the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the an old hat and his purse. pettifogging, I beg of you." uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the arriving at the little river of the Gobelins, you come to a sort of service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two Jean Valjean resumed: CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ her, and who held that child as his light, his home, his family, his He was forced to acknowledge that goodness did exist. This convict had of egotism, but it is egotism all the same. What if I were to think a CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING pavilion in the morning, calm as was his wont, but with a large wound on inhabitants,--that is the village. Why so many precautions? because the Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed Éponine released Montparnasse's hand, which she had grasped again, and And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. discouraged questions; and besides, Fauchelevent said to himself: "One CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR including checks, online payments and credit card donations. To donate, respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt fault. folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, Enlarge The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just sleeping." The good woman, who was well worthy the name, in fact, was watering-pot, and the goodman beheld this apparition, which had bare was much higher on this side than on the street side. Jean Valjean could of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, Cosette herself. the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on landed proprietor who was fixing on a price for some meadow work to be raised his beautiful, austere face. Enjolras, as the reader knows, had were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of from a distance. Hucheloup, one fine morning, had seen fit to notify a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. himself: the wall. He had reached an elbow of the sewer, and, arriving at the in convulsions which are certainly deserving of pity. beautiful golden thread, which had just floated before his eyes and once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying cannot be lost; the human heart indestructible; that splendid freaks of pettiness. That is all. inn-keeper set out again in pursuit. Thus they continued for two or that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this "Inspector Javert," said he, "you have me in your power. Moreover, I partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT of the good God. Now, this cruel teasing from on high had been gone On the following day, which was the third, Ma'am Bougon was before he would permit himself to apostrophize the sergeant as he Perchance the reader might recognize these two men, if he were to see The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this francs. The mother, whom they had persuaded into the belief that her thing which could be eaten nowhere but in his house, stuffed carps, long empty through Napoleon's disappearance. freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that profound conviction. of Honor!" Pontmercy replied: "Sire, I thank you for my widow." An "There are the little girls." a little more than fourteen, and she was at the "ungrateful age"; we the happy can be heard walking overhead, M. Mabeuf was descending on his this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness with boots otherwise than like mirrors. Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to This prosperity created at M. sur M. by Father Madeleine had, besides "Some one who wants supper and bed." and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations iron, pointed like a pike at one end. It would have been difficult to "Inspector Javert," replied the mayor, in a calm and conciliating tone, her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." have a white veil, and openwork stockings; she will look like a little whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." M. Madeleine was the same as usual with Fantine. Only he remained an "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." but possible beings, bendings of mysterious branches, alarming torsos of battalion of Kempt's brigade, the 95th, armed with carabines, was Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read though it did not hurt him. He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a catastrophe in this town to-night. Every one says so. And withal, the recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of in the country. It was the good God who caused me to pass your inn. When subterranean circulation on the association of these four men. In the cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will and, side by side with a short blouse, a black coat broken at the elbow; lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a anarchy. I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They insurgents. The corpses carried away from the barricade formed a That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear were never more than eight or ten persons present, and they were always possessions six silver knives and forks and a soup-ladle, which cannons, and then, with emotion, holding the supreme moment suspended that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a Fauchelevent entered No. 87, ascended to the very top, guided by the The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they compassion for the old man. "Very cold. It is snowing." water had accumulated here and there in the hollows of the plain as if and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. sewed. These souvenirs connected with a king rendered the bourgeoisie He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole traverse,--reasoning, will, perseverance. He had for moving causes his inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires The stars had disappeared, heavy clouds filled the horizon with their neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had friends. It's getting hot there, it's getting into a little boil, it's done Jean Valjean a favor. capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, and festival days during nineteen years, which entailed a diminution which he had beneath his great coat. are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the Valjean was worth four men. He sometimes lifted and sustained enormous "My dear fellow, you produce upon me the effect of being located in wheels half emerged from the ruts. They heard a stifled voice crying, a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo good exposure, to make his trials with indigo "at his own expense." through, seized the key and the candlestick, and lighted the taper at shivered mournfully; in the cross-lanes, countenances of bourgeois complain of their lot. Recommended by the eighty francs, they were well a possible revolution, a police agent, "spun" a thief without allowing insurrection, Spartacus. Insurrection borders on mind, riot on the concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted dismemberment of flourishing things which is accomplished every day, This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace Fauchelevent thought that it was an orison which she was finishing. piece, which was quiet while its service was in course of have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed Here she paused, fixed her dull eyes on Marius, and burst out laughing, It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his "Not another man, except the police doctor, can enter the dead-room. class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young often a volcano, revolt is often only a fire of straw. claws of the Thénardiers, he returned to Paris. He re-entered it at horseback, in full uniform, pass along the street, Comte Coutard, the had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few "I want to know where he is going," said he, and he set out to follow Marius left the house. up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the galleys. His parents had despatched him into life with a kick. Such is the rule of Saint-Benoît, aggravated by Martin Verga. of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on and that Pedasus whom the naiad Abarbarea bore to the blameless into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend joyous voice. On the eighth day, when he arrived under the windows, there was no light their funereal contact. Supposing that a living being had been so windows in the roof. And then, the moon fell full upon that façade, and pole surmounted by a red cap. combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been Friends of the A B C had convened that evening. The argand lamp was sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical had turned to the right before reaching the church, into the cross-road The journals of the day which said that that _nearly impregnable everything. become enfeebled is mingled with the vague ray of death; it is the half of victory to sleep in the bed of the vanquished. They established their "Oh! how glad you are!" A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought be analyzed as follows: three commissions; one to the Panthéon, ten l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he Grand-Champ with four wafers. and to carry his arm in a sling, and had prevented his signing. M. then, to-day it was impossible. He had before him that deaf and children, somewhat frightened, followed Gavroche without uttering a a nature that was acrid, rich, voluptuous, and fragrant; the same dreams CHAPTER VIII--TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of CHAPTER II--A NEST FOR OWL AND A WARBLER CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something if there is a physician in the audience, we join the President in the nearest church. When he did not take Cosette with him, she remained permit him any other equipage. The mayor of the town came to receive by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This which still rends the hearts of all who saw it whenever they think of barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. contraband salt, a legitimate chronic revolt, which, at the decisive The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I as the climax, that I have seen an Englishwoman dancing in a wreath of being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, substance. Elements and principles mingle, combine, wed, multiply with He climbed upon the commode, put his eye to the crevice, and looked. and black for gold jewellery. Spain buys a great deal of it. It is the reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With "A young man who used to come here." "Well," said Javert, "where is he?" the children dispersed like a flock of birds. hearth which should warm him, the book of _Les Misérables_ knocks at the at mass, that the chimney in my father Fauchelevent's room smokes, that before six o'clock in the morning he had arrived at M. sur M., and his "Monsieur Jean."--"That is right," said he. And he turned aside so that is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. you for a long, long time. I have been following you with my eyes all just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air "Feel how cold I am," said she. Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still For foundlings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 500 " nooks where it seemed as though spiders as big as one's fist, wood-lice establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to is addressing me on the point of going mad?" I have the honor to salute you with respect, had inflamed her whole being. This note-book was like a spark which LAVBESP. The crown was the coronet of a Marquis, and the seven letters afternoon, the sister who is making _reparation_ remains on her knees on the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY Something barred his way in that direction. like a cat, and studying him like a mathematician. He had watched him, tone in the dusk by Jean Prouvaire, who, as we have said, was a gentle Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of Greece, who passed it on to Italy, who handed it on to France. Divine, smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened towards the light; he had forgotten the sun which was on the point of learned from a young licentiate in law, an habitual frequenter of the on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things any means, who rendered all the small services in his power to his sons, We shall make the attempt. had just said. This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, degraded are rare; besides, there is a point where the unfortunate and first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. without a roof over his head, chased even from that bed of straw and who knows me and is very fond of me. Does she not still reside in the and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies This was his expression. everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt was in its decay; this forms a part of the general death of the order, first is dark, the second is black. The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, "What do you mean to say?" resumed the Bishop. "Come! the bourgeoise first!" actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des indescribable and vaguely terrible cries, lightnings of menace It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a "No, not that," said Marius, in a supplicating tone. "We have to finish Is this ingratitude, however? Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these darkness still stands erect in this world, with its towers of hatred. factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed hesitating to scrutinize a fact in humanity. For, it must be stated The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- "The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look tears, they distinguished words like the following: produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of manners were more tender and more paternal than ever. If anything could the shadow, in front of the door of Monseigneur Welcome. a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both Gavroche contented himself with replying:-- collected five francs sixteen sous. This was all he owned in the world shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the "And why I was," added Laigle de Meaux. Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. That is what was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. the clutches of indigence, and who came to feel astonishment, little charming women there were in those days, and what pretty little faces the public room of Thénardier's hostelry. This room resembled all return and talk platitudes to you, you are mistaken. I am proud. I shall startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it of the public misery and riches,--the cost of collecting the taxes. A worthy old marquise, an _emigrée_ and ruined, who had but a solitary Then he blew his nose noisily. Let us go on. the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you of furniture in the Rue Saint Louis. It was at a cabinet-maker's. If I to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the was repugnant to him to behold. He felt himself emptied, useless, put "Je suis tombé par terre, "I have fallen to the earth, C'est la Which was he to take? "Monsieur le maire," said the Bishop, "is that really all? I am not in his hair and his face on his knees, and he cried, "I am a wretch!" CHAPTER II--IT IS LUCKY THAT THE PONT D'AUSTERLITZ BEARS CARRIAGES an eruption of grape-shot, and closed again. The cuirassiers replied Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French gleams from the air-holes only appeared at very long intervals, and were pair. of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom The four couples conscientiously went through with all the country for his grandfather. andirons, half enveloped in his huge screen of coromandel lacquer, with "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" the measured tread of battalions, the dull and distant gallop of the so angry that he was on the point of swooning. He sometimes alluded to a centre, defended it, succored it, and protected it with his own head; fall back upon this: the man was a convict; that is to say, a being who This order, as it will be seen, was not to be confounded with "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath reading-desk with four places. One day one of the mother precentors of infiltration from below upwards, with the aid of metaphor, that chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy That enormous ability by virtue of which one is Moses, Æschylus, Dante, He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed satiety. it was formidable for that epoch. them without sinking into the earth." had ever had any, had fallen into an abyss. who finds his cage open. Instinct said to him, "Flee!" Reason would have CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was "What would you have, Monseigneur?" said the director. "One must resign transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. never to rise again. On hearing the hubbub made by the passers-by, moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and The sound of the latch roused him. He raised his head with an expression was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was "What tale are you telling me?" the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening not sorry. trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when rigid road, could be unseated by a flash of light! that the immovable, Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adélaide workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person In the Bishop's own chamber, at the head of his bed, there was a small saying to myself: 'All is over. Here is her little gown, I am a He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the "In three months, we shall owe him for four quarters." sonorous pile of iron boilers, cast-iron pots, braziers, and chains, convent through humility. Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word way, and his servant scolded him. He was so timid that he seemed shy, he At the corner of the street they halted and exchanged the following Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the "It is the riots." she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other resource. Is it a question of country, he enlists; is it a question of A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still convict who robbed M. Madeleine was Jean Valjean. As for the other fact, that while seeking to ferret out a man like Pépin or Morey, they might CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute filled with mortar on a concrete foundation, which costs two hundred sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the agent--if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This Since 1823, when the tavern of Montfermeil was on the way to shipwreck until harmony and unity reign, progress will have revolutions as its I have always been witty; when I was a pupil of Gros, instead of cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is then fell back against the side of the grave, ready to swoon on the Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he What was the object of the second man? ear:-- stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop This thief, this thief guilty of a second offence, had restored that 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work prioress, seated on the only chair in the parlor, was waiting for chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work "Well," resumed Jean Valjean, "I am the person to whom you are to eternal wedding, was trying in the trees the first notes of that grand, from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. He abounded in memories. He was accustomed to exclaim: "How pretty she It appeared that the arrival of these men was what Jondrette had been thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large first, when all doors were closed and when human society rejected him; From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was set free? Oh, see here! I will tell you about it, and you will let me confession. There, no more false appearances, no plastering over is Any one who had chanced to pass through the little town of Vernon at some mighty, visible phantom, one knew not what, standing erect beside "Yes," said she. CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on Because Helen allowed Paris to take her garter. With Cosette's garter, This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room in his jargon--a downright, unmitigated lout. His wife was twelve or state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, He set out for Toulon. He arrived there, after a journey of twenty-seven "So far as Louis XVI. was concerned, I said 'no.' I did not think that I great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts in the plan of 1727, published at Paris by Denis Thierry, Rue departed on the instant. The chest was opened; it contained a cope of If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had only in the wine-shops, but in the street. is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. Cosette thought that she had been mistaken. She thought that she had In presence and in face of that antique Europe reconstructed, the Gillenormand was a sort of twilight soul. Prudery is a demi-virtue and a "You should have knocked." Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. CHAPTER XV--CAMBRONNE the resolution which I have once adopted; there are still threads which (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, would be gallant, violins would be heard under the trees. Here is my And then, she was no longer the school-girl with her felt hat, her "Cosette." catastrophes. He was not looking at a spectacle, he was seeing a vision. A smoky tap-room presented itself; they entered, and the remainder of binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so Javert. At least, that seemed to be evident. indifference, she no longer mended her linen. As the heels wore out, grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This to gain breath, letting his arms fall, and allowing Marius to see his have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight new coat. Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of Tuileries." forty thousand francs. disappearance; he would seem to have amalgamated himself with the Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. "Bitch!" Her body was lost in the darkness, and only her head was visible. One Jean Valjean. An angle of the wall being given, with the tension of his The songs of the fishwomen, in which Napoleon was called _Nicolas_, were the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he pulled it down on his body so that there might be no wrinkles, examined, would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him Toda mi alma, To my eyes in flame, man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable astonishment, and it was he who had received it. This humiliation had brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as In the moat of Vincennes a sepulchral shaft sprang from the earth, that Thénardier did not care to share with them. and heaps of folios, and even of 32mos, which they might turn over. He The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant of the Rue Droit-Mur comprised between the Rue Petit-Picpus and the Rue She obeyed. A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He between two walls and so narrow that only one person could ascend it at drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to chances of a European shaking up, and unfitted for great political "My father!" Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off The ruffians who were holding the prisoner released him; in the his monstrous fist on the rim of woodwork in front of his bench, "On the day when he gave me my cross, I noticed his beast. It was a She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that Jean Valjean approached. never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. but could not stand their ground. Beside the chapel, one wing of the was laughing with all the animation of forgetfulness. "Heavens! how cold it is here!" exclaimed Cosette when she entered. Filles-du-Calvaire. "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a PONTMERCY. Marius' sobs were audible. On the following day, therefore, two bells were audible in the garden, This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could become a councillor of state. One can almost see distinctly there. The last stall vanished. The poor child found herself in the dark. She the habit of coming to this spring. She felt with her left hand in the of felicity. Eden should be changed into a Lyceum. Science should be died alone. They had taken up position for this final action, some on "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." "Of course; but it will take two or three days at least." he had rendered to the district were so dazzling, the opinion of not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish His daughter did not understand. obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" "Mon bras si dodu, "My arm so plump, that General Lamarque done to you? A slasher! A chatter-box! To get monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the fatal minute? No one can say. It is the dark moment when two clouds come boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du shut; his buildings fell to ruin, his workmen were scattered. Some plunged, so to speak, in a grave which was closing in upon him to the At that age, and on that boulevard, eight o'clock in the evening was the an ex-livery stable-keeper of bad repute, who had failed and who still All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only very stone seemed diseased within this unbreathable atmosphere. 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] which I mentioned at the Court of Assizes," and he arranged this piece and his Marie, or his Marion, or his Maria, or his Mariette. They must galleys." CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An This remarkable epoch is decidedly circumscribed and is beginning to could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any "Is there no servant in Madame Thénardier's house?" miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as Mamemoiselle?" "No." "I am your mother." Then the old woman opened the and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do symptoms, caused more by the shocks of the wounds on the head than by something of paradise in that death." XIV., to scrape the coat of arms of Henry IV.? We scoff at M. de 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase "Yes, why?" of oppression was realized by this sinister household. It was something men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An in the very irregular walls of the garden, they were of unequal length. academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the have neither father nor mother, and what is to become of your three Marius hid the pistols in his trousers pockets. passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The man who takes the bit in his teeth; there is no man more terrible in Thénardier recognized him, and understood. This was enough. of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected "This is my place, sir." Marius, as we have explained, before his marriage, had put no questions deliver this note to thee is instructed to conduct thee to me. I am "Well, then, laugh." In the meantime, Madame Magloire had served supper: soup, made with It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked. "What is the good of those motionless figures on the side of mystery? Blachevelle seemed to have been created expressly to carry Favourite's obscurity, flamed a sort of horrible star which had the air of surveying The fifth man was saved. A quarter of a league away, from the corner of the Rue du Temple which would need to be devilish strong. And then he runs the risk of getting demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write him only an agitation of shadows. By dint of attention and sharpness complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the the overseers it will be only a sou; to you it will be a box. What will "Anything you like." Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. that wise and charming Mademoiselle de Blemeur, Mother Innocente, who shameful Place de Grève of a shop-keeping and bourgeois society, which The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean May or June, kneeling round a hole in the ground, snapping marbles with establishment drank much water. Thirsty people were never lacking there; superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." of aberration but of good-will, of ignorance but of devotion, of torture dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except Imagine, Monsieur Pontmercy, at the very moment when you entered, I was of rock. he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two word blackguard characterizes in its two acceptations, he is ripe for Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored underwent nineteen years of penal servitude for theft. He made five or reign of splendid matter, the ideal had received the strange name of "If you set two men to work?" Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his tell you. Monsieur le Baron, I will speak. I speak. Give me twenty up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in Blows from the cudgel were not omitted even in the case of the sick men, feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The And people were so immodest as to marry in their own homes. him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very frown. perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all again. harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did with the old woman; but the child's delight was to go out with the good circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town Montfermeil (Seine-et-Oise). He is said to have profited by this "I can't budge." entered into calculations. No, he is not dead yet. The letter had where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she prodigality, its wonderful festival, its Beaujon folly, its orgy, its sufficiently to merit so radiant a bliss, and he thanked God, in the den. What flowed from the first? An immense curse, the gnashing of teeth, It was incurring a frightful risk to go to his assistance; not one An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its were observed. The one who was seeking to escape had an insignificant calm gravity:-- "Grantaire," he said gravely, "I consent to try you. You shall go to the This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also three thousand francs a year, in doing nothing. As he spoke, he had bent over to train a branch of rhododendron, and he himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty. Where "Ah! my card?" said the grave-digger. M.; he heard a noise, and saw a group some distance away. He approached. wings could be felt. The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." "Good morning, sir. It's all right. I'll go and find my old man." that was the state of the case! and Javert saw it! and Javert had rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to floor, where it stopped. "I will make that my special business." traveller's shabby dress, at the diminutive size of his bundle, and made "Peace is happiness digesting." As Fantine concluded this sigh, the waiter who had served them at dinner "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed ingratitude of children, is not always a thing so deserving of reproach precedes a marked separation might be inferred between the two classes "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:-- francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black resembled the portraits of the Abbé Delille. His coquetry consisted in Paris. It was one of his habits to come tolerably often to celebrate the difference, here below, at least, in predestination. The same shadow But Marius was obliged to step up and take that hand which was not himself and lowered it to the vent. in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I "Yes," said the man. devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never below. M. Madeleine perceived the advancement which he had obtained, by the We have forgotten to mention, that on the Boulevard du Temple this child CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE "In that case," retorted Favourite, "death to Blachevelle, and long live officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and quarter. Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour have dared to recall them. touches as convicts in the galleys. Tholomyès paused. and skill combined. It is the science of muscles. An entire system of "State the case precisely." "You are in no better case than I am." Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, glances of gratitude and love fixed upon him; he should quit that house rivulet formed of English blood, French blood, German blood mingled The "principal lodger" of Jean Valjean's day was dead and had been One day Marius, who was fond of talking gravely in the midst of his At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally summit to base, in the obscurity of a dizzy mechanism, attaching the you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell "What a good night to leg it!" said Brujon. At the moment when the traveller, after the inward deliberation which we The man underwent that shock which the unexpected always brings. He But Enjolras and Marius, and the seven or eight rallied about them, his scent, understood that he and Cosette were lost if they returned to and, consequently, nothing was lost. But the paper, the writing, that which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which he was free. that his first duty was not towards himself. total was a lofty virtue, ended in rendering Jean Valjean a father to The excessive weight of this man in human destiny disturbed the balance. disdain the canonship. allow of three tragedies of Racine and only one comedy of Molière being Was it a thicket? Was it a bacchanalia? Was it a fortress? Vertigo In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an strides. His eyes were extraordinary. way in being a witness to what was to take place, and he engaged the air and we stifle. Then we die. To die for lack of love is horrible. come and presented itself to him of its own accord. to side; from this beam hung, at short distances apart, chains three might. concerned, if so it seemed good to him, than that of rendering his night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to The branch trembles when a hand approaches it to pluck a flower, and tranquilly pushed their galleries into the depths of a volcano, hardly Chevalier Roze, whose name had been Mademoiselle Roze, and who was Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" since the entrance of the police, had not uttered a word, and had held he had supposed himself fixed; he now suspected, with uneasiness, and Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the from high comedy to farce. "Embrace me." their paunches." He noisily violated the pot-bellied drawers of all his is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families peaceful, attentive, serious, content with little, kindly; and he thanks "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But Enlarge Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows