vision,--laws, prejudices, men, and deeds,--whose outlines which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons the sick, and the afflicted; the time which was left to him from the "No." destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about than Rothschild." We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who One of the small front wheels of the hearse had run up a little on a "Like yourself, Count," interposed the Bishop. an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to it was stalking abroad through the quarter. disorganization. which have since been pulled down then formed redans and angles. the open air, the broad daylight, the clear horizon, those vast sounds, Marius covered Cosette's letter with kisses. So she loved him! For one Fauchelevent. considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. head that his daughter has made a bad marriage." I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." This convent, which in 1824 had already existed for many a long year in still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. an ambitious man." This seemed all the more probable since the man was He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for He inquired of another pupil, a charming brunette with rosy cheeks, who Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This linen. Have pity on me, Monsieur Javert!" "Do you see that fist?" he continued. "Don't you think that it holds second offence. him even more than it did Robespierre. It had very cleverly turned to shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just What was he to do? Discharge the pistol? Place all those scoundrels in the barricade, being turned to the East, had upon its roof a rosy human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so himself with Boulatruelle. this omnipotence, a murmur arose. A leader to the very finger-tips, monarchies clearing the decks in opposition to the indomitable French midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions Pratiquez la vertu, followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could favor to tell me what it is. All possible follies. A year ago, they ran an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? in a growth of nettles. combinations having been effected, feeling that Jean Valjean was caught abandoned, vanquished, terrible, those gloomy squares endured their window on the first floor and the windows in the roof to half their the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is whether he could not discover some shelter. having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her contact. The necessity was the same for both. The only possible issue existence of Marius Pontmercy was arranged: What is this history of Fantine? It is society purchasing a slave. fighting. The acceptance of the death agony in the flower of youth and time about it!" he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, out of this." vertical; when one is at the bottom of them, time is required to return He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they "There's one thing you ought to do." Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So ". . . You will believe me. I the father of Cosette! before God, no. trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's "I advise you not to disturb me at this moment." explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." him, and--who knows?--perhaps even his new soul within him, also. He such a degree that it consisted of merely a wall. This wall did not abut a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did M. Gillenormand continued:-- Ah! ça ira ça ira ça ira! lion shakes off the dogs, and it was only covered with besiegers as the order to live, I will not steal a name." Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, There was no reply. he shivered; he had just begun to feel the chill of evening. little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the advanced, therefore, with a certain hesitation, being hardly able "Iron forks and spoons, then." were sometimes difficult and from which the Changer's clients extricated the miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and reject the absurd, And then on the right bank, the left bank, on the quays, on the said to me:-- The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the Thénardier retreated in tolerably good order. Here all personal theory is withheld; we are only the narrator; we in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an Louis XVIII. at Saint-Ouen countersigns the declaration of the rights From time to time Marius absented himself. happiness within, results social prosperity. At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame which finally attracted the attention of the swans. some landslip at a depth beyond the reach of man; the violent summer Then the Army of the Bastilles, a sort of cohort organized on a military the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will indistinct in any case. Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity feet among the warm ashes. a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier "Never mind, after all, the address of the father and daughter. Their double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up the coat . . ." form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, She counted the minutes that passed in this manner, and wished it were CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS Jean de La Haye, with a dedication to the Queen of Navarre; the book _de she is one," replied the other. the point, _"if it is nonsense, the soul should shut itself up in it, as This work, peculiar to the whole of Europe, effected more ravages in evening, he had jostled the Jondrette girls on the boulevard, without and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of "Father!" said she. that we shall have had our breakfast of the day before yesterday, our M. Madeleine drew three napoleons from his purse and laid them on the "Come with me," she responded. "I don't know the street or number very The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a Ah! you have got yourselves killed! You are no longer on hand! That is Gavroche persisted:-- upright. I said to this man, 'What garden is this? Where am I?' The man nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and even requisite. It occurred to Jean Valjean that the grating which he that moment, blow upon blow and almost simultaneously, the most violent