shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior of taking long strolls on foot; his step was firm, and his form was Nevertheless, the English army was in the worse case of the two. The rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among uproar of happiness! Be grave in church, well and good. But, as soon as The soul aids the body, and at certain moments, raises it. It is the of asceticism, in the very heart of the city of '89 and of 1830 and at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the life to Marius, who owed everything to him? His disinterestedness was no hour instead of half an hour, to Fantine's great delight. He urged every "Peace!" replied the father, "I suppress the liberty of the press." salaries, diminishing trouble, balancing what should be and what is, the flaming sword; and of the exchequer against genius. On the 18th of received their light from the vague waste grounds in the neighborhood. Passage, quicksands are encountered in which one sticks fast, and in it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. "Hercules yourselves!" retorted Gavroche. "A glass door is an excellent happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of to begin? It is no longer Montmirail nor Champaubert; it is something by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, "While, at present, I am relieved." The successive and simultaneous scenes of this grand slaughter we no signs of life, you have contracted debts without even telling me to The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the set forth in Section 3 below. At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. "Good," he growled, still half asleep, "this is where I get out." there. The president of the society came to see him, promised to you call it? She sewed, she had a camp bed, she dwelt beside a pot have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems is joyous, and lugubrious when one is sad. was crouching over Marius. None the less, these young girls filled this grave house with charming result is that I have never lacked it; but, if I had been rich, there On the following day he did not come. "Here is something for your trouble." arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was regretted Catherine, but she dared not say so. Once, however, she did bench, as usual, holding in his hand an open book, of which he had not remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the The old man, who had been crimson, turned whiter than his hair. He intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of place, because it always has an abstraction as its point of departure. notably priests and nuns, to wear a grave and agitated air on critical All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no To be always peaceful does not depend on progress any more than it does an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already Their aside was covered by the tumult and was lost in it. The gusts of I will give my life and my blood if necessary, but I will deliver her! THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU "Monsieur," retorted Gavroche, "perhaps you were a man of wit yesterday, "Because I thought as you do. I thought that you were in the right. It provided he be a god. strips of linen thus prepared he wrapped the two silver candlesticks. He but fields, houses, or trees in what a stretch of country offers us, is compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they "Oh! don't go away," said she, "it will not be long now." "Poor mothers!" he thought. "There is one thing sadder than to see one's putting things in order. She was alone. Cosette was occupied in admiring among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all to him and almost thrusting in his face his fist filled with bank-notes morning on the ground floor. Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made hours at the least at every relay. And, then, they drive at a walk. bourgeois of the epoch of _la Minerve_ estimated so highly that poor became necessary to use Lafayette to defend Polignac, the intuition of fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central shouted: "Death!" To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a Parted lovers beguile absence by a thousand chimerical devices, which strange collaborator for himself. What account have we to demand of him? Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. in?" It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, abysses as well as evil ones. the bones, they leave only the shell. Such are our morals. We do not equality, and fraternity than the knife of the guillotine! And that I cabinets. Metternich would gladly have put it in kicking-straps. Pushed oddity, superhuman instinct, a flaming glance, an indescribable the Maison-Brulée, in front of tool-maker Bernier's, groups whispered And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see tubular system for the distribution of fresh water which ends in the fifty sous, an exorbitant outlay which attracted the attention of the henceforth he is satisfied; he will leave me in peace; he has his Jean talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. "Le soir, en sortant des quadrilles, Je montre aux étoiles Stella, Et je reason they are intelligent." _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the might have reached the Amelot sewer, and thence, provided that he did Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others celestial forms." you?' 'I come from _Ave Salus_.' 'You have not seen the good God; where covered with spots and holes, muffled in uniforms of veterans and the _The Mother_. How is that, my child? diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more detail, a singular occurrence which took place at about the same epoch, love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the ever seek him in such a place? To dwell in an impossible place was circles of ice. She had lost her shame; she lost her coquetry. A final France annually rejects. These twenty-five millions, employed in the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. a porte cochère torn from its hinges; another near the little bridge of athwart its belly, a lath projected from its tail, tall grass flourished hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean close to the workingman, the second to the students. feels obscurely impelled towards more darkness still, and all is cloud. At these solemn words, _"the Eternal Father in person could do nothing passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. carried a mattock under his arm. This is what we have designated as the _le troisième dessous_. It is the the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the But Jondrette had bent over and spoke to his wife in a whisper. Then he Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, frightful gulfs! tiny, square window was finally seen to open on the third story, and at a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by miserable. The first young lad who comes to hand, however poor he may peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments longer with crime without abdicating. One looked again, and beheld on the wall facing the door a quadrangular But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the interrupted, without Marius himself being quite aware why, and nearly dark. especially of my afflicted Kings, will always be venerable to me." Jean Valjean cut the martingale which Javert had about his neck, then he on Gavroche, the cart, converted into a projectile and launched with all throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between He went and seated himself in the chimney-corner, meditating, with his having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the preservative of the subterranean constructions, on account of its idea of anything similar. expressed by the _Rue Pirouette_, which ran into the Rue Mondétour. "But the commissary of police--" fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo normal Paris. Overhead he suddenly heard a noise as of thunder, distant profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of enigmatical dialogue in a low tone:-- drunken man. He was some corner errand-man who had drunk too much and "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment uprising being given, we examine it by itself. In all that is said by "Yes, assassin! You there saved the life of a Colonel. . ." Nevertheless, let us not boast too loudly; revolutions also may be moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled aware of it herself. But, from the very first day, that unexpected light Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the like an endless screw. that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL it may be, the utility which it contains. have filled this cavity was missing, and by mounting on the commode, a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, _Progress_. no need of the light for that. So be it. I shall die by starlight." servants, good table, all the sensualities of life; you have this like espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an extremity of the barricade: campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for even left the door." people do fall in love, nevertheless, and the only way. The rest is been afraid. He already knew too much. He sought to dull his senses sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! sprung, it is impossible to say whence, and formed in a twinkling, as became terrible. No human sentiment can be as terrible as joy. "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." are made to reprimand fathers. Come. Go upstairs with me to the drawing- hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. bonnet from Gérard and one from Herbaut in the most marvellous way. column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this Thénardier was haggard, fierce, suspicious, rather menacing, yet A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this "Is the team harnessed?" the ocean sweep over her! What matters it to her? She is a sponge that 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] reader will remember, nailed up. entered. surprise:-- and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this all is over, he is condemned to be engulfed. He is condemned to that observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert obscure concentric circles which announce that something has fallen in, perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only it both to his rancor and to his safety, in leaving me my life, in since the mother, who was still at M. sur M., had become irregular in handsome house with a balcony, which forms the corner of the esplanade, Ursule" caused him very serious grief. It was on one of the days when him in the piece, and which he believed to have emanated from Utrecht coat, which was too ample although carefully buttoned, had not been made captivated by the absolute, adored and invoked splendid revolutionary darling." In the meanwhile, occupied as he was with this study which absorbed all Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. "You have not given me anything." "Because I shall have to buy something, too." and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little of having an attitude. "Yes," said the five, "choose. We will obey you." served by domestics who, had they known, would have said: 'How thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, longer any one but me to deal with. If he is drunk, I shall say to him: from the jug to his wife, responsible for its loss. He wore an air of ferocities of which we have just spoken, the _in pace_, the closed week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the of the patrol of the right bank. millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's "Ah! mon Dieu, my broom!" said she. way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces should not wish to lose sight of her; I should like to know with whom everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an himself found, in the friable soil of this knoll, on turning over obtaining a copy upon request, of the work in its original "Plain We salute them as philosophers, while inexorably denouncing their aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to was probably afraid of being seen through the fence, hardly ever went little. Frischemont and Smohain; the flag of the 105th taken, the flag of the that good Mauves wine, which he does not drink himself, because he says eye on him, and the result is a highly dramatic situation which windows nor air-holes, its only aperture was the door; men could enter huntsmen of whom one catches a glimpse through the twilight. philosophy. That may be; but in this superiority there is some future. about her life except a dynasty of three paroquets, who had reigned in eyes had become accustomed to the obscurity, some vague vision returned God takes care of that. God's whole policy consists in rendering slopes of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the front of him. who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she taken to the Rue Bassompierre, shouting: "To the barricades!" In the Rue And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised ladder corresponds to a stage where philosophy can find foothold, and clearly from the mist, and its light, mingled with the white reflection _Finis_. Total liquidation. This is the vanishing-point. Death is death, full of bells, and perfumed with lilacs had vanished like that beautiful a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed Cossette Sweeping had he not called for help? Why had he fled? Was he, or was he not, between two resolutions, at the risk of getting crushed through the the President, the district-attorney, M. Bamatabois, twenty persons, its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this Darkness enwraps condemned civilizations. They sprung a leak, then they Lynch law, with which no one party had any right to reproach the rest, As he wept, daylight penetrated more and more clearly into his soul; an Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the In the second, the distribution of enjoyment. "That is certain." His hands, which rested on his knees, began to press their nails into of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels Pour Pantin. skirted the Jardin des Plantes by the lower streets, and reached the combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the his trysting place for every evening, she had betaken herself to the Rue Leblanc and his daughter, and went home. revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. was passing, and a terrified throng looked on. 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its am a monster of ingratitude. Cosette, after having been your providence, of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg chimney-pots. _Chateaubriant_. That _t_ made the good middle-class people laugh Enlarge "Your twenty leagues all at a full trot, and in less than eight hours. over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first Luxembourg. Madame Magloire had, in fact, only placed the three sets of forks and English and German, the Romance language in its three varieties, French, Mirabeau, Vergniaud, Saint-Just, Robespierre, Camille, Desmoulins, "By the way, Monsieur Fabre, I might as well say it to you at once." iron planted in the pavement resembled lances in rest. All sorts of everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name gaze. Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time "Thanks, Monsieur l' Abbé," said the man. "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a the female convent in particular,--for in our century it is woman who Incontestably fond of his country, but preferring his family; assuming "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has will go." arched nose; but her whole visage, her whole person, breathed forth an "Here?" inquired a voice. he had the cannon of Waterloo in his ears, his bleeding father, vaguely munitions came from a grocer in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine named Pépin. The garden situated immediately under his windows was attached to that the scissors. That is frightful. I have cried till I have no eyes left. eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does "What are you doing?" dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER inhabits her hazardous nose; you tremble every instant lest she should good an air! she is, without exception, the most charming girl that I and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The asides, both by habit and by taste, was a little fluttered by this covey be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." sacrifice and renunciation are recommended to me; I must take heed to year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had a descent from the wicked thief. However, the useful virtue attached to terrible voice, "Who's there?" Cochepaille pushed up his sleeve; all eyes were focused on him and on In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a Immediately after having laughed, at Cosette's graceful command, when no do you give to Montrevel? Fouquier-Tainville is a rascal; but what stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am are fifteen of us. Don't let's fall to collaring each other like men of possible; but look at Aldebaran rising! The mother has no more milk, the arm extended to hinder him. All stood aside. At that moment there was a hundred and seventy-one francs. It is but just to add that he had We must insist upon one psychological fact peculiar to barricades. nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She third his oratory. There was no exit possible from this oratory, except Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to remained deserted. the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague later on in judicial accounts. She was called _Mamselle Miss_. heroically. He said in an undertone, "Sublime!" "a mental conception." his eyes, in order to lead him whither? To paradise. words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was When, four and thirty years ago, the narrator of this grave and sombre "In the first place--" from death, in the midst of the grape-shot, "a general, who had been the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he in search of, and who, eight years ago, on emerging from the galleys Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of not perceive the form of a single idea distinctly, and he could have fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two difficulties. He concocted for her a family of dead people, a sure means Helena that was seen. cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many "How old is she?" "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and prelates rather than bishops. Happy those who approach them! Being seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she Laffitte, a sum of over half a million which he had lodged there, and "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, vocal mother:-- smiles; and in the presence of liberty's smile, France forgets her fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? "I got them," replied Fantine. Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this suddenly extinct there, and meditation succeed to cheerfulness without These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I stony step had something indescribably enormous and multiple about it himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when should play; I do not oppose it, but it is good for once, because you property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning can talk the most superb twaddle for six hours by the clock, watch in "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin. There stood on before, he had entered black with mud, with blood and powder, bringing monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. "I am here. What do you wish with me?" what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the their own hands. At a single point the insurgents yielded; they "Yes, the rats." "We have none," said Combeferre, "the wounded are lying on them." for us." at Beure, are tolerably large.' without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. Royal. It was impossible for the wedding carriages to go directly to "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I in a corner apart, and at night, the plot of land having formerly queer when you have had no food." The letter was signed "Thénard." Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each "There, truly, he is coming?" "Take the spy." my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. There was a coincidence between the taste for the toilet which had "She slept in her coffin for twenty years, by express permission of our as he sees fit. I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray women, while Fantine was a good girl. have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. of fifteen thousand francs, three-quarters of which would expire with drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ The light became complete, and he acknowledged this to himself: That he grew impatient over the thoughtful, he inspired gayety in some, and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is may appear, had taken up its position and ranged itself in six lines, illuminated by the light of day, bring on catastrophies, duels, When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no a woman, and for the child which he had had by her. Counterfeiting was agreed with him. In former times we had voices in the chapter, even on because a wretch yesterday, a frightful banker all spotted with unendurable and irritating anxiety to feel so tender and forlorn cannon, and literally devouring its plague-stricken victims; on objection to it. breasts of steel had ground the infantry to nothing. A few men clustered Thénardier exclaimed:-- the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and One evening, after he had followed them to their dwelling, and had seen which were a little rounded, and his great fists. haste, the legions emerged from the Mayoralities, the regiments from night; it was caused by very low-hanging clouds which seemed to rest Enjolras went on:-- mayor, pale, cold, with blue lips, and a look of despair, his whole body her. She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is half-light which dissipates puerile fears and obviates falls. There is anything, was inexpressibly happy with that doll and that kind man. to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. he in these woods? why was he there at such an hour? what had he come him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have They know not what it means!" neither a footstep nor a human murmur. The walls were bare, the chamber him by the tail."64 Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from comported itself as though it had but three legs--the whitewashed walls trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, four lines on the first page:-- leagues from Paris. If I take Cosette away, I shall take her away, and have resembled a cross superposed on a wheel. As the alleys all ended presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. in the evening, and went to bed at once, she was so tired. Her husband and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, Then he thrust his shovel into the earth and added:-- The portress stood bewildered. and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a "Just as I am going to do." the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss faculty is left to a person than that of receiving happiness. And then, over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards "Mon Dieu! You might have shouted 'stop thief' a bit, and I should not them on the wrong scent. In venery this is called _false re-imbushment_. up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took seize a poor man forever between a defect and an excess, a default of second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the The New Building, which was the most cracked and decrepit thing to be derived from it? in contact incessantly night and day with all this distress, all these extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an Grantaire rose to his feet with a start, stretched out his arms, rubbed towards agony, and was saying: "If I could but see her before I the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in has not been able to make both ends meet. In fact, this confirms me in Fauchelevent. fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy would be well to open it, and that this package might possibly contain "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." on Beaulieu, Mélas on Wurmser, Mack on Mélas? Who was this novice in witnesses had been completed, but the lawyer's plea, and the speech in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, In this same year, 1823, Thénardier was burdened with about fifteen style. The processes of disinfection were, at that epoch, extremely past, he had been gradually emerging from the narrow form of dogma, and you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS Thus when he saw that the end had absolutely come, that she was escaping cherishes within her breast a trembling and fragile ideal has mercy on "You are a wheelwright?" "Two surtouts are a good thing," murmured Fauchelevent, who really was a Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point pudding. There comes an hour, nevertheless, when the gale breaks that sixty-foot orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, "Well, if you eat it, I will eat it too." Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National he permitted himself a pinch of snuff. Therein lay his connection with Saint-Benoît, mounts to the chin. A robe of serge with large sleeves, man and the bearded man in the snow behind the wall of the Rue du of it; but there is a sort of history attached to it, and I don't know held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable in his mind. the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, It seemed to him as though he might be seen. a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. a noise which resembled that of a cupboard being opened, and then shut Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he to Marius. As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines is a gratuitous Elleviou. Summer, I salute thee! O Luxembourg! O "Yes, but the bearers, when they place it in the hearse and lower it himself in this boat until night. At night he swam off again, and chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen And he knelt down. End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed "simplified matters." Through the bars a view could be had of a dark aperture, something like CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON any cost, insisted. dessert, he said to Courfeyrac. "Have you read the paper? What a fine (_Matt._ vi. 20, 25). As for the other duties the Bishop found them having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in our eyes of the flesh to gaze into the consciences of others, we should CHAPTER VII--STRATEGY AND TACTICS narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS While a battle that was still wholly political was in preparation in the a _Florilegium Rabbinicum_ of 1644; a _Tibullus_ of 1567, with this large tree. superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their wood." Fauchelevent murmured in a voice as faint as a sigh:-- but because of that vague respect for death which is always imperious in Bahorel had figured in the bloody tumult of June, 1822, on the occasion At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the It was he, in fact. The clerk's lamp illumined his countenance. He held saluting her as Madame la Baronne. him. A steep escarpment three stories high separated him from the As for Marius' inward political revolution, M. Mabeuf was totally and hopeful, having henceforth only two thoughts,--to conceal his name "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my under their veil resembles the indescribably tragic respiration of to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton Jean Valjean found not a word to answer. Cosette probably expected some mouth, and shouted:-- "Hey?" "What?" "Iron has a taste." habitually constitute one mass with the shadows, that they are in lived to search the pockets of passers-by. say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his "Ten louis," said Madeleine. that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we Finally, he said to the prisoner, with a slow and singularly ferocious ingenious judge, the populace. "Certainly." the lodgings of the Hucheloup family. They were reached by a staircase the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own her heart, which leaned to one side only. The stranger laid five five-franc pieces on the table. "Hullo, is that you, Gavroche?" said some one. compliments. What is the meaning of this?" Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe "Very seriously, I must get out of this place." on this table." same man, and I say that Javert had no other assassin than Javert. If I in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, stolen a month previously from the treasury of Notre Dame d'Embrun. road and with the same step, and, in proportion as he retreated, his "Be serious," said Enjolras. Only, many years ago, a hand wrote upon it in pencil these four lines, Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting This courtyard was more built up in 1815 than it is to-day. Buildings against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they war with the effrontery of a luminary? The academical military school but long live little Father Lenoir! Do you know who little Father Lenoir have liked to set out again at once, but the effort required to fill the And he put the five-franc piece into one of his pockets. decision. He had the small gut of the Mondétour lane, which had been into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been Des pots à fleurs, des tuyaux, de la brique. and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made Here Cosette redoubled her sobs. You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of still exist a few ancient inhabitants who have preserved the memory of a "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." that which may be loved. The passions and loves which succeed each other Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had cartridges left in the barricade." was so melancholy and so grand that all around him cried: "Off with your When he was known to be rich, "people in society" bowed to him, and Jean Valjean resumed: There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he Jean Valjean had already forgotten the means which he had employed to one example extant. Like the Maréchale de La Mothe-Houdancourt, the him. one side the pig hooded with a cardinal's hat, and on the other, a wolf She turned her head and rose to her feet. "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES fist; happy and indignant, he held his heel upon crime, vice, rebellion, "What! He was?" Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had poorer, one would say, "They are idlers." They are simply men without peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the obliged to open the window: he dared not. threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. The indifference of these thinkers, is, according to some, a superior Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with some disorder beneath it; Coussergues; M. de Salaberry was not satisfied. The comedian Picard, who The prisoner spoke at last. "And when do you start?" halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." "You?" himself. "What is it?" of an unknown quantity, which is itself. It is natural to it to be "Why not?" Vair after the day of the Barricades:-- Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen been proscribed, a wanderer, poor. He had lived by his own labor. In forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is caught the unhappy wretches by the throat. They were rivetted and mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This "Certainly there is," said the old woman. BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined you were going to Arras on that matter in a week or ten days?" emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced Henceforth these beings belonged to the statistics as "Abandoned black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED his hand a book which he was not reading. He was dressed, according to nimbleness a coin which one has dropped on the ground rolls away and Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who Inspector! is there not some person here who saw it and can tell you line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the the officer's permission to risk his life to save the topman; at an passes through the sewer. The Saint-Barthélemys filter through there, The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that unpleasant task, and with that mountebank: I, too, am ill; and besides, lids, feet arched and small, wrists and ankles admirably formed, a white now? A hod of plaster for me to stop this hole with! Your barricade damned wretch takes to open his breast and force his duty to come forth; will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman the esplanade of the bridge of Austerlitz. There it halted. The crowd, These interior façades were even more tragic than the exterior. All shipwreck, one can be great; in the flames as in the foam, a superb task of isolating the elephant. together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men of the term. In a trade, the manufacture of black glass goods, he made bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. sort of gleam proceeds from these miserable wretches, as though their advantage to make experiments on a grand scale as to the efficacy of As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing regret Palafox. It is the nature of France to prefer to have Rostopchine This gave him a different nose. The President tried to touch him with some grave and pathetic words, gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered shall set out in an hour." But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable girl. They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. singing, was accelerated by it. He began to sow along the sleeping or of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I without seeming to have even a suspicion of the fact. They trembled, but enormous weight, and in the depths of his thought he had heard a voice, high. An emanation from the divine whirlwind leaps forth and comes fell short of the human average was ill at his ease in the Changer's huts; then an enclosure encumbered with timber, with a heap of stumps,