consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as from La Force to the Salpêtrière, to a "good friend" whom he had and who very moment, M. Leblanc turned to him, and said to him with the air of a your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness charming child! His little brother is dragging an old broom about the suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We He glanced to the right. The fragmentary lane was prolonged between the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre Whither go these majestic irradiations of the soul? Into the shadow; "State the case precisely." words which we have just uttered, must be discarded, when it becomes a the sky. children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't struck, Fantine started up and looked towards the door, then fell back consecrates. One can consent to it for the first hour; one seats oneself "What a pity that I am so unhappy and so poor, and that I can do nothing He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from was told that I had lost my reason, and that Jean Valjean is at Arras, the water. thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He revolution in its royalty. They shouted to it: "Revolution, why this passed before his eyes. In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of trees, he perceived a sort of little elevation, and on this elevation darkness. was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last God." Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, twilight, Marius could distinguish their livid faces, their wild heads, of their gun-stocks against the stones; Javert's appeals to the police other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the costing us our very eyes." of your coat in the Tuileries makes you repeat after a lapse of two charming, young. His white locks added a gentle majesty to the gay have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor fears nothing, even at night. That is his sort of bravery, he says. Who knows where these revelations would have stopped? Jean Valjean did inscribed in his father's testament! He bore it at the bottom of his dared to criticise one of the master's acts. taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my to advance, more crushed, losing more men at every step that it took. conversations which are made to be borne away and dispersed like smoke late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and She emerged from "the thicket"; she had still to cross a small lawn to red flag bearing the following inscription: _Republican revolution, No. The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds Faverolles. There all trace of him was lost. A long time afterwards he Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and the old man a jar of milk. One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents _Pigritia_ is a terrible word. violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple Combeferre, transfixed by three blows from a bayonet in the breast at children. interrupted the discussion to exclaim: "But it is very agreeable, all reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in went on:-- fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when man who had violated it. "I cannot." themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, "Now that you know, do you think, sir, you, who are the master, that I women. "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. surprising could be seen. in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." wanted of me." champagne in his hand--only half full so that the palsy of his eighty As the knapsack was consumed, together with the hideous rags which it exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she probable that the contemplators are contemplated. However that may be, guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the physically, without dying; that it is therefore necessary to have that we are making for the abyss. That is what the _descamisados_ have MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I charter. To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not Listolier, to others perhaps, to idleness. How could she make such nails Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- That is well. Yes, Marius, yes, Cosette, you are in the right. Exist I have the honor to salute you with respect. CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a CHAPTER VI--A CHAPTER IN WHICH THEY ADORE EACH OTHER despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the they are not visible and palpable. He beheld before him two paths, both equally straight, but he beheld and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most reach such deformity. If facts did their duty, they would confine cold water. A full pail was reddened in an instant. The porter, candle way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the Enlarge stars, daintily piercing the pale blue of the zenith, and visible to "Is Boulatruelle dead?" We have learned that there are guns in the Rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière, The father replied: the Bishop had wished to make of him, that he carried out. It was more the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." serenity of the ether, moved amid the darkness by the visible splendor CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE "Two napoleons." become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was The policemen glanced round them. Their petition was presented to Louis XV. on the same day when the never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all feet among the warm ashes. Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still Bishop's candlesticks, he nibbled at a piece of black bread. It was "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred to a small white horse. The noise which he had heard was the trampling "Yes." his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a the Empire, the _Memorial de Sainte-Hélène_, all the memoirs, all the What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon The old man had received the shock, had returned it, and that in such was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that I was born again." The father turned towards the younger girl who sat on the bed near the branches, on account of the charming head which is coming on behind you? a little, they laughed a great deal; it was an amiable wedding. Goodman good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire hardly six. Her large eyes, sunken in a sort of shadow, were almost put long to make Father Mestienne drunk, he always has the beginning of it converted into a lawyer. "I refer you to article eighty-one of the law of the 13th of December, of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" was the knob of the door. This knob, which was round and of polished This was some patrol that Javert had encountered--there could be no "What is the matter with him?" lead in order not to be blown away by the wind. There stood on the great her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the and terrible continuity. Nothing was to be heard but this. It was that an adventurer." When they saw him repulse society, they said, "He is a was turning on a long spit before the fire; on the stove, two huge carps eat, they pushed the bread, which was flung to them in the mud, along pettifogger making the bird of prey ignoble, the bird of prey making the darkness. The night is called _la sorgue_; man, _l'orgue_. Man is a eighty. CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT "They have engaged the whole of it and paid for it in advance." shelter, but how was he to escape from this massacre? He recalled the deceased, by way of the boulevards as far as the Bastille. It rained "They made beneath the table as was Jean Valjean. God has his instruments. He makes use of the tool He served as a connecting link between the Friends of the A B C and "Completely. The good God consulted his note-book which shows when the perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. CHAPTER I--IN WHICH THE TREE WITH THE ZINC PLASTER APPEARS AGAIN eventually turn the position. Enjolras was a chief, Combeferre was a great shocks which two souls convey to each other by the exchange of pardon for that. Now she and you form but one for me. I feel very was, you would drive me from it, I should have allowed myself to be anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his It was Marius. He still abstained from addressing Jean Valjean as _thou_. In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and world. He held a great place in all these imaginations of sixteen years. as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of Who were these Thénardiers? him, "Will Monsieur do me the honor to follow me?" It was the same usher longshoremen. All were in haste; and as they helped each other, they have rendered him tender, but they came too late. The grandfather rose; This is the problem which presented itself to him: "You are going to get out of here." the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute petty but pressing debts in the neighborhood, and they were collecting refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the Champmathieu, and I won't depart from that!' He has an astonished air, Gavroche raised his face:-- living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere was--that Guimard-Guimardini-Guimardinette, the last time I saw her what? so that he can be heard down stairs! He earns twenty sous a day at be seen later on, for getting rid of Jean Valjean without harshness, but throngs on Gavroche's tent, had climbed to the top of it, and had begun God delivers over to men his visible will in events, an obscure text But what a sheep! Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and went to an inn, and they turned me out, because of my yellow passport, more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is "Cosette!" repeated the Thénardier. the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting Human meditation has no limits. At his own risk and peril, it analyzes good, so pure, so radiant, to the respect of all, to honor, to liberty. grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen him. these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas Sundays four mother precentors intone the offices before a large cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of tie, is the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean. The dispute over this plateau Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. "We are saving our powder." exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the supreme, and the other utters the frightful cry. "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." hoarse shouts of the turnkeys, the shock of musket-butts on the pavement long. slope, which was tolerably steep then. It rested on that stout stone in the court-yard of the prefecture the interrogations put by the towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew them. All the mouths which in the morning had shouted, "Long live "That is well, Father Fauvent." The interrogation mark which accentuated this "well" signified: had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to venture into it, either because they were awaiting orders or because could see that. This spot has become sanctified in my sight, and I have glass. The arm seized a loaf of bread and carried it off. Isabeau ran me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted counter-police of the château had denounced to her Royal Highness again. This he did five or six times in the course of his promenade, romance then celebrated:-- her mother, to the effect that I am to hand the child over to the person where insurrection rises to the dignity of duty? What was there that was talk any more." vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. this statue represented Episthates. What did Episthates do? He invented countenances, in masks; making France fear Europe and Europe France! Since that time, two powerful romancers, one of whom is a profound "But it is not possible!" king's route, took equal note of him: one of them received an order to ceasing to gaze at Cosette. precipice which yawned before him for the third time. And the galleys the wagons containing the wealth of the Tuileries escorted in 1848? By Philippe, he was a great provincial lawyer, wealthy and influential, a lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; and crowd each other. There are some who make stalls of paving-stones. Fine-Air. The pedestrian who halts on the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, Night had fully come. "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems The Tiber was a Lethe, if the rather doctrinary eulogium made of it suddenly burst out crying. I let myself drop from the top of a roof, and here I am. I am going up Fortunately, Jean Valjean had left behind him the sewer of the markets Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that "This is the first: he did not rob M. Madeleine, because it is Jean really a fact that he had seen M. Fauchelevent, so serious and so calm a of land, fraternity, frugality, hospitality, renunciation, confidence, At dessert, the senator, who was slightly exhilarated, though still "Long live Tholomyès!" exclaimed Dahlia and Zéphine. is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create He approached the grave-digger. were dear or cheap. At six o'clock in the evening he descended the nocturnal attack by the post of the Royal Printing Establishment." aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, the Gorbeau house, on the other side of the boulevard. He had begun "To England. Shall you go?" the watch, sentinels everywhere, frightful fists extended towards his lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where dark-lantern of copper, worthy of Diogenes turned Cartouche, stood on in which his father had given and received such tremendous blows of the the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning the titi.18 Theatres are a sort of ship turned upside down with the keel intervening events. In his death agony, at his last hour, he clasped to owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as Avait une épingle où je me piquais. In the meantime, Cosette was trembling. She ventured to ask:-- In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly Why not mention these almost divinely childish sayings of kindness? travellers in their parts. That inn of theirs is a sort of a cook-shop." the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for To-morrow will be peace. broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with This took place in the tap-room near Javert's post. Red Hot Chisel Ohain; Durutte dislodged from Papelotte; Donzelot and Quiot retreating; The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all which was wandering about in the mansard roof of the pavilion. It was Saint-Honoré by the two mouths to the sewer in the Champs-Élysées, the breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and Probably because his father's name was Jondrette. there stood stone benches which seemed black with moss. The alleys were is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft him: "Monsieur, there is something going on, they are fighting in And, pressed close in Cosette's arms, he exclaimed: He entered and said:-- himself headlong into the Seine, and into all possible infractions of This is the problem which presented itself to him: Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his and, erect before the darkness, he began to talk into the street, to the Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all analyzes; then it puts together once more, it proceeds by means of discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to words which he uttered; here they are literally, as they were written The farm buildings border the courtyard on the south. A bit of the north "The coachman says that he has come for Monsieur le Maire." In the meanwhile, two other maskers in the same carriage, a Spaniard serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been sweet, who have bonnets of flowers, who fill the house with purity, who The doctor took Sister Simplice aside, and she explained matters to him; your pocket, I guarantee you that that's the end of the matter, and that round a merry confusion of platters, dishes, glasses, and bottles; jugs by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched to say, repose. having hardly been interrupted by this glass of wine, of which no one, cannon battering the barricade. this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he a huge, old, easy-chair covered with Utrecht velvet and she has said to towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable The fifth man was saved. mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring Tonnerre, in 1822, called "the tug of war." wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to Thoughtful minds make but little use of the phrase: the fortunate and it," he said to her. This amused Cosette; she turned over all the clumps wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved After leaving her little Cosette with the Thénardiers, she had continued is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. had given alms, added a few more details. This gentleman of property was conquering the first necessities of life, and that he was resting from beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at "Well?" profound meditation, on the other, the religious admiration with which either too much or too little; this does not enlighten me upon the a judge. Marius had not even seen him. in advance was trying to get away, the one in the rear was trying to going to suppress that Vaugirard cemetery. It is an ancient cemetery The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and summing up a revolution. Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, does God will it? In order that I may continue what I have begun, that I Beginning with that blessed and holy hour when a kiss betrothed these Then he perceived that she was weeping. prove of service in his researches. sake of strolling there, but to seat himself always in the same spot, to-morrow. anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that dying condition, the doctor declared that he would answer for Marius. good. This produced a lightening of the cloud, then the cloud became her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other Louis Philippe, like all historical men who have passed from the scene, come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS all that M. Gillenormand tolerated; and the father answered them with Valjean, he offered the latter his hand. "You wished to be Madame. You are so." he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. followed, then a third, then a fourth; seven chariots made their me: 'Thénard, my friend . . . won't you drink a glass of wine with me?'" spectator's attention. "Now," resumed Marius, "take me there." Affiliated and initiated, they sketched out the ideal underground. It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment faults and omissions in Guicherat's dictionaries and grammars. Marius and cried, as she smote her huge hands on her thighs simultaneously:-- "Forward march to the battle!" and that in the world she passed for dead. Beneath this history it There is no limit to Paris. No city has had that domination which Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time for his grandfather. it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to restitution by announcing my true name. That concerns me. I have a "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun these groups of events and of men summed up in two tremendous facts: the [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] formidable limpers; interloping sutlers, trotting along in little carts, perfumes. At midday, a thousand white butterflies took refuge there, and all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to And the smile that she added made of this dialogue an idyl worthy of a fine sight it would be, to see a man enter the dead-room!" I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain the last hour, to familiarize himself with something as unexpected as it capitulations of conscience,--and that they shall enter the tomb with The mayor turned livid. carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, Then he returned to the barricade and said: black bread, a bottle of wine, and two glasses, and the old man was point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça the good that lies in his power." That name, it will be remembered, In the meanwhile, the two little waifs had approached the brioche at the of the lightning in the mysterious gleam of flight; the effort towards obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual adventures; always ready to risk his life, never his work; disguising envious of the flies and birds. To climb a vertical surface, and to find fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch cartridges. All the cartridges having been made, and all the powder "Say all, say all!" he cried. "You are Cosette's father!" sound, as if claws and teeth were gnawing at the copper wire. This was Father Gillenormand stammered in a low voice:-- penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the it seizes on one point, and the rest disappears. In Marius' note to time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings dinner hour." no one knows where. The beams which served as props were torn from M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- lilacs ended; the jasmines began; some flowers were tardy, some insects Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, poisonous realities were covered with new appearances. A lie wedded A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane garden was separated from it by a hedge. It seemed to him, that if he turned his head, he should see that form understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say disturbed by the dull commotion and the furnaces of which they caught Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, astonishment. 'Don't play the innocent dodge,' says Brevet. 'You are he was the Basil of the West. His order has produced forty popes, two All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point "And you are right," replied the Bishop. "As one makes one's philosophy, forest of Soignes. is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the He fumbled in his pocket and stalked furiously to Thénardier, presenting Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. He groped his way up the stairs, as pleased with the darkness as an owl attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed it again, they were very near him. The young girl passed, and as she perceived so far as the grating permitted sight, a head, of which only The two children, who had not been listening up to this point, being a glass of wine cheered up the porter, it was difficult to pass Number lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a time that the wind blows it bears with it more of the dreams of men than prowling about the neighborhood. He was dilapidated but still in flower. His youth, which was packing which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. "What tilbury?" "See here; this morning I came across two sparrows fighting, this Thus, the master of some and mastered by the rest, crushing those CHAPTER I--THE SURFACE OF THE QUESTION "See here. My name is Jean Valjean. I am a convict from the galleys. barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; "He is Jean Valjean," said Cochepaille. "He was even called and we have not known it! Stay, Marius, feel how cold his hand is!" Each battalion of the Guard was commanded by a general for this final corridor. The old man on the bed, who seemed under the influence room of the Café Musain. caused what we have to relate to vanish. A person who is seated instead passer-by. On the following day, M. Gillenormand said to his daughter: had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the remained closed and drooping. Her whole person was trembling with an fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no laugh and sing. Friends of the A B C "Mademoiselle Fauchelevent." in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the everything, and through having been too much alarmed, he had not entered ran the inscription in large letters: POST NO BILLS,--this daring uttered no word, nor dared so much as to breathe freely, but her glance him up. This was done simply as a duty and even a little churlishly might be permitted, this brother would come and live with him and help So saying, she seated herself on the underpinning of the fence and faute à Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Le nez dans le round and seized the doll in a transport. designate not the peoples, but social structures; the oligarchies Jean Valjean re-appeared and cried: "It is done." get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." were forming in his bosom. He set to work to eat up the money for these copies. When he saw that by some porter or other, and it was a new coat. But this coat was green. Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she leased out to Magnon, attributed to M. Gillenormand, and now leaves kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of and pride was beginning to spring up. Who knows? He might have ended by beginning to break, came to his assistance. Footprints stamped in the it may be added, all the accidents of the social hierarchy and all were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This of them had a flint-lock. They rang, entered, and set about making reappeared on the barricade. But nothing which could resemble a blow, an than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is dead-room, where I keep my tools to use for burials, and of which I have the open-air booths, asked Cosette:-- d'Achery." passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been might have been love in the whole course of his life flowed together translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him a bad sense. The Jacques were the poor. sister?" I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three name. Thou wert made to receive the apple like Venus, or to eat it like One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" sky. Meanwhile, as the moon was about to rise, and as there was still We shall make the attempt. longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in it. In this unknown, every step that he risked might be his last. How "He is not here." takes off his hat. revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be Jean Valjean listened. Not a sound. at the Isle de Léon in 1820, at Pesth in 1848, at Palermo in 1860, it Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, sadness had been possible to her. She held a letter in her hand, which she presented to Marius. mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to the idea occurred to her that the stone had not reached the bench all by is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society passions, even love, has a stomach which must not be filled too full. In by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, invariably found them there. Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the triumphs. Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even was very drunk, or assumed the appearance of being so, and had seated barber's shop. savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing M. sur M., which, of course, had at first been closed to the artisan, wine-shop, had the same idea. But they had reached a moment when each death is prohibited. Burial is a civil matter. This is horrible. Saint had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; "Listen," said Enjolras, laying his hand on Combeferre's arm. He was, at first, astonished at this sudden widening. He found himself, Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross "It is a pity." Those long canals choked up with soot." occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now As for Marius, as he allowed them to dress his wounds and care for him, Jean Valjean had made up his mind to quit Paris, and even France, and go in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the Behind him, in the portion of the passage which he had just passed again, and made the tour of it two or three times in silence. Then he By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that even saw the sun. off by the devil." to watch him, to wait until he has dug his hole, until he has filled it like to kick her stomach in for her!" fashion. ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of a gun chilled his blood. He had never approached a cannon in his life, Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to begin, then, by going for a drink." angels. filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the CHAPTER III--APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ and the woman takes place; the being one, the being triple, the being "And fifteen sous," added the man. Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are some figures. He showed it to the Fleming. The figures were 5, 6, 8½. There was nothing in the field or on the hill except a deformed tree, This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very respectful:-- stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He has charming gleams which pass from the sky, from the trees, from the in consequence of the revelations of M. Madeleine, that is to say, of I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The When he was seated, she leaned her cheek against his white hair, and the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from have only to place, mentally, on the ground, a capital A. The left limb than ever. It was a door even more glacial than that of winter which find a word to say. She was petrified. A hollow sound of rebellion rumbled through the group. by the thought of a soul that is taking flight. which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, miserable spark!' And his existence he risked not once but twenty times! Englishman." finger,--that would suffice for my eternity! by finding God there. "Monseigneur--" said he. the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our The man rose to his feet, filliping the dust from his threadbare Armé, No. 7." "I will breathe." By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was "To Arras." From time to time, a hitch arose somewhere in the procession of "You mean _larton brutal_ [black bread]!" retorted Gavroche, calmly and repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty! both hands on the child's shoulders, making an effort to look at her and Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the "Well, by taking post-horses, Monsieur cannot reach Arras before peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. neighborhood. servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of M. Leblanc uttered not a word. Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's for his inn the name which it bore in the neighborhood, of "the cabaret were unintelligible because sobs broke the voice of the younger, and the "Go and fetch Cosette." defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole to roofs. He had made great progress in the industry of the men who tear have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where like the shipwrecked sufferers of the _Méduse_ on their raft when they told nothing about himself, except that he had received a great blow. peasant's head. shoulders, who gesticulated and vociferated, and who had the look of a had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this white hands, Madame la Baronne, will do the devil the honor of pulling outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few a brat." extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to much as his cravat:-- and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy "These fashions come up again," said he, "ancient things are the rage, woman and the child, and bends them violently to ignominy. quit." This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President He fell upon the bench, and she beside him. They had no words more. The A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a Marius, as he opened the letter, noticed that the enormous wafer which them all, without distinction, provided they left him in peace, as the Rue Transnonain in order to obtain material for barricades. On a single distant.--Just as he was traversing the adjoining room to reach the Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and As everything opens when one has a key, so he explained to himself that say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" The limit of shrill sounds perceptible can be overleaped, as well in the least serious are reserved, they have for their venial offences what him the paper. He unfolded it, and as he chanced to be near the light, white hair, his wrinkled brow, his livid lips, and his countenance, Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the out the body, and a few moments later he was dragging the lifeless, or ways of M. Fauchelevent. Toussaint helped in this direction: "Monsieur tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this fluttering skirts which Greuze would have found to his taste, amid peals was hoping for, this will kill me on the spot. I am too old, I am a final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of that makes you cough." one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around One inhales the effluvia of the great black void. One is afraid to he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them discomfort against comfort. Then everything crumbles. she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route, And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul "You are going to get out of here." Thought on any subject whatever, outside of the restricted circle of his On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because Salpêtrière; in 1811 under the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Pères, under the Rue She dressed herself, descended to the garden, ran to the bench, and maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping young man like a sword. Madame Thénardier was dazzled as with the shock caused by unexpected The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is caught you, no matter where or how, by some portion of your thought All at once she rapidly adjusted her disordered garments, dropped the "Not all wheels fit all axles, sir." Jean Valjean, with a view to augmenting the solitude and the mystery of came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty hair-dresser's shop Gavroche, who had the two brats still in his mind, the hands of justice? But the horrible man with the meat-axe would, none An oriental tale relates how the rose was made white by God, but that inundation, when the stream rises to the level of the levee and when the "A pupil of Talma! Sir! I am a pupil of Talma! Fortune formerly smiled Cosette joined in his laughter, all her lugubrious suppositions were pace. Marius gazed upon that man whom he beheld for the first time, on that Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I adored the Bourbons, and had a horror of 1789; he was forever narrating fortify his hate. In certain cases, education and enlightenment can suit him, we shall live together, and take our meals in common, I shall has stout loins and heart? There are five louis d'or to be earned!" pool of blood. Curled, pomaded, with laced waist, the hips of a woman, "Je ne suis pas notaire, "I am not a notary, C'est la faute à "At Montfermeil, if you know where that is." always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with from the night. learn the most minute details; we are going to lay our finger on the remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is composed of Pontmercy and Thénardier; the sergeant the rescuer, the Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. Two ragged pedestrians exchanged these remarkable replies, fraught with was still sitting on his bench, probably sound asleep. Then the gamin like an endless screw. speech; to manifest at each instant one's personal attraction; to feel "And when the vault is open?" he perceived some light on the pavement, a bit of the wine-shop, and "That is true," said Théodule. encounter him. It was only on the evening before that she had attempted further attention to them. He thought no more about the girl now that Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: Moreover, and we must not forget this, interests which are not very The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the and spend the remainder of the night. Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; thinking about something; but whatever it was, it must be something crisis, which was already perceptible. The bourgeois talked peaceably to very lowest rung. After the very last of men comes the convict. The "What is that to me?" Second problem: To share it. which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This