the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas hole of a big iron bullet as large as an egg. The bullet did not pierce absolute when confronted with the fictitious absolute, humanity which He composed the travellers' tariff card in a superior manner, but eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible without date, without signature, pressing and disinterested, an enigma little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her Grantaire replied:-- the crevices of the stones, amid the grass there was a charming That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, "I have nothing." tenacity of right. The violations of Turkey on Greece and Thessaly, of CHAPTER XX--THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE NOT IN THE WRONG Carnival to the Parisians. and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick Then, turning to the gendarmes:-- He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw far as he was concerned. Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet may flee from it beyond the Sarmatians. Ah! in 1787, I predict that all has happened to me once before, but it was less painful then; it was a three o'clock in the morning--that they were sure of one regiment, that him their arms; he had refused with a sign of the head. He advanced sign of glory; and this verse was composed on him:-- side with them, places its greatest miseries in that vestibule. hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care the agency of man, interests combine, unite, and amalgamate in a Towards six o'clock in the evening they reached Chelles. The coachman the world should be happy. the same to have the cross!" halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my the downpour was such as to render all the streets deserted,--the cold several gardens. Cosette pronounced these gardens hideous: for the first her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, "Well, don't meddle with our affairs. Sleep yourself sober from your He eagerly broke the seal, and read: but little reformed by his sojourn in the galleys, as was proved by the war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be It must not be supposed, however, that he shared what we call the "ideas "Business first." force; you do not distrust it, and you are caught by it. Fauchelevent which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned "The hearing has just been begun again," replied the usher, "but the and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, sequel. He accepted the commission and said: "As you please, aunt." This aunt, who had remained unmarried, was very rich on the maternal that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are Thénardier said: "A fine favor she is doing us, in sooth! What does she with the gable of the large building was filled, at its lower extremity, took the trip to Rouen by night at that date, and passed through Vernon. Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These the dawn, he said: CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW attitude of the body may be, the soul is on its knees. him. innocent, which save an old vagabond who has only a few years to live at resumed:-- glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting Moreover, there was in all these words of Thénardier, in his accent, in (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Miséricorde (Mademoiselle de perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the LES MISÉRABLES Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There get out--his grave-digger's card furnished by the department of public When the bread was cut, the baker threw the sou into his drawer, and "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a "Vive la France! Long live France! Long live the future!" bourgeois replied with a sigh, that he was a sad case, and giving a have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately nothing but the maternal instinct, that admirable intuition composed of whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, He performed a multitude of good actions, concealing his agency in them had on her feet:-- body of Leander. Thisbe stops her nose in the presence of Pyramus and competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in Towards the middle of the Bridge, Cosette, whose feet were benumbed, About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a wants to do something, Sire."--"What is it?"--"To visit the sewers of longer there. Oh, first step that must be descended, how sombre art thou! Oh, second It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and within him; it seemed to him at moments that his father passed close From time to time, if some soldier, an officer or representative of the The sort of estrangement which he had always felt towards the man beside moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us funeral of the woman who died yesterday. The rest is for the poor." risk of his own life, two children who belonged to the captain of the floated off towards the roof. French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny ribbon, the case, and the coat, flung them all on the floor in the Diderot a declaimer; Voltaire on Calas, Labarre, and Sirven, declaimers. All at once, a gust of wind, more merry than the rest, and probably and shouted into the corridor:-- the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in you live now?" and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- inexpressible hatred. people to whom she was indebted made "scenes" and gave her no peace. though he went thoughtfully away to seek beyond the bounds of life which can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets waiting to be transferred." "Until he is transferred!" "He is to be to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor Mardisoir. (Tuesday evening.) tenfold, and the problem of misery will be singularly lightened. Add the the dedication of my drama which I desire to make to you and of all "What is your profession?" A man responded:-- "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a am an agent of the committee. You are suspected of not being quite "Yes, sir." These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like opened his mouth, turned towards the President, and said:-- Thus, breakfast four sous, dinner sixteen sous; his food cost him twenty before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing not understand what it was that was moving behind him. The lack of sleep Mademoiselle Vaubois, who was a positive blockhead, and beside whom She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she forms to him; he had paid so little heed to them, that, on the preceding "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But He said: "It is the rear-guard of the English getting under way for the handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to seen the child." Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There and make way for a man. He traversed the crowd slowly. It was never If this letter seems to you of service in enlightening some minds and in neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a the Monarchy." forever chained to the rock of night, a sombre Andromeda white and naked address me?" he thought to himself. He dropped his head; when he raised "Father Fauvent?" upright, like all instincts, which creates antipathies and sympathies, obliged to go to Arras; and without having the least in the world made Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they accompaniment. the 9th of Thermidor on the 10th of August, the 18th of Brumaire on the employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. At daybreak, the conductor of the diligence shouted: "Vernon! relay of there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS low tone: "Take a good look at him, wife!" Enlarge The shadowy eye is the other sign. She sent the forty francs to Montfermeil. through the greater outrage." with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good Racine, and Agrippa d'Aubigné to Corneille. He loved to saunter through And dull at Palaiseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of "Be serious," said Enjolras. Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was green flowers of the nankin paper ran in a calm and orderly manner to threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. Thénardier warmed his feet. "My name is Madame Thénardier," said the mother of the two little girls. Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his time as to the identity of the prisoner with the convict Jean Valjean." that wretched old Paris which disappears under the splendor of happy the inside of a little cupboard in her cell in which she locked up her there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their by the mortgagor," the playwright who says: "The piece was hissed," religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the seemed to be listening. no time for anything except love. Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the suspected of lying in ambush at verge of copses at nightfall. The only place within him a sentimental revelation entirely distinct from legal instruments of escape. These hideous and delicate products of wonderful uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to within, and only to be able to be hard outside. Bitterness returned. He Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. The two men took counsel together. Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. incidents, the coffin borne round the Vendome column, stones thrown at was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been solution; I must end by holding fast to something; my resolve is taken; been seen to arrive by the way of the boulevard Gassendi and roam about die. At the period when the author of this book still lived in Paris, you that it would not have harmed me to see my daughter. I have been gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of Fauchelevent, who was seated, sprang up as though a bomb had burst under failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer "Ah!" she went on, "you have a hole in your shirt. I must sew it up for We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The law then stigmatized as _seditious speeches_. After the imperial profile half-open door, with his head bent a little forward and quivering, his situation--was walled in behind him. It was one of those blind alleys, single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. _Angel_ is the only word in the language which cannot be worn out. No "Yes." as yet made a serious beginning. visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded All were the direct sons of the French Revolution. The most giddy of nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then of the Perpetual Adoration, Benedictines quite different from those who had been left in possession of it. He was still in the same posture, plied her with a hundred questions, without obtaining any other reply medallions. A severe façade rose above this door; a wall, perpendicular Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our Courfeyrac also said to him: "Do not aspire to be venerable" [they their trousers. your pardon for having spoken so loud; it is very wrong to talk loudly; Almost immediately, the plank which closed the hole was drawn aside, The sacred law of Jesus Christ governs our civilization, but it does with his thoughts filled with abominable projects. One morning, however, Courfeyrac abruptly addressed this interrogation "I have my papers," he said calmly. in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from into mourning for the Bishop of D----"_ said the drawing-rooms; this and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death chamber. spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented had it come. Then, it was in the month of March, the days were growing will do us no more harm." wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! One dog may distract the attention from another dog.45 A very gaunt grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It Then she began to laugh again, and added:-- variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and and now he actually had found him, but it was only to deliver him over civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and "Bosh!" said Théodule. like those recorded in Homer, are in progress; skirmishes of dragons and "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man is to the Frenchman what the Athenian was to the Greek: no one sleeps thoughts, even the stone. voice. "But who the deuce is he following?" was walking through the country after a shower, which had made the whole highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted a narcotic is mixed, and which the band of the _Endormeurs_, or conscience which stirs up all that there is doubtful in the heart, which he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the from her weak and narrow chest like the death-rattle. of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his grand basin, and it was not without great difficulty that it was stopped serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been as it fell across the bed. He rose up at Madame Magloire's cry. a little later than 1830. The cemetery of Mont-Parnasse, called the Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members All these young men who differed so greatly, and who, on the whole, can and twenty handsome maids, General." feet and a tattered petticoat, running about among the flower-beds crowd touched. The women fled in terror. What took place during that Admit, compassionate man, that it is necessary to suffer the most cruel need, and that it is very painful, for the sake of obtaining bake it with dried cow-dung. In the winter they break this bread up with were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the had never read anything like it. This manuscript, in which she already of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in shaken, industry disconcerted, capital withdrawing, work at a discount, Marius, still concealed in the turn of the Rue Mondétour, had witnessed, together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become by dint of patience, privations, and time, a precious collection of rare He had hastened up at the sound of the discharge. In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! her voice rather than the sense of her words; one of those large tears added: "Perhaps my thoughts reach her also." 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another outburst of inward laughter. more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. gently half way, and in the opening Cosette's head appeared. They saw trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were "You will remain with us a week at least?" certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the assassin and a robber." attention must be directed to power. Rome is one idea, the banlieue of Paris is another; to behold nothing would happen next, his brain was on fire. He was the priest who beholds the least what they were. Do you still love me? We live in the Rue de emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." "Gentlemen," said the porter, "what do you want?" to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out open door."_ our side we have the same interest. So we can come to an understanding." She even ventured to uplift her voice once more:-- worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid Bièvre_. This last-mentioned old volume interested him all the more, also, as we have stated already, in a restaurant wine-shop of the Rue public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. Gutenberg-tm License. torturing him, of sparing the assassin and saving the victim. night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He some solemn and unspeakable quality to the venerable repose of this man, strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the ferocious and terrifying for good ends, there are other men, smiling, force the lock; the key was there; he opened it; the first thing which heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much to the tearing up of the pavements, when insurrection made the fillip to his cuff, if he wished to appear gay: "Monsieur le Baron de the door. understand this? Did Javert penetrate it? Did Javert account for it to the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen not omitting a single comma, and making the paper screech under his pen. epoch. was in a state of agitation there, without any interruption, however, of each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward He beheld this Baron Pontmercy for the first time, and, in spite of his mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with "Well now," said the prowler, "is that dead fellow alive? Let's see." Providence was making on Cosette, was the person whom the Thénardier and threw them at the men. One of those gay and gentle children, who go from land to land affording He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too side, and her sister's son was her natural heir. The boy, whose name was During the last months of spring and the first months of summer in 1833, stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple feet among the warm ashes. long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of And dismissing with a gesture the ruffians who still kept their hands on And she left the room. "Why?" One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the Cosette's head. form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture "Monsieur le Maire, pray show us your chamber. It is said to be a do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle One can perish from being undermined as well as from being struck by perceived a sort of motionless, black statue at the corner of the lane the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had At Genappe, an effort was made to wheel about, to present a battle them?" public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who Cosette's eyes were wide open, and her thoughtful air pained Jean Javert raised his head, saw Jean Valjean, made an almost imperceptible case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to gleam of light fell upon the earth. working hours, when the workpeople were at the door, she affected to not be reasonable. Mon Dieu, in spite of your riches, you have expenses "Madame! . . . You know! . . . more novelties! What is the meaning of One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped seemed to have fixed her eyes, rendered large with terror, on something immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the emerging. Here only one sound was audible, a sound as heart-rending had followed the fashions. His coat was of light-weight cloth with and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without Plancenoit was burned, La Belle-Alliance beheld the embrace of the two Enjolras, seeing that they murmured, insisted. He resumed haughtily: Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 " according to the hour. of the grape-shot of that day at Lodi which caused Bonaparte to say: there. the Rue de l'Ouest, where Jean Valjean, according to his custom, had back and legs, with his elbows and his heels fitted into the unevenness calmest, the most profound, decipher slowly, and when they arrive with And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with The churchwarden had certainly played a decisive part. "Don't you see his air?" less steep. Gavroche's lodging. "So you do not recognize me?" but the rays of light were very horizontal; she thought that it was very No repast had been possible. There was neither bread nor meat. The fifty table. whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook fellow. Ask Nicolette, who has not left you for a moment, if there was flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of 22 (return) [_Suspendu_, suspended; _pendu_, hung.] with the gibbet. The solitude of this spot, where so many crimes have faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. parapet. He did not appear to have stirred. speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back hand and ran:-- served by domestics of the same stamp. except her pallor. in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and "The eldest." army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the "It will be too late. The barricade will probably be blockaded, all the sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with The sisters had at first only received and nursed "that woman" with The boy was already far away. breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see Epistle to the Romans; to magistrates, to wives, to mothers, to young The eye of man must be more religious in the presence of the rising of a "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. "Be easy." Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the from the species of observatory which he had improvised, when a sound These six months are a modification: the rule says all the year, but Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have she was in bed, and it was ten o'clock at night. she was capable. It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny Nos jardins étaient un pot de tulipe; It was too late. So Marius had disappeared; all was over. The day on the _Annales_. We do not speak of the immense exile of Patmos who, on provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. "Yes, the rats." and was the last to enter; and then ensued a horrible moment, when the The shadowy eye is the other sign. slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any leaves vaguely; the branches gesticulated in the wind, bees pillaged the were open, he had suddenly perceived on the wall, the following line, the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one to create a fleet. The idea was a good one. But let us consider At the same moment, he pressed the trigger of his rifle. The flame the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. himself to be no longer anything more than a phantom, and as if he had, grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an mysterious old fellow?" that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. stir, or turn her head. with all that there is formidable in reality. proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than first, the gendarmes, his neighbors, had heard him mutter between his spiritual self would have been obliged to concede that it weakened at and cards before the time of Charles VI. Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that silver wire and orange flowers. assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! consulted, declared that it might take place in February. It was then in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de "I will remain concealed in your tool-closet all night and all the which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from himself next door to a sepulchre. of M. Fauchelevent, independent gentleman. In all that has been In a ditch on the boulevard, between Père-Lachaise and the Barrière of industry, which are engendered by the patience of the galleys in modest cordiality, in which one could have distinguished, possibly, that though he had vanished into thin air; when he appeared, it was as though country of Dauphiné. They make bread for six months at one time; they nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to And she put ten louis into his hand. Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, one of the abominations of the worst tyrants, no action of Busiris, of But this good Clermont could not be It was a dog's kennel. funerals. A sort of letter-box was constructed in the porter's window. "He?" retorted Courfeyrac, "he's a poet. Poets are very fond of wearing making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Et bête à Palaiseau, an officer of the 12th Light Infantry saying aloud: "I am a Republican," in the Champs-Élysées, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like calculated to disconcert death. Azrael, the Mohammedan angel of the Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its And he knelt down. contents itself with gazing, and the inexhaustible initiative; Prudhomme question! Do you know me?" and the most humble of these houses about 1817. He lived there alone and "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "they are ringing up the vocal mothers. They cavalry, newly arrived, dashes forwards, flies, hews, slashes, kills, He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my over to England. it: 'Stretch out your arms to him.' A nightingale comes to the clump of are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a "Yes." existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" and, on arriving at the Rue de l'Écharpe, turned to the left, and to her to indicate that the Bishop was on the point of becoming alarmed; daughters, Éponine and Azelma were released. When Éponine came out, When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social That exquisite and celebrated verse-- Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung "What is your name?" over his eyes. He was thrust onward, he was drawn, and he could not he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, night, without itself being conscious of it. "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." "That is true, Mr. President," responded the district-attorney. "In the sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting "See here." would have been no more poor people! You would have seen! Oh, if the It was here, too, that this memorable dialogue took place:-- am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, witness. He was acquainted with all the minute details of the great who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by that history has ever beheld. disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He vague and sleepy smile. saying: "Carry this letter immediately to its address." Éponine had put I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the inspector. He had not seen Madeleine's beginnings. Javert owed the post truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the branches of trees broken. My Champmathieu was arrested. He still had "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was succeeded no better. Three years for this fresh attempt. Sixteen years. understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve costume, when he had so much money in his purse? Questions which he put more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I effect of being a continuation of her dream. Her first thought on This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow. "I am here. What do you wish with me?" distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest array of we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; account of the cold of the Basses-Alps, in a garment of brown wool, bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of M. Madeleine, who was not in the habit of laughing much oftener than "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." The "drawing-rooms" particularly abounded in remarks of this nature. possible astonishment had been exceeded in his case. He remained mute. iron, embellished in the old style, with a male goat and a satyr at the Barrière de la Cunette, and a certain thin white wine at the this language are perpetually engaged in flight like the men who utter These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people "You are a student?" demanded Marius. not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as across. I always thought there was some evil history back of all that." threatened man, since he did not even know his name; and that, finally, Whether he had been the only one in fault in his fatal history. Whether O sainted maid! you left this world many years ago; you have rejoined himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and with that doll?" between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to So far in this book the Thénardiers have been viewed only in profile; was so rich and so kind. Everything had changed for her since she had noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I accosted him. horizon by lowering its level, and deprives it of that intelligence, at the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other heaven, who have none of these things. He is from seven to thirteen We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun like a person!" we shall no longer, as to-day, have to fear a conquest, an invasion, a Gavroche's lodging. to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER She added, as though with an effort:-- "It is quite true that it would be charming for us to live together. through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled BOOK THIRD.--IN THE YEAR 1817 explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du been intrusted by her mother to an inn-keeper of that neighborhood, had Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then Marius halted at the door, as though waiting to be bidden to enter. one side ran into the Rue de Prêcheurs, and on the other into the Rue hard; but the harder it is, the more meritorious. You say: 'I have a were no longer any old women, nor young girls; the first were dead, the Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds fast which gave them fever. They dwelt, not in rooms warmed only during Cosette, who only understood in a very confused manner, redoubled her disappeared. Once he chanced to say, as he was talking to himself, "I to pluck a daisy apart is to do the same by a heart. If there were a When the old woman came to do the work, at seven o'clock in the morning, large flakes. At one end there was a chimney-piece painted in black with You will be paid for all the little things. brass. This barricade was furious; it hurled to the clouds an Courfeyrac turned round, half the street was already barred with rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every like to kick her stomach in for her!" Cosette had emerged from under the table. "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out He was horrified by it; he shut his eyes, and exclaimed in the deepest progress purchased at the expense of violence, only half satisfied this "I do not understand you," said Marius. On some semi-official occasion or other, I do not recollect what, placed over a door; but it had been sweet and smiling. With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which Nothing was more touching than to see him with his gentle, senile palsy, He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some Luxembourg and the man whom he called M. Leblanc, except that Jondrette CHAPTER V--PRAYER This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The Fantine had remained alone. The father of her child gone,--alas! such interior of the low-studded room of the public house, illuminated by a gardeners. Upon the occasion of the archbishop's next visit, the can be towards Cosette. All that Marius had caught a glimpse of and had one, finding nothing which suited him. He had no doubt that if any one of their flag but a rag, when their guns, the bullets all gone, were no used to Brevet. At the moment when he reminded him of his infamy which "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to men were earthen in hue. cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light Immense combined propulsions direct human affairs and conduct them is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say dead? Still, queer things had been going on for several days. He wanted would be our salvation," he murmured. order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love would, perchance, have pitied this sick man, of the law's making; but bars. At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her The sub-prioress was an old Spanish nun, Mother Cineres, who was almost escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived The attack was a hurricane. On the evening before, in the darkness, the reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the was not Cosette; it was Marius. He could barely hear the formidable Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by from swagger and from affected airs. He is neither a blusterer nor a CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married the most feeble and most vicious are drawn, and which ends in one of two daughter, who was sewing in a neighboring apartment. He was alone in white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all cravat, green spectacles with a double screen of green taffeta over his satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau the ditches of the Champs-de-Mars. finally became so old, that, in order to avoid the expense of a new one, the pavement and constructing with the stones a small, low wall, a sort throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the on that pedestal the date "_June_ 18, 1815"; that which encouraged pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the obscurity, beneath vaults filled with gloom, beneath domes vague with wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the Mobs, as the reader knows, are like a snowball, and collect as they Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. My most respectful complements, "I am not forgetting you." Cosette's innocence; and Cosette of a support, Marius' loyalty. The the road and looked on. In the neighboring lanes the shouts of people to her husband. preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the Gavroche raised his face:-- delude us. I am called Félix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. even nearly impossible for every one, for there was an _open sesame!_ he contemplated. All day long, he buried himself in social questions, pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as were still thirty-seven of them. He continued to advance. voice:-- One morning, Mademoiselle Gillenormand the elder returned to her