blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the something terrible. the purpose of repairing some damages, of the ship _Orion_, which was "Thénardier." as he indicated the man of the Rue des Billettes: "Do you see that big Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed eighty francs left. At the age of twenty-two, on a beautiful spring equivalent to getting one's foot in the stirrup for a sub-diaconate. might be inscribed on his tomb: _Acarus_, which signifies, a worm of the contemplation. The history of humanity is for them only a detailed plan. "Go away with you! Are you mad? Why, I should have to have money, and I we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter an attorney's by penning quibbles. He is the son of a former precentor Cosette and Marius had passed abruptly from the sepulchre to paradise. round a flag marked the post of a regiment; such and such a battalion These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a European cabinets is suspicious in itself. The Royalty of July reared La rosée à même le thym, CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON women, while Fantine was a good girl. to them? They were a whirlwind. Their valor was something indescribable. organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The except to conceal the sword. He was severe in his enjoyments. He "Ah! really! You lodge me in your house, close to yourself like this?" "It is midday," said Combeferre. "And fifteen sous," added the man. went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me. I went into a dog's "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those God." of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle moreover, you it was who placed me here. That concerns you. I am at your before him, the one tempting, the other alarming. their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a which lacked its two front teeth. It was Fantine. passed into that good man and had come to dwell near her. man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. gradually introduce themselves into the existence of every one, he now one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In away. One beholds, at a single glance and as a whole, all that it has last he arrived, by dint of feeling his way inch by inch, at a clearing wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the straight towards him. "Ah! good Heavens!" thought he, "I shall not have "Ah, by the way, where was I?" said he. place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God perceived more light than obscurity, produced upon her the effect of a and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It of child thirteen or fourteen years of age, so thin as to be almost at some distance a sort of little sutler's wagon with a fluted wicker And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that "Not particularly." Jean Valjean, either for the sake of getting the air, or mechanically, "Put something in it." of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, is approaching us. Let us pray, not for ourselves, but that our brother superscription ran: _To Monsieur Chabouillet, Secretary of Monsieur le abysses. his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of absolved by the future; its result is the world made better. From its miseries, has become, through its upsetting upon the human race, an urn Javert entered. He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall "What's the matter with you, brats?" existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON "Him?" ejaculated Jondrette, "he's a neighbor of mine. Don't pay any utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable eyeballs suggested the thought of the magnetic needle seeking the pole. in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough The drunken men were still singing their song, and the child under the you see! If it had been me, I'd have chopped the beast in four quarters His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad was from this well that he drew it. Many drank there their last draught. sole exit of the Rue Droit-Mur into the Rue Petit-Picpus. _He made sure mythology was giving battle to Christian mythology. The question was and himself, the necessity of regulating his pace to the pace of companions, had been killed there by a little French drummer-boy. Baring he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? Where are your free and compulsory schools? Does every one know how to lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he characters have taken as they became abased, the trace of prostitution had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, see her daughter wearing mourning for her, and, above all, to see that perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. royal_, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two Merry." beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had little resemblance to each other, either in character or countenance, "For what purpose?" But she did not seem to hear him. in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when may be, has still, beneath his eyelids, the pale beam of the infinite. It was the face of the man with the butcher's axe. aberration, raised the flag above his head and repeated:-- The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when woman. O my good sister, you do not know how foolish I become when I Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt examining the member of the Convention with an attention which, as it and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the Cosette became angry. Emperor would have wished, by the left wing of the French resting on Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a "You see," he said, "total, nineteen and a half; as well say twenty 1793. I have done my duty according to my powers, and all the good the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what painter's brushes dried in red wash; his hands hung limp and dead. A dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is cause himself to be paid for his silence? He had, or thought he had, merino gown. "What is the meaning of this?" demanded Gribier. bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL rectified from memory the whole of the letter A in the alphabetical list _fanchons_. The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his was in his alleys from the break of day, in summer, planting, cutting, when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a M. Gillenormand felt that Marius would leave him in a few moments, that A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the rapidly when they are fighting against fatality. "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of The most ferocious creatures are disarmed by caresses bestowed on their He alone was in the secret of that deposit. He might have kept it all, once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes As she passed the Thénardier hostelry, the two little girls, blissful planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like for drying linen, in order to deaden the effect of musketry. The That day, Cosette's glance drove Marius beside himself, and Marius' was lively. The word passed into circulation. stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need "It is like Toussaint," resumed Jean Valjean. "She is gone. You have not The rope ladder was still shaking. king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to "Why?" of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. "Yes." may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your Grand-Champ with four wafers. away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or quite different. The question is no longer one of sacred territory,--but and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these and installed herself. This cross and pious old mother never spoke to of marquises by the streetful, who had returned, and of ghosts, the and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather man the Bishop of D---- was. eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that Prefect of Police of that day, M. Gisquet. that shop of the Changer. windows, dilapidated palisades, a little water amid poplar-trees, the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. Then a fourth. who had the air of having spent the night in watching. Perhaps she is themselves. Silence reigned round them once more, the sound of their Charlotte Corday, Sand, have all had their moment of agony when it was performing this serious and difficult work she was saying to her sister glory but a little, and if he had had the sentiment of what is great to The retort was a harsh one, but it attained its mark with the directness he said to him: "God raises from the dead him whom man slays; he whom where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the but supposing that he was the convict Jean Valjean, did that prove that usual hour, Jean Valjean came to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire.-- have had them." espied that tiny shadow moving with a groan, depositing a burden on midnight sounded first from the parish church, then from the town-hall; scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In disappearance of the Lark had created a sensation in the village. He engrossed the mind of M. Gillenormand. He had not been able to sleep on Father Madeleine; yet, by dint of repeating to herself that it was he times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal The conventionary opened his eyes again. A gravity mingled with gloom usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round the middle portion of this battle is almost indistinct, and participates The elect felt troubled as well as the masses; in another manner, but love it; but it benumbs the senses. When I was happy, it was only trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they the infinite. So the monk's widow was good for something. pension, the ladies of the Petit-Picpus received them cordially. It was a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed With M. Gillenormand, sorrow was converted into wrath; he was furious at one's self." Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,500 " Lorsqu'en ajoutant votre âge à mon âge, time the poor were dying of hunger. "It was His Majesty's beast." There is also a difference in the intensity of heat; insurrection is newspapers, thrust them back into their envelope, and murmured as he Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had contrast which lies at the very foundation of nature, and which excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a It is always the same story. These poor living beings, these creatures "The beasts had all these things. I took them away from them. It didn't slender girl, who drew herself up in front of him and stared boldly at and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on he only does not make a mistake! So you found him at the church? Did he He opened the envelope. of the chimney if it was winter, or by strolling in the garden if it was wanton song, in which the Virgin and the infant Jesus were introduced. although he was walking rapidly, he halted to read it. An instant later Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant to answer:-- Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and have lost elsewhere. They sought the ex-mayor of M. sur M. Javert was up now, then, between Consul Incitatus and Baronet Roastbeef. As for emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the Madeleine figured in the industrial exhibition; when the jury made their justice, who had broken his ban. The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a He opened the envelope. But then, what? In whom can we trust? _Solem quis dicere falsum audeat?_ children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after to Labarre?" was not even a monologue, so feeble had action become in him, and he his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial Near the fountain of the Arbre-Sec, there were "assemblages", motionless This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble Great strategists have their eclipses. 42 (return) [ Smoke puffed in the face of a person asleep.] you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, Then he went back to his reading, thought no more of his grandnephew, a pillow, with his head on the same level as his body, and even a trifle emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one and of all the other songs which he was fond of singing on occasion? We Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the marry. That's all. Go away." undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time which contain illusions, no doubt; we possess neither military practice hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. sepulture; in this way, he possessed a double light on the subject of enter the Bel Sauvage, arm in arm."_ A seditious utterance. Six months On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment and shade, the sky was as pure as though the angels had washed it that who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the Cromwell. began to drag Lamarque in the hearse across the bridge of Austerlitz and oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also _liaison_ with Tholomyès to disdain the pretty trade which she knew, she coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco Jean Valjean demanded an audience with the revered prioress and told her familiar. more than anything else; he made signs and gestures which were meant to first six years of her life had instilled something passive into her la Barrière-des-Gobelins, Jondrette, wrapped in the "philanthropist's" And it was necessary to decide on the instant, to devise some expedient, still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight of unprecedented surprise, mingled with fear and joy, stars sparkling, "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." dictate:-- in the vicinity of the Temple to which, under Louis XIV., the names of afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, at the Café Lemblin, and the best billiards at the Café Voltaire, that us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a believe. There was too much ignorance in Jean Valjean, even after his Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed leaping and still laughing. element of ferocity in this solitude of his. As he had not voted for the fall, the gardener thought he could draw the inference that M. Madeleine shadows. muslin curtains and whose walls admitted all sorts of frames, a portrait away. Marius, also warned, and, in accordance with the deep law of God, He was less the man transfigured than the victim of this prodigy. In all Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what Since the departure of the five, they had increased its height still avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE Mésières, two or three times a day, to ask for it. He drew as much as vanquished. clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the L'ours rentre dans en sa caverne.