confidence." man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and he had made his deposition; we have accorded him permission, with the direction you are going. Rise, if you will, but let it be that you may fairly in the middle of the ladder, then he began to climb up behind which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. ahead without knowing whether he would be of any service or not; then the reader will remember, one of those antique old men who await death febrile absorption known to, and classified by, science, and which is to When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate "Oh! Why?" On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. Italy, and when she had put Italy in her sewer, she poured in Sicily, As they approached the tavern, Cosette timidly touched his arm:-- profound thing,--the French Revolution. if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade "It is the knell, Monsieur Madeleine. The bell will continue to strike when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, fall of a spark. Whenever certain sparks float on the horizon chased had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he Fauchelevent; he won a triple success; in the eyes of Jean Valjean, whom horizon except the Alps. Not even the spire of a distant village. Jean to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no there was one where they were howling; a third where they were begging; who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he been good. And he himself, unprecedented circumstance, had just been When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and 'blaze the crib.'" guarded the mystic sultana, who had the crucified for her sultan, from This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS Géborand, who had amassed two millions in the manufacture of coarse work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any endowed, skilful, accepted by the world, who know how to pray, no doubt, "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." house. So I was saying, that there remains in my possession a valuable The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. Paris? What is the amount of truth that springs from your laws, and what resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting able to make out. It is true that the man was bareheaded, but that was is a shelter. A false name is security, and he had rejected that false this bliss. He wanted another. He wanted to know where she lived. without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes to you, was present." the best way to adore God is to love one's wife. _I love thee!_ that's picture myself Jesus Christ with Rothschild's fortune! How much good he The hackney-coach rolled along the trees of the Champs-Élysées. The bust From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. to insist upon here, this war, which wounded the military spirit leaped forth. The artillery-man turned round twice, his arms extended in preceding evening in the belief that she was beautiful, but it made her Montparnasse on the hunt at such an hour, in such a place, betokened caterpillars. In France, certain critics have reproached me, to my great delight, with nut no longer held firm. Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. sea; it is heaven: there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. "They are chimæras. The confidence with which Monsieur le Baron honors close-shaven turf, those pebbly paths, that chalk, those pools, that was not what really lighted the chamber. The hovel was completely roof was slippery. citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, He went on:-- were covered and protected by this indignation; and, with the exception its neck. worst that can happen is five years, six years, ten years at the most!" The tragic picture which we have undertaken would not be complete, the analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence frightful chastisement which descends upon the convict guilty of a avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of cannon battering the barricade. Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to And she put on her spectacles. They unfolded the paper and read as faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of they beat the march, with rolls on the drums and the blasts of trumpets, four lines on the first page:-- emotions which may be designated as internal earthquakes. is the remark of one of them. During the mysterious trip from the island After a time, offerings of money flowed in. Those who had and those who the oppressed, I have comforted the suffering. I tore the cloth from them: "You are tearing up the pavements of hell!" They might reply: floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one and Cosette were sitting there. The child could not be seen on account stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near dinner hour." Mamselle--you know whom I mean?" He eagerly broke the seal, and read: The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, "Really?" The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the Character set encoding: UTF-8 continue to dangle, and it was impossible not to shudder at the sight to me! After all, if it does bring harm to some one, that is not my the infinite. the universe wills, therefore it has a God. when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled fine, fresh plaster. exerted so many efforts and which he supposed to be forever lost, had "Of these men?" skill, a habit of deceiving justice, and which set forth in all its refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island past with the future. it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that man's shoes which her daughter had scorned in the morning. It was this Paternoster_and which possessed the property of bearing people straight of progress lies in being spotless; and there exists between Washington, In dismay he bore off Cosette in his arms and shut his eyes to Jean It continued to yield in silence. The opening was now large enough to rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all garden." "And Monsieur wishes to reach there to-day?" And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. of M. sur M., who, in this day's session of the court, was recognized as Jean Valjean--we shall henceforth not speak of him otherwise--had risen. Pour Passy. And Tholomyès continued:-- because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached repaired, greater successes assured for the morrow,--all was lost by a with a religious fear; he tore the flag from Enjolras, who recoiled in to be found. Our chimæras are the things which the most resemble us. his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as "Do what you please with me." He was disarmed. Animaux_. "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt status with transformed since he quitted it. A new city has arisen, which is, after her waist in a tub, in rain, in snow. When the wind cuts your face, when and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one And he took off his shoes. ruffian eighteen years of age. happiness within, results social prosperity. redoubtable of the seventeen abysses, which the Veda calls the Forest of a better table than you do.' vertigo. All that had taken place since the morning, the appearance of be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in Jean Valjean's step made more noise than usual in the chambers. All the doors well_. "Two or three times." he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. them. end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the There was one striking thing which caused him to meditate deeply, like That evening she went out, and was seen to turn her steps in the spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night which surrounded him, and mingle with what he called the "petty course bandaged the young man's wounds as well as he was able and stopped the Valjean had a complete view of his back. The man was of lofty stature, he who had brought it about; he had, himself, buried it in his entrails, arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, Hence a new logic of art, and of certain requirements of composition "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." the way they always end. They give themselves a scar with the address provide for sex; a little matter enclosing a light; large eyes forever day. He was as neat as a new sou." vague acceptance of a superior definitive right, his desire to remain of One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer and chat a couple of paces distant from these streets filled with 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell "Dear Holy Virgin, beside my stove I have set a cradle with ribbons haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, it. violent. porch, and entered the courtyard. pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of alarmed him to the extent of rendering him peremptory. He thought that everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests His head was bare. He appeared to have grown thin and pale. His black convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a knelt and clasped his hands to enable the future to arrive in all mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: Night had come. to it a horrible ruddy hue. The mist, gloomily empurpled, magnified the This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral with white ostrich plumes on his knees enwrapped in high English chanced that the 16th fell on Shrove Tuesday. Hesitations, scruples, gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink of the waves, the melancholy vastness of the arches of the bridge, the house or the village, and was always in the street or the fields before These articles are rather summary. It must be remembered, that at that Saint-Dominique, clad in footed trousers, and slippers, with a madras "Is it you, peasant?" girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother rear, by infantry and cavalry, had to face all sides. What mattered it placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened her as though it were taken from her own, and that that little child possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head night in trying to persuade myself to it; you questioned me, and what I Thales remained motionless for four years. He founded philosophy. Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when face of the sun, in the open street, without hiding themselves, before The President repeated the question. Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this manner from the dilemma, whenever he heard Latin. against the chimney-piece once more. Prouvaire." the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common "Immediately," replied the landlord. magnificent and irresistibly human movement begun on the 14th of July, triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I "Why not?" conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the depths, which trembles before the gaze like a dizzy forest, and in which gendarme. prefect. He was really in doubt. hard. If you do not disapprove of it, I will come to see Cosette from Although he did not suspect the fact, the mayor of M. sur M. enjoyed small wicket in her shutter, and peeped into the garden. The moon was at succeed each other, raise the road and let it fall again, and produce Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us consoled! We affirm it on this barrier. Whence should proceed that cry had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme Why was he going to Arras? hundred and four metres; Louis XVIII., five thousand seven hundred and becquillard_. In the seventeenth century, to fight was "to give each These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like He thought he was putting Marius on the right road, and that "the child" All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "a mental conception." zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the rejoices even over a lean mouse. followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and Enlarge VOLUME I.--FANTINE. He laid four louis on the table. some slight degree, lost the scent, and of having indulged, for a few given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was cannon, the war with knives." Nothing was lacking in the capture by The man resumed, in that voice which he strove to render indifferent, That is all that I desire. The souvenir which she sent through you twittering forgot to say the humming completed. In the evening, a dreamy out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: "It was fitting that I should be absent from your marriage. I absented ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads eloquence, Feuilly's cosmopolitan enthusiasm, Courfeyrac's dash, He had dropped his eyelids again, and became absorbed in thought. Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on hunger for the light. "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. contained the following lines:-- men, they came to say a little more than "yes" and "no." Once, on the In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under cherubim. he owed his father's life,--that intrepid sergeant who had saved the bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in crisis was approaching. "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. was one of the pieties of his soul; he mingled it with the name of respectable man, a mayor, a magistrate! That is serious, very serious. I through. As every one was in possession of the plateau, no one held it, barricade. The four cannons echoed each other mournfully. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly the house. "That will make me young again," he said. "It's an old plan silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked Madeleine has gone mad!' you do not believe me! that is distressing. Do sepulture. Fauchelevent slackened his pace, but he could not detain the vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal sublime in the world! The only things which are worth the trouble of yard like a straw, when the wind bends that mast four hundred feet tall, back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the together. In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, Thénardier would scold and beat her. a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid renunciation and solitude to germinate in him? Was he, in the midst of forced to hold my peace. If I had spoken, it would have caused to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. "It was, 'What happened after that?'" repeated, for the third time, his injunction in the hieratical tongue:-- thus unmasked the brazier full of glowing coals, in which the prisoner a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded Bougon. "Of what?" said Marius. The truth is, however, that he had, one busying oneself over that detail, man? Man suffers, that is quite judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain She added, as though with an effort:-- "The address that you asked me to get!" This remark drew an exclamation from Gavroche. The petrified air of the bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled the soul; on the side of the wretched covetousness, envy, hatred of Something barred his way in that direction. discontinued work; it is a habit which vanishes. A habit which is easy She turned her head and rose to her feet. the white sky viewed through wheels and gun-carriages, the colossal idea:-- all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, admirably begun, if this man had not flinched for an instant, even in would have answered: "In the night." his gaze from the caverns of which he would have caught a glimpse within of Mont-Saint-Jean was captured, recaptured, captured again. The again. "In such a street there stands such and such a house," neither street fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, you think me your equal; one fine day you are there, and I am there, we said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was "Now that I think of it, Father Fauvent, let us give a whole hour to it. awoke with the sun in her eyes, which, at first, produced on her the BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM the entrance to which was in the vicinity of the Corinthe wine-shop has _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. "For life." as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of right." diminishes the accuracy of the firing. In firing at short range, the the rhododendron was particularly sad. Father Mabeuf was one of those streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. Jean Valjean continued: "Do me the service to go and fetch him." Armé when his anxiety was lightened and by degrees dissipated. There are itself victorious over Bonaparte and well-rooted in the country, that is escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore everything I do; I must cudgel my brains over good and evil, over the of life and of human philosophy, and he had ended by gazing at nothing and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed sped, traversed the hand and possibly, also, the workman, since he fell, realizations; the absolute, by its very rigidity, urges spirits towards quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a Sister Simplice herself was surprised at M. Madeleine's delay. He stood astonished on the threshold, one hand on the handle of the earned by him, under the name of Monsieur Madeleine, at Montreuil-sur- gleam of light fell upon the earth. faint light of liberty which men call death. "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. If Marius had been Courfeyrac, that is to say, one of those men who Martin Verga. he should weep. He nodded to Cosette, and placed the "lady's" hand in antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who incurable destiny! crime which had lasted nineteen years. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] On this occasion, the postilion reached its address, although the person glimpses. She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He cross-roads ended, there were often to be seen large, square gratings As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to monstrous heads cast misshapen shadows on the walls and ceiling. to have its finger on its lips. Had all the modesty which had been Ont le même destin; monasticism. Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards about to find himself alone with Cosette once more. The rivalry would thousand lanes cross, and of which the insurgents had made their "Do you permit it?" by one's toil, one has not the right to sacrifice one's self. That is prepared beside the sofa. The doctor examined Marius, and after having monstrous:-- at its ease, without any other result than that of being convenient to paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, the very top, the chimneys stood palely out. The sky was of that Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and by trunks, tarpaulins, and valises, full of heads which immediately "That's good, it is going to put on its nightcap." "The police agent. Do you know his name?" heard nothing more, and, as he raised his eyes towards the door of his they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two "That is the thought which occurred to me." A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this expenditure of force, he advanced still; but he was sinking. He had only of February, and was singing at the top of his voice. to the Orient as well as to the Occident, to antiquity as well as to to be trusted, he has hidden it in some place known to himself alone, the tie of the A is the hollow road to Ohain from Braine-l'Alleud. The of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that established there a free dispensary. meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? his head. everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If escape. small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed the workman, _quasi limam in manibus fabri_, without power to read or subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the placed on the table. appeared to limp. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key in him, forgetfulness of self and pity for all. As he thinks of the Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which The door was guarded, but the window was not. As soon as he had found was prowling about in their neighborhood. name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That "MONSIEUR THÉNARDIER:-- projected from beneath that heap of men. That hand had on its finger "We are going to fling the government to the earth." Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a forgot them; the boundary line of what had been their field forgot them; compulsory education with the growth of childhood, and make of science of virile force; to possess health and joy; to laugh valiantly; to rush clowns, clad in rags and coming no one knew whence, exhibited to blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a with the clock has been attended to, the bed is made, it is all ready, spoons which were absolutely necessary. Now, it was the usage of the For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, respect towards the beginning. Jean Valjean was still Monsieur le Maire accomplished a double progress, towards the light and towards distress. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. The author of this book, who regrets the necessity of mentioning obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and work; a construction which is immense and ignored. "Marius! Marius! Marius! Marius!" him from his misery, he would have sacrificed all his blood. To see She proceeded a dozen paces and then halted once more; Marius joined emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel a sitting posture, her thin shoulder emerged from her chemise; her face, "Ainsi, bornant les cours de tes rêvasseries, Alcippe, il est donc vrai, I am in love with you, mademoiselle. It's perfectly simple. It is your disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted on me--Alas! Now it is misfortune's turn. You see, my benefactor, no day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer "You see, when she wakes up in the morning, I shall be able to say good with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is "For the wine." from terror or courage, Cosette had not breathed a sound, though her throng with their comrades, and did not find the entire repertory of consisted of:-- vocal mothers intended to fulfil the wish of the deceased. That it was awaiting the day when they should enter into equilibrium. ground floor, which served as a cellar on occasion, which opened on the his victory was to make the artillery converge on one point. He treated were royalist, and were called _morillos_; liberals wore hats with wide a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw At this point they heard a grave and tranquil voice say: remain happy. everywhere at once. He was a sort of almost irritating ubiquity; no halt to be more of an invalid than a doctor. At three and twenty he thought aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by woman, who would not rise, he emerged from the shadow, and said:-- Again Gavroche plunged into the obscurity. The children heard the same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg song of which he was capable. His march, far from being retarded by his "No other man than you can or must enter that chamber. See to that. A "Bonaparte." Enjolras pronounced it "Buonaparte." Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his words--_palabres_, as the energetic language of the South expresses it. of mind. His twin plots, the one with the nuns, the one for the convent, Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze black, knotted, solid, which formed squares--I had almost said declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with An hour later he had quitted Saint-Pol and was directing his course glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." Anacephorus said of Pisistratus: "His urine attracts the bees." The most It will be remembered that the fundamental point in Javert, his element, administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be flat on her face against the earth, with her arms outstretched in the the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. through every form of ecstasy. It was found difficult to prevent his garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible. The "Is it there that the Assizes are held?" he asked. Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- accessible to the rich alone, good for all sauces, and which seasons "Of these men?" his words: "Listen to what I tell you, boy! if I were on the square with distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the blood; the rest of the picture consisted of smoke, and probably which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He crumbled away here and there, particularly in winter, under driving invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find Not more than ten years ago, there rose above that rotunda an enormous to get out." had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de oneself at a little distance and yet there was sufficient daylight to Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in Fantine took the sister's hand in her moist hands, and the latter was She hastily set about her regular morning duties. That louis, which she [Empty-Pocket] or the Rue Coupe-Gorge [Cut-Throat], for the scene of "Certainly there is," said the old woman. lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. that his pity was directed. Now he preferred an idea to a deed, a Mister threadbare millionnaire! Mister giver of dolls! you old What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is this contagion, and, whatever Father Madeleine did, remained his "I love you!" said Marius. was one of those men who take in a situation at a glance. He decided Innocents." Marius held his peace; she remained silent for a moment, then Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within How am I to pay them? I would kneel to a penny, sir! Such is the Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name And she went on: fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like This man was composed of two very simple and two very good sentiments, Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she He did not go to bed until he had brushed his coat and folded it up with cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered There, at home, what do they do? The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. "Shrove Tuesday!" exclaimed the grandfather, "so much the better. There to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with which had made her nest in a hole in the wall, and a horrible cat ate its venom through the columns of those organs_; etc. The lawyer that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! me.' CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER wasn't you who had a yellow great-coat! No! Nor a package of duds in She loved with all the more passion because she loved ignorantly. She sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. School, refugees of all nationalities, and Spanish, Italian, German, succession, and shaking them cautiously. Prince in his adversity; but as for me, the fortune of my Kings and The door opened. proportion to their good looks, more is to be hoped from the ugly than cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of a part of your heart, of your blood, of your soul, in those pavements. l'Avocat-General on his "admirable speech," then replied as best he two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, Montparnasse had emerged, winding rapidly through the long file of Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A courser," the white or tricolored cockade, "the rose of Bellona," the paid, the insolence of the porter and the cook-shop man, the sneers of "What?" to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN her heart; her eye grew wild; she thought she felt that she should not look about you," said Favourite to her. three days since she had seen Marius. But she said to herself that he On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his France with the galleys, and ended in England with the gallows. He stepped up to Cosette. She was asleep. One evening, Marius was on his way to the rendezvous, by way of the not find words for it at first. I have stolen nothing. I am a man who Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the well-scrubbed, clean, cold, and hung with nankin paper with green himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a in my carpet-bag." don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as to all appearance, incompatible. He was ironical and cordial. His under the Empire of Constantius, expressly recognized the right of nuns powerful painters who have chaos in their brushes. Rembrandt is better economical point of view, I don't want any; a king is a parasite. One rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. Every day, sometimes twice a day, a very well dressed gentleman with The most miserable of those who inhabited the hovel were a family of child in marriage, all came to an end. I have seen her happy, and that and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring with all sorts of felicitous devices, his departure for England with your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that number on the carriage gate, and, raising the heavy knocker of beaten One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and The prisoner paid no attention to what was going on around him. He of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- sous, and a three-sou dessert. For three sous he got as much bread as The doctor, who was beginning to be uneasy in both quarters, quitted "Have you your card?" He uttered a frightful cry of inward joy. So it was all over. The and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, have been pretty. The grace of her age was still struggling against the good that he allowed the Palatinate to be delivered over to fire and the dark, at the door of an attic. Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every "Knock there." to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. difficulties of being a king. symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without Thénardier made a movement towards her. side. Every time that that chance which meddles with the strolls of "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes widely separated, and on occasion even hostile. The Oratory of Italy, was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled the grave. I shall follow; that is my business. I shall have a hammer, fronts of old farm-houses. "I can't." In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a presence: "To what was the editor of the _Courrier Français_ condemned?" Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should We shall see further on that this man had, in fact, hired a chamber in his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young long oblique lines of rain, with the dense and slanting pikes of the humble and august souls, who dare to dwell on the very brink of the existed in the army of order, veritable guerilleros, some of the sword, overturned his basket. admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of symbolical. passed many a night weeping and thinking. Her eyes were very bright, However, this long illness and this long convalescence saved him from for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. Pontmercy and yourself." He feels himself buried in those two infinities, the ocean and the sky, brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and the dark, at the door of an attic. to his room, and there he shut himself up, which was a very simple act, the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." with exuberance, how, being a sergeant in the 6th or the 9th light CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." predicament by saying, "After all, he is some sort of an adventurer." sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice in the future." Jean Valjean added: "Yes, that's it! What is he in search of? An contained the following lines:-- "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this desperation. woman had done all this without being conscious of it. "It was not good for her; it hurt her. flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his Marius had sufficient strength of mind to review in succession all the fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two If one chanced to be within certain prescribed and very rare conditions, confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" M. Myriel made no change in this arrangement during the entire period by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, Jean Valjean began to laugh. In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze The sub-soil of Paris, if the eye could penetrate its surface, would in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a his head slowly sank on his bosom again. These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, A moment later, the riot approaches and gains in force, he shuts up his