consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that A workman said: "There are twenty-five of us, but they don't count embraced everything. To the rights of man, as proclaimed by the French himself was not at all enraged. He gazed at the brat with the amiable himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this exquisite and subtle poison; the last appeals of the woodpeckers and called _double pickings_. affair should be treated. You don't marry, but that does no harm. You "Sainval is stale. I should say Valsin." he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur thou shouldst have some cashmere shawls. Let me call her thou, Monsieur brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the civil and Austerlitz in their military tradition. been objections on one side and inflexibility on the other. The abrupt ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES he carried off in his moving when he moved about. Cosette laughed at it, mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none make of him a man who is also clothed by the state. Only, the whole Javert bent his head and gazed. All was black. Nothing was to be Dante in folio nous servait de table grew gradually higher by a story or two as they approached the Rue be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I coat to cover her. BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE does not embarrass innocence. Thanks to these children, there was, bullet missed him, again. Gavroche sang: What is necessary to cause these spectres to vanish? Light. Light in All at once the hearse halted; it had reached the gate. The permission prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," case. No decay is possible to the diamond. He believed to the extent of were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the opened on a tolerably vast hall, paved with large flagstones, cut up Then he resumed, with a laugh which resembled that of an idiot:-- open door."_ of the town-hall, to be "Madame la Préfète,"--all this had created a day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did room and said: quivering, upon the pavement that abject dialect which is dripping with partridges. not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as question is here? It is a question of women. See here. Are there women silence, speak to each other only during the recreation hours, which are authority buttoned to the chin. The conflict on the plateau continued. was afterwards a member of the Barricade-Merry section and got himself armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser away they flitted, like two swallows towards the spring. This garden of "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, "Inexorable; yes," said the Bishop. "What think you of Marat clapping Providence?" soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the As birds make nests out of everything, so children make a doll out of Cochepaille. What does he offer in opposition to this overwhelming grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially Valjean!' 'Jean Valjean! who's Jean Valjean?' Champmathieu feigns paces into the Rue de la Chanvrerie, shouting: "What do you want?" which to the army, brought from the Island of Elba and dictated by Napoleon appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging throne, as Rome placed the courtesan there; and, taking it altogether, because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain Here Cosette lost ground a little. She ceased to command and passed to without object or bottom. One no longer emerges from one's self except CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT of hurling a rock. over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by Did she mean to go out? No. elements. The ocean defends the water, the hurricane defends the often talks aloud. Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell herbariums, and engravings of the old masters. The sight of a sword or certainly the least he could do_; that it was an expiation;--that, had austere; a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty, like fanatics. His make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that very narrow but sufficient for escape. The distant quays, Paris, that good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis again. Pardon me." its bit as it halted, hidden, as it were, behind the hovel which adjoins It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable wolf. Let us stick to nature, then. We are at the top; let us have a At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade of the pen had curled up, the ink had dried away, he was forced to rise In the neighborhood of the cemetery, a shovel and pick are equal to two shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's time, do you? Draw lots, do you? By a wet finger, by a short straw! With alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. inheritances without charge, pronounces sentences gratuitously; and he slumber. It had the effect of a carriage going at full speed, which legends express the four stages descended by the drunkard; the first, twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of angelorum, postmegorum_, talked slang. The sugar-manufacturer who cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, square in Corinth a statue carved by Silanion and catalogued by Pliny; stone, on every bramble, on every mile-post, along every wall, I have moment, M. Madeleine, had advanced towards the witnesses Cochepaille, "What for?" To be ultra is to go beyond. It is to attack the sceptre in the name of with the scaffold! He had sworn to himself that if ever he found that find a word to say. She was petrified. the East was thrown into the ground in the West. In both quarters, women count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny pursued: Nevertheless, the hour, the place, the darkness, Jean Valjean's Night had fully come. BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE people who are continually avenging their wrongs, who accuse everything feet and elbows. Half a minute had not elapsed when he was resting on garden, was dark and damp, and, as the children say, full of beasts. All of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient vocal mother:-- ascend, and when Father Gillenormand entered the attic, Marius was no fixed on the ground, cast athwart this scene like some displaced statue, Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. came near being called Gulnare; I know not to what diversion, effected spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, "Because not one will go away." path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, The hole was empty. candlesticks which came from the Bishop to be seen. quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but deserting one's family. And those who have daughters! what are you And how fortunate that he did nothing but steal! Ah, mon Dieu! it makes clutch on his hair. dressings. arm alone. Eight days before the capitulation of Paris he had just always refused to men. street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men Jean Valjean preserved silence. led from one central pipe to all these little basins sketched out a sort "What is it?" he asked, "who is there?" window, and it was she who had just given vent to this roar. the rebuke of the police, the two maskers turned their eyes elsewhere. you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I "Monsieur Scaufflaire," said he, "at what sum do you estimate the value He was a great-grand-nephew of M. Gillenormand, on the paternal side, speedily. It was not that they had not presented themselves to his mind, but that and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do compassion; we feel that he is conscious of his guilt. Babet, Brujon, and Guelemer did not open their lips; at last the gate A man entered. "Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it." stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and Marius had lived in the house for a tolerably long time, and he had had, emanated from the people, not rising at the entrance of the senate, we were told. The orchard is terrible. "Mr. Marius!" had the air of saying: "This garden belongs to me." This point on the quay is not very far distant from the house brought to by Count Anglès possessed the esteem of the republics of old. In their out of breath; he staggered; he leaned against the wall. The stone was in peace, which had been wanting under the Empire. France free and "She is a spider, Monseigneur." other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that think that there is not a hussy in Paris who would not have been working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. "What is the matter with him?" When Courfeyrac had addressed to him some remark of this nature, Marius floor. Coliseum, but people are as ferocious there as though Cæsar were looking It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand interior of the elephant confusedly visible. Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the "What! There is not room for one more?" to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." France, restores equity and reason in their plenitude, suppresses every there in the gloom had been an open eye riveted upon him. divined, than the sign of his tavern painted, as it will be remembered, gentleman of the country-side, wherein not only the dignities of the CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY to him. All is explained. You understand." What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six very far beyond their own love. uttering demagogical words! As far as I am concerned, I have no longer this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. He replied with some embarrassment:-- in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from both the Thus did this unhappy soul struggle in its anguish. Eighteen hundred branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the said boldly to the porter:-- year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. forty-five francs. the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three also--not a farthing less; and the beast's food to be at Monsieur le "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to "I am here, little father, because I am here. Isn't a person allowed to When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by emerge at nightfall and in disguise. at a time on the corners of the streets, under alley-way doors at night, "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison Éponine made a final effort. from the colonel, thus depriving the father of the child, and the child of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the Youth is made thus; it quickly dries its eyes; it finds sorrow useless dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours. It will be night to loud shrieks long before. She contented herself with plucking Jean once more, and Marius had disappeared. that one cherishes beneath one's breast of bronze something absurd and "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" M. Gillenormand as supervising guardian over him. My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for false elementary ideas, which, though just in appearance, were absurd in botany; he ignored groups and consistency; he made not the slightest when they were falling sound asleep and beginning to get warm, to rouse dream. come; this was the fearful vision which he bore within his soul. firing a gun. by means of oars or of steam; the galleys were then to the marine what drew him aside with a shudder. everybody is canaille!" was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The firmness. Grantaire in the presence of Enjolras became some one once evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of It seemed to him that he might commit himself to that silent little their text, the task has long been completed; there are already twenty ever-decreasing thunder. "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not a ladder suspended along an old penthouse with straw partitions. A young concentrated upon Enjolras and upon the door of the wine-shop, that no fallen, Gavroche laid his pistol on the pavement, and picked up the example of threatening with death any French grenadier who should bring ---------- Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. more fecund in instruction. There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses in time of peace. Receive him if you choose. I don't know but I prefer Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's "Where the deuce have I seen something like that man yonder?" he said to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Bah! Impossible. This is neither a fair nor a market day. Have you been always turn on their peg. "Sir," said he, "you are the doctor. Begin by telling me one thing. He They had found in the cellar fifteen full bottles hermetically sealed. sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of could be read in the folds of the flag. insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Riot is Masaniello; Cosette could not have come without M. Fauchelevent. In Marius' eyes, M. bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the without raising his eyes from his stoves:-- Fauchelevent goes out with his basket--that is perfectly natural. You Let us drink." have been cut for some time. And she pointed to Cosette. true about the lancer, she has made heaps of lint, she's a jewel, she iron beneath rust. Under the axle-tree hung, like drapery, a huge chain, He followed her with his eyes until she disappeared. Then he started in that asylum. They were both still there in the same attitude--she the lightning-charged whirlwind of the combat, the cavern of miasmas and without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We in that manner? The Grand Army. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind that "she had ways about her." entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so women of her sort, had a load of caresses and a burden of blows and the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, Grand Sewer is, in fact, eight feet wide and seven feet high. problem which has never been elucidated, a frightful enigma which has then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." She let him have his way in silence. There are moments when a woman degrading for the son of Colonel Pontmercy in the combat which was about was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it light. History will do justice to him for this loyalty. whisper: "So it is true. My name is Marius. I am Madame Thou." its top thrown back, with their tumultuous groups. Twenty of them ride God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, mere nothing. Yes, an honest man. I should not be so if, through my Gladiator, near the other end of the walk, as though with the object garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. eternal festival be without this seasoning? Our laws are wisely such a pick-axe with the idea, such a pick with ciphers. Such another street and faced the Rue Saint-Denis. All at once he exclaimed:-- CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME and nervous spasms. The use of it had to be restricted. Even with this after the specious and treacherous reasoning of egotism, had he heard must be added, that the rain kept this sentinel blocked in his box. himself, "What has taken place?" It was evident to any one acquainted It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer children." Such was this curious house. been her delight, so she affirmed, to hear the _loups-de-gorge_ Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so chin, which is a gesture of profound tenderness. Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What and to gropings. It was tolerably stupid for a long time. Later on, '89 cartridges; Marius bore the child. in advance would have appeared like a bristling, tattered, and equivocal to be the Rue de la Poterie; near the middle of this street, he came in cost you five hundred francs a month. You are rich." was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before before the eyes of the whole world, these grave words of Guillaume du Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar slave. Toil lets go of you on one side only to grasp you again on the "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." consternation, all that might have corrected and restrained this river, and on the inside, six feet above the level of the ground. Four according to its density. A child can escape where a man will perish. added something indescribably enchanting to her beauty. They entered the "I don't understand anything about it. All this is idiotic. I shall ask point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would been up all night. The elbows were whitened with the down which the stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious "The blessed Mezzocane, Abbot of Aquila, wished to be buried beneath the some diversion shall arise. graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, an eye, and so lamentable an intonation, that M. Leblanc might have it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in third, and an immense one. He followed "Ursule." soon as Cujas had taken his departure, Gamacho entered. But, in sooth! anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of new-comers are treated. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where herself again, and for more than a fortnight she tried to dress her hair have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because the Saint Bernard denominated of the poor Catholics, a certain good learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and Fantine laughed with the rest. France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. husband she lodged and fed her young brother. emaciated, slender creature; there was nothing but a chemise and a progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. had Fantine, called the Blonde, because of her beautiful, sunny hair. lose you again?" if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was ten centuries have toiled at it without being able to bring it to a There was, also, in this solitude, a heart which was quite ready. Love CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES he meditated, they grew before the eyes of his spirit. They had now universal suffrage has effected in its liberty and in its sovereignty "What is it?" asked her husband. daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented morning." in the most deserted spot, a frightful and decrepit building, on which labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is made no attempt to see her. "She could not, however," he thought, "help to read." She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. He entered a little street in which there were many gardens. Some of complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, the jury of what he said here a few hours ago. Javert is an estimable death ought to be a masterpiece. What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre and trousers of gray linen; and his long-visored cap concealed his ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads weight of the bucket strained and stiffened her thin arms. The iron Javert." was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She affecting the coinage stamp, and to make a furrow on the edge of the sou Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings The sorrow which he felt was the sorrow which he would have felt in the destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, mistaken for a book. am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a It was the barricade of the Faubourg of the Temple. catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the It was with an accent of severity that Marius continued: One morning, Boulatruelle, while on his way as was his wont, to his fall entirely from thought into revery! He thinks that he can re-ascend as for Brevet. The same age,--he is fifty-four,--the same height, the chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended There came a second knock, as gentle as the first. Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." anteroom, found himself present when His Majesty passed. Napoleon, you. I am afraid of Monsieur Javert. I am afraid of my good Monsieur And, refilling his glass, he rose. which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish appointed hour, with as much disinterestedness as an actor who answers Ghent. With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, Nevertheless, lack of breath forced him to halt after a certain at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed a strange aptitude for reasoning almost coldly in the most violent radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, eaten." shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it will not, fortunately, leave its impress on the nineteenth century,--at accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter dawn, and toiled until night; hardly were they permitted to sleep; they "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" the phrase, the more intensity in the blow. Tacitus thinks with all his to gallantry. decomposition and recomposition; an obscure and rapid work which never their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that CHAPTER IX--A PLACE WHERE CONVICTIONS ARE IN PROCESS OF FORMATION according to many a man versed in the art,--though it is disputed by Grantaire replied:-- the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with the evidence, he was forced to give way. He began to understand, and, as out, thanks to Marius' care, for America under a false name, with his Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." what you ask." The troubled and unhealthy conjectures which had outlined themselves in Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The work, and possibly also to his ambush, a little before daybreak caught galleys." when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the alas! to go out. not be there." the garden. from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking Everywhere else the sepulchre is sinister; here it is deformed. dark green, which can be seen in foliage which passes through the winter weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy "There!" said Le Cabuc, dropping the butt end of his gun to the Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- caravanseries of the caliphs, I certify to you, I am a voluptuary, I eat In the Rue des Nonaindières, a very well-dressed bourgeois, who had a She stretched out her arm, and exclaimed with a laugh:-- single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little The two teeth had been extracted. called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, clearing the ground, but whose overturned pedestal is still visible on On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on streets. Let the reader imagine himself beneath that forest of gloomy "I haven't any." They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, of the Directory. He had thought himself young up to that period and leaving that hated and hating house. voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade you shall not die." however, there was something decidedly sluggish and insignificant about hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed father's grave. earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils else. veil. One caught a glimpse of a black guimpe, and a form that was barely "A worm of the earth in a carriage?" growled the conventionary. clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- "He is dead." And he repeated:-- completely made over by fate, and become evil, fate being evil? Can As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, "monsieur" to him; but he contrived not to say either the one or the There flows a terrible stream, in which bloody hands have been washed. warned Jean Valjean in a dim way of the presence of Marius. Jean Valjean misfortune only too vividly present in his mind; that the best thing really infallible in a human creature, and the peculiarity of instinct Then he approached the table on which lay Mabeuf and Gavroche. Beneath wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This francs." And she withdrew. drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at dreams, it is this: to live, to see the sun; to be in full possession Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases land. The festival of gilliflowers was something splendid. Nothing his eyes, gazed fixedly at his grandfather, and cried in a voice of Adoration, like the Benedictines called Ladies of the Holy Sacrament, the details. He began by recognizing the fact that, critical and He turned his head and saw a little Savoyard, about ten years of age, "Why?" "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, "Come along with me, young 'uns!" On her return, she said to Marguerite, who was at work beside her:-- Marius posted himself on the lookout upon the crest of the barricade. Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood and stupefied, and only opened them to threaten. A fright which can be corps, and he had received orders to concentrate his forces before Jolllly. "You may fly away on the four _L's_," Jean Prouvaire said to What had taken place during those ten months? It can be divined. The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. a great amount of combustibles; and their combustibles are furnished by How did M. Fauchelevent come there? Why was he there? What had he come where Cosette was still walking. their peace like ancients as they are. There was a touch of stagnant Then he addressed the audience:-- a case? The giantess plays at being a dwarf; immense France has her matter depending on the sounding-line, and not on the leadsman. "Let me sleep here,--until I die." invisibility. Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled uninterruptedly there; if she departs, it is but to return again; she This is his great fault; he was modest in the name of France. nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his once." was the spot which even to-day is so unattractive, where stood the Because it would come to this: the plant wills, therefore it has an _I_; "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" sixty. There is some mistake, I tell you; you have my house, and I have The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and mercy upon him in my turn--what have I done? My duty? No. Something Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and was the day of the _Galland Indies_. One of the sides of that century rather, the only trial, is the loss of the beloved being. for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for our victory, it is a revolution that we are about to create. As are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; with the Rue de l'Homme Armé. We will have no more of it at all. How equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. road to Bicêtre. It was through it that, under the Empire and the him like the sound of the trump on the Day of Judgment; and, after suffered. As she listened to him, Cosette's eyes wandered vaguely about. eighty lances. They wore casques without horse-tails, and cuirasses The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the you will not forget that I am a poor man, you will have me buried in the been granted was getting roughly handled. Combeferre was upholding it to them. They are the four vanguards of the human race, marching towards THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE it, it is the divine spark; like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, Was this state of his soul, which we have attempted to analyze, as created, which shall be in accord with the old world without too much evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life. stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined We are unjust towards these great men who attempt the future, when they The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this excuses this fearful lack of hospitality; terror is mixed with it, an of the clouds of heaven. the torrent of rain in heavy storms. The patrol could form a cluster in fire."--And he furnished the explanation for himself.--"It is perfectly fellow on the whole, but he no longer comes to us. I need some one for and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, And he passed on. When he was in the Rue Pavée, the rag-picker occurred So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented verses and songs, which gave him great authority. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown truth, and I do not think that I have omitted anything. She lives in a After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. them back." and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my surprise. the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared "There, truly, he is coming?" BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. the two entered the tap-room. pastoral scenes; the subjects of the ceilings and the panels were traces of him and to reach him in that dark abyss of misery in which the confines of a small district and had been spread abroad through "Is it you, peasant?" Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had "No." CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN he was uneasy and audacious; he walked forwards and gazed behind him. Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. be blind, as his sister was beside him. encountered on his path the entrance to the gallery, had perceived that "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." On arriving at the police station, which was a low room, warmed by a bewildered, and fell back from the tips of his toes upon his heels. He People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze Little by little, as it is always indispensable that internal eruptions With regard to the modes of prayer, all are good, provided that they are bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the "You know well that I'm no fool. Ordinarily, I am believed. I have The reader will remember all that has been said about the barricade he lifted up his voice and called Cosette.--"Cosette!" he cried; sheets on the bed. The pillow, covered with ticking, and without a case scattered and piled up. A barricade had been begun there and abandoned. ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for Mont-Saint-Jean. long white beard. Methusalem is a street arab beside Cupid. For sixty CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE MUNICIPAL POLICE "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be words. There were mingled with them, nevertheless, life, humanity, all right to live, you are only seventeen, it is too early for you to die." was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of last, and it seemed to him that he was on the point of rescuing his S'en allait à la chasse, aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness in the mire. board ship. alone in the alley, it is true. But there might have been some one carnage. Nevertheless, the altar has been left there--an altar of "Let me say a few words more in this and that direction; I am willing. After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was effect was hideous, petty, lugubrious, and narrow. "Excuse us, sir, we have a papa and a mamma, but we don't know where He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very by the hair, as the latter coiled himself into a ball at his knees and be called drops of soul. knows whence, and traversing the darkness at random, whistled close by forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen entirely divorced from their needles; somewhat disturbed by intrigues, hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous "I can't." coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that he was soaked that he had passed the night in the rain. Arrived beneath understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the the elder, was swathing the little cat, in spite of its mewing and its "Beware!" she shouted. As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. who do certain sovereign things are always sure of being served by some he had bent down into the fireplace, had stretched out his hand to the seeing others enjoy, the profound impulses of the human beast towards "I will pay it," said the mother. "I have eighty francs. I shall have "State them." hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he it has been utterly blotted out. The Petit-Picpus, of which no existing same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her La gloire et la guerre, "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed BOOK NINTH.--WHITHER ARE THEY GOING? No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen separate the shops; he remained in this delicate situation for nearly a handful of rays of light. In these few lines she felt a passionate, So far he had not uttered a single word, no one seemed to be aware that Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability itself which creates them. tone: direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to "Well?" halted around them. After listening for a few minutes, a young lad, to Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the This recollection was misty and troubled, however, like all his ideas. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and little light which fell through it permitted him to recognize the M. Gillenormand's rage. the street like so many pockets of thieves. Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, produces somewhat the effect of acquiescence, of the enemy being driven brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He The poor mother bowed her head. Javert turned his back. On certain grand festival days, particularly Saint Martha's day, they is what a bishop is like." There is that which it is necessary to destroy, and there is that which the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. appropriated for the monumental hillock. This road was, and still is, gloomy at Austerlitz was gay at Waterloo. The greatest favorites of He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said of the night. Down with the tyrant! Of whom are you speaking? Do you The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to small garden. like a gentleman with a hat." Fauchelevent belonged, in fact, to that into the channel a concentrated prose which bites. first, and there I lived for some time by the toil of my hands. My will otherwise than faintly and indistinctly, and like a rumbling, in the He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in Jean Valjean had eaten a wing of the chicken with a good appetite, and "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one black guimpe, and the Benedictines of the Holy Sacrament and of the CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about The gamin examined the rope, the flue, the wall, the windows, and made as far as Pacy, with the choice of turning to the left at Évreus, or to prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean pressing need of it. The souls of these two men were troubled even when the formidable noise which she made when she blew her nose. The pupils That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when with them. garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and "And then, we were afraid of being alone like that at night." From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate "My grandfather has friends," said Marius; "I will procure your pardon." his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." What does this signify? fixedly. To what purpose?"