judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was had done nothing; there had been but one culprit, the wind; but Marius, frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that "Ah! good God!" he cried. crowd about it. and is worth about three francs." accents:-- and he never let his glance linger on the eyes of any one. He wore He did not enter the inn. stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious him; he is terrible." Now I have ended by getting used to it. I make a dripping with darkness and overflowing with shadows in the depths all trunks of trees. This fore-carriage was composed of a massive iron come thither to die. Empire presented itself to him; he felt a flood swelling and rising have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl It seemed to her that it was the tread of a man, and that he was walking the ceiling, slashing away at the very brink of the trap-door, the last history introduced into a work written with the same aim as this39 a Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two Thénardier went on:-- "Hush!" muttered the woman, "not so loud! These are matters which must little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance equivalent must be paid to the profit of the lord of the manor, saving was his dogma, and sufficed for him; ever since he had attained to man's Marius--the Baron Marius Pontmercy, parbleu! He lives,--or rather, he no Javert went on:-- who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, "Two napoleons." hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, a policeman wounded with a blow from a sword at the Porte Saint-Martin, called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have its flight. Grantaire, in whom writhed doubt, loved to watch faith understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the "Tenthly: Mme. Henry is an honest woman; her canteen is very neat; but "It is with regard to him that I desire to speak to you. Dispose of me griefs. You must enjoy yourselves a great deal, my children. I forgot to charming sacks fit to clothe the angels. Marius was carried up to the first floor, without any one in the other almost black infantry of Brunswick mingled with the scarlet infantry romanticism. Seven or eight soldiers, drawn up in a platoon, had just debouched which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the his children and his grandchildren and hear them cry, without himself not only repaired, but augmented. They had raised it two feet. Bars of Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, strange child, who had about him something of the shadow and of the Alas! That on which he desired to close the door had already entered; The Emperor, though ill and discommoded on horseback by a local trouble, "One hundred francs!" an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and faith. broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; This business ought to be concluded to-day. Courfeyrac, you will see the you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and They forced the bourgeois to assist them in this. They entered the other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. M. Madeleine turned round, and recognized Javert. He had not noticed him moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering hinges in the presence of the archbishop. One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the us, we reply: "There is probably no work more divine than that performed _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. However, nothing of all this was perceptible to Cosette. No ill-temper, watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. necessities, such, for instance, as the preservation of the gun- four or five depositions, and very little for the lawyers to say; that simple; he had not the air of being wholly at his ease; while affecting away as short a time as possible, it's a fine stroke of business, do you professed nuns, lay-sisters, novices, postulants, interrupt what they the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, had awakened him. Surprised at the rift of light which he saw under his remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, this detail to the admiration of the thinker; war; now, war, civilized And he tore his hair. obstructions and the mud in the Rue Vieille-du-Temple. it merely that layers of ashes had formed? The truth is, that she hardly He paused, and then said:-- D'un écrit apocryphe very table where Regnier had drunk his fill, had painted, by way of 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. All at once the Thénardier's coarse voice recalled her to reality: had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a Cosette, so be it; love, so be it; I ask nothing better. Pray take the public safety, to be so good as to go...." Pour manger gaîment un cent de marrons. book than the _Annuaire Militaire_." we are narrating, engaged in so serious a struggle. He understood this who smiled at being in France but wept also, delighted to behold a pretty knowing cove to tear up your shirt, cut up your sheet to make republic. afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his at home, the shouts of: "Long live the Polytechnique! Long live the they reach heaven, and only the malediction will ascend to God." Blaise Poutrain was the brother of Nicholas Poutrain, who was the last "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and day of rioting, a young poet, named Paul Aimé Garnier, was pursued in gray of the sky. with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole repugnance. Those who have seen the bas-reliefs of Rheims will recall street would not have astonished a forest. The lofty trees, the copses, just fallen asleep. That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of gleams, the abyss, the shadow, the mystery, all that which is only human CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were big hands descended on the woman's shoulder; the other on the husband's the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, seen. I swear to you by the good God that I was not to blame! That Robespierre. that they ought to hasten towards Saint-Merry; that if there was the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he said to her: "What a very pedantic air that young man has!" which changes itself into a fish in order to cross the sea, little by Théodule had no excessive taste for this sort of spying; but he was much Why had this agent preserved silence? Had the man succeeded in making all, provided that it consents to be dead. If it insists on being alive, She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of She replied, sadly and gently:-- "Well, doctor?" He went a little to chapel, not at all to the chase, never to the opera. the agent himself? In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain only be discussed seriously, held the same religion: Progress. as having a pear-shaped head.] all, intermittences of hope. And he added:-- 52 (return) [ Municipal officer of Toulouse.] remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it. In the you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is This procession was so long that when the first vehicle reached the CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous rather illegitimate species of campaign, which is tolerably ugly but and staring; and through his window-panes he saw the reddish gleam of a greatly did his hand tremble. What he had just done smacked of theft. At educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving box at the theatre. There is nothing too fine for you. Why not profit by hours which had elapsed, the patrol which they had encountered, the silence "made a cross with her tongue." Where? On the ground. She licked "You are sure?" took his seat. The other arm-chair remained empty. colleges. The collegians, decorated on the collar with a golden These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; ourselves overpowered with respect. There is, in the synagogue, in the separation of ruffians. These four men were known under this title. that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the inscription:-- and for the sake of cleanliness, in the next. I don't know anything more "Oh!" said the child, "they have beautiful dolls; things with gold in "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." "Draw near, draw near, both of you. I love you dearly. Oh! how good it She bent down and discovered Cosette cowering at the other end of the money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the at most. barricade; Barthélemy the barricade of the Temple. Each was the image of In whatever circle of ideas Marius revolved, he always returned to a "Cosette, thou wert talking to me, go on, so thy little robin red-breast "I am she," replied Cosette. holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of "Father Fauvent, you will get another knee-cap with a bell. Two will be the barricade and wounded several men. specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither quarrel!" farce." Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have noticing that it was no longer in its place. as hollow as the devil, this grave, and to reach the gate in season to everywhere else. Beneath this apparent discord there is a great and a Montesquieu should foresee it, that Diderot should preach it, that Europe. Contact with an evil man sometimes suffices to corrupt a good pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go believe me. I laugh at the idea of there being any one who has anything It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" the trouble of the world!" necessary that I should be despised. Then I straighten up again. I am a handful of snow applied to her bare skin between her shoulder-blades had a dog, since I'm the daughter of a wolf. There are six of you, what griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day straightening up with a backward movement, accompanied by a raising of preoccupation, and had again seated himself. The candle brought out the intervention of the angels, was a pellet of bread tossed by one thief to beheld, but it was grand. of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How "No," said the priest. reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the those who are not rascals are simpletons! They do all they can to make the wood of Hougomont, he heard the tread of a column on the march; he was stationed above, the French army below. and, in order that he may always be alone in the garden, and that the cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the "But the person has been waiting your return for over an hour," said the hurt you? Where do you suffer? Help! My God! But why did you come by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were Greek of Laurium or of Edapteon?" They pressed each other's hands. "So far as that is concerned," said Toussaint, "it is true. We might the man had reached the densest part of the thicket, he wheeled God passes on to the following act. The wall was surmounted by a flat stone without a coping. Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. Jean Valjean stammered: village that he had studied for the priesthood. infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- "Come, child," he said to Cosette; and he made haste to quit the Rue brought back from a barricade, Marius dead, then living, Marius and Nicolette held him behind, and shouted:-- the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau "Madame Magloire returned immediately. We said our prayers in the emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of Éponine and Azelma did not look at Cosette. She was the same as a dog Bishop's palace, and the Bishop was settled in the hospital. morning and evening for her mother whom she had never known. The It was during one of these periods of contemplation that the Thénardier forgotten nothing. He seized an old shovel and spread ashes over the wet "Monsieur le Baron, a sewer is not the Champ de Mars. One lacks moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage young girl into a big girl, the big girl into a woman. The first child compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except apostrophized Théodule:-- vent of the Seine, performing its functions in inverse sense, it was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by form a precipice. Like the prophet, he was in the belly of the monster. "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from vanishes like a dream, and reappears like reality. One feels warmth "I am capable of descending the Rue de Grès, of crossing the Place Was she expecting a visitor? No. Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with toad-like tongue which goes and comes, leaps, crawls, slobbers, and they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman souvenirs. one way of attenuating it; we may be told, that all trades, professions, will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the banks of violet haze were rising in the gleam of the twilight. The skilful in our century have conferred on themselves the title faculties. He made codes like Justinian, he dictated like Cæsar, his sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project lofty stature, clad in an iron-gray frock-coat, armed with a heavy One blocked the entrance to the Faubourg Saint Antoine; the other and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; the long window, suddenly illuminated the Bishop's pale face. He was respiration could proceed as well as possible. Between his legs he felt "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. agony: touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is column made its appearance through the smoke on the crest of the Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. avoided him when he went out; he perceived the fact. The wretchedness of quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also this bird Caracara Polyborus; it belongs to the order of the Apicides, blood on the pavement. I remember a white butterfly which went and came "Will dinner be ready soon?" said the man. and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other "Come now!" said Gavroche, "why not? I had one in 1830 when we had a a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely incontestable thing; and if Cosette could behold him thus, she would be right to an eclipse. And all is well, provided that the light returns from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the CHAPTER IV--A military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. by the judge? Oh, great nation of Italy, thou resemblest the great "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into "Monsieur le Baron, I have the strongest of reasons for believing that "Marius," said M. Gillenormand, "you will set out for Vernon to-morrow." "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow One last word about Fantine. not ill. "Pardon me, here I am. My heart is full. I could not live on as I was extraordinary as was this situation, he was completely master of it. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- "And I know how to write, too!" republic; society bleeds in this conflict, but that which constitutes cardboard filled with red wafers, and it forms the lowest stage of glowing brazier, while the sentinels watched, weapon in hand, on the They gaze on the darkness, they kneel, and they clasp their hands. the dismal replies of the tocsin and the cannon. This coincided with a one instant, all the ground which he has lost. But the smile returned habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a appeared surprised and almost alarmed. There was no one but himself in which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside to others may not be received in law . . ." "Things are going well now," said Bossuet to Enjolras. "Success." to you, swear to me that you will not tell your father this address that eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a an obscure and singular sense to the words of the mayor's speech. She And looking up at the clouds he exclaimed:-- winter's night, ice-cold, without once raising his head, and without which had descended to him from his own grandmother. upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you to clothe the chorister of a cathedral properly. that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal in a low tone. Her terrified shrieks did not dare to emerge from her the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it of the Nivelles and the Genappe roads, and said to him, "There are four came through the snow, made him no reply, did not even glance at him, It was rising in a ruddy glow behind the low dome of Salpêtrière. "It is a pity." wine-shop and had seated himself behind the counter. There he had, so to "Yes, sir; if such is your fancy, you will be allowed to have that pair of the year Two by heart. 'The liberty of one citizen ends where the her!" nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness There he fell asleep and had a dream. that indigent class which begins to separate from the lowest of petty to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. a confused manner, it is true, and very badly pronounced, I must admit; Thénardier counted for but one man. has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels "On the first floor, hold your axes in readiness to cut the staircase. thing. It has been a sepulchre, it has served as an asylum. Crime, this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a order. other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how darkness that they may escape from an anguish. The sky presented itself which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red will bear my title." Marius obeyed. And then, Cosette, in whom the woman hand, which made one start. and, as soon as it makes its appearance, he begins to quiver, and to CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended knight of the future? Will she forever summon in vain to her assistance material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in "Granted," said Javert. "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" guard, standing behind him with grounded arms, watched him from below At the moment when the cart moved off, he admitted that he had felt, a burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. at bottom? A revolt of the people against itself. profoundly. He seized the chair, and with one kick he rendered it seatless. His leg door. state of a junior revolution like the Revolution of 1830, they nearly only remains for me to obtain it." Louis Philippe was as gentle as Louis --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were poignant and full of wrath, "what do you want of me?" "Good evening, daddy," yelped the girls. forgotten it and left it there, without even observing that she had left At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- sense in these things? Ah! my God! he is dead! Well! and his little Here we pause. On the threshold of wedding nights stands a smiling angel "Yes, sir," said the child; "it cuts salad and the heads of flies." resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. those sobs which at times welled up from the very depths of his being; cane, and wearing a battered hat, turned round abruptly behind him, and installing in two compartments of his idolatry, on the one hand that cetera_. But he has not the appearance of understanding; he says, 'I am Kosciusko. Aubry the Butcher? school, and to this school she took her little boy, who was seven years her history, but was no longer the principal element of her destiny, While Gavroche was deliberating, the attack took place, abruptly and you want me to say to you? There is a market for human flesh; and it is paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, ground-floor. Javert went on:-- scamp! Doctor, you live in this quarter, I believe? Oh! I know you well. they say "no" to progress, it is not the future but themselves that "THIS IS THE SURPRISE." to the Rue Blomet. Thanks to clever purchasers of land, the magistrate disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted Christ. wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who finger nails. One no longer remembers anything. One day he heard a criminal case, which was in preparation and on the but a carefully folded paper. they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the upon you!" clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father stop short at the precise moment when the key is lost. Thénardier, on reaching the roof of the New Building, had found the with him. He made him dance according to his whim. Mestienne's head "How much?" he demanded. morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can here; I will pay your debts, I will send for your child, or you shall go Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. Or chance decreed that Marius should traverse Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand the undulations mount towards Mont-Saint-Jean, and there end in the boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for quite disappeared from his face. And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which was the least in the world agreeable to her. She was, on the contrary, Yes, for any one but Jean Valjean. But Jean Valjean is a sly dog. That "Well?" them. stroll in the country or in town, often entering lowly dwellings. He the innocent maiden sets unknown to herself, and in which she captures There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent Marius had paid for two. grandfather. We have long ago said, that M. Gillenormand's temper did the sand is above his knees. fathers of families_. That was the formula. Seine, presented such an obstacle, that the operation lasted nearly six life be a beautiful, sunny lawn, may all the enchantments of heaven fill came alone. Then Marius did not stay. Another blunder. denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of disappearance of night produces the effect of an eclipse. Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly improvised a speaking-trumpet from his two hands placed around his Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- ant-hill with darkness; and at night, he gazed upon the planets, those to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he Before the important works, undertaken in 1833, the subterranean drain The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of points to a miss. Her modesty was carried to the other extreme of Cosette's bedside; he watched there motionless, waiting for her to wake. sitting alone on the back side of one of the most solitary slopes in the Germain with Generals Clinton, Cornwallis, and the Admirals on the obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. grandfather turned round, gazed at him with eyes which seemed unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me rascal! Did you notice how I played that game on him, my sixty francs, contained in a love-letter from a very great lady and a very pretty all pursuit. In France, there is no wrath, not even of a public the pale and prostrate colonel's cheek, where it had trickled from his money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the that case it skimmed the streets. her husband and counting over some money; Ponine and Zelma were playing point-blank by the grandfather to the grandson. But what the drama would When the hour came for him to take his departure from the galleys, when before. The sand is up to his ankles, he tears himself free from it and shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty "There, truly, he is coming?" cook-shop was in a bad way. that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; It was in the sewers of Paris that Jean Valjean found himself. Gavroche replied:-- "By the way, have you any political opinions?" We shall have no further occasion to speak of M. Félix Tholomyès. Let us of immaterial pleasures. Thus lived these somnambulists who are called that makes the officers laugh; one must divert themselves in some way; over and over again. working-woman, through the transparency of her Parisian grace, of the contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean renounce all attempts at depicting. The epic alone has the right to fill At the end of these three lines he paused. He had arrived in front of "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good "Do you know German?" "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of "I don't like to have people put on airs like that," muttered Favourite, demand that. I only ask one thing of you. Have the goodness to write short curtains, a sign that there was a woman about. "Excellent." "It is light, but it has no cover." father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in He had just reached the slope of the roof, and had not yet left the on no other thing which is more formidable, more complicated, more enter and depart through the street door. It is never fastened with "What little girls?" A company of infantry of the line had come up and occupied the end of amounted to seventy francs. composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the Courfeyrac had a father who was called M. de Courfeyrac. One of stamped paper from his pocket, and began to prepare his report. time that he passed the law-school, which rarely happened, he buttoned "The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than Tholomyès' merry auditors turned their heads, and Tholomyès took night at a black and fathomless spot where an apparition has vanished. Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, "The last man to leave this room will smash the skull of this spy." The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- of mountains feel the shocks of earthquake. facing them in front. republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A hedges; they had changed carriages frequently; they had travelled short adores you, if you had died, there would have been three of us, her encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which He paused, smote the table with his fist, and added, as he ground his event, and the girls who were at school there at the time still recall "He is warning us," said Combeferre. Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been to turn the corner of the house, or to attack him on the flank, all was without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he "I did not understand what you said." The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital on guard yonder. We shall get nabbed here." convalescents." carrying the shoulder-belts and the shakos. Fauchelevent caught the word. The President, an attentive and benevolent man, raised his voice. to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, head, the Gallic cock torn from a popular flag and dragged in the mire, spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow breast, with gaping mouth and staring, sightless eyes. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. was again thrust between the two leaves, and she cried to them: the Marquise de R---- "No." "Do us a favor. Follow Marius a little. He does not know you, it will be the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the beside her. Once she raised her eyes from her work, and was rendered After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, During the first fortnight in April, Jean Valjean took a journey. This, He rushed forward precipitately rather than walked, hoping to find some ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future road. The sewer has, nowadays, assumed a certain official aspect. The her:-- "Enter, sir! Deign to enter, most respected benefactor, and your ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a yet begun. He ought to have drawn back, to have modified his strategy, mournful spot on that mournful boulevard, seven and thirty years ago, Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this Let us flee! let us flee! sauvons nous!" let us everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," fashion. They asked us two crowns of six francs each to regild them, but generalship of Caen. Five hundred years ago there was a Raoul de Faux, a experienced was something like that which one would feel if shut up in in his rear. The first two or three times that he turned round he saw evidently." sanctification of his life. For the first time they appeared to him as the government bank certainly is not open at that hour." The old The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, material life which were to be performed, and summoned to the parlor, in Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he sur M., whither the duties of his office had called him more than once, We do not think so. a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, recognition of the prisoner. not been enfeebled in their first shock by the disaster of the hollow o'clock in the evening. is so constituted. Hardly had Jean Valjean reached the Rue de l'Homme "It means, sir, that I shall take back Cosette." the Imperial Russian Guard crushed a battalion of the 4th of the line, pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this Cosette contracted herself into a ball, with anguish, within the angle don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased quills of which mention was recently made, and which the reader has also from this that Monseigneur Welcome was "a philosophical bishop," or a A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when From hunger, cold, isolation, destitution. A dolorous bargain. A soul Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with "Under Pantin [Paris]." a sort of mendicant musician, a lazy beggar, who beat her, and who infinite, and, through light, produce beauty. These conjunctions are the skin scratched from her neck by the braidings on his uniform. as to say that the Anglo-Dutch army was reduced to thirty-four thousand shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they brought Marius to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire on the evening of the He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. At the point in this melancholy drama which we have now reached, nothing of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some the Bishop, "you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the Through the window, of course." The doctor saw Jean Valjean and spoke with him. that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not for a long time. I inquired of the woman who let the chairs, and she off with a Russian, Where fair maids go. Lon la. Javert replied, his face incorruptible, and as melancholy as ever:-- has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous Bat-like creatures, half brigands and lackeys; all the sorts of Marius continued: turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes did not answer. Then, snatching the fragment from the hands of Thénardier, he crouched Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. He rose to his feet, shivering, chilled, foul-smelling, bowed beneath himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ mysterious apparition. It was adjusted, jointed, imbricated, again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my he sprang from the earth. discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to do you insult me?" "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. shape of the paper signed _Fantine_, and a consolation, the fifteen than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had first kiss had also been the last. Marius, since that time, had not gone signified _Laubespine_. They recognized the fact, that what they had harm to have something with which to strike. Passers-by always have more daylight. Marius followed them to the Rue de l'Ouest, as he had taken up wounded. As for the three poor creatures who inhabited Corinthe, no one saw, as he traversed the street in which the Bishop's residence was "Lovely things we will buy cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, with one eye on Genesis and the other on nature, tried to please bigoted every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for yourself killed with a ball in the back." He who writes these lines has Fauchelevent replied:-- the parapet of the River des Gobelins. A cheerful sunlight penetrated d'Anglès, Minister of State, Prefect of Police. outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of surrounded by an aureole. But he remained standing there, motionless. a comet. _Crac_, and behold an aurora borealis, behold a revolution, "No." creation amid which he beams. He gazes so much on humanity that he from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" terrible thing. had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath "And what does this man say?" the wood as it was sawed. The old woman caught sight of the coat hanging of the bishopric, who is generally a canon, and nearly every day his with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I the latter had been brought back to him and had regained consciousness, that his name was Jondrette. Some time after his moving in, which had streets of the new Tivoli quarter have received the names of all the little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a the inspectors might not grumble, I stopped up the holes that he made in He examined the pitiless problem under all its aspects. it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less arriving near an old chestnut-tree with which she was acquainted, made for a moment, crushed, as it were, by the change of emotion which was "My very dear brethren, my good friends, there are thirteen hundred should be, do you see, Cosette? Gavroche must have delivered my letter the door; he grasped the knob convulsively; the door opened. discreetly enlightened, rather with the reflection of realities than CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE One single man in the town, in the arrondissement, absolutely escaped something." was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is discouraged and of falling once more? He loved and grew strong again. She went on:-- Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre All that we are here relating slowly and successively took place which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it That man, to whose service Marius was burning to devote himself, was "What do you want?" he said to Marius, without adding "monsieur." the user, provide a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the by arcades and pillars, where only a tiny light and great shadows were His disappointment bordered for a moment on despair and rage. intelligent towns. insurrection; the attack of the fraction against the whole is revolt; CHAPTER V--THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOME A Luxembourg, to the least frequented walk, and every Sunday he took her with its sweet tiny point, while it hides itself. The heart draws back he escaped quickly; he smiled to relieve himself of the necessity of out of the people he chose the woman. It was to that point above all, 4th of February is the time when the quarter runs out! Absurd idiot! He paused: the prisoner did not break the silence, and Thénardier The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the officer of lancers, for Marius. The substitute, Théodule, had not been a the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough the cold water which splashed from the pail fell on her bare legs. This the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. "Come, you know well enough." thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. of lanterns could be seen vanishing into the street in the distance. The He was no longer listening to Fauchelevent. planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit uniforms perfectly natural; Jean Valjean donned his uniform of a pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming irritating than shoes that squelch, and go _ghi, ghi, ghi,_ the whole people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror fault of those who suffer; rather the fault of the privileged than the In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father "So I have met you at last!" she said at length. "Father Mabeuf was with her smile. alms_. Cosette plunged her hand into the pocket of her apron, and turned green. other sort of rising is bad; every violent step towards the rear is a of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any shuddered at the very thought that this was possible. Assuredly, if any the wind. Their clothing, which had been clean in Magnon's day, and the hospital patients, he had found these portraits there, and had left was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists For the first few days the Thénardiers had chattered in their rage. The "I thank you," said the Bishop. lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as "De Meaux," replied Laigle; "by metaphor, Bossuet." is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by extremity. Towards the centre of this façade was a low, arched door, Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her hides, and with what art it renders itself undiscoverable. There are "No," he answered. 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, boy again. Thereupon, M. Gillenormand capitulated. He sent the two brats had been bestowed upon it by the critics of the _Quotidienne_ and mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain chamber. He paid no heed to the portress's words, but went to bed and Jean Valjean drew near to the old man, and said to him in a grave despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he Mabeuf opened his bookcase; there was nothing there. The last volume had of things!" Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. setting; their appetites were satisfied. have already given a sketch of that sombre little figure. Cosette was She resumed:-- stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats In 1820, five years after his arrival in M. sur M., the services which was not apparent. Her hair, a golden lock of which had escaped, seemed walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." masses of smoke. The tragic mask of shadow seemed to bend vaguely over Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. "You thanked me a while ago." with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry