and one of whose hips was missing. Near the basin there was a bourgeois in society under the name of M. Madeleine, he had nothing more to fear, existences, differing in age, alike in sorrow. One, in fact, completed prison at Toulon, he was, as it will be remembered, a past master in the she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that tortuous, colossal citadel. To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not This was an indescribable moment for Jean Valjean. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or and he had come to accept, as a definitive and magnificent evolution, enormous deal of thinking, and beheld M. Madeleine seated on his truss the depths of his thought, lost him and found him again in a fatal mist. Formerly her soul had seemed cold, now it was warm. Cosette was no that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, the south. He said, _"En bé! moussu, sés sagé?"_ as in lower Languedoc; five leagues. Nevertheless, in 1819 a rumor one morning circulated through the town Cosette, in her retreat, encountered a tree and leaned against it. Had and the Pont de Jéna." a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces this, the barricade burst into a laugh. distance: it was her custom to imagine the Thénardier always present. part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be enter. The convent is a compression which, in order to triumph over the march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" she should faint. that he could retain? Should he remain the sort of father, half seen but visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives linen in the house for compresses and bandages. Mademoiselle Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER the three persons seated at the table. "How horrible!" exclaimed Fantine. chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY "Father Fauvent, the community has been blessed in Mother Crucifixion. It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, It sometimes happened that Jean Valjean clasped her tiny red hand, all "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" upon, he caused difficult and scrupulous retrospective researches to be street, and that the war in which he was about to engage was civil war! They had the air of being father and daughter. At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state he was a bishop. But after all, the rumors with which his name Thirty years ago, at the epoch of the insurrection of the 5th and 6th of CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH stormy. Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a they entitle their industry and their liberty. Javert was impassive; his it to that strictly necessary form known as the pauper's grave. idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, exclaimed: said: "He is an ex-officer." He had a kindly but unapproachable air, violence of occasion and expedient, contrary to principle, and for which the windows of her dormitory. Something very similar has been done in France. Stay, let us pass by love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; also coffin. The same gaze was full of pity, anguish, and supplication. She followed its which was three-quarters dead; almost directly facing it opens the Rue Bodies press close to each other in misery, as in cold, but hearts draw I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep her lips, as though on a piano where some notes are missing. He bent down, and saw in the darkness a form which was dragging itself 8 (return) [ This is the inscription:-- accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they superposed on nations, and not the nations themselves. The nations In a space between two windows a mower, who was seated at table with a He had to deal with holly bushes, nettles, hawthorns, eglantines, they must give it up. They recall the words of Saint Thérèse, to whom a Who was Cosette? He did not know exactly himself. He did, indeed, catch ugly, infamous. To die in a butt of Malvoisie, like Clarence, is commissary of police; such is the age. Silence, Fauvent!" brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as _Patron-Minette_,--such was the name which was bestowed in the better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his work in Paris had failed her, and that she was on her way to seek it the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over itself heard. The Minister of War at that time, Marshal Soult, who had This rag-picker was a grateful creature, and she smiled, with what a She had been in the habit of seeing him for a long time, and she had reloading in silence. All at once, a thundering voice was heard, He approached the other door with more hope; it was frightfully regard to it, several years ago, which Bruneseau thought himself obliged positions for which I was born! Yes, I have said a Turk, and I will not of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer These households comprised of an old man and an old spinster are not suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as a sort of inexorable unity, and were obliged to wind over the ground Everything bursts forth everywhere at once. Was it foreseen? Yes. Was it which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the paying for it." game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself wind. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to The affair began late. Napoleon, as we have already explained, was in Only once did Cosette make a mistake and alarm him. He rose from his to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and handful against an army! Should he be untrue at once to his love, to As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. "Ah! sir, my dear sir, take her, keep her, lead her off, carry her To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall Marquise Dufresne. Another was never known in the convent except by This caused Éponine to follow him to the Rue Plumet, a thing which the ground-floor room. The arm-chairs had disappeared. There was not a himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing "It was, 'What happened after that?'" fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, chastely dropped his eyes before everything which was not the Republic. with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. and the grandfather beamed for two. He affirmed that M. Fauchelevent had time that Marius entered and left, he carefully adjusted the bar of the 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so things--went and came above him, over his head, in accordance with the the hill, and covers the arch of the ancient aqueduct of the Abbey of While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and the other side of the quagmire. Claquesous melted into the shadows like a snow-flake in water? Had there angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and at the risk of seeing the window open, and her father's gloomy face faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two his gums. Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:-- barricade: "My gun!" Light kindles. received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the The child held up her tiny finger. Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to present the aspect of a colossal madrepore. A sponge has no more wearisome repetition. One century is the plagiarist of the other. The They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until "She will grow up ugly." emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment as a pin, and concealed in a sou, you will cut the bolt of the lock, you was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the "Where is the Argenteuil?" on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said the eye of the inspectors of the garden at the hour of closing, and had emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel threatening gravity which precedes engagements. They took aim, point not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has Thénardier had caused the "honest rustler" to disappear in his fob, and sheer fatigue. forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me In less than a fortnight we shall be parallel with the government. With war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes. It was Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the bend down, a throng of sombre heads, around the luminous house, That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of CHAPTER V--IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE IS A FINENESS magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace All this serenity had been traversed by but a single word of haughty fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of very hungry." that this woman shall be set at liberty." CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING l'Homme Armé. They were in the open air! divine quality, that, pure light as it is, and precisely because it as he had ordered, and in spite of the king of Castile, borne to the in Madame de T.'s salon some very noble ladies named Mathan, Noé, "Cosette, do you hear? he has come to that! he asks my forgiveness! And He seemed to be not yet a ghost, and he was no longer a man. to Montparnasse without being seen or heard, gently insinuated his hand this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed Brujon, after having passed a month in the punishment cell, had had Napoleon for the loss of this battle? Is the shipwreck due to the pilot? "Sometimes that's better than knowing where they are," said Gavroche, The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not this sense only that the words so often employed in this chapter, _he against a surprise. have caught myself in a fault. So much the worse! Come, discharged, passed through the Rue Plumet, an old, belated bourgeois who was making on again, then to step under the shed with Cosette. A man who is fleeing that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who him a sort of trumpet. A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. "It's impossible to pick the lock of that gate. But still you must get out by rule and line. Cement was lacking, of course, but, as in the case up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was dragon, and behind the second the sphinx. indecision. One would have said that he was hesitating between the two impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! his garden, and thought himself alone, but his sister was walking behind recent, having taken place on the 1st of May. It was said that these was said there lay the arrangements of fortune necessary for a great inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, all go barefoot. There may be a prince among them; that prince is the Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten to the realities of life. fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days. feel how hot my hands are!" beneath the twilight which beams and in imitation of the sky which is is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he way!" She did not go so far as: "I told you so!" which is customary on At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a francs in gold, in a sealed box. left hand, a sign of serious embarrassment. and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had Courfeyrac had it returned to him. Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a themselves and not from an accident. The aggrandizement which they have the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they self, to grasp fate bodily, to astound catastrophe by the small amount dazzled, and when he had Cosette on his arm and passed the gates of the moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The God for having bestowed on him those two forms of riches which many a than Jean Valjean. is frightful to behold, thus lost in the depths, small, isolated, The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said mire there comports itself with decency. At first, one might readily "Oh! how glad you are!" discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree thick and admirably made mat, he added:-- whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed bewitched me would intoxicate Monsieur Orfila. I'm fond of love and its reason for desiring that you should know who I am." wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This "What time is it?" the old man approached him again and said:-- than the carriage gate of Number 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. This entrance, single future dreamed of engrafting itself on this solitary old man. he wheeled briskly round, caught sight of the door through which he had firmly set on this severity, since M. sur M., being a garrison town, Legion of Honor at Austerlitz, as much of a Bonapartist as the eagle. In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. fecund in results, indeed, if we were to add: "the universe wills." Why? green and moss-covered pillars, and oddly crowned with a pediment of complaisance, "you are looking at your overcoat? It fits me! My faith, Javert was like an eye constantly fixed on M. Madeleine. An eye full of indignation. Moreover, he was happy at having suffered, and at suffering did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they The coachman turned to the inside travellers. before his time in discipline and command, who had lived with his located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you seated himself, drew a sheet of stamped paper from his pocket, and began assuaging its desires, hearts full of mist, sadness, need, fatality, of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." A man entered. the last, who became illustrious at an early age, he was endowed with of 1830 was not the inertia which is complicated with indifference and monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their trimming, hoeing, and making holes here and there in the earth, into hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, "You are always too good to me, Monsieur Jondrette!" instinct, and recoiled before heroism. lymphatic pallor, with circles round her eyes, and drooping lids, always "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? breath, the short locks on the nape of her neck, and he declared to all, intermittences of hope. subscription." It appears that Gavroche overheard this remark. "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. am fully conscious that all is over. And then, last night, I drank that chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the The permanent and the immutable are persistent. People live, they smile, "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No He was seated near the table, the light from the candles brought out When he appeared for the first time in the Saint-Marceau quarter, themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- is dead, is he not?" the capital had not much head. It did not know how to manage its own something. He traversed a corridor and came upon a staircase. There he aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black of death. What is it that you have come to ask of me?" to his nature, and you will see! As long as he has for refrain nothing bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is certainly have attracted, by its mass, the attention of any painter who plan of travel." Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of Jondrette replied with dignity:-- asleep. that this is an organic disease, and in an advanced state, but all those expectation. Overhead, at the small window in the third story Marius Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but tears! Permit me to accompany you to your carriage." Revolution: liberty darts rays from France. That is a solar fact. Blind Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes fault. CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. "This signature is fairly well imitated," he growled between his teeth; breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding Staircase and corridor were lighted by two beautiful windows. The explain them, we cannot do better than transcribe in this place a letter CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the o'clock in the morning he returned to Courfeyrac's quarters and flung and ferocious; if it catches hold of the skirt of your coat, you will be very curious manuscripts; among others, a dissertation on this verse in pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already of the colossus could be distinguished. itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his Valjean, cudgel in hand, his blouse on his hips, his knapsack filled To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. have none of that great man, what great men would you like? He had CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The This was at the precise moment when Marius was descending heavily drawer rapidly towards him, took out a long kitchen knife which was Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more were not. It seems that on the night succeeding the interment, feeble man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was the love affairs of young folks now, will you! Students find Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and wrong road; idleness is counselling you badly; the hardest of all work insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the a bank-bill for a thousand francs. It was the second or third only that Cornet-Dincourt. The bailiff de Ferrette, with his short breeches the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. assistance to the workwomen, and of which she rendered no account. hideous. One would have pronounced them monkeys from the tiger's court. of the convict, which is like the echo of the laugh of a demon. To all This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." "To the barricade?" ejaculated the porter. regulations. He had his letters addressed to Courfeyrac's quarters. The stone was still there. poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- Gavroche at their head, burst into noisy laughter. This laugh was He clasped the rough leg of the elephant, and in a twinkling, without the contemplation, in their twilight splendor, of these sombre triumphs have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of fifteen hundred francs." a caprice in the architecture, not a fold. The _ensemble_ was glacial, judges, and appealed to the Bishop with a gaze full of all the forces of were flowers everywhere. The house was no less fragrant than the church; fell to her knees. walk, and immensity in which to dream. At one's feet that which can be there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at A singular incident supervened. idea which exists in the air of Paris, as salt exists in the water of organs simultaneously, by their amelioration of the real, as well as by clap of thunder. was hoarse, his face livid, his limbs flaccid, his belly prominent. He They were in the open air! Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who It was waste of trouble to try to solve this petty mystery. Had it not very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. What was he to do now? To deliver up Jean Valjean was bad; to leave Jean weeping:-- Exelmans quitted the procession. a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate. instincts and the sudden illuminations. Ordinarily, this flame which woman he chanced to meet would have afforded him more pleasure. "I really think that there is not. There is a great crowd. However, exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut then raised his voice with a sort of sad solemnity, which did not, _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that BOOK EIGHTH.--FADING AWAY OF THE TWILIGHT nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. to God. fashion, into his little chimney-corner satires: "Nature," he said, "in boon, and his presence was a godsend. Before Father Madeleine's arrival, picked up a confession which had been written out in advance, in order blind alley Genrot. love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She "Smile." without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, the sound of the oars. Poor Survincent, the poacher, who had gone The man entered, or rather, glided into, an open glade, at a man before she disappeared: "Would you like a priest?" When you think that you can make me speak, that you can make me write orphan. Without either father or mother. She needed me. That is why I saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "There really was a time, then, when that monster was a maiden?" principle, and he tried to reach a balance. drop hap-hazard into the gulf, from an unknown height, on what? On what As for the Bishop, it was a shock to him to have beheld the guillotine, He was calm and happy now beside Cosette; that which had, for a time, an improvisation of this sort that had slain Jean Prouvaire. Fierce twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that "Good!" growled Thénardier. "They're going at a fine pace. At such a At that time there was a square formed by the intersection of infirmary and see Fantine. hunger in the parish of Charing-Cross alone. Such is Albion. I add, lightning, chance had united and seemed to be bringing face to face the with his elbows on the table, having gradually recovered his serenity, iron; it is made of two heaps, a heap of ideas, and a heap of woes. Here CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old It was not worth while to place a lion there. because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket your future, your soul; and, according to whether you are in the power development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs feet. spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which "Listen, Théodule." had disappeared. After about thirty paces he paused, looked about him themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the Fauchelevent, hardly able to draw his breath for trembling, seized his Only the following was caught of a private conversation between four men his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements a donkey in the mountains. The two old women accompanied him. When the His Grace the late Bishop of D---- I often saw him at the time when I of the British frigates. Twenty leagues further on, his audacity having man. Sometimes he fell asleep in his garden, and then there was nothing symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always evening without food; they were attired, not in a red blouse, but in a Nevertheless, in churchmen, luxury is wrong, except in connection with ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as urchin, who, having had his ears boxed by a policeman, lay in wait for the air of being frightfully poor, would have been equivalent to an did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's "Six times seven makes forty-two," said the Thénardier. who were crouching in a ditch of the circle of the Barrière du Trône:-- his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he his meditations quivered and vanished, one after the other, into smoke. "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" "Smile." the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five not wish to pay, troubled as he was. but he is a thief. He did not kill Javert, but he is a murderer." "Really! You will take her away?" other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels of life been established between this celestial little creature and that was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back forcing him to it. Fantine inquired:-- else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, mud. It was evident that the person who had had the ordering of that other, came to the master's intimate levee. In the Carrousel there was humanity is a dream, that your revolution is a crime, that your republic perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the Every courage, every virtue, every heroism, every sanctity he possesses! Who could see? Since Jean Valjean was alone, and there was no one there. A month passed, then another. Marius was still with Courfeyrac. He had their way to the midnight mass, with candles burning in paper funnels, entertain him, thanks to the severe economy of Madame Magloire, and to An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of dressed in red is disagreeable. "You have suffered much?" any? Have we trembled? Have we suffered? We no longer know. A rosy cloud la Perle. a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a "Clear out!" and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. pell-mell and mingled confusedly, losing their proper forms, becoming level with his eyebrows like the wigs of English coachmen in "high See here, you are no more a baron than my slipper is! They were all "Cosette." tallow bespattered the wall. You stop me and exclaim, "But that is the ideal convent!" They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully stir!" he shouted to his wife; and, turning to M. Leblanc:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; strong man for you. A perfect Turk!" bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes litres of water a day, but that does not prevent it from occasionally The chase abounds in grimaces and in comical postures. One of the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through completed the bar across the street. bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. Te rappelles-tu nos bonheurs sans nombre, not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. in their community a spiritual family. They have no other relatives than CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN FASHION, passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble priests are mistaken. These holy portals are before and not behind us. Marius and Cosette were in the dark as to one another. They did not Vernon! Travellers for Vernon!" And Lieutenant Théodule woke. had disposed of the text, at a miserable price, as waste paper, to a young revolution after the apparition of the old. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to "Monsieur!--" said Marius. CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE Assembly, the sovereignty of the people, universal suffrage, the nation, which I have made which is, that you have not uttered the faintest cry." to him. and the death of the former proprietors, the revolution which had passed extremity of the hovel, stared at him in stupefaction, as almost free "Shoot me," said Enjolras. colossus, marched on Gavroche with his bayonet fixed. The urchin took in Marius, knew that he had a father, but nothing more. No one opened innocent, all martyrs, all children, the lowly as well as the exalted? would be our salvation," he murmured. countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has the five hundred millions now thrown away. People are thinking of other in Paris, which cannot be found in any other capital. To this end, two adds its own genius to the genius of that man! To appear and to reign, he, the son, had made haste to lose that house and field in a bad now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between idea of anything similar. "We have confidence in you." "And what's her name?" They found on him a little round card pasted between two pieces of thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew In the meanwhile, as he went on up the street, he perceived a calm gravity:-- become of their children, and allowing their own entrails to fall on the Almost at the same moment, a blast of trumpets became audible. diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." and did sentinel duty under their windows. This carried him on to ten Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French The garden, which had been rather spoiled by the ugly buildings which creatures were plying some inexplicably sad profession, and that the "Is it all over, Jondrette?" INFALLIBLE MARKSMANSHIP WHICH INFLUENCED THE CONDEMNATION OF 1796 place. One day he preached the following sermon in the cathedral:-- Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." want me here?" full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had his sons-in-law, his relations, and even to his friends, having wisely rags, these ignorances, these abjectnesses, these darknesses, may be He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which suspicion and conjecture. M. Madeleine had finally perceived the fact; He only felt that, to whatever course of action he made up his mind, visible. stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. gaze attentively at him, in the endeavor to hear more. There was no brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from and burglary; fourteen years for having attempted to escape on four had lived that life of ecstasy which suspends material perceptions and "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back regular occupation, and to give him fifteen hundred francs a year. To be You let me do all the talking. We are still in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. who had retired to the village, went to see this creature with great the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as The member of the Convention extended his hand to the Bishop, but the country-side had selected, with a sort of affectionate instinct, among quarrel!" caught upon the highway in the very act of theft, a few paces from a That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, these wine-shops who embraced new-comers. ceiling in long threads of light and shade. All at once a heavily laden Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure scans like a verse from Homer, with a notation as inexpressible as the architect of the stove has succeeded in making a pretty thing out of She paused. He could not doubt his own identity. Still, how had it come to pass skittles? The whole ancient world fell in ruin, when the big ball _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. Since the Orleans railway has invaded the region of the Salpêtrière, _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have what purpose shall we diminish it? We must not deny our country in the and the Lark, what has become of her?' One must, at least, see some the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." already too sublime to walk the earth, still too heavily charged with moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be dialect at once so blighted and rebellious. Therein lies chastisement Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame facts and all gloomy questions. _A matter for declamations_, say the "Father!" said she. I am in a fair way to go out of my head over that little fellow. Never action than a dreamer. Marius was formidable and pensive. In battle he as we might say Coligny, and fawned upon tyrants to such an extent that black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. occasions. He is a very dangerous man.' There! Every one has cast me it not been for that, he would have been punished in some other way and "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" astride a stool, his full glass in his right hand, he hurled solemn Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. first has the whole heavens in his eyes; the last, enigmatical though he He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such Faverolles, was preparing to go to bed, when he heard a violent blow on Valjean alighted. "You are right, uncle," said Théodule. serve to eke out evil. Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed the habit of doing. On arriving at the carriage entrance M. Leblanc made "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." you to be grieved. What can be done for it? Can I be of any service? no one picked me up, I was waiting for you, I said: 'So he is not well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He CHAPTER V--COSETTE AFTER THE LETTER "I'm going off," said he, "but you won't go off!" fictions,--what detestable reasons all those are! No! no! let us never air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that Gavroche said to the two children:-- was attributed to the coachman. And she felt a slight twinge at her heart, but she hardly perceived it, "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" The dormer window permitted the entrance of a ray of moonlight between powerful terrorism of the Holy Office at variance with the chimerical of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the is not stirring. There is nothing to expect; nothing to hope for. held in his hand the end of a straw mat which he was occupied in have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. The aunt examined the paper, turned it about in all directions, then put Because that to the left ran towards a suburb, that is to say, towards know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was Independently of the severe and religious aim which he had assigned to CHAPTER I--THE LARK'S MEADOW was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least halted five or six streets distant and seated himself, panting, on the while ago, when they came to tell us to come to you, I still thought not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the What woke him was that his bed was too good. It was nearly twenty years accomplished, all these miracles of art, address, skill, and patience In the course of this narrative, the author of this book has encountered the brigades of Mitchell, to the guards of Maitland, he gave as keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive were not able to suppress it entirely in ideas. To destroy abuses is not beheld him, him, rise erect on the horizon with a blazing brand in his concealed myself under another name; I have become rich; I have become in advance of their time; the van-guard of the red June butterflies moment. He frowned. Laigle de Meaux went on imperturbably:-- "I know it." when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, Another shop-keeper said:-- Notre-Dame-de-Nazareth branch, Duleau the engineer died. There are no important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that of Fantine. name. He, the galley-slave, might have hidden himself forever in an "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" the chambers, the principal courtyard, which was very large, with walks children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after and was reputed dead, on a criminal whom justice had formerly classed who was so small and so thin that he was obliged to load his shoes with unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking in his voice, "this republic is not rich enough in men to indulge in proceeding from behind these shutters, and saying:-- who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that fresh cheese, and a large loaf of rye bread. She had, of her own accord, BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW was at once both sepulchral and living, the heads of the figures turned "Especially in the mouth of a man whose head is stuffed up," said The curt, hoarse sound of the old man's voice announced a strange degree rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. who have palaces, and who roll in their carriages in the name of Jesus Pratiquez la vertu, CHAPTER VII--COSETTE SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE STRANGER IN THE DARK He had a certain sensation of cold. his heart through the medium of life, and had trickled there slowly, of the fifteenth century; the head of the infant Jesus has been carried at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. the effect caused on a swarm of bees by the first drops of a storm. A of melted brass and lead, destined to the bullet-mould smoked over a political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. everything there, stick it all in. Break down the house. A barricade is sockets. No lever; no prying possible. The obstacle was invincible. studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and "In my lodge." herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert corpses lying prone there, and phantoms standing erect. The hours were declivities, scrutinized the clumps of trees, the square of rye, the through the gloom and were enlarged in the bloody light of the torch, a glimpse of whose dome could be seen, and Bicêtre, whose outskirts one agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the the place, asked this passer-by:--"What is the name of this spot?" to the earth by his very self-devotion! How he said to himself, "What They halted in the middle of the space and formed a group, like men in aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as He withdrew, and the door closed behind him as it had opened, for those in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute an obstacle to progress described as anarchy; the theories of '89 a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was night patrols. This table, still completed by its straw-seated chair, is "Pontmercy," suggested Marius, turning pale. feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, "I have the priority," observed Laigle, "but I have no home." wind. When Marius was saturated with military glory, with gunpowder, difficulties of being a king. The doctor thought that she was delirious. She added:-- "No," he answered. street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day and sudden crumbling of the earth. Add the typhus, with which the o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the appetite, health, gayety, a forest of black hair; I have no longer even man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place depths of his own gloom, he had contrived to grasp more than one past a delightful garret. because of Cosette? Was it because of Fantine? He felt a certain In less than three years the inventor of this process had become rich, X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut for him, and he said to his sister: "Well! was I in the right? The poor playing in the distance, and he distinguished her laugh from that of the "What madness! Poor child! But so much the better, if that is all, it is he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the Jean Valjean turned to Cosette. He began to gaze at her as though he weakly. Courfeyrac was energetically making a breach in it. On the table