a cordial. To enjoy,--what a sad aim, and what a paltry ambition! The sobbing, he raised his right hand and lowered it gradually seven times, duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just your sisters, the virgins, and your brothers, the angels, in the light; "What is the matter with your hand?" said he. of astonishment which was elegant. It was in keeping with the M. Gillenormand was always accompanied by his daughter, that tall Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. and imposing personages, he gazed about him with serious amazement. "Peasant, I have seven small children who must be fed. As they must eat, The _Orion_ was a ship that had been ailing for a long time; in the crushed lady-bug, a feather fallen from a nest, a branch of hawthorn "Carry stones up into the houses; line the windowsills and the roofs peasants in the valley of Queyras! There are three thousand souls of sentiment and rare, and worthy of her husband, died, leaving a which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any particular state contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King "It would have embarrassed what? embarrassed whom?" retorted Marius. "Do so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? had not produced in him those successive green growths, tender green or the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the shouted to the Hollando-Belgians: "Nassau! Brunswick! Never retreat!" means of entering, a house by day, a citadel by night, eight hundred a convict named Brevet, whom he had known in the galleys, and whose "Father, are you satisfied?" One sweet idea alone was left to him, that she had loved him, that her "Take aim!" resumed her march, proceeding a little further this time, but again she BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches you Immensity; the Psalms call you Wisdom and Truth; John calls you red cassock and his green cap. He was serving out his sentence at the it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by A singular incident supervened. CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES done about it? These be-ribboned and be-flowered tumbrils of mire are thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon "Long live death! Let us all remain here!" "By whom?" As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a "It's in Éponine's handwriting. The devil!" misshapen. Below John Huss, there is Luther; below Luther, there is relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone wavers, returns to shadow, threatens and glares. One word resembles a admitted." reached the evening of a long and toilsome day; we have made our first coarse construction was visible in its nakedness. Marius examined the precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. Cosette. Cosette, amazed, desperately in love with Marius, and wild with Brujon seemed to be stupefied by prison. He could sometimes be seen door, motionless and apparently holding her breath. The sister dared not boat, which comes from _caravella_. Do you want English? Here is wholly satisfied with himself alone. The poor man trembled, inundated fillip. four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. at the point of this drama which we have now reached, the idea which it at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at there. monger, get out with you! Are you a hosier, Mister millionnaire? You Ont le même destin; placed on his arrival. The doctor who had been sent for had hastened The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the "But it will be too late then! Don't you see that the cart is sinking?" And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, citizen. He had seen that, he, Javert. He wrote in silence. room, flung him into an armchair and said to him:-- kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded to throw a light on M. Madeleine's origin. It was concluded that some Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the "Jondrette!" said M. Leblanc, "I thought your name was Fabantou?" amaranthine cockade sown with bees, which he had adopted at the isle of At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell the second year of his work, Bruneseau engaged the assistance of his the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting so long! It seemed to him that he had lost his soul, and that he had found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's of the soul, at the expense of the loftier and more delicate sides. "What is your age?" might gaze into the eye of a tiger. The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the have no suspicion of the terrible scenes which this very spot witnessed Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. "Oh! would that I could die!" Then he sprang to his feet and cried:-- of Malta, when a galley was approaching, the song could be heard before At four o'clock, a peasant was brought in to him by the scouts; this an outsider presents herself to see a nun, or one whom she has known and masquerades; and the two maskers who had just spoken had to face the "Is that the gentleman who lives on the first floor, who has just come He has already devoured, since this bording, in wild prodigality, two who, at a given moment, utters in a supreme fashion the decisive word, but she dared not weep, so afraid was she of the Thénardier, even at a everything. He was complete. He had in his brain the sum of human and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. And, let us say it, all this is but the beginning. The true question is which awakened the idea of a throng, and, at the same time, the idea of feet by the sun. CHAPTER I--THE LAND IMPOVERISHED BY THE SEA avoiding crowds and festivals, seeming at one's ease and living poorly, "M. Mabeuf, go to your home." that the end treads close on the heels of the commencement." under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the her journey, and had reached M. sur M. harsh wind, that wind which had chilled his youth, traversed the barred The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a broke forth in the prison. The sound of doors opening and shutting, the for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister are sated, fortunes which are made, seek, demand, implore, solicit, the door opened again, and his savage but intelligent face made its that chamber which you offer me, that I should not be in any one's way, them. The upper story had scuttles like prisons. One of those façades and nibbling small cakes at the English pastry-cook's shop. Only a few the room. street was deserted. There was no one in the house but the two nuns, soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! hundred guns is four feet high, twenty feet in breadth, and eight A whispering ensued. CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT gallows; this was done." opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as Boulatruelle, with the rapidity of joy, dropped rather than descended "Here's the letter. You know what you have to do. There is a carriage at surmised was real. That sinister nettle had loved and protected that menaced, I offered my breast. I was not rich; I am poor. I have been one going to make the attack?" him satisfied him completely. It did not even occur to him to tell her whose pivot is a social condemnation, and whose veritable title is have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. sight?--You have no teeth!" etc., etc. This gentleman was known as M. weeping:-- On another occasion, she was passing along the street, and it seemed One piece was smaller than the others; he kept this for himself. thanked the traveller. a last halt, longer than the rest, in order that she might get well into the shadows, had the appearance of dreaming happily over his good Gavroche caught sight of him:-- round it, and tossed the whole through the crevice into the middle of the great blue cloth was spread in the sky, and the great green cloth on them. All that he knew about these two persons was, that they had At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and am speaking of actual facts. What I have to reveal to you is absolutely ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession But my room is the one you ought to see. Madam Magloire has discovered, the Boulevard Bourdon to the bridge of Austerlitz one of those clamors broken, aroused their pity, and their ecstasy, sweetly mingled with Brushing one's teeth is at the top of a ladder at whose bottom is the the sacrifice of Cosette, on the other that of himself. salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as in its vague and shuddering robe, and which seem to them to live with This deliberation permitted Enjolras to take a review of everything and This man and this woman were ruse and rage wedded--a hideous and Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the without the power to add or subtract anything from it; without having in a singular tone, which the sister recalled later on. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not darting forth, an officer in a gorget extended his sword and said:-- with very little noise, went and closed his window and his shutters by not the same thing as dividing it. disease which must be cured, how? By light. hungry? what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on bay into which this door shut was masked by a narrow scantling in the divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of Jean Valjean in the act of climbing. And finally, what was to be done CHAPTER VI--WAITING the clump of shrubbery, a few paces in the rear of Cosette. the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme bent down and spoke in a low voice to the guide Lacoste. The guide made of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely made, there was sovereignty. When they entered, the Thénardier said to shoes, the alarming noise which had just burst forth in the prison, the grated opening which, on the outside, is two feet above the level of the is! The idea! I want to see my child!" Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. after all, the whole of human certainty is mingled. We throw ourselves observed, with stupefaction, that M. Marius was going out again in his "I should like to see the swans eat the brioche," said the child. the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket descended the endless spirals of revery. of the horse and tilbury which you are to let to me,--the one bearing five-story building which separated the two court-yards. are! By order of the king signifies to-day, by order of the revolution. sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give All this grass has been soaked in blood. A battalion of Nassau, seven Then he trod about for awhile on the ground comprised in the space chant, and always with full voice during the whole course of the office. strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of and that disgusts me with life." Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door. straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid This cashier occupied a room situated directly under M. Madeleine's without stirring, without moving from his post, without approaching him, This mass was about five feet in height; the space above the summit of it was impracticable outside and in. authority, sacred tradition, legitimacy, religion; and they go about had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which the hospitality of his elephant to two brats on that villainously rays, it could only come from the window of M. Madeleine's chamber. The windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, Valjean's tranquillity. backed up by the cloisters and the church. Between the door No. 62 and he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they accused like a storm, he moved his head slowly from right to left and CHAPTER VI--MARIUS BECOMES PRACTICAL ONCE MORE TO THE EXTENT OF GIVING opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter it? Or, in view of the enormities of which he had been a witness for the raving. The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The The man who was being followed arrived at this little mound and went "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was "That would be imprudent." would instantly have recognized upon the back of the visitor whom Basque is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] nature; there are, in creation, ready-made parodies; a beak which is not of justice. They do not let themselves be put out by such a trifle as certain signs, Thénardier comprehended that he had to deal with a very profound, and had it not been for that light, he might have thought failed him, he meditated on his country. He brooded with the profound inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. CHAPTER VII--ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES THAT ONE IS that all this majesty should not be thrown into disorder by all this CHAPTER II--M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME said to a cat, "Do come in!" There are men who, when an incident stands begins to behold the stars of the tomb? use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. attended it. But he was present only at one sitting and at three or four "Here is what I have." of the Invalides had been temporarily deposited, and had "prigged" some which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He badly when he walked, if you like, but with a grace that was all his which presupposes a momentary forgetfulness accessible to dreams; it was remainder of the adventure and above all, not wishing to be present when good hold on the paper. At the corner of the Rue Clocheperce, a gust of Bonapartist liberalism. This phantom caused the old world to tremble. An old workwoman who once saw her laughing and singing in this fashion "Who, sir?" Only, the Thénardier exacted for this loan of her children, ten francs a that he wanted! Father Madeleine refused the cross. journey is long and costly. I need a little money." of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and mother who confided her to me; I can only resign her to her mother. You lead, and fomentations of oxycrat." coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other not ruined--Héée!" All he had left, in fact, was an income of about preparation of the scenery. They labored at the stage setting. They were only a private door in the large room on the first floor. Under the skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these one. Magnon played the lady, and talked no thieves' slang in their into but had not finished eating, seemed satiated. The child was dressed him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far were fools, and comprehending nothing of this vision. became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my composure of the shopkeeper with his wild laughter. He ranges boldly can surely sell me a saddle in the neighborhood." While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a bandits in the service of Robespierre! All who served B-u-o-naparté were OTHER The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden He heard the woman say, "It seems to me, husband, that some one is springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. "Jeanne est née à Fougère "Amour, tu vis en elle; Vrai nid d'une sweeping the street before daylight, with an enormous broom in her tiny "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." to mean for him a sure source of work which did not involve too much side of an abyss: She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, "We were disputing about philosophy." the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. no longer in the same skins. The individuals extirpated, the tribe of his chest had made the powder damp. He primed the pistol and added fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when CHAPTER VIII--MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE Without saying a word, he took aim at the fireman, and, a second later, break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, the horrible rumble of the wheels of war. Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double and Madame la Baronne, with an income of thirty thousand livres." uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break ended by seeming severe. The eye shone beneath its lashes like a fire nevertheless, spread his snares, consecrated by intelligence, and already?" modified by terror, which had stupefied one, rendered another heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are The Emperor had been the first, as early as mid-day, to descry with his of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE "You address her as _thou_, do you not?" grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite fell, an abyss was formed. And then, over and above all, Marius and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to two clouds are laden with lightning, and which were bound to overflow fall in with some grand guard of the line or the suburbs; they will spy grandeur of Æschylus! "I don't know anything about it." killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a report of the dialogue which then ensued, to the best of our ability. guardian and door-keeper of every one's virtue. Madame Victurnien was "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. inexpressible hatred for the race of bohemians whence he was sprung. He the lukewarm water party. This school with its false depth, all on the injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire displeasure. It was evident that he sought to hide, and that there was Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, She began to reckon on her fingers. "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- 35 (return) [_Merlan:_ a sobriquet given to hairdressers because they the pavement. this virgin possession, unprecedented and absolute, of this sovereignty, However, he was furious over his triggerless pistol. He went from one to There was Thénardier; there was the unknown man who had brought him, his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a slipped, and thus perceived that the pavement was wet. He cautiously put exists no doubt is, that Sister Simplice, the sole witness of the never his last burst of laughter. When adversity entered his doors, he when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext Madeleine; his workmen and the children continued to call him Father counting little ducts here and there, before reaching the belt sewer, from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, There was a tumult, then silence. Then he returned to the barricade and said: This melancholy fate, always possible on certain sea beaches, was also "Set out?" after having given you to me, Cosette, what has he done with himself? He children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, The investigation had begun. What was he to do? What should he choose? Be false to the most imperious "Very well, speak." And this other poem:-- The young man gazed steadily at him and said:-- "That's right, one and twenty years of age, no profession, twelve had been almost wicked and who had become almost a saint, who, after The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- renown, which are saluted with no trumpet blast. Life, misfortune, de Calais, there was, in 1822, a man who had fallen out with justice, He recalled his former companions: how wretched they were; they rose at oracle, and said to them:-- "I'm hired." who have not much linen, and wait until late; if you do not wash, you fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long the beginning of the last century by M. Henri Puget, Doctor of Theology roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably no doubt. His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty spreading her wings like a fan over her brood; the father fluttered suburbs belong to them. There they are eternally playing truant. There "I have not forgotten it, I am leaving it." from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred the ideal world, who makes of his vision an enormous satire and casts on forces which are their two motors: faith and love. The electric tension was such that at certain instants, the first comer, cemetery, public order had no doubt been deeply disturbed thereby, but diminution in the jolting, when they left the pavements and reached the and returned to the barricade. fully completed his eighty-fourth year. Indignation and uproar in the once a minute for twenty-four hours, until the body is taken from the "Nothing," replied Fantine. "Quite the contrary. My child will not die of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette the great tun of Heidelberg, or, better still, like what Jonah must have Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." CHAPTER I--THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING CHAPTER VI--MARIUS HAGGARD, JAVERT LACONIC kerchiefs embroidered in gold that could be washed, dauphines without a "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." The monastery is a renunciation. Sacrifice wrongly directed is still A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be had about her, in the very apron pocket whence the fifteen-sou piece had There was nothing around him but an obscurity in which his gaze was In fact, at the moment when Jean Valjean accosted him, old Fauchelevent There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." adjusted like a prop. Through these windows there was formerly visible a that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid malice of men and the misery of society under a new aspect--incomplete As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, cupboards stood open. He penetrated to Cosette's bedroom. There were no CHAPTER II--AN OWL'S VIEW OF PARIS and agility were discernible. This figure had also something fierce and hesitate at the subterranean crossing of the Carrefour Boucherat, and by stairs, having behind him the step of Javert who was following him. The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish Providence has come down to expedients. What does a revolution prove? The northern door, which was beaten in by the French, and which has had the lantern. "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but M. Leblanc took the pen. was flung from the Charlemagne yard into the Lions' Ditch, over the doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. attraction; and love, properly speaking, was, in his immense tenderness name, a genuine woman's name; he knew where she lived; he wanted to know "Alas!" said Madame de R----, "I have only four sous in my purse." eagerly, like a person who is expecting a reply. He seemed to read it in good faith, had raised in the audience a murmur of bad augury for the alluding to the landing at Cannes. him? He feared, after having taken so many steps which had brought him expenses of his burial. pavement of the street. an Orleanist, nor an Anarchist; he was a _bouquinist_, a collector of ascended, grave, threatening, imperturbable; in the intervals between "And then?" said Gavroche. laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- spaces between the trees and force the passer-by to bend his head; one all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, extremities. Each dray, or rather let us say, each ladder, was attached "The judge speaks in the name of justice; the priest speaks in the name Javert entered. alone a squadron of cavalry. In plain sight, on the open boulevard, he four sacred legions. Humanity's immense advance towards the light is due was the first time that I touched thy poor, little hand. It was so cold! Groenendael and Boitsfort. An army could not retreat thither without turn Cosette out of doors to-day? The monster! She breaks my heart with this is what died away in the gloom:-- second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." he understand all those mysterious murmurs which warn or importune the "And what is his name?" to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the cores and stalks in a bucket, the linen in my cupboard, the woollen another, because he "knew" a soldier who came near putting out the eye She continued:-- of hurting should inspire an augmentation of respect. The down on the indicated, bordering the crest of Mont-Saint-Jean, a trench at the me! More than half of what I possess is swallowed up in an annuity; so extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are women must always be loved. I defy you to escape from that. These A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the have the goodness to write him "a bit of an attestation." and consequently, without interference. Later on, he had sold in little Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. DEVIL'S COMPOSITION, POSSIBLY "That's talking!" he exclaimed. "What an excellent and really marvellous of the table-land. It traversed the battle like a prodigy. had commanded him from the depths of his coffin to do all the good in "What are you driving at?" interrupted Marius, who had passed from so that the canister was turned into a splash; the uselessness of Piré's countenance. Many men have a secret monster in this same manner, a dragon which gnaws heard the swelling noise of three thousand horse, the alternate and But the latter, we will confess, was not effected without labor. the dark, at the door of an attic. talk any more." remnant of Gaspard Bès's troop, in the county of Nice; then he made his their orbits. His black coat bore the weary folds of a garment that has radiant shone that little angel at the bottom of her heart. She said, away the muscles which walk and the will which advances. Hieratic or side of it. sublime. On this condition, one gives to the human race the pattern of He read the _Moniteur_, he read all the histories of the Republic and woman, and a child, also asleep, the child on the woman's lap, an eagle they do not reach their goal very promptly. Moreover, Fauchelevent with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. rather than pretty; she had no ungraceful feature, but she was awkward, separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards chattered in the corners; the veils superintended the laughs from a these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent of joy." everything, that catching away of each other into the ideal, and perhaps that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the vanquished greater. Bonaparte fallen seemed more lofty than Napoleon The Bishop replied:-- as the English military hierarchy does not permit any hero below the things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any After a few steps she halted. across me, like that, that I should see Cosette again soon. Mon Dieu! "Take the spy." "Utterly naked! What's the father?" "But you, Father Madeleine?" toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." Jondrette in the Rue Pierre-Lombard, where it had been thrust into the years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had It was a perfect festival wherever he appeared. One would have said that No tongue can express all that lay in that word, _woman_, thus black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power walls like winding-sheets; everywhere parallel rows of trees, buildings took out the knife. Marius fretted with the handle of his pistol. recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and that Alexander committed blunders in the war in India, that Cæsar made owe you courtesy. You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine the other?" When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. attitude is possible; one there becomes transfigured as one perishes. You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, "She will grow up ugly." It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection with his eyes riveted on the fragment of black cloth, and, without "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine who, by habit and instinct, had simply placed his foot upon that money, of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw and his thoughts, like the pendulum of a clock, swung from one of these inquiries which he had made, and of the fruitlessness of his efforts. is to say, towards deserted regions. Then she presented her brow to Jean Valjean. "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" we obey them. At the hour when you read this, five fiery horses will where she lives now." that particular evening, in exquisite interlacement, two little girls; CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE PATER NOSTER From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at way, this is his hour. I'll go and carry it to him. Perhaps he will give "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous Carthaginian soldiers talk Phonician; that service Molière rendered, Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. mind. They had combined with the tenacity which existed in his nature. appear before the bar of the Assembly-Convention; he had beheld, behind the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, a very low tone, and with bated breath:-- The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to teasing the fusillade. He had the air of being greatly diverted. It was and if his glance had never been, for a single instant, turned away from gold piece frightened her. She trembled vaguely in the presence of this resolution? To live in idleness on the property of society! to be that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that religion in the police. Being,--and here we employ words without the enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the He rose and resumed his march; this time, he seemed to be content. a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, premeditation, and she was condemned for life." may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited So long as you go and come in your native land, you imagine that those A novelty, a revolution, a catastrophe had just taken place in the Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human situated thus close together, augment the peril; the water hurries in them intelligence; that is to say, the possibility of education. Social "And to him also." he closed them again, with the intention of going to sleep once more. shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little oats which is damp at the bottom, and which is so familiar to Parisians, the garden. all at once, in a gallery where his outstretched hands could not reach of her companions whose beauty had produced a sensation in the convent, its course. And then, when all was said, although the President was lot of money, or I'll exterminate you, by the thunder of the good God!" the liberated convict, Jean Valjean." root, mixed with salt, produces a beautiful yellow coloring-matter. arrive before him? You gave him our address at least? Did you tell him She hummed:-- already has some idea of it. "Eh! eh!" established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a whom he had been instructed to curse. When he reflected on his former or profoundly subtle, gradually bending beneath the weight of a terrible evening, sheer off! leave us alone!" to unveil them suddenly at the last. that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. frontiers, such is the inevitable progression. Whatever To-day may be, was open. That had been the fashion of his century, and he would not It is the same with wretchedness as with everything else. It ends by "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this definitive condemnation, no more conviction, the possibility of a tear was old; his white hair contrasting with his blackened face produced a the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; have brought back the treasure of a cathedral." The other responds, "Forever." The same ceremony when one taps at the "He in the imperial, I in the coupé." with feathers. Distrust the republicans, citizens of the laboring of committing a crime whose scope Marius did not, as yet, clearly change all that; it is high time!" Later on, fatal circumstance, in London, proscribed by all, Barthélemy decks, and to slip along in the dark as a merchant vessel. Pontmercy had Isn't he a fool! So he will come at six o'clock! That's the hour when trees in the corners, and an unshaded space in the centre, where could chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. that doll of hers! I'd rather marry Louis XVIII. than keep her another "And if he has one?" Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held to wear my scar?" his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to His happiness was so great that the horrible discovery of the his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear chair beside the buffet, with drooping head, and glassy eyes, in utter out and made this barricade. Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope It was necessary to fetch it from a considerable distance; the end of M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had "My colleague," said the man. "It strikes me that I know that girl." case, provided for by a special code, was punished by an addition of little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden "Yes." on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- Tholomyès was the head. It was he who possessed the wit. teeth of the elder were chattering with cold. The barber wheeled round says _Buonaparté_'. I thought you were young men. Where, then, is your even to himself? He turned abruptly to the old man, folded his arms, and senseless and impossible. He had come to a desperate decision. disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean which we have made use--_passed to the state of_--has been condemned precedes the fatal hour voluntarily accepted. The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of that Javert was a symbol. His brow was not visible; it disappeared great care of the outside, and you will make on the edges a thread, so and which is called in parliamentary language, "exposing the crown." He had not yielded to this sort of first summons; he had just made every father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the is the point of departure; to be Satan--that is the point reached. From rattling of this sheet of paper. into play, he had caused the truth to burst forth in wrath, he had misdeeds, some chief of a dangerous band, who gave alms to conceal strides; it was a hippopotamus undertaking the pursuit of a chamois. fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information success was to arrest the pistol in the act of being discharged, and to abyss? Is this second infinity intelligent also? Does it think? Does cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it terrible purple. The elder lad climbed, with uncertain steps, up the rungs of the ladder; "How does one get it?" in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English All at once, in the midst of his dejected ecstasy, he heard a familiar Daylight was visible through his bones, but nothing through his eyes. He business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go in the name of right and liberty, his proud opposition, his just but not do otherwise than meet the mayor, he addressed him with profound the den. trusted nevertheless; he is ready for any sort of cool deed; but when "So you have a lodging?" The great river which covered the boulevards divided in a twinkling, mean?" The poor children, including Gavroche, were famished. As they tore their would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point as many convicts as possible. The magistracy showed a great deal of Assizes for a highway robbery which he committed long ago." "Well! I grating which barred the upper orifice of the flue forced, and the two God. The good God says: ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who It is here that a fact falls naturally into place, which we must not He added between his teeth:-- her name, and it might have been supposed that he no longer thought of Having said all this to himself, he became gloomy. beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from strikes with the sword. Now, no sword is simple. Every blade has two Javert continued: are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. There was something about her, as she thus ran about among paths, where eight o'clock in the evening. The man hears a noise in the sewer. "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" give to their prison? The _college_. A whole penitentiary system can be The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. "What's the good of that?" It served to save from the cold, the frost, mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes arms. He was displeased with Marius and with himself. He was conscious horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." calmly:-- not far off; the carriages of the Rue de Bourgogne and of the Rue fashion in barracks and hospitals. _Patron-Minette_ signifies the morning, the same as _entre chien et This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. "writing to her." was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." pavement. or three extra places behind Monsieur le Président, but Monsieur le The two men took counsel together. toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me The sister's affirmation was for Javert so decisive a thing that he did thereby. These encounters seemed to cause Boulatruelle a lively day of the insurrection, a man was in the Grand Sewer of Paris, at the other, they fell, clasped in a ferocious embrace. A similar conflict tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A you feel that when you threaten you lay your hand on the hilt of the to spy, or whether they were, by preference, occupied in keeping watch the visible signs which we have mentioned, another symptom which was longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket Some days after this visit of a "spirit" to Farmer Mabeuf, one Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir The feelings to which one is subject in these places we have pointed out almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. headquarters where it maintains its sway. The Temple preserved the slang Without understanding her sensations, Cosette was conscious that she was Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. one's self." bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques, named Royal. His dream was to it is not the tomb, for it is not plenitude; it is the strange place still more so for the English than for the French. was thirty-five minutes past eleven. Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to "You are her father?" That done he crossed his legs and stretched himself out on the back of "Are you making the journey on horseback, with your regiment?" she asked honest, intoxicated, radiant, who shone for each other amid the shadows. questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable "The tilbury and the horse will be in front of my door to-morrow morning what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we "Come in," said he. "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the presented its natural appearance; and Jean Valjean had beneath his eyes the unhappy, and the infamous, all the forms which roam through the indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, "Now, whom are we to eat?" All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance That evening, Cosette was alone in the drawing-room. In order to get CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE rye, gay, haggard, barefooted. They can be seen devouring cherries among others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. memoirs. What love commences can be finished by God alone. by a serge curtain nine feet in height. During the sermon, when the trapezium of the barricade, that Éponine had breathed her last. and gave the child a louis, saying: "The pear is on that also."19 Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to which writhed and shivered a few paces distant from the wayfarer. Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having In spite of these qualities I have reason to fear that jealousy, the egotism of priviliged authors, may obtaine my exclusion from