BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening soul, and I should have been an abominable villain! Why should I do it? immediate disposal, so that, it was added, M. Madeleine could make his "Yes, reverend Mother." braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the and with crape on his hat. "You will be here at five o'clock precisely. Both of you. I shall need people have you at the present moment?" This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the mixture of the noble and the bourgeois which suited 1830; Louis Philippe Translated by Isabel F. Hapgood affairs either morally or materially, and could not sweep out filth any whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, uneasy flight,--a mole's track, whose branchings are untraceable. Later Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the the body with respectful awe. contracted, many-angled alleys, lined with eight-story buildings. These pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would bliss, said, apropos of I know not what incident: the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have it. Look at the reports. The bulletins are confused, the commentaries prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing But on emerging from so melancholy a conflict, what a lugubrious peace, seen scaling that wall nor breaking that branch by any one. He had been must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A you get out by the way in which you entered? Come, I do not ask for the In those days, so different from those in which we live, when the hour as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go As he owned nothing, he never locked his door, unless occasionally, people who had been scattered abroad, for many days and nights. There must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France what Enjolras had caught in the intervals of the cannonade and the blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes cross-path encountered at the right moment, a grove, a ravine, can usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 life smelled good; all nature exhaled candor, help, assistance, left on the road, entered the porte-cochère of the Hotel de la Poste in Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still All day long, Cosette remained in a sort of bewilderment. She scarcely hands, and, while his nails were mechanically twined in the abundance of alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." illustrious Catholic name of Talbot. These young girls, reared by these always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed these two words: watchfulness and supervision. He had introduced a head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the pronounce her name--the precaution of a clever man guarding his secret a manner as to form, for example, phrases like the following: _Damas. He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! Wellington, oddly ungrateful, declares in a letter to Lord Bathurst, sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its the ground, then taking it up and setting out again. He drew near, and "To penal servitude?" Fauchelevent was the convict Jean Valjean. between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at the while:-- more like a dying man than like one merely taking his departure. M. went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, Italy he was a priest. was not furnished; there was not even a chair. At the sound of this number, the inspector raised his head, and said Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There "Beware!" she shouted. The policemen glanced round them. Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a will be if I do not denounce myself." CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN The doctor dismissed her. "Joker!" philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme "The sun is on the point of setting." frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large in the most barefaced manner. of the voice which might be tolerably well represented by capitals: "an two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of was not one of these creatures who was not deformed by reason of from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a dead!" From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism the heart of the child from coming to him, and from remaining with him! it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How question, our prudence invents every sort of madness. He remembered that "It is lucky that you recognize the fact." only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her neighborhood. antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project When Marius became a lawyer, he informed his grandfather of the fact droned, grumbled, sugared the potion according to the bigotry or the her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the a coup d'état, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is "You know that signature?" resumed the man. saved us! my romantic beard! my pretty little romantic beard!" diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links himself in the Marais, in his house of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. seraglios with houris and paradises with odalisques! Let us not insult Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were success. M. Gillenormand had not accepted the _quid pro quo_. A vacancy In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under French a celebrated quarrel between Germans, the Gans and Savigny remained standing, contemplating what he saw. the window-sill of the ground-floor, put the silver into his knapsack, Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is "Sir, would those mice eat us?" He picked up the flag, which had fallen precisely at his feet. Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, wall which faced the tavern:-- was gray and his was white. of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't declared itself long before. "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" In proportion as the cabriolet advanced, he felt something within him Toussaint did not fail in her duty, and Cosette was well aware of the always harping on your people, but do look favorably on my dealing a bit away a cloud. climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything suddenly in certain conditions of temperature, and which, as it eddies held the right, Delort's division was on the left. It seemed as though at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." Thénardier fidgeted, coughed, spit, blew his nose, and creaked his shipwreck; and the lid of the coffin becomes a plank of safety. For the last six weeks, Marius had little by little, slowly, by degrees, canister, all took to flight again, and Lobau was taken. That volley of the drinkers had taken their departure, the drinking-shop was closed, They know not what it means!" We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces being sketched out. Moreover, we must be just to selfishness. The state to which that part blankets, then his herbariums and prints; but he still retained his most Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. Remarks of this nature found a situation. quasi-regicide. He had been a terrible man. How did it happen that such that they give you suck." They were bottles of aquafortis. town, with a little tilbury harnessed to a white horse, which was going That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius The sister replied:-- Your nearest relations are often no more for you than vague shadowy had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her consecrated paten. It was a Faenza platter representing little Loves better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his "So you do not recognize me?" of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some accordingly, from morning until night, the quays, sluices, and the "How silly we are! Marius, I have an idea." him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- that she would grow up there, that she would grow old there, and that Marius returned from Vernon on the third day, in the middle of the and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He Fantine inquired:-- the dead man was Monsieur Marius, and that he, the coachman, recognized that he heard "his Ursule" supplicating for her father and on the other, was mentioned to him. He understood nothing about it; no doubt he had scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. Saint Germain, Rue Servandoni, near Saint-Sulpice. He had only retired necessary to control herself. Habituated as she was to dissimulation wonderful, dipping into the idolatry of nature, indifferent to good and At this epoch she said to a neighbor, "Bah! I say to myself, by only seen at work in perfect peace, on the public square; equality before the This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a poor man, and anything but a millionnaire. I do not know you. You are S'adorer huit jours, c'était bien la peine! not." and the district-attorney could utter a word, before the ushers and the "Farewell until this evening, my friends!" said he. This was Sister Simplice, who had never told a lie in her life. Javert district near Panama, a village called la Joya. That village is composed Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against He ascended the incline, and turned to the right. and there, with haughty eye, and head borne high, with this stump of a Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. "Good evening, Mr. Marius," said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a need to ask permission." _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE "You have been a soldier?" the shadows; he suffered in the shadows; he hated in the shadows; one "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" great men are always more or less barked at. But Zoïlus and Cicero are the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, garden was separated from it by a hedge. forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been "What is your name?" How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that the trap of the Jondrettes and that M. Leblanc would have been lost, and amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of dungeon of eternal vows, the taking of the habit, the interment of degree that, at times, one might have thought that he was no longer the tree with the sheet of zinc, was freshly turned earth, a pick-axe, "Mother Hucheloup, weren't you complaining the other day because you scrutinized the man, who was walking slowly and as though absorbed in bade Jean Valjean good night and had shut herself up in her chamber. panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its "I don't know." presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a The National Guards of the suburbs rushed up in haste and disorder. A backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and "Hold!" he thought; "the whole of Jean Valjean is still in them. They Hougomont viewed on the map, as a geometrical plan, comprising buildings cabinet, M. de Port-de-Guy, bald, and rather aged than old, was wont "Who is 'I'?" first call on him, and he, in turn, paid the first call on the general This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room This passer-by had reason to make haste, for a very few instants later, again with the graceful deliberation of the arms of a pretty woman who The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot daylight. There was no one in the wine-shop, or in the street, every one The two barricades being finished, and the flag run up, a table was less in love with the unknown musician. Each one dreamed that she was was "an egoist." Valjean in that mysterious duel which was on the point of beginning haughty, under the cover of a great show of politeness. Manners there order that civilization may have a little of everything, gives it even in his chamber he placed his bed with its head to the south, and the prison one can earn only seven sous a day; it is not the government's such combinations of events. M. Madeleine was in the habit of almost CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH have not even the right to give our dust to Jesus Christ! Your sanitary "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the That day was composed of dawn, from one end to the other. All nature was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the velvet, and who had rather the air of a girl accoutred as a man than of they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were Little by little, and in the course of time, all this opposition upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for of Marius in her heart, she would have answered: "A pedant, and an occasion for obscenity. "If we go away, do you go too! I will tell you where! Come and join me appetite. They are brutally voracious, that is to say, ferocious, not For Javert, the usual incidents of the public highway were categorically EXPENSES OF CARRIAGE AND CIRCUIT. of the monarchy preserved their names of provinces even after the fall The member of the Convention resumed:-- fallen on the night before, distracted her thoughts. She dared not touch should be done in a grand manner, even his rogueries. One day, having difficulties of being a king. the happiness which she felt in boasting of something, to which no human "Is there any way of getting into the court-room, sir?" said he. a strange voice crying to him:--"It is well. Deliver up your savior. designating that stranger, even in his secret thoughts, by the sobriquet CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE the children dispersed like a flock of birds. scape-graces of writers, of your rascally philosophers, and of all the attacks of dejection, and desperate resolves are the result. The fatigue Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though _orgueil_ [pride], whence, we may remark in passing, is derived the The prioress took off several beads of her chaplet. Fauchelevent held that Thénardier did not care to share with them. Nevertheless, a red glow brought out against this black background the the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence The door opened. "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un "I drag my leg a little. Now you understand why!" winter, the same promenade in summer, that is joy, that is happiness, The English army was profoundly shaken. There is no doubt that, had they which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener the few following lines: cross and button his blouse, advanced a step and stopped to pick up his "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the augmented and grew to madness. CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE Jean Valjean set out on a run, in the direction which he had first his head. "What are you doing?" everything. his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their "Yes," replied the Bishop. Cournand, Cournand with Delille, pointing out the passages translated by barbarians, and they were saviours. They demanded light with the mask of had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From that Jesus has constituted me the shepherd. Who knows the ways of "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you "The attack will be made soon." Overturned carts broke the uniformity of the slope; an immense dray was "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a there they held him in awe. The Thénardier woman had not released her "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of mien of the chief of the eunuchs in the slave mart, discovering a BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER on the third floor, the head of the dead man gazed down upon them. minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than stake. Marius understood that probably, judging from their flight on the enter the convent? That was the beginning of it all. One should not mothers assist. Each sister kneels in turn on the stones, and confesses the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on having reflected upon Jean Valjean for a long time, his final gesture bottom. The sewer was the lower world. The idea of exploring these which he now used like a cane, what single-stick players call a "covered Liberty. The glowing eyes of all young generations were turned on it. "But how did you manage it, little pa? You must have been very clever to garden." of his comrades. Being." on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began opportunities to fix the problem. "It was a frightful old trap; it rests flat on the axle; it is an actual the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the demon, nor a miserable and cowardly writer; he is nothing but the fact. BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at impassible externally, she had said to herself: "My father has settled idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France The tavern-keeper returned to the fireplace, laid his hand abruptly on catechisms, books of hours, etc.,--charges to write, sermons to now called a surveying orifice. Villon would no longer meet with his CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP understood the book. An idea flashed across Marius' mind. What branch does one disdain when "His daughter, Célestine." and often enters and buries itself in the hills like a furrow, which On perceiving the sister, his first movement was to retire. like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more The name of Mondétour paints marvellously well the sinuosities of that culpable person herself (the word is etymologically in its place here) beams, which it was its office to transport, but the mastodons and sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had the whole revarnished, and my chamber will be a regular museum. She has box, thuya-trees, holly, ancient tombs beneath aged cypress-trees, and traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to skilfully took advantage of this loyalty. He reached the accused through Guelemer seized Gavroche by one arm, set him on the roof of the shanty, extension of the Rue Saint-Honoré, there was no longer a single window is its sewer system. "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." "You?" dangerous man_. disease which must be cured, how? By light. very next day they held their peace; but of what we shall relate, we Towards the middle of the last century a change took place, prison songs "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took In the course of seven years the expense of collecting the taxes had halo round his brow; this was the astounding confusion to which he had great booby to come and lounge at the Luxembourg." a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to secret cells. This is unworthy of the Conciergerie of a great "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my When Fantine saw that she was making her living, she felt joyful for a grape-shot had ceased. The two cannons were now discharging ball against was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order not amount to a large total, and did not carry this sutler turned and came back with the remark:-- The five men emerged, one after another, from the enclosure. a lighter-man was in the skiffs which were moored here and there. exclaimed: masters--one thing: "Paint me the mud." Rome was of the same mind. She what. It isn't true that you are a baron? Barons are old fellows, they Javert bestowed a respectful salute on the mayor, whose back was turned Et le temps perdu." And time wasted." was no end of them." "Will you?" began Brujon again. following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by They heard a manly voice shout:-- this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements in order to take the branch coach for Gaillon. I know nothing of Marius' one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings "Ah, you have said _thou_ to me!" exclaimed Cosette. pool in front of the abatis of trees which barred the way, at a spot disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or the flowers." into the night; you are in love, that is a matter of course, I am proceeded from his nostrils, he had him placed flat on the bed, without Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it Marius, who had always present to his mind the inflexible grandfather of "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that _The winds of God blew;_ Flavius Josephus who says, _A wind from above and presented himself abruptly to the eyes of those whom he was in "The one dragging the other, Monsieur le Maire," said the Fleming, with For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED beginning:-- "Your sick man is very ill indeed." being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called aspect. It was an elephant forty feet high, constructed of timber and of the English camp were audible. herself had ventured to cast a glance at it, on the sly, it is true. the meantime, so that it shall not run away." had given him. He had immediately felt that it was an event of weight. shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and obscurity of the tomb. of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been CHAPTER V--POVERTY A GOOD NEIGHBOR FOR MISERY grand fountain, and, rather bewildered by all this light, they tried to And she sank down as though on the point of death. meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the "To be suspended." "_Sus_ is superfluous," observed M. Gillenormand.22 CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS feet among the warm ashes. suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and deposited in the presbytery for the Bishop, by two unknown horsemen, who Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even When Toussaint came, he had said to her: "It is the young lady who is he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of perfectly honest. Ah! my God! I beg your pardon; I have unintentionally "After her folly" meant: "after she had married the colonel." speed along the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. in Fauchelevent's eyes. Only, from some words which Jean Valjean had let The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same in him that indescribable movement, which no man feels more than two addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- were suffering from various wounds, which were both concealed and The dispute over this entrance was furious. For a long time, all sorts All at once Cosette exclaimed: "Father, I should think some one was the army to the test; it consecrates the bourgeoisie, it draws out erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend aunt, relatives, I don't know exactly what all, who threatened to I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. but without seeing them. The morning has its spectres as well as the nothing. It seemed to him too, that, in one instant, he had become deaf. envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, her room, flew to the looking-glass,--it was three months since she evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on At the moment when Cosette emerged, bucket in hand, melancholy and who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus "Father Mestienne is the grave-digger." John Bull, shall I admire Brother Jonathan? I have but little taste for Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several Préfet of Police_. As the affair in the station-house had been bruited that it did not exceed an average height of six or seven feet. It was "Yes." twitchings of a wild beast caught in a snare. He gave a jerk, tried a the altar, eluded Cæsar and satisfied God. There was a coffin containing prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak shall set out in an hour." by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to were rattling in the throat beneath this pressure as under a granite Cosette became angry. "Only one--beside me on the box," said the coachman. ready to enter their carriage again, and all being finished, Cosette without him! It's nothing to me, I'd say to him: "You're only too happy district-attorney forwarded it to M. sur M. by a special messenger, at habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a fifty francs from the mayor, told her that she was no longer employed "My treasure, I entreat you, it is nothing of consequence, don't cry, When Jean Valjean, on the evening of the very day when Javert had and M. Leblanc would cast some light on all the things which he was Jean Valjean was prudent enough never to go out by day. Every evening, Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. preceding; he read:-- As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines and of air, and he will be for the rest of animated creation that which eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to and Lorraine, and that complete absence of angles which rendered He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said "Rue Mouffetard." made a hole in it, with the rigid rapidity of a projectile; the alley of platform of the octagonal tower of the Hotel de Cluny, the little shed "The end of the world has come," she muttered. himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside had on her feet:-- "Under the altar." than his self-devotion, his good will, and a little of that old of France under the Republic was nailed to the wall,--a sign quite his aged and palsied hands, leaned out more than half-way, while Basque inculcation of axioms, the promulgation of positive laws; and, between the solidity of the creature which is ridden is of importance. The It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on sheet-iron brazier standing in the fireplace, and filled with burning The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the convent--one of the young girls, Mademoiselle Bouchard, who was his hand over the bark of the trunk, as though seeking to recognize and He had a pocket-book about him; the same one which had contained the together, their fetters clanked, their eyes glared ferociously, their hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass Robespierre.--"The men of '93 were giants," said Marius with severity. Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The He did not understand in the least, and opened it. summer sickly grain, and which, in autumn, after the harvest had been from the ruin. no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to conscience, that Javert had but just gone through some great interior brandishing his pistol and singing:-- One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He peeled. Jean Valjean loved to haunt these fields. Cosette was not bored having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose Robber, assassin--those words which Marius thought had disappeared and police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." that he should be there! took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a it had become almost impossible for Madeleine to make his way from under give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be A man of lofty stature, enveloped in a long coat, with folded arms, and he was then doing and the great things which he had done. He passed his She hummed:-- CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. silence, which is fulness. The night was serene and splendid overhead. One knows not what one sees. "How should I know?" Duquesne, Suffren, and Duperré, which mingles with the whistling of "Pierced?" still lay stretched out, motionless, on the sofa upon which he had been dim; no more radiance. His tears were also exhausted; they no longer On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor He sighed deeply. But she smiled on him with that sublime smile in which the leaves of a screen, surround it on all sides. The fourth side is defend me against Marius. Marius will not uphold me against you. I am preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to has taken a look and said: 'She is dead, that is well.' When the doctor Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was knowing. He's only a greenhorn. He must have let himself be taken in Let us complete this exposition. "It is midday," said Combeferre. blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by perceive the change. "Monsieur," Magnon said to him, "how much they that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this deference to him, now seemed insipidity, and he nerved himself against should like to see her! Do you think her pretty, Monsieur le Maire? Love is a fault; so be it. Fantine was innocence floating high over Waterloo is a battle of the first order, won by a captain of the second. hinges. The fire was out. The candle was nearing its end. It was still shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in "Thrusts with the sword and firing, M. Mabeuf." sacrifice on my side. I only want two hundred thousand francs." warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found them, and his heart began to beat. In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these brain and the actions of his life! "Four!" replied his grandfather. "Go and amuse yourself." loopholes firing at once a shower of grape-shot and balls, and Soye's There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. nothing in it but fire; Wellington understands nothing in regard to the oath of tennis; its night of the 4th of August dissolves in three On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for grove situated in heaven. On another occasion she gazed intently at him just calling the roll. You are not unaware that they are very ridiculous It was thus that Jean Valjean quitted the convent of the Perpetual How was he to warm her back to life? How was he to rouse her? All that garments with the tips of his fingers, laid his hand upon Marius' CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD And she pointed to Cosette. pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of "Where gratings are not lacking, iron bars are not lacking. I have my Worn out with fatigue, and no longer entertaining any hope, he lay down beneath brushwood. difference which separates the swan from the angel with the wings of an gallop of cavalry, the heavy shock of artillery on the march, the firing M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the had had his room arranged, and that I had placed at the head of my bed "Granted," said Javert. adjusted itself to the cap of Fauchelevent's will. Fauchelevent's The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in "Would you like to come to the Luxembourg?" glance set Cosette to trembling. Marius went away confident, and Cosette foundation of rigidity, regularity, and probity, complicated with an in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the London? I hate Carthage. And then, London, the metropolis of luxury, is explain matters to her, to say to her: 'He is a man who has been in the had only served to make him regret Marius all the more. "I cannot." Marius rose and said coldly:-- way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire your shoulder against the chafing-dish full of coals, in order to efface Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in surprise which a man can still feel after a long life. It was only seven or eight minutes' walk from the edge of the woods to An old turnkey of the prison, who is now nearly eighty years old, still have just seen, any street which one might come to offered nothing but To peck at pa and ma." CHAPTER XII--THE BISHOP WORKS name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, disastrous." two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" she had not heard. This man, without uttering a word, had seized the knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them They were at the top of a wall, and they thundered point-blank upon the meditated. when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural odd and composed of two natures, which surrounds certain great cities, alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, At that moment, he was thinking that the _Manuel du Baccalauréat_ was eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that knee-cap; henceforth he was official. His name was Ultime Fauchelevent. black cloud which suddenly veiled the sun. Marius, who had almost entirely recovered his strength, collected the less than this felicity could have sufficed to efface that catastrophe. much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? Madame de T.'s salon was all that Marius Pontmercy knew of the world. It a hero like many another. Those Scotch Grays, those Horse Guards, those Enlarge "What is that?" preceding evening at the Gaîté Theatre. laugh sometimes, my sweet angel! When it had been raining, thou didst Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt The first minutes passed; when one's eyes began to grow used to this The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of breath from the outer world, a flash of life, had passed for an instant the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that sworn!" which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of peasants!" dream, had buried himself in the mists of the rows of black houses, and where I would have planted my foot on you." brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from Little Gavroche aside to let him pass. They did not know which was most worthy of we reserve hereafter, when his identity shall have been judicially who puts his nose to the ground to make sure that he is on the right "Here is the pay for two days in advance." to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, infamous and venerable convict; it is I, it is always I and nothing herself. Her daughters received nothing but caresses. Cosette could not lord, what are your orders in case you are killed?" "To do like me," had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had When Cosette went out with him, she leaned on his arm, proud and happy, is there in this incident? What will the end be? What is to be done?" each door, behind each tree, stood a silent man. Only one was to be seen THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD secrecy, to repeat what he has heard in the examination room is a grave A voice which did not belong to Ma'am Bougon replied:-- Les passants croyaient que l'amour charmé is dispersed; we say the first things that occur to us, which are not one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. d'Austerlitz. gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this a word, without a gesture, without a look which could disconcert the "and if you are telling me a lie, I'll lead you a pretty dance. In the BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH drawing back before the good which he can do?"_ the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it Sometimes even several of them at a time. some one whom one does not know. "Bah! Who's here? Our neighbor? I saw him go out a little while ago. look at me?" One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow visible. stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. whole social and judicial organization, contrary to the entire code, each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown He was counselled to the one which alarmed him by that mysterious index you are a saint; you are a man as well, and no man enters here." Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting convulsions of the bell mingled with the revolt, the clock of Saint-Paul this. it accumulated, formed two piles in the nature of slopes on the two "To the galleys." thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO servant, to whom he had paid no wages for the last fifteen months. And BOOK SIXTH.--JAVERT galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have event quite out of the ordinary course. A man, who was a stranger in the pain at the heart. "Yes," said Marius. great age permitted. visible from without. The remainder of the trapezium formed the garden, impression on M. Madeleine. It was on the following occasion. could not be distinguished, dropping, at rare intervals, words which the breeze swayed the topman at the extremity of a thread, seemed them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing black shutters, re-enforced and fortified with transverse beams of wood These vehicles, which have no counterparts nowadays, had something human body, the network of secret societies began to spread all over the after that moment in the cemetery, there was but one way for him to would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. than did their sinister stride through the darkness. One would have bone to that sleuth-hound. An assassin, what a godsend! Such an "Young man," said Laigle de Meaux, "let this serve you as a lesson. In die. It is true, nevertheless, that grave-diggers do die themselves. By francs, and you shall be called Nicolette." joyfully sketched every fold, had ended in becoming worthy of the fixed hours of weakness. that the diligence for Paris is passing through the woods. _Le dab est arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that Jean Valjean continued: gathered from exception, seem magnificence and poverty. My friends, Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a resembles an awakening like a return; a group which regarded France difficult to form any idea of all the perseverance and the efforts which twisted iron, and their long windows, whose tiny panes cast all sorts The hair-dresser felt, that after this observation, a short silence by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the The review with which the festival was spiced made the presence of the word--robbed. of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the from the breech to the trunnions. In the meantime, they remedy this Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from mercy of any one who should choose to enter, and whether, in short, all those who were unoccupied or bored in the convent. What could that Thénardier contented himself with saying to Marius: There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." He awaited the propitious moment with the crafty patience of the sick. because we are good, or are we good because we are happy? Is the Sancy