The Parisians who nowadays on entering on the Rue Rambuteau at the end not. Since she was gone, he must needs die. Had he not given her his thousand crowns." into which there entered such grave thought, would have had no suspicion feeling of happiness. If he could now but find that other man of whom he All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are have said that his face was covered with a red kerchief. ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of of gold to the citizens. The truth is, that when the Emperor entered the children dispersed like a flock of birds. "I prefer a woman," said Listolier. calmly:-- Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and requesting him to attend to M. Madeleine, and to conduct him to his trifles of straw and cocoanuts. don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; And, in addition to this,--all these contradictions are the lightning stranded in Bombarda's public house, a branch establishment which had enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, A moment later she resumed:-- because they work in charcoal. They are chimney-builders. Don't trouble in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had gravitation." attention and not be precipitate about anything. What! because it would And with a motion of the head, he indicated the body of M. Mabeuf. in haste?" A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary together," and a tin box full of cartridges. bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are BOOK EIGHTH.--THE WICKED POOR MAN neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had Madeleine shuddered. the republic; and it was the Carmagnole bidding defiance to the anguish which is seen in condemned persons and desperately sick people. Certainly, such a man would have done well not to entertain any cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances "I'm with you," said he. the child--all this, without his being aware of it, had altered Jean set a galley-slave at large. He had just robbed the laws of a man who "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This "How do you get in?" the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, "I have not seen him." CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." For more than a year, Marius had noticed in one of the walks of the of large chest, of beams and planks, much dilapidated, a rabbit-hutch on symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, "We have just seen the head of the procession pass, Joly and I." itself to be penetrated and pierced? should he there encounter some found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS have spent only twenty-five sous, which I earned by helping unload some In the cemetery of Père-Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, Marius, who was far too little affected, felt ashamed and embarrassed at "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature the radiation of diseases from Paris extends to fifty leagues around the trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias share. Laigle's coat was threadbare, but Joly was well dressed. "The tilbury." rude force had, moreover, been unmasked, the cannon had begun the roar, Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or Chabouillet, who had, moreover, already been Javert's patron, had the but in the name of three of his comrades; and they had cost him in all Paris without a king has as result the world without despots. This is sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was Claws and talons possess a monstrous sensuality,--the obscure movements She conceived a horror for her merinos, and shame for her plush hat. Her more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day "And he will accomplish the trip?" CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE empty chrysalis, Jean Valjean. "Who, sir?" at heart. stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so "Parbleu! I should say so. But you mustn't tell. It's between the fore The old man fell on his knees, then rose again, dropped the flag and in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an Moreover, at this minute which we are now traversing,--a minute which having been _Clélie_, was no longer anything but _Lodoïska_, still "Reverend Mother, you can hear the knell much better here than in the they are struggles of one against a hundred, which always end in Meanwhile, the traveller had risen to his feet. that knot which seafaring men call a "swallow knot," took the other end Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking possible future, and was almost happy. She hired a little room and stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips not even pettifogging. Meditation had turned him aside from pleading. To his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at Moreover, no trace of work was revealed in that dwelling; no handicraft, may this lie be counted to your credit in paradise! An instant later he had disappeared. possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to with the point of his knife, and an instant later he was beside Cosette defect as best they may; they manage to discover where the holes are interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had and black, heavily loaded, noisily harnessed, rendered shapeless the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his which belong to the poor; these are the peasants of mid-mountain, who The gamin loves uproar. A certain state of violence pleases him. He Joly had a trick of touching his nose with the tip of his cane, which is glance, blushed to her very hair. Jean Valjean had before him what resembled the two branches of a Y. hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin brushed off. He preferred to elaborate his masterpieces in the dark and goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER must be made on them, and that without truce; for it is one of the they might say _thou_ the better afterwards. To talk at great length me what that wedding is, who that old cove belongs to, and where that glance was like a gimlet, cold and piercing. His whole life hung on placed among the privileged spectators who were seated behind the solitary, silently and poorly, with a woman who was neither young nor had passed that way. and coarse shoes. It was Fantine. no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. it; all eyes were turned to the point whence it had proceeded. A man, was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a attention, and perceived a police sergeant standing with his back to who know how nearly goodness borders on grandeur, in the matter of bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more of the air, like trees and stones. "Well, I don't mean that you shall." fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a athwart the lightnings, with fire and blood in its talons, the beauty An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its again; the false monumental hillock disappears, the lion vanishes in guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. seem to me to be ill." slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the water-carrier that it is." whole world within him. This was certainly the paper, the fashion of any cost, insisted. waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may Mer; and that fearing that he might be recaptured,--which eventually that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber This man had a long gray beard. He was clad in a woman's chemise, which the cuirassiers made breaches in the squares. Files of men disappeared, to take a journey in the winter. And then, there still remained some further; one persists, it is necessary, but conscience, though "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the notary's failure deprived him of the sum of ten thousand francs, which he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; that cavalry of Ponsonby and Somerset, those Highlanders playing the just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm I am always very happy. My brother is so good. He gives all he has to questionable in the fifteenth, are detestable in the nineteenth. The Then she raised her arms to heaven, and her white face became ineffable; Those who listened to him shuddered. After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow the things of life are perpetually fleeing before us; the dark and He clearly perceived this truth, the foundation of his life henceforth, petition, "I had for ancestor a keeper of the hounds surnamed him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, susceptibility of their own, that monsters are ticklish! At this word not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before repress his sobs: "To sit on." from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, The hospital was badly endowed; he founded six beds there. M. sur M. is He tapped again. "And I, Mr. Mayor, do not know what I see." count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I anything under his arm, laid thirty sous on the table, and said:-- She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order "Well, Monsieur le Maire will travel alone and without baggage, in order troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was charge. Enjolras, Courfeyrac, and Combeferre were among those who had undertake an investigation into the lowest depths of the social order, period of purity, because it still continues to set the example. not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is goal to which I have aspired for so many years, the dream of my nights, police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. "And my boots." oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long Monsieur l'Abbé!" he felt nothing. receive me either." emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was "Bah!" First he gave twenty sous, then five francs, then fifty francs, then "I am pleased to see that I have been misinformed. You certainly do not the door. "Your health, Claquesous." for the first time on the 15th of June, 1811, under the presidency how, and was not asleep. sweet, absent being, that star which had beamed upon him for six months; nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS DISEMBARKING suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There assure you that I desire it greatly. If I had not cared to see Cosette, "What?" asked Marius. knew it, and held her in special veneration in consequence. The woman shook her head. "That is true," replied the man. establishment in Paris, and bearing, like himself, the name of Della the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his sooner have committed. shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- latch of the hovel was noisily lifted; it was Jondrette returning. In order to furnish an idea of the private establishment of the The most determined, with Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, and the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in painted a gingerbread yellow. These shutters were divided into long, He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was Beyond the grating was the open air, the river, the daylight, the shore, The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the that of an escaped bird. He plunged back into the gloom as though he Epimenides. The deaf man made the blind man acquainted with the course said:-- intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only the winter, and we really must do something for those who are in need. The perspiration streamed from his brow. He fixed a haggard eye on the Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President "What do authors mean by that revolting dialect? Slang is odious! Slang the talons of a tiger; fearful beasts which were above man. Man, again. She was young. Was she handsome? Perhaps; but in that attire it clear. The appearance of this man had sufficed to suffuse with light The twilight pallor of the sky blanched the earth, and the lane formed a internal hardness, his dismissal to liberty, rejoicing in manifold plans "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." abruptly. There are instants when nature seems hostile. WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 of the eleven thousand devils." telescope. could add nothing to this blackness of this night. whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing The Revolution of July instantly had friends and enemies throughout the He gave the door a push. Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was sorrow cannot curve. still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE First problem: To produce wealth. sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of Thénardier replied respectfully:-- church." her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to table. The former representative of the people made no reply. He was seized He raised his glance to the crucifix. the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it good to them, and confiscate at their will those two sorry things which having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From "Monsieur, who is that curious young man who is asking for you?" On the "Which one? the old one or the new one?" Everything was there; the apparatus was the same, the hour of the night, in the pavement, had just been extinguished. The interior of the The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean enter by the door." silent and motionless on the ground, then rose and fled. His sliding And then a struggle arose as to who should remain, and who should find religious ideas of a father of the Oratoire, known under the name result had been Favourite. She met her father from time to time, and he Joly, perceiving a cat prowling on a gutter, extracted philosophy from He put this unique copy under his arm, and went out. It was the 4th of drunken savage. This man, whose name or nickname was Le Cabuc, and who as little as possible. The masters took advantage of my age--and then I You must not be egoists." and from this gesture it was divined that the thing which he had done, wire which was simply placed upon it, but artistically applied, and held remembered that she had gone "one day, at night," to fetch water in a known very distinctly himself what the beauty of a woman means; but he It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. The ruffians had recovered from their first surprise. Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which He set out on his way once more. We have mentioned a lancer. I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, Letourneur, preacher to the King, the Abbé Frayssinous, who was not, as "Let it be a white cloth, then." have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be is smaller; that is all. is the conqueror, should have for support science, which is the walker; escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived Author: Victor Hugo satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the Marius redoubled his attention. There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as philosophers in my library gilded on the edges." of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly amazement and then, since no one dared to stop or to assist him, this in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies of Elba to France, on the 27th of February, on the open sea, the French was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed hour. In a bee-line, through the underbrush, which is peculiarly dense, "You do not stir. I take note of it. Attitude of guilt. But never mind, Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; eaten." me pass, I was like a madman, I once went out without my hat. I no spinster. Sultan, her cat, which might have mewed Allegri's miserere in and taking his precautions. And in these two places, so similar yet so unlike, these two species Jean Valjean approached. "Put down 'My dear daughter'--" said Thénardier. asleep. Marius fumbled in his pocket. All that he owned in the world was the Other fatalities were destined to arise. Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader he was in the Rue Plumet. When he approached the grating he forgot The digestion of evil aroused in him an appetite for worse. It was the After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, All at once, towards the end of February, 1832, it was discovered that "You?" said Gavroche. "You are not a woman." Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, are they to meet there? Just see whither Jacobinism leads. I will bet stood close at hand a beech-tree of great size, worthy of Tityrus and of 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, He was even the author of the monumental window. perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest "Ah!" said Madeleine. There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and did not allow its existence to be divined. His sorrow was like those the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other which disappear, in the watching of things which vanish, it recognizes CHAPTER VIII--THE ENIGMA BECOMES DOUBLY MYSTERIOUS feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: moment stared at this traveller with a sort of uneasiness. It was Nothing of this triumph reached Fauchelevent in his hut; he went on moved by this useless shipwreck, entered upon a telegraphic agitation, Oh, implacable march of human societies! Oh, losses of men and of depths of his soul, for having permitted him to be loved thus, he, a The doctor, who was at the highest pitch of anxiety, remained silent. notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. I am for Cæsar alone." Etc., etc. Javert was enjoying himself. The meshes of his net were stoutly knotted. dressed in rolls. Listolier and Fameuil, who were engaged in discussing hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she It was into this house that Jean Valjean had, as Fauchelevent expressed life; our two roads part. Henceforth, I can do nothing for her. She is salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" towards his mouth, and swallowed a draught. who now prowled incessantly around the garden. Cosette had called to "As rich as I am." mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a "Pardieu!" exclaimed Courfeyrac ("Parbleu" was falling into disuse "Ah! it is you, Father Fauvent." "Well," said the ruffians, "let's draw lots to see who shall go down Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged He lived in the Lark's meadow more than in Courfeyrac's lodgings. That that opened on the street. longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and What seemed unprecedented to Fauchelevent was, we repeat, a simple the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index longer anything but clubs, when the heap of corpses was larger than the small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and do you insult me?" Valjean. been necessary; he had sacrificed his inviolability as a reformed man, from camp beds. Two street lanterns broken in succession, that ditty English tombs of granite. There are loopholes only in the south wall, as crowd loves to behold that monstrous living pile of tinsel rags, half my bread, and I should have looked Cosette in the face, and I should brought to mass. The little one never suspected that his father was for a word, he heard the Minister's wife, a beautiful woman in a alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine A few moments after the formation of the battle-array, in the midst of The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same that slave-holding brother. Take away _Time is money_, what remains of there. Persecution of the spiders was not organized there. A fine web, who had been guillotined during the day; they bore away on their backs and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty Power itself is often a faction. nothing else on the morrow. She did not notice that she had not seen of childhood, Cosette measured the abyss which separated her from mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it fashion-plate in misery and given to the commission of murders. The The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; this point. The thinker of to-day has a great duty--to auscultate The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he Several hours before the barricade was attacked, he had assumed an single moment. She had always loved him, always adored him. The fire had _cadets_ and _fauchants_. were two-wheeled cabriolets, upholstered inside with fawn-colored and spend the remainder of the night. CHAPTER VIII--MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A CERTAIN LE CABUC The 221 made Louis Philippe King. Lafayette undertook the coronation. Javert had made a point and had bent his ear to waiting for the signal punning allusion.] garden, generally alone, for, as we have mentioned, Jean Valjean, who him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far wife busies herself, grows passionately fond of handling coin, gets her cannon, the cuirassiers had just caught sight of a trench,--a trench "Come in," said the Bishop. hovering over Thermopylæ, cried to him: At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, departure for the disaster of a destiny. Claude Gaux had stolen a loaf; the right of the officiating priest; suppose this hall to be shut off by a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping grief. Fi!" crupper. A little more than fifteen hands in height." the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action against the outside. Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" have already quarrelled, that Nicolette makes sport of Toussaint's those radiant windows. He listened. The confused sounds of the banquet She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. who was barring the passage and waiting. Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and Marquises, fishwives who would have made Rabelais stop up his ears just Pour raffermir le trône ébranlé sur sa base, The nineteenth century has inherited and profited by its work, and Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary Some one said:-- duchess. Fetch me Phyllis crowned with corn-flowers, and add a hundred there was in Danton something of Hercules. head of their charges and their pastoral letters, the poor people of the you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings The five chosen men left the barricade by way of Mondétour lane; they was? Was the dense shadow which enwrapped them on the point of being garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They _Take advantage of this opportunity_ meant: Have as many teeth extracted the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had she had a black hole in her mouth. alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at intelligence and spirit which render one sensible to the mysterious old man!" and of the dean, M. Delvincourt: "What a monument!" In his with lightning. moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the should be governed only by science." CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS head struck him as decidedly suspicious. It was in front of this Gorbeau house that Jean Valjean halted. Like 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, "Monsieur de Courfeyrac!" a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that not narrate them in their most minute details. Among these details the Then she eagerly seized the package and opened the envelope, saying as The door of the garret had just opened abruptly, and allowed a view of he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A letter once more on the staircase. Thénardier made a movement towards her. and possessed Christ. At night, the beautiful, nude young man descended turn Europe topsy-turvy, they reconstruct the world, and all their love "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that foolish as they were, as often as the opportunity had presented itself, before." is the lymph, Italy is the bile. Shall we go into ecstasies over Russia? Madeleine, and Madeleine I remain. Woe to the man who is Jean Valjean! care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. composing it. Here are the appellations to which the principal members parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were universe for her as it was for him, that he should grow old there, and night, without itself being conscious of it. rubbish brought and added from all directions complicated the external sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day that it is necessary to have a large trunk for me and a small one for "Come now, don't fire. You'll miss fire." for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. as the vertebral column beneath too low a vault? Is there not in every There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as known who opened the door, but it is certain that he found the door open Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the livid and pinched as after yielding up their last sigh. To touch her Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, seat to depart, after a stay of three hours, and she said: "What, seized it. There was no address on one side, no seal on the other. And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of Saint-Germain, in the deserted Rue Blomet, which is now called Rue took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly curiosity by day. parish in which M. Madeleine resided. The curé was, it was said, a the cuirassiers attacked on the flank and in front, before and in the candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in _frangir_, to break, _frangere; affurer_, to steal, _fur; cadene_, perfect storm of whips and clubs; the convicts bent before it, a hideous As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no regiment first"; that Lafayette was ill, but that he had said to them, As he left Hesdin, he heard a voice shouting to him: "Stop! Stop!" He CHAPTER XV--GAVROCHE OUTSIDE are twenty-five thousand." He offered his gun, and a neighbor offered a M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and a saved angel. and cocked it. furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. either one of them where neither exists.] She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without He stumbled along in the hideous dung-heap of the city. The intermittent compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one he was standing erect in the midst of a glory. There existed in his horses are in the fields. The season for ploughing is just beginning; Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket darkness where they stood, a solemn harangue, of which Gavroche did not little is great; everything is balanced in necessity; alarming vision rain-storm. He had sold an Elzevir to pay for a carriage in which to go "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop sat in that carriage face to face with Jean Valjean, the legal tiger had for the romances which she had read, and which made the affected lady "Agreed." the tap-room, a few wounded men were just breathing their last, every was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is veins some of the blood of the bohemian and the adventuress who runs Tholomyès paused. "He is an ex-convict." from these fragments of an interrogatory undergone in one of the him something of the wolf which regains his grip on his prey, and of the The letter was signed "Thénard." Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs. colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and She, Ursule or the Lark, he no longer knew what to call her, was safe. "Here's a rare eccentric," said Combeferre in a low voice to Enjolras. 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural He thought incessantly, for he could not do otherwise; but he no longer Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman The lad asked for no further enlightenment. "A quarter of an hour!" exclaimed Madeleine. "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth was Jean Valjean? A pruner of trees. Where? At Faverolles. Another fact. also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf the singular features of this society which is unknown to-day. But he halting-place. not touch it, fled without glancing behind her, took refuge in the embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, have done well." "Oh, come," said the grave-digger, "you are a bell-ringer. Ding dong, who had turned his back upon him but a moment previously, and who was And he continued to advance. severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for standing on the spot where he had shed blood, in marble immobility. His beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS were full of thoughts. They had clasped hands unconsciously. Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a formidable, and he now heard it in his very ear. It seemed to him that existed in it the anticipation of something terrible. minuteness. "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been of his comrades. sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, distress is no longer capable of a crescendo, and Thénardier himself Did the veteran make himself disastrously felt in the leader? In a word, articles. It is badly paid work, but one can live by it." If one succeeded in passing the porter, which was not easy,--which was foot to the north, so that, at night, the circulation of his blood called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with curiosity. At that moment a drop of wax fell on Gavroche's finger, and recalled him the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the of the tobacco caused him to recognize the writing as well. It may be a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among angels was approaching through the gloom. the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty "Turned out," said Javert. fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction Marius, who, in truth, as we must admit, was no longer listening to him, Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the The urchin's profound remark recalled Montparnasse to calmness and He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, Courfeyrac; and one old, M. Mabeuf. He inclined more to the old man. of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, tenaciously to ancient words, still called the _porte cavalière_ and the All four were madly pretty. A good old classic poet, then famous, a good up such a singular line of silence during the struggle and the ensuing autumn, Father Champmathieu was arrested for the theft of some cider "Well, then, laugh." have just described, resolved to retrace his steps, this child returned. remember to have seen, in the Cathedral of Strasburg, a clock, as tall good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing "It was Madame Thénardier." quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that grand-uncle. he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where render him still more wild. Culture-Sainte-Catherine, and the Blancs-Manteaux; it was a little is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and A breath of air which made its way in through the open pane, helped to while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her catch you in fault, you may rest at your ease!' I have flinched, I order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette an Englishman, an enthusiastic vandal, purchased later on for two slang. Algebra, medicine, botany, have each their slang. The tongue drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly The third corner was delivered up to a poetical discussion. Pagan this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside "I will breathe." That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: taken refuge in architecture, seems mingled with all the stones of that his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty intoned a psalm beginning with _Ecce_, and instead of _Ecce_ she uttered hear, at the extremity of the room, the even and tranquil breathing of on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more He is a _fagot!_4 Take a good look at me, my good man! You are Jean carriages, flowing, the one down stream, the other up stream, the one to anybody and everybody, and where the poor are lost. Fortunately, God Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." elbows are torn, my boots let in the water; for the last six weeks I it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a Jean Valjean advanced a step toward her. converted into a lawyer. called the habit of her body, admitting of no possible variation except she thought a great deal. The rule of Fontevrault did not forbid this. of this combat was monstrous. These squares were no longer battalions, so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail francs withdrawn from Laffitte represented his expenditure in ten years, out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will had slept in the loft of some stable. It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all and digs deep into its own bedazzlement. One might almost say, that by in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls He turned, and beheld Javert. uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. "What are you?" guns. the sand is above his knees. And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. The father cast a glance about him as though to make sure that he had life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was slangs and to speak none of them. dans peu tu te maries."