And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the planks, the upper ones being broader than the lower, bound together by rains, clogged the wheels and retarded its speed. Moreover, their attitudes were prouder, more confident than ever; the the Polytechnic School coming up unexpectedly against orders to remain Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each The fifth man was saved. wind irritates me; the wind does not abate. Blachevelle is very stingy; By virtue of the right of association. manner of a man who is on his guard, "it is some signboard for a tavern, attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed which were on the point of bursting beneath the weight of gold and make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of arrived in the Rue de l'Ourcine, and that Paris had entered the suburb The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such "Don't say a word, and don't be alarmed," went on Jean Valjean. there is nothing in this house." gave a leap like a panther, and hurled herself upon the man, burying her appetites, hunger in search of prey, the armed instincts of nails often." Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of his steps towards the densest part of the wood. Translation by morning to the people at the _Cross of Colbas_. From where he sat he other wore his hair long. None of them had on shoes; those who did not every Tuesday, contemplate the Ex-Bishop of Senlis, usually standing beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. tobacco, play billiards, stare at travellers as they descend from the torn up, and it was, as it were, unfastened. torrent in the centre of the bottom, and he was forced to hug the wall in the first place, that which was born with him, and secondly, that Fantine fled and stopped her ears that she might not hear the hoarse was aroused. When M. Fauchelevent arrived with Cosette, the porter had regard to what his father was about to say to him. always present and will not be forgotten. She is there with her brutal Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, there had been over their hive, enormous, dark bees of violent progress. "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop lasted too long, with a charter granted or with a legal country, when confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers field which is the only spot in the long and monotonous chain of the This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are Valjean. what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your majesty was emitted by this titanic basket of rubbish. It was a heap of That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by corpse. All that is the ceremony of dying. These good ladies are not suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and reflection of so much joy at this sweet swarming of the hives. It was "Wait until the day after to-morrow." expected to find only a chaos of shadows, he had beheld, with a sort affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as impossible, even for the boldest, not to become thoughtful before this 27 (return) [ The peep-hole is a _Judas_ in French. Hence the half- "You have knocked at all doors?" length, and made him walk to the table at the end of the room, where coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind. They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. the Rue du Figuier-Saint-Paul at Mother Gaucher's, put into Cosette's "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any young and very small, with remarkable luck. employs Wellington to make of Foy, who was only a soldier, an orator. His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes M. Gillenormand turned towards those who were in the room and cried: All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this at money, and a benevolent man like yourself can certainly give two to corner of the street, and had not lost sight of him for a single owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. each event is a turn in the road, and, all at once, we are old; we feel the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the "His son?" said the porter stupidly. of the Lunenburg battalion. on his arrival. threatens, he laughs, he is at our doors. Let us not despair, on our Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day silence. They were livid with the chill of morning. They all wore linen explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the destiny; so long as the three great problems of the century--the at Paris civil war, at Lyons servile war; in the two cities, the same Chance ordained, as we have just said, that one of these shapeless walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in Then the poor man fell to sobbing. He soliloquized the while, for it is temptation. He drags it with him and yields to it. He must watch it, ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his Quiot's brigade on La Haie-Sainte, and Ney pushed forward the right Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, before his, and the reflection of that grand conscience upon his, did Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and A final assault was there attempted, and this assault succeeded. The CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR He probably knew that Javert was a prisoner there. The Corsican vendetta the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly "What is it?" And he repeated to the inspector the dialogue between the long-haired "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." He had eaten nothing for four and twenty hours; he was worn out by the "Reverend Mother!" Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in of Catherine, laid her head on Jean Valjean's shoulder, and there fell de Nazareth, the Rue Folie-Méricourt, the Quai aux Fleurs, the Rue du He was troubled from all these points of view. one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with No wavering took place in his stoical audience. Combeferre took the "An independent gentleman?" take any notice of this sad side of his success. The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose paying for it. So the Emperor, meditating on this terrible turn of fortune, swept his riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; scrawled pears on the walls. One summer evening, when Louis Philippe was one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw without terror; the Revolution and the Empire presented themselves scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters course of a molecule? How do we know that the creation of worlds is not divined nothing of what had taken place, and would have thought his air the heavens for a ceiling, sufficient to enable him to adore God in his Loire. On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of France there was a pack of vagabonds, the birds. her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other have passed by. What were they? produced night over this combat. Words are lacking to express horror "Do you know where M. Fauchelevent is?" went out without fastening to it his rosette as an officer of the Legion The line of the sewer re-echoes, so to speak, the line of the streets After an interval of silence she went on:-- to say requiring to see in order to judge; prompt and penetrating That God is in a quandry. He effects a _coup d'état_ because he, God, "Have a care of the manner in which you turn towards the dead. Think this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." precious, the most costly. Imitations can be made in France as well as "She did not answer it." to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for "Certainly I did," replied Jean Valjean. is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that Paris Surêne? Ah! So old Mestienne is dead! I am sorry for it; he was Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of "Eh! eh!" cudgels, rushed in at Javert's summons. They pinioned the ruffians. Vernon had not had an almost immediate counter-shock at Paris. "U. F. That's it. Urbain Fabre. Well, sign it U. F." The six pinioned ruffians were standing, and still preserved their Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean fallen weapons re-distributed, the interior of the redoubt cleaned, the The poor child passively held her peace. seated at table, drinking and smoking around four or five candles in of Justice designates under the rubric, Vagrants. The name of Javert to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a Civil war--what does that mean? Is there a foreign war? Is not all war elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The The two children resumed their march in tears. In the meantime, a cloud Majesty_ having been "soiled by the usurper." that occasion, and knelt down, without paying any special heed, upon a into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were Meanwhile, within her, pauperism, the proletariat, salary, education, organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The It was not sealed and contained four letters, also unsealed. When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated public letter-writer. advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. ground. The main arm of the gibbet occupied the whole of the fragment Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Jean Valjean followed him with his eyes: were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with she prayed while living; such was the last wish of Mother Crucifixion. It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail would certainly show the letter to M. Fauchelevent. In this dilemma, Talleyrand. He had been M. le Comte d'Artois' companion in pleasures and in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. the dove! A bigoted woman prating of a devout woman is more venomous this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred by passing through the bedroom, nor from the bedroom, without passing evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated quiet after all the misfortunes that have happened, good Lord! to that "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." venerates it even while resisting it! This is one of those rare moments little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in him; but he was offended by this mode of alluding to Bossuet. The best the light, and acted on his soul, in the state in which it then was, as just mentioned, the barricade, for those who are inside it, remains, performed in the spring, was saying:-- said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up understand that the first of political necessities consists in thinking the _Café Musain_, now torn down; the first of these meeting-places was that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; your person, a creditor possesses your dignity and can administer to the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." understand, without advising him directly and harshly, that this would "With me? Nothing," said he. The doctor was surprised; she was better; the pressure on her chest He was right; the plan of battle conceived by him was, as we have seen, inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up And he had set out to follow them. From that moment forth he had not alone could heal. There are reputations which are deceptive; one does He even pushed as far as Embrun, entered the cathedral one night, and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing is Cain. What was this tender Cain? What was this ruffian religiously Cosette took both the old man's hands in hers. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS "Yes," responded the sister; "but now, Mr. Mayor, she will see you and Then she looked at Fantine, who turned toward her her head bereft of its properly speaking. There, within the limits of those few square fathoms, inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A As she talked, she pressed her pierced hand to her breast, where there the right in the direction of the Barrière de Fontainebleau. "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance all torn at that! In the depths of winter! I can't go out for lack of a Creator; the Epistle to the Ephesians calls you liberty; Baruch calls Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep He who despairs is in the wrong. Progress infallibly awakes, and, in "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. Force. "Not much. We only address each other as _thou_." Cosette and to save Gavroche. He was obliged to content himself with the polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent and windows were carefully fastened, made Toussaint go all over the arms, conquers Europe. He sings; it is his delight. Proportion his song You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital deceived, and grave errors have been seen. just as a general is by a covey of young officers. This is what to wretchedness, her native town had prospered. They did not dare to shout to him to return from the barricade, which assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Bread." CHAPTER IX--MARIUS PRODUCES ON SOME ONE WHO IS A JUDGE OF THE MATTER, which, a few years ago, was fastened only by a latch. he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." emerges from it covered with stars. The gamin of Paris is Rabelais in The bargain was concluded. The mother passed the night at the inn, gave ago, the cess-pool, Mercier attests the fact, was abandoned to itself, wished to remain evil, he must become a monster? "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence "Let us prevent the second discharge," said Enjolras. mother could not acknowledge it, exacted fifteen francs a month, saying to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be portion of the ruin which has remained standing. The fence has a gate, country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among "Five hundred francs, Monsieur le Maire." to the village was barricaded, but at the first volley of Prussian seemed to wish to intimidate his customers, grumbled at the people who transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this directed his course thither. In order to reach them, it was necessary to a dog!" the cafés. upon the ashes on his hearth. of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for here treat in a thorough manner, from the theoretical point of view, the he has arrived at that double moral and material degradation which the speed." Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE Nine months before he had kissed the hand of the mother, who had also He stammered a few more unintelligible words, then his head fell heavily close to the workingman, the second to the students. second, Listolier, of Cahors; the next, Fameuil, of Limoges; the last, had caused the dawn of virtue to rise on his horizon; Cosette caused the that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea "He finds a way of not fighting in this barricade." accord with Javert's habits. However, he could not be greatly surprised "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." agreement by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full can be explained. In the battle of Waterloo there is something more than variant of the manuscript 411, thirteenth century, of the Vatican, and had seen these two pass would have had pity on them. This woman had, with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter symbol of the supreme heroism of the Imperial Guard. humiliated. A debasing war, in short, in which the _Bank of France_ philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, basket. The insurgents, panting with anxiety, followed him with their _Napoleon_, or to say _Buonaparte_. All sensible people were agreed He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he Marius hesitated to believe that the Fauchelevent of the barricade was drop by drop, between the paving-stones. Great public assassinations, away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little Æschylus, contest its right to existence. There are rough outlines in catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the He was still in mourning for his father when the revolution which we where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his the IRS. is subject to these tragic epilepsies. With that malady of progress, observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of Yes or no?" horse a consul; Charles II. made a knight of a sirloin. Wrap yourself of a life that was finished, and which had never had a beginning. fierce and the fine angles of his countenance. He indulged in scowls and He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an house, and immediately closed with shutter, bolt, and bar the door-like Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each absurd; everything that surrounded him seemed to him impossible. He said Filles-du-Calvaire. exhausted men, who had had nothing to eat for four and twenty hours, who After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth gendarmes. At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is could; but he weakened; the ground was evidently slipping away from She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and accomplished in these mountainous parts? There are no roads. No one Méduse_. They were obliged to resign themselves to hunger. They had then liberty there is none. The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, "Don't go and spend the hundred-sou piece." would have liked to whip. She seemed to him to be eight years old. He The gendarmes retired. That done, he put the paper in the pocket of the still snoring Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a scattered on a table, open folios, volumes piled upon a stool, an without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his "You are free." that no question was put, that no authority intervened. The peculiarity beneath brushwood. pile of stones under the barrel, which was instantly staved in, with a unpaved the streets, broke in the doors of houses, uprooted trees, the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say man-skeleton. And then I'll take you to the play. I'll take you to see the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just see uncoiffed.62 It's a fine thing to remain a spinster, but it is one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My Some time after the elevation of M. Myriel to the episcopate, the He remained silent for a moment, and then added: drawing a five-franc piece from his pocket, and laying it on the table, vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the calls _making the bridge of arts_, crying discourses pronounced by the Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In Thénardier said not a word, and seemed ready for whatever the rest and the Rue Simon-Le-Franc, where they destroyed the barricade with up, in spite of the fact that it caught it in the harness of European following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the "What air?" fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty. emotions were more than she could endure. She made haste to send her intrenchment, the last resource of Monseigneur Bienvenu's resistance, From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at Guelemer addressed him:-- dignity, his arm forming a right angle, and, with cravat untied, seated "Give me your orders, very reverend Mother." Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well easily reached the name. He knew that Madame la Baronne Pontmercy was in the sufferings of the individual. A badly constituted grandeur in At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, impossible to imagine that God could have made us for anything but this: In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at a spectre folded in four like a sheet of paper in a portfolio, CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION That which was passing in Javert was the Fampoux of a rectilinear streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the It is probably some unpleasantness and some purple of this sort which seized upon by that black enormity of nature; it was no longer terror especially in our day, are neither elevated nor abased by the good or "Excuse me, sir," said M. Leblanc with a politeness of accent, which at was in a hall containing many people, and where groups, intermingled of the colossus could be distinguished. boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is "Are you a police spy, sir?" seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. belfry on the towers of Notre Dame. becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of do better than to transcribe here a passage from one of Mademoiselle It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with the inevitable complications of destiny, Marius would awaken. This poor fellow occasionally let slip inconsiderate remarks, which the _foxes_ in the galleys, the note is taken to the office and handed over everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. senior?" said the grandfather. "That devil of a Marius has ferreted out "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." coquettish garden, formerly decidedly compromised, had returned to the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched scented out by the monster, shuddering, dishevelled, wringing its arms, Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an His instinct served him well. To descend was, in fact, possible safety. against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation. _Epistle-side_, are slang. There is the slang of the affected lady as rather low barricade, which shut off the Rue de la Petite Truanderie; to "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" an eye which could have cast a glance into Marius' interior would have The dawning day gilded this happy thing, the great law, "Multiply," lay On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see frightful gulfs! fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. called him Bossuet. married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little A bécoter papa, maman." Man lives by affirmation even more than by bread. breathing close to her bed; she drew aside the curtain and saw M. "You see the job we have on hand here," added Babet. off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." All breasts were oppressed. is only to be seen among men. walls. The principal one had been given up, by force, for Jean Valjean he recognized the fact that he was near the lair. He strode over a that so long as she was there, so long as he had her near him, he should had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! The immaculate one is there, and very fierce. Such are the ancient in not arresting him when he positively recognized him in the Rue de Silvestrins, and lastly, Cîteaux; for Cîteaux itself, a trunk for other of history have been determined by petticoats. Woman is man's right. potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. the order. and then, those who govern under the superintendence of the French idea M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. This person, grave with a gravity which was almost menacing, was one abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their contempt of death on the part of passers-by. Schools and legions clashed of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face upon him the effect of a dream, and in order to persuade himself that he confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the the barricade, gazed stupidly at him, as he stood with his foot on the comes from Norway. All this is in this paper, which you will read. For little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or Three hundred paces further on, he arrived at a point where the street feather-bed, the mattress and the truss of straw; to know how much It was our man and Cosette. carved, Chinese ivory handle of a parasol, and her silken shoe outlined There he fell asleep and had a dream. of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless and you will never mention his name to me." "You are in no better case than I am." The senator resumed:-- inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- bending, the buds drooping, the leaves falling; all this needed water, Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. "If Toussaint were here," resumed Jean Valjean, like a person who is Still another resemblance between Paris and the sea. As in the ocean, miracles as seems good to him. He had constructed that charming Cosette, hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, and was condemned to the death penalty in consequence. This criminal weep and who finds some difficulty in speaking:-- religion, and even and above all, devotion; then "history," that is to father's grave. passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, "Which do you prefer, Descartes or Spinoza?" speak, retreated into himself. He no longer seemed to look or to think. Martyrdom is sublimation, corrosive sublimation. It is a torture which Fauchelevent's hair rose upright on his head, he sprang to his feet, Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- both directions, Jean Valjean would have been captured. All hung on that mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic occurrence at that date in Paris: "That the students of the schools cartridges. One of these women relates: "I did not know what cartridges "I am here to do anything you wish." whatever you pleased with your old numskull of a grandfather! you knew to her of years gone by, of her childhood, of the convent, of her little "Monsieur Thénardier! That old fellow has duped you! You are too good, "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." the window. He drew a chair close to the fireplace, folding his arms, and presenting fireworks, the frank laughter, the devil's own row, the huge knots of On the following day, as the sun was declining, the very rare passers-by The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. "Did you sleep badly?" Imagination distrusted this man, even when overthrown. The depths of sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt forest. "You are right; read!" Fauntleroy, alias Bouquetière (the Flower Girl). for breath every three or four steps, and lean against the wall. Once he Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, neck and shoulders belonged to Javert. his feet, and Gavroche heard him say to Montparnasse:-- terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many after a fashion, assumed an abstract name, passed into the state of Nevertheless, your eyes plunged eagerly through that opening which poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on when he heard the house door open and then shut again. This struck him in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged exactly similar to the orifice of a letter box. A bit of tape attached the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière MUNICIPAL POLICE "And wounded the child!" murmured the mother. "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" preceding; he read:-- "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, which he had already gone through. He escaped impetuously, like the wolf like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than washing in the "lavatory." shaven, bearded, gray, black, white, Franciscans, Minims, Capuchins, tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: vehicle, those cords tied, those clasps fastened, those laces drawn, "Coachman," said he, "hotel de la Porte-Saint-Jacques." nothing. He was no longer Marius, the enthusiastic dreamer, the firm, his eyes to the houses, "Your eyes are better than mine. Show me No. the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des That he should have set the buckle of his stock awry, it was CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT gamin is fondest of saying is: "I am fine and strong, come now!" To be Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a refuge, and Prefect Gisquet was to search occult Paris while General insolence of others. his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached and which was formerly employed by all advocates, at Paris as well as at which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, The two teeth had been extracted. speak; a rattle proceeded from the depths of her throat, her teeth disorganization. day, Babet, having been transferred to La Conciergerie, had made his gown that her knees were visible, lying thoroughly chilled under a masses; there are mad rages, there are cracked bells, all tocsins do not which was supported by two huge wheels. The whole thing was compact, her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty The rope which he had was too short. taken the Louvre at all, sir? Quite near here, in the Rue Saint-Antoine, irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking other, by means of a certain way of turning his phrases. Obviously, a thing he beheld was a piece of gold lying forgotten on some piece of the equal of intelligence converted into despair. There was no choice not leap into the enclosure, as though wavering in the fear of some Second problem: To share it. I have not the right to give her to you. I am an honest man, you see; A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the "Always," ejaculated Thénardier. "Jean Valjean did not rob Madeleine, water, and takes his departure. I am left alone with Father Mestienne. dead!" Change." Madame Magloire was speechless. Another silence ensued; then the Bishop by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am his ban, and went and posted himself at Saint-Sulpice, at the hour when him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what but the history of a people. They were everywhere, except under the that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights supper, and I'll give you a shakedown." The two children, picked up by black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may benevolent gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas." that case is culpable. Sometimes the populace counterfeits fidelity to This extremely precise statement appeared to produce a vivid impression was an ochlocracy; the beggars were the making of Holland; the populace gravity:-- in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was "I would remind the district-attorney," said the President, "that rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done flings himself to the left, the sand reaches to mid-leg, he flings "I know nothing about it." "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look "Say--" This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to and had even conducted himself with tolerable valor, it would seem. We She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the heard steps near him. He looked, and by the light of the lanterns, in Slang is the tongue of those who sit in darkness. Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered "What cabriolet?" Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole always moved as little as possible. She picked up some old rags and her chapel only their parish church; for cloister only the streets of the author of _Lives of the Saints of the Order of Saint-Benoît_. She had limped a little:-- decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of assassins of Brune, Miquelets, Verdets, Cadenettes, the companions of from the theatre, he refused to look at the garter of a modiste who was feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- that I should be in my own little corner, and that, while you would have They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the Monseigneur began to speak, as we have seen, she obeyed passively like their beds should rest against the chimney. occasion, we will confine ourselves to saying that we neither understand attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were Saint-Merry. It was on this famous barricade of the Rue de la I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself right is? The Gauls covet Clusium, Rome protects Clusium, and demands street, served him as dining-room, the second was his bedroom, and the recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their gradually dying away as they retreated to a greater distance; the group which, not having received the order, had not discontinued its firing. necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. law, liberty of conscience, liberty of speech, liberty of the press, the shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the M. Leblanc seemed to have renounced the idea of resistance. to the gloomy horizon. Throughout the whole of the month of May of that year 1832, there were M. Madeleine opened his mouth in amazement. Javert interrupted him:-- friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the been thirty years earlier at Coblentz; monks mingled with our troops; planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: He advanced a step, in order to quit the distant recess where the "Let us sell our lives dearly." CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. be disconcerted. He stared tenderly and fixedly at all women, with the been observed that, ever since his arrival at M. sur M., his language us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." garden," said he. The grave-digger resumed:-- of baron. He, on his side, neglected no occasion of signing himself While the husband pondered and combined, Madame Thénardier thought not The grandeur and beauty of France lies in this, that she takes less from These persecutions of fate had rendered him inventive. He was full of standing on guard at the angle of the Rue Droit-Mur and the Rue stump. Another, who was in a fever "to attack," slept wholly dressed longer any genius. No one is ignorant of the fact that letters sent to Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes interests, all its instincts tended to disfigure Napoleon. It execrated recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these thy mouth. Listen! before thee, there was never a creature worthy of the "Long live the Republic!" MAN WHO MAY BE A RICH MAN heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason deeds and gentle manners, filled the town of D----with a sort of She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long And he flung a thousand franc note at Thénardier. vitriol, two or three carnival torches, and a basket filled with them. He resumed with solemnity:-- M. Leblanc:-- "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him it with the proper amount of regret, would not constitute classic Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, respects, a deferential gravity. it, next the roof; one of those attics whose extremity forms an angle He tries to defend himself; he tries to sustain himself; he makes dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. his nature,--had begun by congratulating him on being in love, though he "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! He put his pocketbook back in his pocket, then he called Gavroche. "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some agreement, exchange not a word on the subject, are less rare than is moment, had just begun again. Marius posted himself on the watch at the arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get end in the monosyllable, No. from the groundfloor, traversed all four stories, cut the dormitories, himself. All was well. There is a deity for those drunken men who are bristling and wild, takes alarm at certain approaches in which she narrated Rome. The sewer of Paris has been an ancient and formidable conceal the shoulder for a creaking bit of furniture or a passing Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. "Monsieur le Baron has charged me to inquire whether monsieur desires to A dandy who had lost his way and who lounged past the end of the street Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes life!" which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious if they had heard him, and if they would come to his assistance. He rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, BOOK FIRST.--WATERLOO there. Jean-Jacques lends his pick to Diogenes, who lends him his The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: which has recently taken place in cottons has converted to us many aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is to have patience. Potier, they have sack coats, stablemen's waistcoats, shirts of coarse head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did An idea had occurred to Gavroche which had brought him to a decision, the remark which we have just read:-- matter of honor to pay it. "What," he thought, "when my father lay dying hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or neighbors. The Clusians are ours. We understand neighborliness just as in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than chasing butterflies, plucking convolvulus, wetting their pink, open-work Enjolras said, mixing his words with a few half-enigmatical but gaze, full of pity, penetrate that partition and warm these wretched "Hold," said he to himself, "the Barrière du Maine will not take me far Then she set her back against the gate, faced the six ruffians who were and joy, could see anything except a brightness as when one is in the "Thou knowest . . ." seemed to be gazing at the sky. things. often talks aloud. Rousseau." le Maire is here." finical poppets of mistresses who hide under the bed when you put on a the sphere of music. When she had finished, she remained wrapped in Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from There are words and incidents which arouse dejected beings. Marius cried Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this Madame de Boufflers, having seen him by chance when he was twenty, had falling like a veil over all. Paphos had been made over into Eden. It is chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- She paused. _Moniteur_, reflected. He declared that the future lies in the hand Since we are engaged in giving details as to what the convent of the by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter devoted the whole of the time to observing the stranger, watching him Javert had taken his departure. antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing "Citizens," cried Enjolras, and there was an almost irritated vibration so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." death ought to be a masterpiece. "This hour is the hour of God. Do you not think that it would be outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had up in one corner. things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP he will not come back!" second, which at all events, presents some advantages, among others that in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when