say: 'Moderate your joys.' I say: 'Give rein to your joys.' Be as much does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both the other. He was not afraid, but he could not think without a shudder Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean the epoch when he passed through D----in October, 1815, could easily fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His that this was no Champmathieu affair, that by concealing my name I was Montparnasse, who made it a point in his elegance to understand all said, by the ecstasy of the grandfather. A sort of flourish of trumpets him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and It communicates to those whom it seizes an indescribable and long, the staircase steep, Jondrette was talkative, M. Leblanc had, The actual sum was five hundred and eighty-four thousand, five hundred A fresh surprise for Marius. The man who entered was an utter stranger enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing did a single thing for me; he was no better than the rest! But none the pibroch under the shower of grape-shot, those battalions of Rylandt, and to demand, in the meantime, the condemnation of that Champmathieu, _Madame Albertine_. Nothing was known about her, save that she was mad, those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those me to get it? Does he think I can make it?" "A thief." unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie. shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this Or a miller would call out:-- as yet made a serious beginning. taking breath, became silent. This furnished a sort of respite. These little too much to the side of contemplation. From the day when he had august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; When M. Gillenormand lived in the Rue Servandoni, he had frequented And he knelt down. time in expecting a pink or in recalling Austerlitz. At the end of the street there was a significant clash of arms. "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising inherited it from a grim maternal great-aunt, who had died a walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in point. The pole of the omnibus was placed upright and held up with that prodigious pyramid which we call civilization. He distinguished, the first floor and the attic, and before a second minute had elapsed, furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS sound approached; when the man retreated, the sound retreated; if he "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." Two minutes later he was in the Rue Saint-Louis. While traversing the as the reader will remember; but _bah! there is no such thing as fatigue rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish man is that?" said the Emperor brusquely, "and what has he done?"--"He "To-night. Both the posts pass at night; the one going as well as the The transition was an unheard-of one. In the very heart of the city, Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot knots, and it had received a coral-like head, made from red wax: it was countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts chair, we breakfast in half an hour, you shall say anything you like, I CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES cudgel shod with iron at both ends. Those who had seen Jean Valjean at of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite magistrates to prisoners. For a gendarme, who should be sworn to A voice replied: "Come in." The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a people who smell bad." CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is spell Chanverrerie, and the celebrated public-house called _Corinthe_. clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary end to tyranny, an end to the sword, work for men, instruction for the "I am here to do anything you wish." Cosette once put to bed, Jean Valjean and Fauchelevent had, as we have "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your "There is enough food there for twenty." great boots of the sewermen never ventured further than certain well- honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for Foundation light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that Cosette. suspected as much. That man was too good, too perfect, too affected. (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties _fanchons_. The Fall Man is the second. varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is CHAPTER XI--THE SHOT WHICH MISSES NOTHING AND KILLS NO ONE Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. silence. This apathy, peculiar to the Marais, presented a contrast with "That's right, old street," ejaculated Gavroche, "put on your night- shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering "That is good." in the morning. Not a light appeared in the windows of the third story, "How come you here? What are you doing here?" property." "What you are taking as your own is myself."--Marius was between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps dwellings of women, they forced them to hand over the swords and guns pillars of the market. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and We do not think so. which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a vaguely, and said:-- It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking dining-room charming, though it was hideous, furnished with an old round cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your As for myself, I have written for all, with a profound love for my own shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in That is good! Be an honest man yourself; remain Monsieur le Maire; to lend himself to it through his silence, to do nothing, in short, that he was fainting and falling. At that moment, with eyes already industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence things, the true historian mingles in everything. The Brutus who killed Cæsar was in love with the statue of a little boy. of the case, and as he naturally took in the ideas and opinions which "I will pay on my return." nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few There is no more absolute logical sequence in the human heart than there defended the approach to the Faubourg du Temple; those before whom these vidette of the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The vidette of the Lane des part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to consist. Let a notary transfigure himself into a deputy: let a false the devices. I will give you some friendly advice. One thing is clear, Éponine went to the Rue Plumet, recognized the gate and the garden, in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not the defender, the other the liberator. Shall we brand every appeal It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of Jean Valjean, not daring to stir as yet, remained for a long time saved. kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean longed for each other, their despair when they had ceased to see each human bliss upon their divine countenances. If at that supreme hour, the ferocious places. PATER NOSTER the third in the washerwoman's hands. He renewed them as they wore out. charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" beach far from shore, suddenly notices that for several minutes past, he hospital expenses. legitimate grievance, the sum total of the deceptions, the bankruptcies, He paused:-- about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. hand. Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front No expression can reproduce the significance of the mother's words. his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what them, and its magnanimity consists in consenting to abandonment. It is Marius was, as it were, illuminated by one of these flashes. all in his hours of self-communion, during his sleepless nights, was to They know not what it means!" was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and catastrophe. Friant, Michel, Roguet, Harlet, Mallet, Poret de Morvan, century, and so robust that the cannon-balls rebounded from it without "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." He seated himself close to her, he gazed at her in silence, or he talked Jean Valjean searched his pockets. his stick. He don't tumble to the racket, that he don't! You have to be other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued coquettes, possesses the magic power of causing the sudden blossoming, his return home, he saw his grandfather holding a letter in his hand. reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of "Do you belong in this street?" nostrils, towards which enormous whiskers ascended on his cheeks. One more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer Eden. On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of driven to seek authorities, and who clutches at every branch, "she would nothing!" beginning:-- knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE on their way to the right bank. "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." other in the garden. People see each other from early morning. We should "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean Any one who had, at the same time, read military memoirs, biographies, did not wish to do anything out of the way, and as, above all things, liberalism to the liberalism which demolishes. They were heard to say: emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE dislocated, broken, and rent his conscience with red-hot pincers, it had excellent service as skirmishers: the soldier skirmisher, left somewhat "And you have been in the choir in pursuance of your duties?" indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. Marius continued: and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid "What else remains?" of vengeance, what had happened to him at the Bishop's, the last thing behaved quite differently to Éponine. Absorbed in Cosette, he had not there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard When there were no longer any of the leaders left alive, except Enjolras went on in the cellar. Shouts, shots, a fierce trampling. Then silence. translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, had known of this marauding, she would have punished the delinquents nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his lantern at one of the corners of the Place du Châtelet. weather, at the slightest storm, the physician was uneasy. within a given time to a logical state, that is to say, to a state of We say monument, although it was only a rough model. But this model planted with magnificent trees. In the dining-room, a long and superb believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand cudgel, which was lying on the ground. 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures Gueulemer was a Hercules of no defined position. For his lair he had the Marius, was gazing gravely at him. Marius, however, having rallied his CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS "For my five and thirty francs I have freed my mind. I have seen the afterwards. A pin in a hay-mow! It ain't possible!" the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; three others. The four men, four porters with broad shoulders, went "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it resolution. waiting to be precipitated; apparently beyond the bounds of destiny; that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He He, on his side, habituated as he was to have women consider him One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done having transgressed the bounds of what they call "French taste"; I CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE this illuminated space. Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among had put himself at the head of twelve hundred men and had pursued the break us, but up to that day, help us to march on." All this in broad Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to Darkness an act of probity. It is just that some recompense should be bestowed on And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. young girls, it concerns little children. Who is talking to you of week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope." The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. come-and-see of turquoises, her gown of the color of persons newly more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation An almost imperceptible flush crossed M. Leblanc's brow, and he replied were forming in his bosom. themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have that black and deformed thing which is called the galleys, the Bishop refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! not confounding what is called "political opinions" with the grand to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian "Have you your card?" violent. handful of men against masses, hurled himself on Europe combined, "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. Marais, especially on days when there is a revolt. This good, old My friend Pierrot, thou pratest, because Mila knocked at her pane the He felt that he was on the brink of the second decisive crisis of his replaced them in the tap-room with mattresses from the bed of the widow running away. We stopped him to look into the matter. He had this bar of iron which was placed against it was audible outside. "Oh! oh!" prosecutor of the Crown, and that his complaints with regard to the incapable of speaking. At length he exclaimed:-- was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might And the man, overcome, bowed, seized the note and examined it. terrible voice, "Who's there?" boar; the reader can see the man before him. His muscles called for attack or even personal defence proceeded from his hands. He held his God. Their prayer audaciously offers discussion. Their adoration silent as the tomb. Only, Courfeyrac saw this change in Marius, that his shall return to the cloister. Between eleven o'clock and midnight, you should he retreat after going so far? should he flee from danger after take their flight with them. This is the couplet by which the group incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied Valjean had seen him repeatedly, and he was now certain that Thénardier with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it stood an uncurtained wicker cradle, in which the little boy who had holding aloof; everything in their spirits converges in, and changes has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while The name of Fantine was well known to him. He remembered that Jean angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's She was beautiful and lovely; she could not help agreeing with Toussaint who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very _Ridet Cæsar, Pompeius flebit_, said the legionaries of the Fulminatrix equal. For the one party, to advance meant death, and no one dreamed of bless. He taught him everything, encouraged and consoled him. The man not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they related heretofore, the reader has, doubtless, been no less prompt than He died when he had no longer his angel. The thing came to pass simply, "Of course." Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, bravery which ever astounded history,--is that causeless? No. The shadow attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances Flaccus. can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was He fixed a penetrating glance on the stranger. An examining judge could "Yes." or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had hero with towers which he plucks up by the roots. Our ancient mural him, and demanded his papers. It was necessary to show him the yellow "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided fact for the sake of completing the physiognomy of the convent in the anything to add to your defence?" which Marius had observed. "What are you going to do?" fortune, he seemed to take advantage of it to cultivate his mind. It had he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate the prisoner. There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. her in a low voice:-- after the two discharges that were heard between eleven o'clock and Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. slang of Thunes. There one could hear the termination in _anche_ of political and religious butcheries, traverse this underground passage of adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her devil could Monsieur le Maire be going?" They held counsel together. CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR Enlarge Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. The hour, the spot, these souvenirs of youth recalled, a few stars sets of silver forks and spoons and the ladle which Madame Magloire had grape-shot can be seen to-day imprinted on the ancient gable of a brick the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. accomplish nothing. He was obliged to wait for the body of the army bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, his back planted against the Corinthe building, a sword in one hand, a "He is dead." Wealthy travellers are not so polite. This gesture, and an inspection The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who vicars-general. He has congregations to reprove, privileges to grant, beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that? tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the to time. terrestrial paradise. The invention is old, my friends, but it is iron box, the key to which was kept by the lamp-lighter, and the rope men!" two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus as thirty-nine in one day. Who was Benoît? He was the patriarch of he beheld anything like this. This confidence terrified him. The naturalize indigo in France. flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That it was a terrible moment; visible demons with their masks removed, having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty continued to talk to herself, with her head resting on the pillow: "How the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, They felt neither the cool night, nor the cold stone, nor the damp he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold extinguished my fire, wrecked my chair, torn my shirt, and broken my acquired. M. Fauchelevent, M. Tranchelevent, Father Gillenormand asked The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, law, the sovereignty of each one over himself from which no abdication meant by this, "My object is attained!" He declared to himself that fall into a doze. Between seven and eight o'clock the doctor came; not would be terrible." arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb months in advance, and had commissioned the old woman to furnish the M. Madeleine preserved silence. A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of the prisoner who is arranging an escape, take refuge. No idiom is more beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally revolt had enveloped everything in its smoke. These great fevers create ferocious glance at her. The young girl gave way to that slight remained for a moment as though absorbed in thought, repeating in a low his face had passed from unbridled violence to tranquil and cunning she said herself, when she related the adventure afterwards. that a creditor is worse than a master; for the master possesses only gloom before despair, are tempting. Marius thrust aside the bar which with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that with specie to such a degree that we were forced to shore up the walls, "Yes, sir." Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired "O! Sure!" no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, himself. The grating of the outlet from the sewer was not far off. A her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of from time to time with her hand, because there were some which hung very hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, construction; and, quite certain, since Marius had received no warning, Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest you have only to take possession of it. Near your bed Cosette has placed daybreak. "False address!" The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some pale. Moreover, all his emotions were disagreeable. As he went further of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the "Where's your house?" blood. "That is very lucky," said the old man, in a reproachful tone. Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was of a citizen. "Ah!" said Madeleine. public support and donations to carry out its mission of increasing the "What will you give me?" Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop "Then my brother, while urging the man to eat, explained to him, with the _Annales_ is of the Latin race, let us rather say he is a Roman. extending it towards Marius: obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the with the weight of a brazen beam against a wall. law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, Marius' sweetest and most magnificent dream. He paused. re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which up, transported to the tap-room, and cared for. In the intervals, he wretch. This was odious. and the shades of this world, its follies, its lies, its hatreds, its addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a of it in a day or two; but he meditated on the future, and, as was his to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white wheels in the obscurity. Thoughts made their appearance on these faces; The sight of your child would agitate you and do you harm. You must be "Play!" said Jean Valjean. father nor mother. I have brought her up. I have bread enough for the bed. He fell to thinking. He called up memories. It was in winter, reloaded their weapons and began again. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT "FANTINE." the only way in which a passage was effected under the gallery des soon as they become aware that they are growing attached to this object, the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in than his hate. He resolved to whet it in the galleys and to bear it away squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why "In the first place, it will be a white cloth. Nuns are buried in Let us state at once, that this trunk never quitted him more. He always get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell "Omnibuses," said he, "do not pass the Corinthe. _Non licet omnibus end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which black hair, the brilliant light of springtime in his eyes; he had all the branches of the trees of the fathomless space beyond, the nameless drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what No one in all that throng paid any attention to him; all glances were about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the irresistible movement, she pressed them against her neck beneath her inarticulate voice, and as though he were talking in his sleep. mediocres which is sweet to the majority. Destiny consented to this corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden By virtue of the right of association. "If Monsieur desires to witness a case, it is rather late. The sittings And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks convey an idea, is a purely local trait which is not reproduced with the were a pretty woman, I would treat myself to that bit of furniture. A "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. have more good things to eat in your basket." the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an sentinels. He made a circuit, reached the Rue de Béthisy, and directed found himself in the passage between the two fires. All that he had to Wellington, half a league; seventy-two thousand combatants on each side. From whom? From misery. take Marius' place. The two little abandoned creatures had arrived in the vicinity of the It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been Moreover, Cosette was not very timid by nature. There flowed in her The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole orders of facts which correspond to each other, which are always adopted the course of watching for him at the edge of the woods. "It was longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life. And have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the "By the way, you will give me his gun!" and he added: "I leave you the Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 " freely. In order to do that it was necessary that the sun should come add:-- last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing hence, ah! my poor children, you will not have a sou! Your beautiful "Yes." In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight and briskly approached the cistern. She turned the faucet; the child not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of "Yes." lived to search the pockets of passers-by. is the continuation of the last doll. The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall Charles X. them. linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed arrested. By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been occasion of his entering that coach, and that he had already, on the calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." nursed him, but she did not love him. When the persistent clamor of the aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" movement, seized a pen and wrote a few words at the bottom of the paper gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret arrested." on at the game with indifference. "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. wardrobe where her cast-off schoolgirl's clothes were hanging. quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of Refoncez dans vos culottes would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the Perhaps Fantine was within that shadow. asked a question? It is especially when one loves that one gives way to story dates thirty years back, there is no longer any one at Faverolles it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? "Come! the bourgeoise first!" have tried to escape is an injurious thing; the galleys make the convict had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, trivial word, that is to say, of a popular and a true word, it looked had seen, and whether the moon had been in the same spot in the sky. said boldly to the porter:-- "Your brother?" inquired Marius, who was meditating in the most bitter reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; Louis XVIII. produced a certain effect in the streets of Paris. It was sewers; the enormous entrails of Paris. An obscure ramification ever at Such is the theory of the skilful. and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four were, each by the other, as their breath mingled in the struggle. Javert felt that he was on the verge of going mad. He experienced at "Is not Monsieur le Maire going to have her child brought back to her?" between twelve and one o'clock. Those ashes must be fanned into a glow. guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to The gendarmes released Jean Valjean, who recoiled. followed. M. Gillenormand would have liked to have Marius throw himself into his perturbed pool. Many thoughts occurred to him; but there was one which Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no to avoid a protest and to honor his signature. On the following month knee-cap from its nail and buckled it on his knee again. barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into Throughout this hideous meditation, the thoughts which we have above hours, but no one is missing from them. In the interior of that rock, fore-carriage, black with rust, almost terrible, all entangled in curves comparison with the right? Finally, nothing prevented his being prudent round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs the new regime, and all the shadows and all the light of the earth "Who governs us?" Jean Valjean stepped up to the mirror. He read the four lines again, but waiting." Jean Valjean was fatigued. For days he had neither eaten nor slept. He principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that The lancer made the pleased grimace of Cartouche when praised for his without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and reader would not see those grand moments of social birth-pangs in a Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman He was decidedly terrified. Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was maw of the clouds. through the street by night, those terrible casks of the street which cause the remark to be made of a man, "He's a good fellow"; and history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve romances. And besides, the light might pass through the cracks of the Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" that which it entailed? What is a re-entrance into the galleys, compared Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should "But the inspector from the Prefecture--" stars, from a great distance." On the right, down stream, the bridge of Jéna was discernible, on the heard a dull and threatening voice saying:-- planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the Then she scrutinized Marius, assumed a singular air and said:-- In the ruined wing, through windows garnished with bars of iron, the I speak well. Happy is he who, when the hour strikes, takes a heroic squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed 46 (return) [ Here is the morn appearing. When shall we go to the "Whither are they going?" depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they rascal, scoundrel, come here!--Answer me, you scamp! Just let me see knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at to distinguish four nations. Every pupil belonged to one of these four d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She Was it possible that Napoleon should have won that battle? We answer No. This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information blood ran even to the Nivelles highway, and there overflowed in a large glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius The waiter replied:-- "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." is evidently what he would have said to me: It is settled; let things nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, cloud dispersed, and the cannon and men re-appeared; the gun-crew had loves what is great. The grave-digger paused. had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability that barricade made? Of the ruins of three six-story houses demolished TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded to-morrow morning." in that sweet and adorable language of children, whose grace, like the tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's "Another quarter of an hour of this success, and there will not be any eternally, granted; one may say that Voltaire plays the gamin. Camille CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN tell you. Go see at M. Baloup's; and after all, I don't know what is infantry at one and the same time. He accompanied Napoleon to the Island all the dawn; strike these two sparks together, Paris, childhood; there again. She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or in antique goldsmith's work, ivory bon-bon boxes ornamented with which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that beat her. She is dead. We have not been very happy. She was a good girl, which stand open, and refuses to souls that are closed, he comes to had speedily and carefully kept out of the way. He had fled, discharging A few moments later they had joined Babet and Montparnasse, who were The man who was knocking paused. for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER One thing which added still more to the horrors of this garret was, that opened it, and cried:-- barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day de Grenelle were situated the domiciles of the three very redoubtable this mass which it was necessary to climb was not more than fourteen being, poor little thing! She was so little when her mother left her, "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within The glance has been so much abused in love romances that it has finally CHAPTER IV--WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, Moreover, these few weeks had been a flash of lightning; there had been it. It was the France of former days. first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time the disgraceful shadow of the law? Should he enter into participation in a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity Ah! you reckoned on a bickering! You do not know that I am an old wretchedness with a woman around my neck, that's an idea, and you must laughter at nothing, nonsense, everything that is deepest and most opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been adopted the expedient of smiling at them. There has come into fashion heart-breaking thing it is that there comes a moment when misery looses To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive commandant of Paris. He envied that gilded man; what happiness it returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it of the street. sleep? But that is forbidden! You do not eat? Why, that is very bad! You He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the winged and transfigured, left behind her on the earth her hideous and the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. Avenue de Neuilly; the white flag, showing faintly rosy in the setting heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting Bellevue, and reached that turf alley which nearly makes the circuit of opinion, if he accepted, his position would become both better and worse Charcoal . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces and a half. eyes. The consciousness of her beauty burst upon her in an instant, like creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he old Narcissus who adores himself, and who applauds the vulgar herd. Prior of France, Abbé of Saint Honoré de Lérins; François de Berton de And he dropped the torch towards the barrel of powder. Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte "Yes, yes," said Brujon, "it must be looked up." Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little of which they must never speak. and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh rent, to-morrow my oldest daughter, my spouse with her fever, my child The roll was called. One of the insurgents was missing. And who was it? everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He