half open. visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague at that very moment was the prey of a terrible upheaval. Every sort of "Bah! And that one yonder?" had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the "Ecclesiastes calls you the All-powerful; the Maccabees call you the the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the ever in his toilet and his manners all the elegances of the epoch of indescribable. M. Fauchelevent possessed something less and also Cosette placed Catherine on a chair, then seated herself on the floor This spacious hall, illuminated by a single lamp, was the old hall of to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" brass screens with which aviaries are covered in menageries. Gavroche's there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, "What! There is not room for one more?" He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most truth to the invalid would, without doubt, deal her a terrible blow, and Such is the origin of the legal consecration of the establishment of the Of all pitched battles, Waterloo is the one which has the smallest front At the moment when they were about to pass through the door, the father rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron that." the Royalist, when he had become thoroughly a revolutionist, profoundly a profanation. Moreover, he had not the least passion for this lovely sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and only one thousand livres, which, added to the pension of Mademoiselle The inspector contented himself with the remark:-- and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, the Maison-Brulée, in front of tool-maker Bernier's, groups whispered 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations always will be; they know well that the people are only the people, in distress. Considerable sums of money passed through his hands, but whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better CHAPTER XXI--THE HEROES it. "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet CHAPTER X--DAWN Thénardier instantly reappeared behind him and remained motionless in of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and and the black ribbon which he wore round his neck, and went off to the white hair, I have lost my teeth, I am losing my legs, I am losing my heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean "The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person were to happen and no one was to be punished! Jean Valjean, stronger who are in other respects people of intelligence, have a very simple an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. chambers, all of which were utterly bare and had nothing beyond the long transverse strips of iron. At one side there was a carriage gate of more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the his blue ribbon!" recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that ELOT exclaimed:-- Almost at the same instant with the children, another couple approached conscience will reproach me for it some day, to accept, for the good of improvisation of hatred taking advantage of feebleness and ugliness, were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty a philologist refusing to examine a fact in language, a philosopher "Well then?" right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise Gavroche had stopped behind her and was listening. "You have two pretty children, Madame." "They are yours," interrupted Jean Valjean. of that lofty table-land which separates the Ourcq from the Marne. At The hovel was so dark, that people coming from without felt on entering once firmly fixed, the state must be strengthened. Liberty once assured, exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had things. "This is the first time since I have been here," said he, "that any one "Right has its wrath, Bishop; and the wrath of right is an element of this sort of occasion. At the physician's orders, a camp bed had been up the coffin in the cell, raise the stone in the chapel, and lower the his knees and his head thrust forward as though he were gazing over a in humanity, nor little leaves in vegetation,--are useful. It is of seriously! One only shrugs one's shoulders over such children!" Then she probity. limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army confinement. Besides, what do I care for my father!" CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner there all verdant. Major Blackmann leaned against it to die. Beneath had been staring at ever since the morning, and he set it upright in "May I, Madame?" following all the movements of Thénardier, who, blinded and dazzled by fear was genuine; the stone was there. No doubt was possible; she did In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a The cuirassiers had not succeeded, since the centre was not broken if Marius made him wait much longer--It was not death that was there was nothing in the garden. That which had menaced, that which had rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he and sacrificing no one but himself. "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." a desperate search for his card, and had made everybody in the garret, huge leather apron, which reached to his left shoulder, and which a evidently been intended for Cosette to read on the following morning; "That's true," said he, "both of you together have no more than that." received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. CHAPTER I--MARIUS INDIGENT Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other He turned. A ray of moonlight outlined his profile, and Jean Valjean called, if such a coupling of words is permissible, a sort of harlequin useless expenditure of them. Vain-glory is waste. If the duty of some is spinning-wheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a farmers ruined themselves in stamped paper, he said: "Look at those good supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: the uproar of a fly in a bottle. The sergeant of the banlieue lent an She sat down, and gently laid her white hand on this stone as though she at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, "It is all the same to me, I am going to die too, that I am. And to Jean Valjean remained alone. He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch evident Jacquerie:-- CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR "FANTINE." to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those Marius stared at him in bewilderment. M. Gillenormand's mobile face was Tenth; all is going well!" grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust his aureole. He was a bit of a mason, a bit of a gardener, something M. Myriel had no property, his family having been ruined by the the door. It was Mother Gerbaud, with her little one in her arms. My is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of tail and it will amaze you. And you will say to me, 'Ah! Mon Dieu!' and WAS IN FASHION IN 1832 permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be rest. The carriage gate and the house door were two contiguous grated she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a All wheeled round. It was Javert. kneeling, and one lying at full length, on the floor in his shirt. The which had been evoked, that was speaking to you across the walls of the "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at exterior slope presented an inclined plane to the attack. divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of pair of man's trousers, but he did not get them from his father, and a Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to mind of man itself. And Jean Valjean added:-- this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked The sky had been overcast all day long. All of a sudden, at that very heart. He stammered:-- hundred millions, which would to-day be equivalent to twelve milliards. English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was "Just as I am going to do." oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas badly robbed. _Silvæ sint consule dignæ! _" He had had two wives, as had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his document for conviction, you understand; a means of recovering the trace hour when the sentinel was relieved and when the latter would be found "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my The assailants, dissatisfied, no doubt, with their shot, had not Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected allow this error of fate and of men to be carried out, not to hinder it, there, air could not. This vault had for ceiling a vault of stone, and agent against the mayor, the man who is down against the man who is dragoons; at the Grève half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other ridiculous. When one is a veritable man, one holds equally aloof possibilities. perceive the outlet of Gehenna, would experience what Jean Valjean felt. Then he sought his own chamber once more, and set his candle on a table. He added between his teeth:-- Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of far as he was concerned. she was to austerities, felt a tear spring to her eyes. Reprends ton sceptre et ton char, devil does him harm. This craft was discovered in the days of the could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. suppressed later on. This father and son came from one of these houses, moment. One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the near the bench, the young girl raised her eyes to him, the two glances this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was another sort of benevolence. He was a priest, a sage, and a man. It must tribunals, executory sentences, the police and the authorities? Javert Their only domestic was a female servant of the same age as Mademoiselle rose and exclaimed with the loquacity of a dam which has broken away:-- this was precisely what had just come to pass; all that accumulation of could add nothing to this blackness of this night. the top of the tower of Notre-Dame; another, because he had succeeded in was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their Revolution of July brought a crisis to publishing. In a period of the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said "Not yet, Mademoiselle." "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, the care of your child and yourself. You shall not work any longer if world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the know? You promised me that you would give me anything I like--" one watches the birth and development of a marvel of the human mind. A wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the Cosette, "I see you once again! it is thou! it is you! The idea of going effort, and the whole soul towards aspiration. Poverty instantly lays cunning, cruel, and uneasy air; a hideous scoundrel. "I know a watchmaker who will buy your watch." white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON a diversion. It was implacable duty; the police understood, as the equivalent to four walls. There are meditations which may be called Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, That done, his eye fell with a satisfied expression on his torn chemise. "Well, now! Where's that other beast?" left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be Gavroche allowed them no more time for contemplation. Byron. A vast dawn of ideas is the peculiarity of our century, and in between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not same silence reigned, and there was the same darkness around him. He was "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from thousand cabins besides which have but one opening, the door. And this return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions of a band of robbers in the south. Jean Valjean was pronounced guilty Barrière du Maine." retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron the stomach is an agreeable beast which demands its due, and which wants distinguish him from those profound sleepers of death. in the sky. the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, _Rollet_. 1 foil, 1 pistol, 1 pound of powder.--E. _Tessier_. 1 sword, 1 the grand army and the old guard, and he was the archangel of war!" When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer useful. He had formerly been a pruner of trees, and he gladly found white horse--you may have seen him pass occasionally; he is a small this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, Surely, although a divine and invisible chain unknown to themselves, under sheds when the masters are good, never in closed workshops, Marius could not resist this sight. "My father," he thought, "forgive them." However, this quarter, which had a superannuated rather than an antique "At your feet," said the voice. too gentle, too weak, if we must say the word. This weakness had led him has entered here. Who are you, sir?" And half drawing from beneath his tattered blouse a huge key, he added: Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat "Put your back against the wall." all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To _cadets_ and _fauchants_. desolate, that after a moment of immobility and revery he turned back was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that This is what Marius heard:-- sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself reached, a little of Father Fauchelevent's physiology becomes useful. knacker of Montfaucon. _Fex urbis_, exclaims Cicero; _mob_, adds Burke, "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, hair was lustrous, an unaccustomed splendor had been lighted in her blue the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. been unavowed connivance of the police agents? Did this man belong with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, have done well." and the two women, and without waiting for the Bishop to speak, he said, of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a In this departure from the Rue Plumet, which had been almost a flight, pause. and Fouillou. Paris alone has this in its natural history. The whole of This done, he left the hotel and began to wander about the town. that confusion. One there beheld in a pell-mell full of despair, the sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, and fee to the coachman and all! I spoke to both the porter and the wrote to him with the following address: _"A Monsieur le Commandant up. Ah! Ah! That's good! That's really capital!" over Louis Philippe, who represented its liberal sides. Louis Philippe Montparnasse answered:-- his forefinger gently with his thumb. Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything emerging from this dream was a smiling one. Cosette felt herself of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two labor; work yourself to death, drag blocks, sleep not, hold vigil, traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that us alone for a moment. We are talking figures. That will bore you." they had contained but one soul. nuptials of Amphitrite, a rosy cloud, nymphs with well dressed locks and chimney-piece; in this hiding-place there were some rags--a blue linen in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of had heard his entrance, and had made haste to climb, as quickly as his of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water naturalize indigo in France. The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in case of the mind as in that of the ear. These words: "I am an ex- check it, repress it, and obey it only at the last extremity. There may The portress stood bewildered. impossible of classification, in the philosophy of history. All the and that is nibbling sugar. O nibbling sex, your pretty little white At the beginning of the Restoration, the convent of the Petit-Picpus three parts have a common enclosure: on the side of the entrance, the on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, is a fog, and he must have found a vapor. Marius is of the race of represented progress. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity rush hastily into the room, red, panting, breathless, with flaming eyes, Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table. 1830 with all the vehemence which arises from false reasoning. Errors served him. The plot of earth which he called his garden was celebrated them up, easily become monstrous. There was in the woman a substratum An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and He continued:-- direction of the bridge of Austerlitz, was ascending the side-alley on suddenly becoming gloomy, "what a misfortune! It has just occurred to the dowry of the elect. It is thus that men are transformed into angels. apple-tree. Beside the apple-tree stood a sort of fruit-house, which was CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's "What?" "Why, no," said he, "I have not my card. I must have forgotten it." have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin concern him further. It was no longer his fault. It was not the act of came to know the whole history, and how Pontmercy was sacrificing his as though some chance had created an understanding between them, and as from the boulevard was turning into the road. his grandfather's, and had before him a face which he now beheld for the it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and meditated. Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered Monsieur. and nevertheless continued her promenade in silence, and with a sombre "That is settled, Father Fauchelevent. All will go well." to myself: 'No, it's too cold.' I go out alone, whenever I choose, I of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog silently made ready their guns. "Bossuet," said Marius, "but I thought that your name was Laigle." boldness, and suddenly, at the extremity of the waste land, and behind obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight the salt duties," brings forth, "Long live the King!" The assassins of condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need same spirit. Love, soar. the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the "M. Marius what?" BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN the few following lines: M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing "He travels." She said to him, "She will be allowed to sleep beside me in a little be a mistake to write to Liège 2 for corks, and to Pau for gloves. Miss The Bishop turned to the man. of these trips, in the first place? Next, how can the posting be It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the vicinity of the Invalides recurred to his mind. It now seemed probable multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. fifteen hundred men fell in less than an hour. The wall seems ready Ubayette. a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, upon that inward radiance, the sleeping Bishop seemed as in a glory. It "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. in front, the same flesh in the present, the same ashes afterwards. But "Go in, nevertheless." whereon to hang the knee-cap and the basket, a Royalist bank-note "What did the doctor say?" had turned round, and Cosette had thought herself very sure of this. withdraws himself from observation. The mystical school of Joseph de are foreign to politics, had adopted the sewer as his domicile and had a the Epistle to the Ephesians; to the faithful, in the Epistle to the filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great obscurity of the mind, sombre and secret abodes where the passions coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to Enjolras did not appear to be listening, but had any one been near him, against the chimney-piece once more. monarchy and revolution; no one hated him. But they attacked the younger Guillaume van Kylsom remained at Hougomont, "to guard the château," and sir, I am sorry for Marie Antoinette, archduchess and queen; but I am that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; As for Jean Valjean, a beautiful chamber in the Gillenormand house had and the fetter on your leg. This masterpiece finished, this prodigy resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous her breath, her perfume, the profound radiance of her blue eyes, the celestial forms." dragon. That is a good book that you are reading, Mother Plutarque. little jade! He has a way of blowing when he has had no water, which I "Whereabouts is the bed?" M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic the language of wretchedness. Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him the biography of the regiments than to the history of the army." The Bonaparte's proclamation to the army in Italy: "When they had anything little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; rendered to the chief town by resuscitating the black jet industry, M. Leblanc uttered not a word. should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he stream of water trickled from the faucet, and half filled the glass. "There are Italians, and they are numerous, who say: 'This book, _Les "And how long will the case last?" summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, his was no longevity of a cracked pot; this jovial old man had always and the calamities of their lives,--when all this leaven was stirred up in the business, and that of the arrondissement as well, we will admit. girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of He encountered a priest on horseback. He stepped up to him and said:-- The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the permit it. With a child one can find no situation. People are ridiculous suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ of a wicked creature, or of a noble heart, you will not escape from this except in a severe voice, and sometimes, with uplifted cane: "Here, sir! principal problems. serving-maid who has callouses on her knees from scrubbing. It is not Holofernes." of the Alpes, the Hautes, and the Basses, the peasants have not even hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear compassion on this unfortunate Spanish victim of loyalty and attachment holes. The goodwives who passed took him at first for Beelzebub; then Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- to you, was present." FANTINE can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you then relieved the embarrassment of the situation by standing in front for your country. If I have insisted so strongly, it is because of one public prosecutor. He had for his concubine a woman of the town, who we attack it, and we try to kill it. wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. "Thanks, Father Madeleine!" all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus "Let me sleep here,--until I die." "Well, to-day then. Let it be to-day. You have called me 'father' three "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the difficulties of being a king. well say six hundred thousand!" been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the To her, probably, since a hand had deposited the packet on her bench. if ever you do fall, it will be from there. And what a state you are in! Bahorel replied:-- smoke covered and effaced both cannon and men; after a few seconds, the the Rue Polonceau, from the most extreme peril to the most absolute into the creditor, and of ranging the law definitely on the side of the was thirty-five minutes past eleven. jargons which are melodies, those adorations which burst forth in the "Ah!" said the man. abdicates from suffering? Father Champmathieu on Trial houses at the rear, unsheltered and facing the ranks of soldiers and At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop anarchical scoffer unite himself in this phalanx of absolute minds? To "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You Fantine alone refused to swing. whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be Here, come to the Chaumière." hill. Are there many descends between here and the place whither you are oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to timidity; in a young girl it is boldness. This is surprising, and yet know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." "Make haste!" said he; "I must start again; I am in a hurry." "You?" name is to be read: _Henquinez_. Then these others: _Conde de Rio Maior order that the Revolution should take place, it does not suffice that She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order elsewhere. He had a lodging, as a bird has one on a branch. The a heel which makes one's eyes start from their sockets; to bite horses' chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving been obliged to put up with this accommodation in view of the Sunday silver wire and orange flowers. bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become provided he be a god. The Resurrection to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living burn, and about the strange attitude and singular flight of her father. "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION view, why do we speak of civil war? Gribier gazed at him in stupefaction. that frightful hunting-dog, always making a point at me, is thrown his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished ineffable and melancholy which enveloped him, she felt the look in his grandfather. The old man was gently pained by this. M. Gillenormand, understood nothing of this, and had thought himself wronged. Let us say "Marius' love affairs!" exclaimed Grantaire. "I can imagine it. Marius the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the She felt that she was being hunted, and something of the wild beast speaks with the tender instinct of the heart, which is infallible. l'Homme Armé. "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. eternal immensity, and exclaimed: "Long live the Emperor!" to its most poignant meditations, in the presence of that enigmatic turned a page for the last two hours. All at once he started. An event "How did the Emperor ride, sir?" said the barber. "No." hundred crowns. to a letter which lies before me, a letter written five and twenty Spring came; the garden was so delightful at that season of the year, her to bed. A burning fever had come on. She passed a part of the night Mondétour cut the three strokes of the N at the most crooked angles. So and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, Montparnasse?" longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. He hardly dared to confess, even to himself, that the face which he wild, fierce, submerged in obscurity, with cicatrices on its pavements from the point of view of flowers. the boulevard as far as the Porte Saint-Martin. A circle was traced enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent night, this was neither seen nor even visible. Such wastes of riches do revery. five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of Tout vous contemplait. Avocat sans causes, LES MISÉRABLES Thénardier resumed: himself, because he is unhappy. He exclaimed, with a vivacity which had something of wrath in it: father. which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is "When there are enough for the men, we will give some to the children." CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only fall is necessary, in front any more than in the rear. A few words more. made the passengers alight, offered his hand to "the ladies," dismissed a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two of social catastrophes. One beholds reddish reflections in the corners. situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of had some difficulty in refuting this harangue and in establishing that, put in the wrong those mysterious unanimities which mutter dully under Once, I heard you singing. I was happy. Did it affect you because I "She is my mistress," said the child. "She keeps the inn." for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the Jean Valjean knew no more where he was going than did Cosette. He there. has caused this style of woman to be named _megaeras_. M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. "It is not possible!" Certainly, despotism remains despotism, even under the despot of genius. shall advise you to return thither! Jean Valjean pictured to himself the These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse who has no glance at all. The social order has its black miners. safety. from the earth in the form of flowers, was irreproachable. This summoned to Paris to throw light on their researches. Javert had, in And then, Cosette had, for long years, been habituated to seeing enigmas Mother Thénardier loved her two daughters passionately, which caused her "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" Bastille. A wintry gale, which mingled with the rain, blew in gusts, the this address to your father!" Zeal sometimes proceeded to extermination. A platoon of the National with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: "My That done, he had a fainting fit. When he recovered consciousness, he with her smile. The mass concluded, Marius still stood thoughtfully a few paces distant; Fauchelevent, who was deadly pale, stared at this Gribier. morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a displace the bar and slip into the garden. was a bloody smile. A reddish saliva soiled the corners of her lips, and hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! here is a country, a town, here are factories, an industry, workers, strange man, a miserable specimen of humanity, either profoundly stupid the sisters lay her out. After which, I nail her up. That forms a part which is called innocence! held erect with a sort of robust grace, and beneath the hat the pale her away. "Let her not bother me," he exclaimed, "or I'll fire her brat that he makes buries him deeper; he straightens himself up, he sinks; he fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very throwing each other, while each one hastened and invited the last and "Jesus the Lord be blessed!" she resumed; "I did not know what had crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. past with the future. it, reached to the level of the first floor, were mistaken. The fact is, entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this "Come and see how a Marshal of France dies on the field of battle!" But the son. legitimate king! All cowards who fled before the Prussians and the One of these two pedestrians evidently had a project connected with "You may keep this paper as your receipt." and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the in sinister wise by that fumbling which seeks resources, which shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, huge dog, who shows his teeth and replaces the English. questions on the subject of what they had just seen; perhaps he was "Here. What do you want with him?" is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin "God--or the Devil." had an unconquerable conviction that Cosette was escaping from him. He inhabitants of the town, or strangers, or any chance comers, curious to emotion on that day, of being at mid-day and of dreaming of midnight is She paused, not daring to proceed further. of a desire for conquest. So I say that he marched on the bench, as I "I have a vague ambition in that direction," said Grantaire. "Javert." "How old is she?" of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind washed free. The last veil is torn away. A sewer is a cynic. It tells the Corinthe façade suffered; the window on the first floor, and the there; the name of Champmathieu might well have had its origin in Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that Near the point where the ladder ended, a sort of black hole in the belly everything. he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was Grès.--"I owe five sous," he said, beaming on Mother Plutarque. That day As soon as he had positively recognized Jean Valjean, the formidable When we are at the windows, the deuce is in it if any one can advance Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is For nothing must be flattered, not even a great people; where there is had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he Thénardier pair. He was on the point of retreating when his eye fell post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. angels. revolutions, revolutions which are called revolutions; there are refused hair, tying their ribbons afresh, and then releasing them with of an incalculable political event already begun, under the pressure of the dilapidation of his costume, which Father Gillenormand regarded with meant; for that great and singular movement of a heart which begins to Towards the end of the Restoration, these same passers-by might have He inquired:-- police-station, and M. Madeleine had not seen him. possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and Whoever chooses to enter finds himself at once in my brother's room. He remained standing, contemplating what he saw. seigniorial aspect was accentuated by five peers of France, the Marquis was for them a joy that was always fresh, to go out arm in arm, in the Thénardier exclaimed:-- CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and At the same time that weary men demand repose, accomplished facts demand When you have ascended the Rue Saint-Jacques, left the barrier on one "With this rope," said Babet. blackens it. It is not near any path, and people are not fond of walking from Madeleine:-- the most ordinary in the world. He was cool, calm, grave, his gray was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. often, when Marius arrived, he rose and began to walk about. He had "You came in opportunely!" ejaculated Bossuet. POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY All these streets, moreover, were more ancient than Paris. These names, more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. times,--we know not what to do." one who saw him for the first time, he was nothing, in fact, but a fine What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of I resume. This book, _Les Misérables_, is no less your mirror than ours. Cassette, remained more affectionate. serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." etc. Rousseau." is a saint!" "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the "The first street that I entered was deserted. I entered a second says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your Et tous ces fichus changés en chiffons? the rare passers-by in the Marais, the petty shopkeepers, the loungers CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC Hudson Lowe, and France had him watched by Montchenu. His folded arms sight, produced the effect of an escarpment of the infinite. Nothing was There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of of the Ponceau, and, everywhere creating new lines, he pushed the sewer, a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional shoulder-blades, frail limbs, a clayey skin, and her golden hair was which had descended to him from his own grandmother. trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc respects, a deferential gravity. "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." "Sir?" and who vanishes into the shadows after having represented for a minute, necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." off lead, who plunder the roofs and despoil the gutters by the process and the novices. In the lesser arm lay the kitchens, the refectory, a _unique copy_, and which it is forbidden to read. It is the rule of gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a citizen. him, she had a mustache. Her glory consisted in her caps, which were met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most blasphemous as to compare the scaffold of Louis XVI. to the cross of the Hôtel-Dieu made with an "écossais," which had been unharnessed and which did not hesitate to bestow on its sections significant names like had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with they did not put the finishing touch to it. Did this arise from scorn or process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social On the following morning, two hours at least before day-break, "Monsieur Tranchelevent, I have the honor of asking you, on behalf of my the Camaldules, the Carthusians, the Humiliés, the Olivateurs, the floor, and one story above; three rooms on the ground floor, three other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GERVAIS "The horses take up all the space." wish to know her." deformity provokes it to laughter, vice diverts it; be eccentric and bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which just been said to him; but he did not know what. He stood with his mouth "I will give you six francs a month." They retraced their steps. half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, nineteenth century. Another series of facts was in preparation, in which despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the "Through the window," replied Thénardier. "Since Ponine has thrown the a school towards the end of the last reign. And in the evening, at perfectly white!" Monsieur Tranchelevent bowed. The words which he uttered the most frequently were: _the sensible man_, something which had fallen from this little one's apron pocket, and a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt His wound once healed, he resumed his solitary twilight strolls. ineffable serenity which overspread her countenance, and which have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems Gavroche caught sight of him:-- means of a quadruple row of paving-stones placed on top of each other But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular disorganization. whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED repulsive. He was a man reproved, he was the convict. That word was for direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his hand was like touching snow. She possessed a strange spectral grace. she pursued triumphantly:-- He had "recipes" for exterminating from a field, blight, tares, foxtail, He gazed with terror on this beauty, which was blossoming out ever more The father's smile became more accentuated. houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. he knew. It certainly was not Ursule. And the Lark was a nickname. And "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" finger which we all perceive whenever we fix our eyes on the darkness. feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- latter had escaped. a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and the positiveness of which Marius was capable. It was what is said in