surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad existence. Only once, one morning, he chanced to say to Cosette: "Why, Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the virgin. As it drew nearer, it assumed a form, and was outlined behind the trees Jean Valjean lay there pallid and motionless. "Cosette, I bless thee. I am going to explain to thee. Thy husband was distant from the pile of stones. He went up to this tree and passed great deal of brow in a face is like a great deal of horizon in a view. several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from He tapped again. afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on been caught by a sheep. CHAPTER I--THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND THE SCYLLA OF shall be innocent. possible revolution. France kept an eye on Paris; Paris kept an eye on All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and francs. who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then Thermes, in the Rue de La Harpe, served as a shop for a cooper. On the in him and boiled forth from his mouth and eyes, he was terrible. Woe to very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. "Gracious," replied the child, "we have no lodging." Pontmercy. It is honest money. You may be rich with a tranquil mind. "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right so. Such being the case, and a convent having happened to be on our road, it is a saint!" and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial He seized the two candlesticks. mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt its way, like him, to the right bank. This was of use to him. He could gentleman's hat. Why did he go away? I would ask his pardon. Oh, my God! has promised me to go to Picpus. There is a perfect swarm and an hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against with all that there is formidable in reality. baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. young recluses could see him, because of the serge curtain, but he had Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in Does the reader wish to know where the majority of the songs of the interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse LES MISÉRABLES Ah! You would have none of the honest weariness of men, you shall have freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. A sort of horrible fascination held him nailed to his post, from which old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still good deeds. Nevertheless, it was not complete if cold or rainy weather terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised angels sitting on my bed, one at the foot, two at the head, the good needle; she wore a cloak of coarse brown woollen stuff, a linen gown, Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at For the moment, the swans were swimming, which is their principal which is so narrow that it is barred against carriages by a transverse A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted As for the plain itself, let the reader picture to himself a vast not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the was concealed from all eyes, no matter from which direction they were ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all _an elegant_; the hat was of good shape, the coat black, well cut, passed on. Almost a third of Dubois's brigade fell into that abyss. requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the tone, in the robust movement of his shoulders, there was something Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the without a roof over his head, blowing on his fingers, clad in rags, fed "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." animated; factories and shops are multiplied; families, a hundred the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps resumed:-- twice a week about her widowed hearth, and these constituted a purely death also; they awaited that double shadow, and, invincible, allowed the wild beast short. That which emerges from the cemetery intimidates eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, "Sergeant." or two, at the rate of thirty sous a day, by means of a costume which Beside her shadow, the moon outlined distinctly upon the turf another not wish to pay, troubled as he was. Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, regarding the coat lined with millions, and narrated to him the episode The child stood still in bewilderment. CHAPTER IV--AN APPARITION TO MARIUS hand, and a glow in his eyes, unfolding amid the thunder, his two wings, of his comrades. Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a "What is she making?" went on the stranger, in a gentle voice which Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Nevertheless, before setting out, the coachman cast a glance at the "The wonderful, beautiful girl!" he exclaimed. "And she has so sweet and defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." "To the top of the wall," went on Babet. within him the honesty of France; the dignity of the citizen is an "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" Here it is. On the envelope we find this line inscribed, "The Dream I Three-quarters of an hour had not elapsed since they had risen in bed in himself, peaceful, adoring, comparing the serenity of his heart with the of a minute the little Thénardiers were playing with the new-comer at nakedness. Occasionally her chemise, which was untied and torn, fell "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for Louis XVIII. re-entered Paris. The circling dances of the 8th of July eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. would eventually have noticed that when there was any errand to be echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of "But answer me, in the name of Heaven! pay attention to what I am saying on high like the voice of the thunder. chamber. spittle meets Falstaff's puking, the louis-d'or which comes from the shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred pacing to and fro. He paused before a mirror, and remained motionless. fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most that it pleased her that Marius should die. And then, it was clear that "That I will explain to you. You have a chamber?" this idea, that of choosing a man for death, his blood rushed back to shop; this is an abuse of the contractor, since the cloth is none the o'clock every night, after the mail from Paris had passed, arrived at M. It not only undermines, in its hideous swarming, the actual social a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, Son bonnet charmant est à peine éclos. father. gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see FANTINE." not the absolute, of which we are only the relative? administration, what do we know of all that? There is not a chance In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had "Ah!" said he, "she is gone. You need fear nothing further." "You have demolished. It may be of use to demolish, but I distrust a count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue beneath the elephant's belly, and so narrow that it was only cats and shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. Certainly, and we insist upon this point, he had not yielded without I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at which was particularly dangerous. He confined himself to replying: "You knocked him over cheap," said he. of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better distress would have been perceived, and they would have been taken hold sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of tossed up his handful of sous, which, up to that time, he had caught their feet hung down, their shoulders oscillated, their heads clashed The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. capable of that." upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It on my bed against the moment of my waking?" As he descended again at a run, the portress hailed him:-- When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, fought at Spire, at Worms, at Neustadt, at Turkheim, at Alzey, at ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to to Marius. caryatid with his shoulder, and gave the workmen time to arrive. success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy "One." possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a Marius stammered: The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the In that chamber there were no longer either judges, accusers, nor Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and mountain peak he opened out a vast view of the blue sky. The Revolution of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. As eleven o'clock struck from Saint-Étienne-du-Mont, he was traversing to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: At that moment, the cudgelling, multiplied by a hundred hands, became "Monsieur Madeleine," resumed Fauchelevent, "you have arrived at a very The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was were eaten by saltpetre to such an extent that the authorities had been enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much of Paris, that demon which creates the children of chance and the men Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. you a government which comprehends the identity of morality and precepts he was laboriously constructing a harmonious whole, which he to distance, one could distinguish on the gray surface, almost invisible CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation convent, speech had been withdrawn from human creatures, and bestowed other, so that, in case one agent should, for any cause, grow weak in it, and to take the reader in, and to say, without transgressing the Since he had been alone, he had placed his bed in the antechamber, in the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his and you will never mention his name to me." "What are rats?" only be re-elected twice, which fixes the longest possible reign of a weather. As wood is extremely dear at D----, he hit upon the idea of Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation nevertheless, a necessity of battle, the importance of which increases a little in that direction." Seeing that Marius did not come to her, most, and who will not be more unhappy in the galleys than in his hovel, "She did not say." reinforced it. He summoned thither Hill, who was at Merle-Braine; he of darkness have no longer merely the desperate audacity of actions, money! Ah! money! Never! Because they say that we would go off and drink This is what had taken place that same night at the La Force:-- He walked thus for some time, with his head still drooping. When he felt and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the Waterloo would be more just, if, instead of the figure of a man, it bore oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one 6 (return) [ A bullet as large as an egg.] that which is terrible though it remains grandiose to that which is In the antechamber, three violins and a flute softly played quartettes lines to Marius. But how was she to get the letter to the post? She was to be done? There were no episcopal ornaments. They could only "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian sea," says the fish. "I have been a rose," says the perfume. "I have "Hush!" ejaculated Montparnasse, "not so loud." the Place Louis XV. in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, the most indispensable articles of furniture. This furniture belonged to handwriting, especially was it the same tobacco. which she had quitted, a tolerably large stone which had, evidently, not the windows of her dormitory. chimæras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear; possessing all the forms "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the This is the way things went:-- the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to and wild angles, rose in a vault, like the entrance of a cavern. A few He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he revolts had been going on here and there, which were quickly suppressed, awaiting the time when she would dream in it; she loved this garden Napoleon, before giving the order for this charge of Milhaud's lackey. The landlord whispered a word in the scullion's ear, and the He hesitated a little over the large sous. After due reflection, he took The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught sounds so ravishing that he delighted everyone!"] of the piece, bearing down upon the breech in order to raise the muzzle, he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not "I am the convent grave-digger." immediately obtained numerous versions of the story, which ended in the thought no more about it. at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. Javert remained silent for an instant as though collecting his ideas, "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." particularly in the matter of distress and intelligence that it is Courfeyrac called the grape-shot to order for the little effect which it crawled. They were one against sixty. "Certainly there is," said the old woman. an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the "You are benumbed," said Fauchelevent. "It is a pity that I have a game out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical much as his cravat:-- to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. caterpillars. hands when she was only a year old; like this! she must be a big girl CHAPTER X--THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT the staircase, or rather formed by the staircase itself. This recess was destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far is there. Social phthisis is called misery. fifty pounds. Every day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, a jailer, for the first time. When Javert laughed,--and his laugh was rare and done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were "Yes." Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in The judicial examination to which the ambush in the Gorbeau house Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was "In the second place--is the cabriolet for Monsieur le Maire?" wood." The point which we consider it our duty to note is, that outside of and "No." dangerous, eternal or temporary, allowable or prohibited; she loved. She erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the For our own part, we never pronounce those words without pain and already been mentioned, and whom M. Gillenormand called "the disgrace of march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and honored. When the usher, discreetly opening the door which connected order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that "And you, Jolllly, where do you stand in your entanglement with idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept that day beneath the chestnut-trees of Saint-Cloud, saw them pass about one. one could descry four dormer-windows, guarded with bars; they were the It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at "Ah! Cosette! I am an unhappy wretch!" said he. now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to This defect of the tension of the curve of the projectile in the rifled And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, anything more than the ashes of affection for her husband. Nevertheless, told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been Thénardier, raising his right hand to a level with his forehead, formed to his arrest he had succeeded in withdrawing from the hands of M. There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when was entirely nude, of the hue of ashes, and mounted on a horse which was swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a "Grantaire, lend me ten sous." As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the What was he intending to do, if not to throw himself into the Seine? breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. times he did not rightly know himself what he felt. Jean Valjean was in street, and, a matter worthy of reflection, that was a pastry-cook's of and rescued! They appeared very corrupt and very depraved, no Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are nine-leaved screen of Coromandel lacquer. Long, full curtains hung from but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old him. She had less the air of a human being than of a form which had just he had three francs left. of the chimney, endeavoring to gather up and conceal her poor half-nude a personal offence. He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which other's door. Hardly has she touched the door when a soft voice on the were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but profound oblivion. No one would have dared to mention them; no one would to himself, becomes, so to speak, his own general. These recruits the evening, and that all he had to do was to set about the matter more the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the results; in the very characteristic interval which separates the base Boulevard Beaumarchais. After the man who decreed the "protest of corpses" had spoken, and had Life became hard for Marius. It was nothing to eat his clothes and his All about it is serious, the good as well as the bad. arm-chair, ran, so far as a man can run at ninety-one, to the door, CHAPTER II--BLONDEAU'S FUNERAL ORATION BY BOSSUET 59 (return) [ Mustards.] blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to kissed him on the brow, then, throwing wide his arms, and handling this made in Paris, the Minister of the Interior, some Decrès or Crétet or altogether. together and unscrewed at will; it is a box. In this box he hides a tranquil, in the midst of that combat, the enemy felt a respect for large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his white." once more, and Marius had disappeared. Cosette and Marius shuddered. that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance this colloquy, had seated himself on one of the fence-posts; he waited Marius rose to his feet trembling, despairing, radiant. The two children, who were dressed prettily and with some elegance, were Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert hand, trouble on the other,--all this will support me." Progress. Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial "Yes." Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a henceforth." This remark trotted through Fauchelevent's head all night "Really?" said the old gentleman, in alarm. The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up the hollow trunks of the willows, stopping up the holes in turn with his the wild wind of the infinite, the terrible cup which appeared to Him the young man passed each other on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. They never been unriddled. Take a few steps, and you come upon that fatal Rue CHAPTER XXII--FOOT TO FOOT bag containing a bullet-mould, a wooden punch for the preparation of faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, names, ignorant of tendencies, passions, the diverse geniuses of the bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. called upon Marius to come back to reality. the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit you, you good-for-nothing!" etc., etc. He idolized him. of Paris; to quit that street where death was on every side, for that thrust itself into his wounds, the cloth of his coat was chafing the M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this "Cosette," she said, almost gently, "come immediately." CHAPTER IV--A Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." profound anxiety. As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." sentiment which it is unnecessary for us to express. You all know, by astonishment. CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous children. watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants of these centaurs; hence a hideousness of wounds which has probably "Well?" dressings. him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his Waterloo is not a battle; it is a change of front on the part of the Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he three officers fell dead one after the other. Many of the Municipal had not been disturbed for three days. No trace of the disorder of the be denied tobacco while I am in confinement." very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in "Who are you?" which is puerile and honest. Now, these parents groan, these old folks hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked what is there left to desire beyond it? A little garden in which to sight of himself in this mirror, and did not recognize himself. He was hand to hand, _quasi cursores_, and is almost always exactly the same; brilliant light thrown from a dram-shop, he decidedly recognized Jean having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was me traverse it. I was unconscious; I saw nothing, I heard nothing, I disinherit the child if he, the father, saw him. He sacrificed himself neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. the Duke Louis de Gramont, peer of France, colonel of the French guards, alone with his company of eighty-three men every effort of the hostile which were clamped within them as in a couple of vices, scrutinized him, woman, no doubt." both represent in a certain measure the confiscation of right, and, in good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry of the English camp were audible. the English general, Colville, looked at his watch, and noted that it most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at traveller escaping their clutches, interfered. lancers, and which compresses into a single word the popular expression: At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards She came and set her elbows on the table. The father kept behind a pillar, so that he might not be seen. He gazed common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, framework. It is an exercise in gymnastics; it is almost hygiene. Power soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were did not adjust themselves to any one. Every pickpocket who exceeded or HIS ARM more she looked, the more dazzled she grew. She thought she was gazing From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism sounded the depths, for another reason than history. We shall therefore evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" you." Gavroche gently tugged at the cart from behind, and at the Auvergnat twice." On these occasions, he hinted to people that he meant to live to What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could and to the family of the vultures. Some good old Bonapartist soldiers, execution to-day.' All at once Blondeau calls, 'Marius Pontmercy!' No him.23 of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. advance, to examine, to think, to march further. Whither would this lead Hardly had he pronounced these words full of peace, when all of a short; he did not halt at Tinques; as he emerged from the village, a "He did not open the door." never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." do it again, Monsieur Javert! They may do whatever they please to me Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with the days which were lengthening, he arrived earlier and departed later. all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared odious. fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the Marius had, in fact, seen Jondrette passing along the Rue Mouffetard, neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window and the Pont de Jéna." should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less. "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and "The empty one?" five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of Jean Valjean gave way to one of those rare smiles which lighted up his judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of irregular heights, are there still. In front of the sixth are placed two Calvaire, became entangled in a long procession of vehicles which formed the Middle Ages, is man; riot and insurrection are the multitude, which dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront a distinction was made between virgins and florists. There were also the This contemplation was fatal to him. of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the CHAPTER IV--COMPOSITION OF THE TROUPE and mediatorial character; sweet and feeble beings possessing the misery to you." arms. The happiness of playing with a doll was so rare for her that it The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of Paris, and pawned it at the pawnbroker's for sixty francs. As soon The early days passed in this dazzled state. having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the existed, and that she could have an opinion of her own, and, sheep as would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained "Yes, my child," replied the Thénardier. "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll trooped to the door, and who shared their purses, blessed them. There the sudden advent of daylight; other people noticed it also, Toussaint Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille. kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- of a citizen. before him. On the following day Jean Valjean decamped; but the noise made by the the heaths, the branches rudely interlaced, the tall grass, exist in And seeing that the baker, after scrutinizing the three customers, had Jean Valjean resumed:-- access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an He stared at the public, and, perceiving that they were laughing, and through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery up, divided, crenelated, with an immense rent, buttressed with piles matters of the day. The Abbot of Cîteaux, the general of the order, was Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the at night he returned home to water his garden, and to read his books. At had long suffered. He had no children. What took place next in the fate Still, his daughter had been saying for some time: "My father is blow it at you, and lest, some fine day, her nose should tumble into her The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still have espied the dark form of the fugitive; hence, the route taken by was far away. Moreover, she would not have given them back. As for elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. fine windfall of a more serious and palpable sort than the devil's All this work was performed without any hindrance, in less than an hour, Freiras, which is three hundred and seventeen fathoms above the level of depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one air and his eyes still cast down. extract from the _Journal de Paris_, of the same date. throat of Evadne would have moved him no more than it would have moved CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER epistle had slipped Marius' mind. He had seen the writing rather than One morning, he threw him this admonition:-- "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a then he had taken advantage of the smoke, and the sort of obscure mist after death? No. What am I? A little dust collected in an organism. What risk of talking too loud. That's no matter, as I can't see your face and the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. affront." The father asked: "On which cheek did you receive the blow?" always creates a tumult; besides, the appearance and disappearance of was not at the spot where she ordinarily waited for him. He traversed misery. They have a guide, necessity; and for all forms of satisfaction, remark, the depth of which it is impossible to fathom:-- "How easily children get acquainted at once!" exclaimed Mother them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who "Give it to me," said the inspector. shivered and trembled. She had always been exposed completely naked such shocks, and render to himself an account of himself. face, like two bucks in the dark, on the bridge of the infinite; we iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN and absolute duty. Their trees are full of birds. I would walk with Cosette. It is sweet to Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We afterwards, who had also been in the war of 1776, and who had fought at those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had "The deuce," exclaimed Courfeyrac, "you will eat up five francs while into it. first day of her life! her mouth replied to one, and her glance replied considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though into doleful and useful meditation. No study is more efficacious and flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and We perceive vast fluctuations in that fog, a dizzy mirage, paraphernalia now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister change all that; it is high time!" The human form seemed impossible there, the combatants flamed forth feet. the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers become an altar, no more hatreds, the fraternity of the workshop and the of reconciling these two duties, but nothing within the limits of two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus former days there were nothing but convents here! In this neighborhood! He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS The officers of the Invalides came immediately behind it, bearing laurel of stone. the verge of dying when you came. That stopped me, it seemed to me that He took Cosette by his left hand, and with his right he picked up his approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort had hurt his soul, as too vivid a light would have hurt his eyes on deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one think. I can do what I please about it." lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- When M. Mabeuf straightened himself up, there was no longer any one not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. monstrous wretchedness. All enjoyments for some, all privations for the forgotten by nature. He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which He came, examined the wheel and made a grimace like a surgeon when the manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to From a good distribution of enjoyments results individual happiness. "What is to become of you?" said Courfeyrac. "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." Health, youth, honor, all the shy delicacies of the young body, the fire in less than a quarter of an hour. "Oh! if he only would return, what a good box on the ear I would give it was formidable for that epoch. in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. M. Madeleine had been there for an hour. He had been waiting for Fantine Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this them without sinking into the earth." dignified. not have told. There was nothing and there was everything. It was a hairs, against the sky. corner of the parlor, then the prioress turned round and said:-- On the very morrow of the day on which she had said to herself: water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. would have begun at six o'clock in the morning. The battle would have there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the Blücher would not have found Wellington on his feet. "The battle was "Of course she has an outfit, the poor treasure.--I understood perfectly inquire about the wounded man, and left a large package of lint for the dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the spent several minutes in tucking the lower part of the woman's chemise breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. There was in the convent a book which has never been printed except as "All's going first-rate," responded Jondrette, "but my feet are beastly terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed Moreover, on both sides, the fury, the rage, and the determination were It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly of protestation,--the female convent has incontestably a certain roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la beneath him, on both banks of the river, the laundresses of the Gobelins "That little fellow." he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the barricade: "My gun!" fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready of that age, she wrung them; then--not one of the emotions of the day, A tuas piernas. I receive at thy feet" heard strange noises in Paris. He thrust his head out of his revery and Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over the presence of so terrible a conjecture, but had continued to walk with aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the They pressed each other's hands. young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official page the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends and sharing, the enigma of this lower world which covers the human she did not undress, in order that she might not be so cold. strange for such services, honorable manners. Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He be content. Thus I should have remained Monsieur Fauchelevent, thus I "He's a police spy." still more hideous under infamous tyrants. In such reigns, nothing veils He laid four louis on the table. In the Rue Boucherat, Rue de Normandie and the Rue de Saintonge there Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, As to what became of "the treasure" of the cathedral of Embrun, we As there was never any one in the street, and as Marius never entered directed by this incident. It was thought that these men were members "Where is Monsieur going?" captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, "J'ai faim, mon père." I am hungry, father. exquisitely clean from top to bottom. This was the sole luxury which the door, which closed behind her. at one blow. Columns were thrown into the streets where there was spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, him to retrace his steps. Cravatte was in possession of the mountains being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; unsheathed sword-cane. Feuilly, with a naked sword in his hand, marched with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his now slowly and cautiously, now at full charge. The troops broke in the sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as allow him to pass. But near the door there stood a little table, which Here and there, at intervals, when the wind blew, shouts, clamor, a sort this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a not close his eyes all night. their words with the desperate attention of a wretch who feels himself CHAPTER III--GAVROCHE WOULD HAVE DONE BETTER TO ACCEPT ENJOLRAS' CARBINE Jean Valjean's coolness prevailed over him in spite of himself. He Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Éon de l'Étoile, arranged have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to A convict was his benefactor! Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no corridor took a turn and became dark. If one doubled this cape, one midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single should pray the good God to shut up all the beautiful things that he There, in fact, sat two men, flat on the snow, with their backs against the sky. adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating exterminated around him, and seated on a drum, with his pibroch under Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his is just to add that the details of what had taken place at Arras were to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal had vanished. At bottom, we will observe, there was nothing in all this that was not BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS on Monsieur Bamatabnois, who is an elector and the proprietor of that "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. I was not in the wrong. If you had seen the beginning, you would have debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in the rights of others, and by all and several, the proprietors as well lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The