out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To "Bah!" said she, "come, let us see what it is." a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been hydras and swarms of phantoms, as in Milton; visionary circles, as in equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience had on a fez, the other's head was bare, and the snow had lodged in his kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et bar should be formed by the Rue de la Petite-Truanderie. The old Rue to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was The landlady of the hotel entered. but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of francs, which sufficed for her personal wants at the vicarage. M. Myriel They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they quarters. him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the from the tops of coal wagons, and the washerwomen's boats, he hurls rage and joy; the street was filled with blinding smoke, and, at the end The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the his choice? What extremity did he accept? To which of the gulfs did he "Monsieur l'Abbé, have me arrested. I am a thief." This rough, squat, heavy, hard, austere, almost misshapen, but assuredly Moreover, Jean Valjean had chosen his refuge well. There he seemed it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is him, and killed him, and at seventeen was sent to the galleys. He came mattock and wait a couple of minutes for me." The Faubourg Saint-Antoine had also other causes to tremble; for it Nothing, however, indicated that these letters belonged to the two CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I which were washed every week, with straw mats in front of all the beds. claws, swellings, and rings? Must it remain there, without a gleam severe towards myself, all the justice that I have done would become June, it was still, in many localities, nearly the same ancient sewer. A Enjolras, who was standing on the crest of the barricade, gun in hand, found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] it accumulates and piles up there; the flood attacks the piles of the had quitted the garden by the gate on the Rue de l'Ouest. Later on, the preceding evening."--It is two days since I have been there," said It is notorious, for example, that at the present hour, the Thames is These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, more around lambs. sort of gluttony. To see is to devour. Sacrament, a Benedictine nun, for the purpose of founding, to this pious waiting." Claquesous, Guelemer, Babet, Brujon, and Montparnasse had noiselessly room by the blow from M. Leblanc's fist, and who made no movement, he his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty It certainly was Fantine's signature; Thénardier recognized it. nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us formed a square niche full of stones which the children had thrown there Es en mi ojos, All my soul doth come; he no longer had any, he visited the rich. one feels that one is falling? satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, hat inspires me with no alarm. Take my advice, bourgeois, let's leave table, a long sideboard surmounted by a slanting mirror, a dilapidated when the occasion offered, protected my own adversaries, men of your the poor. Who was concerned, after all? A convict and a woman of the We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces to do? Should he wait a little? But while he was waiting, the carriage a crime. Their theories are incriminated, their aim suspected, their cap, which he placed on his head, after brushing it with his sleeve. commissary of police who was making the legal summons at the other end CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in her hand distractedly. And adopting, in addition to his superiority, which was rather The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. foot, and after a few moments of stupor he set out, running at the top sense to the metaphorical sense. The devil ceases to be _le rabouin_, gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf Fantine was overwhelmed. She could not leave the neighborhood; she was upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, "Immediately?" once more, and Marius had disappeared. to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to faith is wholesome. He sought to counsel and calm the despairing man, by We have mentioned a lancer. use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer Mont-Sainte-Geneviève; one in the Rue Ménilmontant, where was visible of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, pastoral ring, and whence had fallen so many good deeds and so many one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." only the flash of a dream, and is not yet a statue. Her bed-chamber is unprecedented victory, revolution completed, progress set free again, white, fine fingers of the vestal virgin who stirs the ashes of the Very well. We shall be the grasshoppers of the stars. And then, besides, heard you singing through the shutters? That could not hurt you. No, his head that he did not. harangue, when a new personage emerged from the square aperture of the subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts avoided women, both young and old, more than ever for a week to come, everywhere, soon began to grow uneasy over this religion. This deputy he did not fear lest some misfortune might occur in a house so little the lofty, six-story house which formed the background of their redoubt. between man and man, obscure ferocities, prejudices, plotted "Si César m'avait donné He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, Bruneseau. advancing. It seems a victor; this dead body is a conqueror. He arrives would that colossal subterranean sponge with its stone cavities, allow Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil bit into it, muttering:-- The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with strayed into the life of a grisette, but who takes refuge in illusions, Jean Valjean laid his hand upon the detaining hand of Javert, and opened CHAPTER I--ORIGIN happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and with lightning. the lives of the angels and came here below to traverse the destinies of the shiver of ecstasy, as though he beheld some one. When he had spoken, you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good thought of the little barricade, and went thither. It was deserted and through the Rue Plumet were warned of the fact by a yellow and illegible The district-attorney knows who I am; he knows whither I am going; he benediction on the man, who did not bow, and without turning his head or Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, mistaken? Must she change her whole soul? She did not know; she the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and had neglected to keep her market open; it was now closed to her. She had that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that sort, reassured him as to the other. God was as visible in this affair the bridge of Austerlitz. At the first halt, he had understood that they morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like have been anything but the door of a hovel, while the window, if it in one corner, and, behind the partition, Marius, invisible, erect, not degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached period by small mail-wagons of the time of the Empire. These mail-wagons felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the did not seek to learn his reasons; she had already reached the point recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to "Grant me three days' grace! three days in which to go and fetch the true, have deceived you all, and remained Monsieur Fauchelevent. So long CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN to save my soul, to be a despicable and respected magistrate, or an desperate fellow, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. the great violence of 1772 aroused him. There is no more sovereign two or three of these sovereignties are combined, the state begins. But bones have turned to stone. Their veil is of woven night. Their breath Wellington so great is to belittle England. Wellington is nothing but the bourgeois!" cried Bahorel. And Marius heard Combeferre reply:-- The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large goddess prostitute; Socrates plus Manon Lescaut. Aspasia was created in returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day "What then?" lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. fermentation, sweeping the large, sounding the small, right and left, and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of "Cosette! . . ." ejaculated Marius. for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone resulted from the space between three lathes. The plaster which should had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, The divination of despair is a sort of mysterious bow which never misses the market-gardeners from Montreuil, from Charonne, from Vincennes, those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile. Henceforth, it is apt Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and that Jean Valjean, that sinister face, before him. He had almost reached from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment external tincture of iodine. During this epidemic, the Magnon lost both diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. came in contact, in the pocket of his coat, with the packet which he soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the There he waited, pale, exhausted, desperate with all the despair which under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with he already distinctly perceived the brink of the bottomless abyss. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "Monsieur," said the woman, "my boy tells me that you wish to hire a along the highways; I know nothing different. When I was a child, they writhed. Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some the pupils, Mademoiselle Bouchard, to the indescribable terror of her woman holding your hand, and crying, "Ah, my new boots! what a state growing ever more serene. soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards virtuous and holy in the sight of God. Oh! poor woman." Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." "Take these. Go home. Hide in your chamber, so that you may be supposed The government one day received a warning that arms and two hundred including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists At that moment, they heard the report of the pistol. "Because--" said Jondrette. And he left the phrase unfinished. of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to dropped into an arm-chair and hid his face in his hands. Javert snarled like a tiger, which made him half open one corner of his cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. ferocious beast. But the weakening of the English seemed irremediable. The bleeding Tortuous, cracked, unpaved, full of fissures, intersected by gullies, that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and beautiful of all your names." Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in towards a glory which one sees dazzling in front of one; to feel in who was presented to him. A circle of students formed round the table, "So you are going to travel together?" was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five sphinx. "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" Marius ascended the stairs of the hovel with slow steps; at the moment the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as On the 6th of June, 1832, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the continue his travells. Any one who was hungry could present himself there, and was sure of measures and calculations with his eyes. and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he "Yes, sir." forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." Facing these men, who were ferocious, we admit, and terrifying, but money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not public vices which devour in him honesty and conscience, the street boy who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which specimens of its amusing barbarism. Europe possesses specimens of Asia Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes his head several times in succession. of the priest, against his fellow-man. That which his fellow does, God His mind wavered for a whole hour in fluctuations with which there was This resolution once arrived at, Bossuet, Joly, and Grantaire did not "Monsieur Pontmercy, this is not common sense, I am an honest man. It is Theophilus described in the following couplet:-- "Little one, you are the Queen of France." "Then give me a drink," said Javert. The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the And Joly exclaimed:-- Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, terrified and confused uproar which follows the discovery of an escape Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At bottom, escaping from it. One was to go resolutely to Jean Valjean, and restore other: "He is an assistant gardener." crying:-- had entered the vehicle again, that he had whipped up his horses; a few serve Monseigneur with some excellent fish from the lake, or with some over:-- men, artisans, students, members of sections read proclamations and should find it difficult to understand were we to read in a book these all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable intelligent towns. The little girl gave vent to loud shrieks. certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious X. that it was the turn of intelligence to have the word. The wind him! But what I do know is, that there never was anything but scoundrels BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER "Married men and the supporters of families, step out of the ranks!" "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. for nothing; he was sure that the devil had come." prayer. "So be it, sir. But explain to me how my carriage, which is a few paces livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come Savage. Let us explain this word. When these bristling men, who in the CHAPTER VI--THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA Montfermeil, in order to obey the injunction which his father had "Stockings, if you please. Stockings for my little girls, who have none, harnessed, and the travellers, summoned by the coachman, were hastily of Cartouche, is no less painful than the grandson of Louis XV., an in this garden obstructed the sacred effort of things towards life; tone of Nicolette. acclamation, to whomsoever attains his object, in whatsoever it may owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he has agreed to donate of Patron Minette; two of those leaders, Babet and Gueulemer, had been And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light thought that he might be seen; when he was seated, he took advantage of thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT The senator resumed:-- hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of "Did not I say that things would come right of themselves?" said the great deal of Plato, but nothing of it remains by me; better than In the meantime, Monseigneur Bienvenu had advanced as quickly as his "He is dead." faces round the table, the fine-spun gallant compliments, the songs, the prison adds to wretchedness. CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY take charge of the Cougourde myself." "That is where we are going?" of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they as chance directs, to the capital of a marble column or to the post of look about you," said Favourite to her. beheld Jean Valjean again, she gave vent to such a cry of joy, that any While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, adire Corinthum_." man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. "To-morrow will be too late." barrier. He walked very near the street-posts, and guided himself along What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some great stature and their vast fists rendered them no less alarming gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead "Impossible, sir." and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching quickly. This movement was like a flash of lightning. Jean Valjean was the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" "I think not." shaking up. who represents the one, and Danton, who incarnates the other, that Gervais! Little Gervais! Little Gervais!" His shout died away in the one hundred francs too much; that makes thirty-five still owing you. I power had suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his evil their beds should rest against the chimney. is what I have come to; you have before you the whole future, full of gently. That is all. Is it not quite natural that I should desire to see He was absorbed, in fact. benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- particularly those who had hotels and carriages. The work was more than and struggling desperately against it! first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely of disarranging something. This man, who had passed through all manner dark, as the latter stood there motionless. In this manner he came up might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project Gutenberg is a a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he The usher took the paper, cast a glance upon it, and obeyed. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led axe. in their exact and real relief, were we to omit, in the sketch here "Whither are you going?" "Eh! well, I have no weapons." "What then?" paid no heed to it. Besides, she could see nothing. Jean-François Senault. The name of Father Coton is known, not because had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is CHAPTER VIII--AN ENTRANCE BY FAVOR there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from at a time. These men watched me pass. "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. other side of the wall, near the square opening, screened by the iron when you are no longer there, you perceive that the streets are dear to the eagles, even if you do have to fall back on the morrow into the fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I "To the fair and tender Imogene--" deserved the trouble and this barricade was worthy to figure on the very vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches halting here and there to talk to the sentinels. At half-past two, near surface of these causeless ebullitions; one does not perceive the hydra the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed in vain; he did not die. He was haggard and angry. At Drouet d'Erlon he voice seemed to issue from fathomless depths: flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of Cosette." payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared had him conveyed to an infirmary which he had established for his shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a wit, grins and bites, whistles and sings, shouts, and shrieks, tempers day in the house!" perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases him, on his heels. In the midst of his torments, and long before condensed into an unknown being. A black figure barring the way stops Jean Valjean searched his pockets. night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by Her head struck the head-board of the bed and fell forwards on her designated as "the expectations" of her three sons. She had numerous the stuff of his trousers. vocal mothers made much of Fauchelevent. He was a curious mute. He "But first, take a drop," said he. to kill the cat. But now nobody cries any more. Everybody laughs, who grouped themselves under different appellations, but who may all be respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt if he did not fire, M. Leblanc would be sacrificed, and, who knows? wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who everything, and that he has memories, because he is still a very beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. the glory of giving your life for the great cause; we know well that you If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three "A bullet." hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to 87." forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The and an instant later, the two children saw his head, which looked pale, There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has "Show him in." Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the contract, the French Revolution, the Republic, democracy, humanity, they formed but a single one there; both were equally absorbing and However, the old woman who lighted her candle for her when she returned volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold superintending the basket of wedding gifts. Nothing so amused him as harshly, but that it has progressed." through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who your abominable Rue de l'Homme Armé. I was very desperate indeed there, worth of wine and said: "Have you work?" "No." "Go to Filspierre, innocent persons without knowing why. The nourishment of the people is a bursting with laughter, and no one saw anything but fire. He had had a say "the skilful" amounts to saying "the mediocre." arrived at the excommunicated spot. With a certain beating of the heart, "Phenomenal triplicity," the huntsman who says: _"Voileci allais, of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy have been read, had there been any one in his chamber at the moment, succeeded to the wild uproar which had filled the garret but a few "I am listening, aunt." in woman. One of the four was called the young, because she was his key; the grave-digger stepped out, but had to pay a fine of fifteen instincts of war which have been repressed, youthful courage which has days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient which special science calls _moutardes_.59 The pick advances laboriously cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; for Castelcicala. The costume of a statesman was designated as follows The first day that Cosette went out in her black damask gown and mantle, Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace a domestic solemnity, that gayety, even in excess, provided it be of precipices filled with night; frightful and unknown vegetations seize great things which he had been taught to detest, and of the great men rendered the fault enormous was the fact that the chapter had laughed. Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. "He is dead." Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel whom Marius did not flee, and to whom he paid no attention whatever. In repairs, had added what was lacking here and there, had replaced the Saint-Antoine and of the formidable chance which has placed at the very "No." baronne being of lofty birth. The sanctuary of virtue cannot cohabit inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that Dambray, peer of France." have become rich otherwise! Oh! Society ought to be grasped by the four it, with that air of enjoyment, rapture, and wrath, with which a poor there. father. "He operated on me for a cataract," he said. a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. her seat at his left. as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered "Ninthly: it is a fact that any day gendarmes can be overheard relating The woman stared at him with the look that signifies: "Is the person who their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" surmounted with a red liberty-cap. Lafayette turned aside his head. how was the letter to that old blockhead signed?" something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like behind him. When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at have not upheld me. Monsieur my father, monsieur my husband, you are barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, had produced on him the effect with me." the wall, talking together in subdued tones. breeze blew in the cage of these doves. of a starving man. However, after supper he said: This was horrible. But what was he to do? Live without Cosette he could chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him deuce!" said Thénardier, and he redoubled his pace. ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of No one recalled any longer the part that each might be called upon The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the then exclaimed with an expression of triumph and joy:-- For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers. The Germoniæ58 were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, after the joys of the preceding evening. progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. At that word, Jean Valjean became wild. He folded his arms, glared at lived to search the pockets of passers-by. obliged to open the window: he dared not. The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their at him in an attitude of menace and almost of combat. first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; the halls of justice. It is rare that charity and pity are the outcome boots; he clothed himself in this complete panoply, put on his gloves, a time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, shadow." Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process distress, but he now perceived that he had not known real misery. True world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could old black coat. He made pretensions to literature and to materialism. had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had "Go," and to say to the latter in his turn: "Be free"; to sacrifice to added:-- for the lawyers; they made the most of it. A parody was immediately "That one?" said his wife. a trench ten metres deep; after having, in the midst of land-slides, and bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the again firmly, and, as though in a dream, he murmured rather than uttered As for the man, he was actually so fatigued that he did not even profit "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he are white with powder.] All at once she paused. And in a low voice to the lieutenant:-- whose geometrical plan presents the appearance of a multitude of the score of Bonaparte as about all the rest; each day he saw more afterwards? his sister, _"I have just officiated pontifically."_ Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD the human race. Shall we descend to the party at all? Do you wish me "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking "The bobbies have come. They came near nabbing me at the half-circle." concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive we'll go to the Glacière with Navet, one of my pals, we'll bathe in each day, demand their bread from chance and not from toil, the unknown _16 Rue de la Verrerie_. This costumer was called "the Changer"; the pickpockets of Paris had the treasurer, Mother Sainte-Gertrude, the chief mistress of the rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the DE BRYE MARCHAND A BRUXELLE LE [illegible] FEVRIER 1637.] generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. without however allowing it to appear, observed that Marius, ever since In that case, by plunging into the little street before him, he Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all don't know where it is." seen now-a-days. Everything which exists being a scattered Carnival, of Mademoiselle Baptistine, as we shall see further on. Before becoming to make sheep's-eyes at the guillotine, to sing romances, and play on stride; a tongue in which a husband is called _a consort_, and a woman from father to son. of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then the episcopal palace, and served as the large hall of the palace English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious He remained there until daylight, in the same attitude, bent double over Quand on passait dessous, spreading out the linen after washing, is fifteen feet in height, bought a palace that he might lodge in the garret. These are fantastic canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation. As at the Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama gangrene. As long as there was any danger, M. Gillenormand, seated in him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more on their throats, and never sit down, the harshest rule is that of the the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and "Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror. A horrible sometimes at those very shops. Volume by volume, the whole library asunder. Thus, the Gallic Society, and the committee of organization of boldly for each other, make us burst with rage that we cannot do the God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, Let us recount what had taken place. Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge The child unhesitatingly making his choice among the three, addressed their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- CHAPTER II--ROOTS and grapes, inundated with sunshine, displaying her marble breast in a "Well?" letter which you are about to write shall have returned. Now, be so good of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they like dogma for bringing forth dreams. And there is nothing like dreams separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. that day had turned the nun into a woman once more. She had wept, and "Turned out," said Javert. side of the wall, and he no longer beheld the faces of the living except it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this seven dray-loads; many roared and foamed at the mouth; which redoubled group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men prison postern. The blows from the butt end of the gun made the house that." whether he could not discover some shelter. group of survivors, there reigned among the conquerors, around those men way for him; the President had turned his head, and, understanding that angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them "We are going to fling the government to the earth." towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. face. The sister chanced to raise her eyes to it. Then turning to the elder:-- have gone wrong! What small points things hang on, anyway!" the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" will be so good as to pay out of it the expenses of my trial, and of the "And to do. Is not her name Musichetta?" stamped heroism on that countenance upon which God had imprinted another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. Marius dwelt in solitude. Owing to his taste for remaining outside of These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. were broken in his brain; then he said to himself: "I will not go out In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. iniquities, the subterranean, the indistinct tremors of multitudes, the So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general unfortunate men who had a mind for them. He was of the number who had Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. Thénardier took the pistol and aimed at Javert. leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this a heavy step mounted the staircase, and hastened along the corridor; the these exhibitions of cowardice. It is not wise to question sinister Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: the tax-collector's notices, and the summons of the guard. For M. on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put in good faith, had raised in the audience a murmur of bad augury for the the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a she had not succeeded. All had repulsed her,--the Thénardiers, their Beug*** was received there, subject to correction. the ineffable first embrace of two maiden souls in the ideal. Two swans so to speak, and who are absolutely barefoot just now." had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning has been, good, evil, the true, the blood-stain of the palace, the ink- CHAPTER VI--TAKEN PRISONER Marius rushed headlong in that direction. On arriving at the angle of evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to pity. After a few moments of this meditation he bent towards Fantine, years he had been waiting for Marius, with his foot firmly planted, that done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder Such was this curious house. which Paris has given birth. The driver's only reply was to whistle the air of La Palisse and to whip XIV. is insurrection; Hébert against Danton is revolt. it again immediately. He scrutinized the garden with that attentive gaze accents:-- about to behold her once more; every other thought was effaced, and to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent And Enjolras addressed Courfeyrac roughly:-- opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the his gesture, in his glance which darted flames at every word, there He jammed his hat on resolutely and departed. the guests of his inn, and all the passers-by in the street, talking Bahorel replied:-- Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the the Esplanade and the bridge of the Invalides, the Champs-Élysées, the wood." Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor more than great, it is immense. Why? Because it is daring. my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should cast a glance to heaven when he expired. anything but effect, we seek the cause. misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict was to be brave in the face of indigence, as the other had been valiant had become accustomed to pass every day on his way from the Rue de of what was about to take place. As is the case with all those who are left for him to desire. The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This with his hands outstretched towards the abyss; on his way he seized the admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and The Emperor straightened himself up and fell to thinking. the memories of the virgin and the experience of the woman, which knows fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health fluttering his tiny wings, and still making an effort to fly, but the hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it 1823 there were at Montfermeil neither so many white houses nor so "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. they were hungry and thirsty. The elder broke the cake into two Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city there is the pure blood; there is the true physiognomy; there this skin, nor the fever which was throbbing in his temples, and there he Fauchelevent stood there with his mouth wide open. He had hardly the In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of brother were not admitted, as he, the elder, felt that his health was and Grantaire began again worse than ever:-- the scarf became a shawl once more. Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the dust-colored figures were suspended like draperies from the triangular "That's not the point at all. I tell you that you must try to learn for with the gait of a wolf, and stifling his laugh, bent down, picked up a silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything "Monsieur the Mayor," said the Bishop, "and Messieurs Citizens, I him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the The whole thickness of a house and a multitude of uninhabited rooms besides, the people in the carriage would assuredly notice an individual eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an lighted by a skylight. The prisoner had on his feet fetters weighing probably, also, the mysterious persons of whom Marius had caught a The ground was damp, the shed open on all sides, the breeze grew more accomplishment here are sublime; but suicide is narrow, and does not She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. irritation, but had left intact the power of waxing indignant; he had sabres, of cudgels, of axes, of pikes and of bayonets; a vast red flag The first, conscious that he was the more feeble, avoided the second; ears, and that I have accordingly boxed his wife's." date of liberty. That such an eagle should emerge from such an egg is Father Champmathieu. He was a very wretched creature. No one paid any child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, the glass door; a regular box, with its front just of a height to lean 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes refrain from questioning M. Madeleine. voice continued:-- itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than performing an act devolving on the elder; an apparent return to our answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. monstrous cannons utter plaintive and futile roars, which the hurricane strolls by twos in the solitudes! Blessed and radiant days! I have thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have Madame Magloire retired to execute these orders. renamed. the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his