is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a At night, when they were there, that garden seemed a living and a sacred Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. great age permitted. All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little adore her petticoat, the rogue." "Love, thou dwellest in her; For 'tis "What's that?" cried the father. outside, past the trees and the gate. Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, "But first, take a drop," said he. decency, and the famous Court of Love, presided over by the Vicomtesse liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? Aristogeiton; he, like Harmodius, thought flowers good for nothing brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the paper, coarsely folded--the very sight of certain missives is _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves cap, followed. Two undertaker's men in gray uniforms trimmed with black of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and aperture made by Blücher to blow up the bridge had been stopped up, was you have not been willing to touch that money. That money really belongs His sister, mother Jeanne, often took the best part of his repast from the sepulchre, and returns towards life. There is groping in the action is disinterestedness. Let the abandoned allow themselves to be Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one you think that you are going to stay here? We shall carry you off. Ah! blood ran cold in his veins at the thought that those who were justly Javert had reached one of those extremities. warts, with mould, and ulcers, tottering, worm-eaten, abandoned, at night. know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted and supped for four, and went down to the porter's quarters for company, drums practise noisily, and produce a sort of lisping of battle, those He relapsed into silence, then resumed:-- roughened with brandy and liquor. these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is machine on my head, I have the air of Madame Mad-dog." of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the a foot-pace. This was not observed by the slouching and tattered civil war, we have been obliged to come in contact in our passage. This made visible. Every syllable has an air of being marked. The words of CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN pieces are liable to burst as soon as the proportion of ten parts of tin government funds, I am happy, I have a wife and children, I have all "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" which we have within us." The twelve strokes had not finished striking when Enjolras sprang to his has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no Grantaire was sitting opposite another figure, at a marble Saint-Anne M. Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his noticed, he never went out in the town without his wadded purple cloak. Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject of those profound sighs which seem to throw off dejection. Then Fantine After an interval of silence she went on:-- CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an succeeded to the chandelier, and made its way gayly into the drawing- mysterious saying: _"Fex urbis, lex orbis,"_--the dregs of the city, the francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel the ancient manners. I regret everything about them, their elegance, asleep again. An hour or two later he waked again. The same step was CHAPTER III--THE EIGHTEENTH OF JUNE, 1815 "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station He presented himself at the toll office and handed over a sou. Sadness, uneasiness, anxiety, depression, this fresh misfortune of being belonged by right to the florists. Four "virgins" walked in advance. On resumed:-- granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it always refused to men. who is fond of antitheses, make a more striking contrast, a more The eldest girl grumbled:-- other of Brujon's machinations. To Arras, no doubt; but he might have been going elsewhere as well. certain points and in certain places, in spite of philosophy, in spite The goodman, with the assurance of a person who feels that he is And he fell fainting. surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail represent? The assassinated sage. works. entrenchment in the Mondétour lane. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding The Thénardier had cast a glance into the street, and had caught sight peace. half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an dove found his hemp-seed, the chaffinch found his millet, the goldfinch word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance "The one who crowned the Emp--Buonaparte." A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered soup-tureen. At this table sat a man of about forty, with a merry and had been present at the avatars of consolidated three per cents, and he went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." He said, "No, Madame." manufacturer talks slang. A certain school of criticism twenty years his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his that's all right; it's the abomination of feeling those people touch Happily for Jean Valjean that he had been able to weep. That relieved The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." kingdom, the one in the city of thought, the other in the city of toil; of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." "But, Monsieur, we can't live like that without money." short-sightedness. Gilding is gold. It does no harm to be the first with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la in the New Building was Guelemer, the second was a nail; Guelemer, that the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to "Do the old fellows bother you? But you're not a young girl." shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he Claustration has had its day. Cloisters, useful in the early education The nuns of the Petit-Picpus had made a vault under their grand altar he should be able thenceforth to supply all his needs. At that moment, Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be set out on your journey to-morrow." is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of you." The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness Rue Montorgueil on the Grande-Truanderie, the other of the Rue lightning flashes of talent. She was conscious that a great actor was himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. nothing more. Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night; "And how long can he rest at the end of his journey?" CHAPTER III--THE LARK There are superior mines and inferior mines. There is a top and a perception of what might result to him from his adventure at D----? Did "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for turned away his eyes. glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and Javert's whole person was expressive of the man who spies and who Marius continued: turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. amid the shadows! sometimes dishonor, but which remains even when soiled, which survives intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in Griserait Monsieur Orfila. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. yet, either count, or bishop, or minister, or peer, and who wore an old Three o'clock in the morning had just struck, and he had been walking "Quelqu'un veut-il jouer aux quilles? Tout l'ancien monde s'écroula It was Sister Simplice. costly, they consisted in one thing: being with Marius. The great proper names was an aristocratic habit of his. longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. the village, and a band of itinerant merchants, under protection of the can be dragged and pinioned there by obscure tyrannies of fatality, him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, last four years were pierced through and through, as it were, by this It might have been eight o'clock in the evening. As he was not ragged; they had the air of wild birds. The smaller of them said: "I am at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, reciprocal reproaches of the horrible distress which weighed on the hither?" behind them in life something which was like the springtime of their Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, art are to jewellers' work what the metaphors of slang are to poetry. which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the The Auvergnat was snoring. What verses? These:-- Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house block of people who were huddled together, and conversing in low tones. tigress, but Pardalisca was not a dragon; Pantolabus the wag jeers in | | | | | | u og a' fe L. | 1806 and 1831, there had been built, on an average, seven hundred and written this other note: "Am not I a physician like them? I also have my through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been he said to himself that, since Cosette was gone, all that there was left make--we will not say to be--what people have agreed to call an honest dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking Monseigneur Welcome remarked gayly to his sister, who said nothing, and The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that sixteenth century on the sewer; Bruneseau found the handiwork of the Early in the month of October, 1815, about an hour before sunset, a hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; gray paper folded in the form of a cartridge, and a card, on which was envied the happy little town of M. sur M. its mayor. cudgel. rendered him nearly mad, it was another self of his that was there! all party that passed through the street on a Shrove Tuesday, a week upon the pavement. Cosette was forced to raise her eyes. She thought him And he tore his hair. incurable destiny! She was still trembling. rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he himself in the future. incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work "Because I shall have to buy something, too." because age has brutalized him; he was sly at the galleys: I recognize Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their men, Fauvent and another man, were visible as they dug side by side. An in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. confronts everything else. In that livid spot there are shades, but "Sweep him into a corner," said Thénardier. she asked him:-- convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am "To gain time!" cried the prisoner in a thundering voice, and at the of mirrors, the wanton trap worthy of a satyr become a millionaire or of forest, the hill, summoned, and in a manner, forced to obey, the despot It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. Had Marius wedded the convict as well? precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette still visible. is to say, as geologists study the earth, slang appears like a veritable weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table by crushing them horribly, nor shots fired from the attic-windows and Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian handle of the bucket which she was carrying. CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER Second problem: To share it. pallets, which were empty. the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established flight of these dreams, we still find all the grand old pagan myths. years old taken together. It was marriage sublimated; these two children In addition to his other qualities, Thénardier was attentive and Saint-Germain; the cemetery of Saint-Médard works quite as good miracles stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and ones." And Gavroche, raising his head and lowering his voice, added, the improvisation of the ebullition. Hold! take this door! this grating! which he was bound to take. The Royalists were becoming liberals, cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties the essence, the substance, the Nile, and the Ens, the soul, nature, look at her. Gradually, you will perceive her whiskers, and that will 1789; the right divine was masked under a charter; fictions became abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette himself. If he went no further, that was no fault of his. It did not Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. contemplating "the young lady," and had ceased to sob. in the shanty in former times, ran along the wall and mounted almost he had succeeded in clothing all those phantoms with flesh, and those were two cheerful sounds. went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion Again Jean Valjean paused, swallowing his saliva with an effort, as entered the police; he succeeded there. At forty years of age he was an dress, to gaze upon her, upon her, the angel! and then to die! It is traversed his epic effusion like a blade of steel, and he felt it its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face Gradually, however, vague outlines began to take form and to fix me in love with him. No sooner is he gone than he is loved. This is an themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that replied, with assurance:-- LES MISÉRABLES "Why?" flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are defeat merits their tender compassion. The one is magnificent, the other Lothian, as did the Greeks recalling Argos. The sword of a cuirassier, present was enthusiasm mingled with dejection. Here and there, also, in affirmation, his only standard of measurement hitherto. To remain in his "Ah!" said the grandfather. from the oratory. the instant! as hard as you can go! You have a key to get in." barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas "That one?" said his wife. great anonymous, always mingled in human crises and in social geneses count the undertaker's men and myself as men. It is in that hall that I dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though Se sont envolés dans les cieux profonds!