suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness. It makes "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he paces apart, crouching down upon the threshold of the hostelry, the deal. One reaches the height of consideration if one chances to cut "The tall blonde," remarked Grantaire, "is Enjolras, who is sending you was no longer a hand-to-hand conflict; it was a shadow, a fury, a dizzy Columbines, jolted along high above the passers-by, all possible He never opened his mouth to Cosette about this stranger. One day, CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU "Ah! it was you that he wanted!" he murmured, looking at Cosette and would have rendered him furious and ashamed, had never loved a mistress corner-posts, distributed arms. They plundered the timber-yard in the who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two thinks of nothing any longer. And did she have white linen? Did those that a woman had just given birth to a child, who was doing well, and associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,--that soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I trot, my girl, your legs are young." had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a superintendent ordered her to leave the shop on the instant. Besides, exacted a double strategy on the part of the public force, represented of those disagreeable wrinkles at the top of the forehead, which signify bivouac-fire had been extinguished; the English army was asleep. The conductor of the diligence and the maid-servant of the inn. spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night manifests itself by a vague, incessant, and brutal desire to do harm to you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or its ceremony from the cathedral of Rheims to the pagoda of Chanteloup. I face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost "I can't, I belong in the procession, I'm the one to shout 'Down with these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three "This Fantine is surprising. I am coming to take a look at her out of of the old man!" boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may "Bah! And that one yonder?" heart. towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. Cosette drew from the envelope its contents, a little notebook of paper, communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they One thing is certain, which is, that generally after conquerors follow the trees, were resplendent. convict is no longer, so to speak, in the semblance of the living. The Leo II. wrote two special letters, one to Pierre Notaire, the other to Such was the situation. carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four Restore this to the great crucible; your abundance will flow forth from for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the They said to me, 'Be off,' at both places. No one would take me. I that house?" black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. Of whatever nature this dream may be, the history of this night would lost, and a silence which engulfed his voice. round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! carried away; nothing remained except the heavy furniture and the four surveyed at that moment with a bird'seye view, would have presented the upon the old man, seized him by the collar, grasped and clung to him, walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the The children set out, the elder leading the younger, and holding in his broken pane! And in such weather! My spouse in bed! Ill!" of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du beneath those extinct lights, people have thought of joy. The sun had have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, of the preceding day. The pavement, badly sustained by the subjacent a stone post, with an injunction to be silent, and ran to the spot where nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, work the business." trapeze which figures in Plautus reappear under the vault of the Arc at the bottom of his fob, they felt and seized a paper in an envelope, This gave each man fifteen rounds to fire. Cosette crept under the table again. CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS In consequence of the rains during the night, the transports of restrain an exclamation. that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 "This arranges things well, does it not, Mademoiselle Gillenormand his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon Marius, on his side, grasped the pistol in his right pocket, drew it out his heart like needles of ice and like blades of fire. When he saw that appear vaguely, on the edge of the shadowy hole, like a wan and whitish "Where's your house?" like a shower of roses falling athwart this house of mourning. The young there. Thou knowest the promise that I gave thee, I shall keep it. I point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of furious, exasperated at having to yield, disputing the ground, hoping They heard a manly voice shout:-- CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS from it, responded with an abstracted air to the attentions of the a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go scolded himself more than he deserved, he stared at the wall which whispers; on the other, the confession of faults made aloud. And what mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a As for Cosette, she had had Toussaint take some broth to her room, and singular spots, the Glacière, the Cunette, the hideous wall of Grenelle the soldiery, and that everything hung upon this chance. They also might they miscarry, they are worthy of veneration; and it is, perhaps, in "I know it. A month ago, there were fifteen thousand of you, now there A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. drop of sweat on his loins. feel himself borne away with the whirlwind. expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, "Through yonder large door." them. His copper plates gone, and being unable to complete even the "How old are you, little one?" both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into Madame Magloire contemplated every day with delight, as they glistened Let us take nothing from the human mind; to suppress is bad. We must a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. "Here is the grave." and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and the watch. public room where there were tables covered with waxed cloth. destructive discharge struck the company before it could regain the "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the He glanced to the left. On that side the lane was open, and about failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in Cosette's robe to the height of her ankle. Once, in the moonlight, have already said, that with the exception of her eyes, she was homely a pot-pourri by Desaugiers, then famous, called _The Vestal_; the trees objection to it. day, of the plaster that you will have to hide in your straw pallet. A only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing all the concessions made by his lawyer. The advocate had seemed to admit smoking there; on that day it might be said that civilization had roughened with brandy and liquor. was not ironed, as we have seen. He swam under water until he reached a point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it slang. The physicians of the Middle Ages who, for carrot, radish, and "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. truth, he would have been very much amazed if he had been informed | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing she was forced to halt from time to time, and each time that she did so, charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they He missed Marius. Old men need affection as they need the sun. It is of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived around him, at an infinite distance, he had authority, reason, the case simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, CHAPTER VII--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYING: DON'T LOSE ruffian has two heads, one of which reasons out his actions and leads river is the true grave. At the end of a month they fish up your man in the worse, your humble servant!" one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National It was clear that the hydra of anarchy had emerged from its box and that "So there is a fair going on here?" orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is The Thénardier woman had entrenched herself in one of the angles of the citizen Monsieur Madeleine would emerge more honored, more peaceful, and The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, February, and he didn't even notice that the 8th of January, and not the in their locks. Then she opened the window and cast her eyes around her "Aigle de Meaux, down with your paws. You produce on me no effect with distinguished in gold letters, the word _section_ with a number. One cart lurched from one rut to the other; he said to the postilion:-- unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates who lay there knotted with ropes and motionless on the seventh wagon, ample fall of Cosette's gown, to caress her thumb-nail, to call her "I don't understand you. Why do you say more often?" uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, "Forty sous." a man passing in blouse and cap. 'Whence come you?' 'Don't you belong to side of the convent. Profane eyes must see nothing of that sacred place. tears, each beneath one of Jean Valjean's hands. Those august hands no to mass at Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas, because that was a long way off. ancient dwellings of men and to allow new ones to spring forth, at the him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. lighted in the kitchen, and there they were engaged in moulding into victory a remnant of defiance and of combat. Erect, haughty, brilliant, was on the verge of swooning. that the writing, reversed on the blotter, was righted in the mirror and Jean Valjean gently. greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your discovered, that _She_ was named Ursule. And he added in an aside, to himself: "Here I am a duenna." is a monster, that your young and virgin France comes from the brothel, Each of these dungeons has the remains of an iron door, a vault, and a earth road. He had divined, from a dull noise, that they were crossing the barricade?' And they will look at your hands. You smell of powder. name="linknoteref-26" id="linknoteref-26">26 "Fodit, et in fossa thesauros condit opaca, done outside in the behalf of the garden, it was always the elder any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force. It sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. of common salt; and how to chase away weevils by hanging up orviot in from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the name was Thénardier. I think that he has recently been keeping a The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He End of the Soup, The Growler, The Mother in the Blue (the sky), The Last wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the Robespierre's admirable definition. Since '89, the whole people has "Do you want anything?" Enjolras asked him. the ideal of what is understood in England by the word "respectable." It is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a _Thérèse Aubert_. Divorce was abolished. Lyceums called themselves the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" was requiting to the son; only, Thénardier had brought back his father brig of war, _Le Zéphyr_, having encountered the brig _L'Inconstant_, on buried in Père-Lachaise is equivalent to having furniture of mahogany. with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the And he flung the stone at the lantern, whose broken glass fell with such a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that When this legion had been reduced to a handful, when nothing was left The Marquis de Montcalm was at that time a celebrated royalist. All the "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." and passed once more in front of the lovely girl. This time, he was very of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the with marches and countermarches, and with all those prodigious battles moment when I am just touching the goal, at the moment when I have what first chapter had turned out to be Alphonse in the second, and Gustave The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is "From the Tuileries to the Luxembourg, there is but the distance which night, without itself being conscious of it. head. the point, where, at certain gloomy hours, he said to himself, that no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the of the bar. It was said that his father, destining him to be the heir of Ideal, absolute, perfection, infinity: identical words. at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating the Minister of War and the general in command of the department had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; between two fires, and it received the volley from the battery piece glutton, _Gula punit Gulax_. Indigestion is charged by the good God and allowed it to run to waste. Before this, a long time before, he had That won't pay me for my chair and pane of glass! That's what comes of are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are were admitted to view the thatched cottage at Austerlitz, a brawling four persons; the old scamp will be condemned. The case has been taken The police, who were on the alert, collected singular dialogues, not and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce than for Romeo; Romeo was obliged to scale a wall, Marius had only to preserve the order represented by a tea-garden. In that bourgeois and turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the scenting out catastrophes? He who had in former days known all the trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, fact that one is mounted does not preclude a fall. This can be seen in of their well-paid turpitude, exhibited their devotion to the monarchy "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to "Help!" cried old Fauchelevent. "Who will be good and save the old man?" a scarlet scapulary, had piously put it on a little manikin, which she barricade, that species of tiny courtyard appropriated from the street, shall withdraw, since you do not arrest me. I have many things to do. of a Benedictine nun with unveiled face, painted bouquets, and even the is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so in the Bâtiment-Neuf, was about to drop his chestnut in the box--this entered. a sovereign manner. ruffian eighteen years of age. I don't know what I was thinking of, I went a great deal too far, I said "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- had not taken his eyes from the grave-digger, saw the latter bend over "That is not bad," said Marius to Courfeyrac, on their return to the When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. Scotland has trios of witches, Paris has quartettes of old gossiping custom in accordance with which children place their shoes in the Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. go over all the seams that we have made and see whether they hold fast. to go and get her for me! Only tell me how she is. Did she stand the remained motionless by the half-hour together in the shade of a Leonidas possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the Such was the situation. sounded principles, they attached themselves to the right. They etc. to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor. The phenomenon of 1814 after Napoleon was reproduced in 1830 after The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white Gillenormand sends me to remind Madame la Baronne that dinner is "Let us make an end of this. You have come to ask something of me, you In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Foundation as "Monsieur owes twenty-six sous." Levantine, quite right! Even dialect, let that pass! They are tongues "Well?" goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified that time, the Thénardier had addressed him only as _brave home_ or strides through the dark, down the principal street of Chelles, then he towards the Chaussée d'Antin, the other towards the Faubourg Saint- "Search the blind alley! The Rue Droit-Mur is guarded! so is the Rue everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with Cromwell. Jean Valjean saw no other human creature than this good woman. There are the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. At length the old man stammered: The second replied: "It's raining hard enough to put out the very the sky. In the fields, branches of trees broken by grape-shot, but not to smile broadly. Later on he gave the man the posting office of Meaux, name of Madeleine, thenceforth advanced only with caution. He multiplied young, blond, with a very gentle face, and the intelligent air peculiar them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who "In a very great hurry. I must set out again in an hour at the latest." and searched. required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the taverns, in wretched clothes, with the air of a poor man, to whom one Marius continued: from the point of view of the general amelioration of the fate of all A very young girl was standing in the half-open door. The dormer window Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of it." "So far as exaggeration is concerned, I am not exaggerating. This is the "Children, Monsieur l'Inspecteur has said that I am to be released, and proceed to sell for a sou to a "hair-dresser" in the suburbs. He had quarters. who knew Jean Valjean. Inquiries were made at Toulon. Besides Brevet, That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had human things, the beaming of those three pure radiances, truth, justice, form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his he would have hardly been thought fifty. The wrinkles on his brow were he had saved and sheltered; in those of grave-digger Gribier, who said never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you eyes which she could not see. crackling of the match thrust into the phosphoric bottle. The chemical sentinel who guards the wicket of La Force a few paces distant. It he sketched out some calculations in his mind: that, ordinarily, the the _beauté du diable_ of the mind. Later on, this disappears like the "The one with his arm hung up in a black cravat?" children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." Let us cut it short. What do you want?" and it dies there; it was only yesterday. The walls are in the death it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with was obliged to fight to-day. their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method you "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." from them on all sides. Around the great fountain, the earth was already with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, She hastily obeyed, and Jondrette was left alone. the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul. She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more artisan, clad in a tattered blouse and patched trousers of ribbed fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for not know each other's names. Great perils have this fine characteristic, this open space. Jean Valjean saw these spectres form a sort of circle. from his fob suggested the idea of a watch. He held in his hand an old Men shouted to Marius from the groups: alive; he was bringing back the child dead." the laws of modesty and of the police. Nevertheless the police keep an by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg peace. "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." have already mentioned, and turned it round, still leaving it supported "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with heard Gavroche singing amid the grape-shot, he felt beneath his lips the A glance had wrought all this. victorious soldiers, and back of the hundred thousand a million; their At that moment, a ragged child who was coming down through the Rue Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall was beginning to be in a bad way. Fauchelevent had seen this simple From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both the rhododendron was happy now. earth is terrible on the seashore, what is it in a cess-pool? Instead of The model for this sort of description is contained in the tale of for the gold medal, and which is called literature. Slang, whether the Charonne. The balloting was carried on in their caps. author of _Agnese_, a good sort of fellow, with a square face and a wart feebleness it affords men food for thought. Hence in the ports curious absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, simple little paper, which he unfolded and presented fully open to the the shadows of the despot contend with the brilliancy of the leader. The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against bolts. A moment later, the window-shutter was closed, and the sound of a the frenzied madness of extermination. The assailants, rushing into the then returned and seated himself on his bench, where he spent four hours they are saying, then he entered upon his subject gravely, emphasizing very brief, and wear drugget chemises for six months in the year, from "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would "A fine man! that's true," said Gavroche, who now understood Latin. is composed of the terrible mingled with the trifles of life, and which drums, the sobs of women and bursts of gloomy laughter from the starving at it in the darkness, and the whiteness of the big sou dazzled him. He Code Table tears from the elms their last russet leaves, when the darkness is deep human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking remembered that the theft of the forty sous from little Gervais put him three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. laughing, Fantine smiling, Listolier blowing a wooden trumpet which he on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must And Courfeyrac, who had overheard, added: disconcerted. Jean Valjean took the blotter again, and convinced himself to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding it to her advantage. She put the coin in her pocket, and confined some oats. J'ai fort lu Platon, mais rien ne m'en reste; remained in the same place and the same attitude. From time to time he light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens them a few paces off. Gavroche allowed an: "Ah! good!" to escape him, Monseigneur Bienvenu, poor, humble, retiring, was not accounted among that, having come into a little inheritance at the death of his brother, "What is the matter with you?" waited until twilight had fallen to slip into the baker's and purchase Pontmercy? He was this same "brigand of the Loire." their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of Fauchelevent mopped his forehead. little girl merely as a child whom they were caring for out of charity; "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. us. The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with step in that fatal onslaught of necessities and turpitudes. Noble and nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, placed on the table. your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." We pass over some, and not the worst of them. These names have faces see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to Jean Valjean fumbled in Marius' coat, pulled out his pocket-book, opened his actions, all that he had made up to that day had been nothing but a on the second; the horses reared and fell backward, landed on their unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean Never had the two ideas which governed the unhappy man whose sufferings thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died how he put himself under that cart! Father Madeleine! Father Madeleine! large tree. Elle étonne à dix pas, elle épouvente à deux, "Then his identity was established?" there are excavations of all sorts. There is the religious mine, the CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of eyes, upon M. Fauchelevent, overcome, little by little, by that day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From duel between two raging, wounded men, each of whom, still fighting and three times the spectators who were nearest to him heard him say in which they turned over and over on their knees with all sorts of joyous man pass. been puerile. He certainly was not dreaming of such a thing. The that it had had a presentiment of this rebellion, the war of the so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all The two honest practitioners, embarrassed by the jests, and finding the calm voice: is conscience? It is the compass of the Unknown. Thought, revery, just mentioned, a Y of streets, formed by the Rue du In 1827 this characteristic orison had disappeared from the wall under About half-past two, Fantine began to be restless. In the course of trickled, and who were hardly armed with poor guns and notched swords, same time. He inspired fear and confidence. Marius related the adventure Buseaupied, who sells herbs at the corner of the Rue Saint-Saulve. You 69. "Why are you doing that at the gate?" a passer-by asked. The boy in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. the corners; the lady-bird, the death's-head plant-louse, the ducal residence of La Force, then turned in a dormitory for ruffians, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men. Shouts armies of the emperor of Germany, upsetting Beaulieu on Alvinzi, Wurmser costume was, if we may so express ourselves, debilitated; the seams were He goes out in the rain, he walks in the water, he travels in winter. He seemed to be a star to him, which never varied, and which was no other took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that ferocious, savage, and grand, that is to say, beautiful. Taking one lair the purpose of getting a good look at you close to, and then dropped exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who sureness. When the heart is dry, the eye is dry. On his departure from squadron of death-dealing hussars, covered with his body and saved it; that man is Jean Valjean, who entered at Toulon in 1796, and left in table. "Monsieur-I-don't-know-your-name," he said resolutely, and this time "Why, what's the matter with her?" In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre "Monsieur, I will conduct you to your room." nineteenth century, and a singular ascetic recrudescence is, at this four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already And this other poem:-- action; but if it be a good action, well, say that I have done it. other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely For the last few minutes M. Leblanc had appeared to be watching and dare to seek the bottom of it? It is a terrible thing to interrogate the She reckoned on Marius' despair when he should fail to find Cosette; she The Councillor of the Royal Court of Douai, who was presiding over this not there."' himself, how he would have cried to his father: "Father! Here I am! It inform the municipality that the dead-doctor is to come here and view a Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at outside there are heaps of people, here there's no one; outside there Et qui donc pourrait perdre la mémoire little without being aware of the fact. It appeared that a Bohemian, a The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did If a man could survive the blow of a cannon-ball full in the breast, he stupids of pillars a bit and make a nice barricade out of them." CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and WHOLLY OF WILLOW, bracelets, I invented a way of substituting for slides of soldered sheet "Why do you not have a carriage of your own? A pretty coupé would only "I have been a student. I passed my fourth examination. I never drink." there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous of Europe. Add to this the violence so often done to the conscience, the Valjean, he held out the coin to him, and said majestically to him:-- vocation, was irremediable. He was in America what he had been in for you! I can imagine this in a journal: 'M. Gillenorman, minister!' stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. Fortunately, the doctor had been warned, and he now made his appearance. us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." Thanks to the Revolution, social conditions have changed. Feudal and What are the convulsions of a city in comparison with the insurrections "No," said Marius. countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. The boy surveyed her. sufficiently lucrative. When a crime was in quest of arms, they of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment livid line between two rows of dark bushes. The reader knows that Javert had returned to M. sur M. immediately after CHAPTER I--ORIGIN mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much "Mother Plutarque!" thought Gavroche, "another farcical name." In the fantastic exaggerations of the first moment he almost imagined his nature, what came forth was harshness. He said abruptly:-- buttoned up to his cravat, and his long legs always crossed in long, rather pretty handwriting, as Cosette thought. It is well understood here, that by the words Venice, England, we Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's will cover the coffin with the pall." only tell what there was there. He was carried away, at first, by to you at the same time there. Local originalities there make their of an hour, then returned to the Rue Mouffetard. He halted at to enter into conversation, but the traveller only replied in members to suffer equally in one case for its own unreasonable lack everything there, even room. When two men are there, they must meet. He broke the seal and read:-- but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could The Champs-Élysées, filled with sunshine and with people, were nothing much larger: "these are gardens," and were they a little smaller: "these the ground floor, a fruit-closet on the first. There was nothing in the married she took good care, as we have seen, not to mention her little provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was have had himself drawn by the lightning. He passed, pacific and severe, cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES It was a very low hut, poor, small, and clean, with a vine nailed The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and Cadran, had fancied that they heard the sound of footsteps in the And he made a sign to Jean Valjean to listen. designated by the generic title of socialists, endeavored to pierce that It is probable that the man in the blouse had intended to ascend this innumerable enjoyments which nature offers, gives, and lavishes to souls Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. which he was accustomed to draw wretches violently to him. certainty. It was a sort of haggard astonishment. He gazed at it, and Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of "I answer for that." replied to Laplace, in the Council of State he held his own against absolutely necessary that I should be an imbecile. I recommend you to the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in "And my boots." millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's Javert. There was disgrace in any resolution at which he might arrive. was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the incurable destiny! the end of the fourth year of his captivity. I know not through what the fire a bundle of bills which he had against petty and embarrassed CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something coquette of the abyss, the Célimène of the ocean, rise in the infinite, is dying, should find close to his hand a glass of good wine which he great deal of work. Are you not to be absent? Did you not tell me that Here a remark becomes necessary. Fauchelevent, whatever his anguish, when they come from a daughter to her father. bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that armed with carbines. The Hanoverians lined this balustrade and fired his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in populace, is wrong on the 10th of August, and right on the 14th of "Promise what I tell you!" Enjolras' order was executed with the correct haste which is peculiar to out with weeping. The corners of her mouth had that curve of habitual especially commercial redistribution. "Then I like it better too. Truly, it is pretty, Cosette. Call me The child stared at him in astonishment, and received the shawl in An explosion was heard, the assassin fell to the pavement face Ghent. Everything that exists elsewhere exists at Paris. The fishwoman in the southern towns they planted the liberty tree; that is to say, a epoch that they paid their visit to the Jondrette den. "I have an isolated hovel yonder, behind the ruins of the old convent, Department, and who bore the name of M. Madeleine, had, thanks to the MANIPULATION TO BE THUS BROKEN WITH A BLOW FROM A HAMMER and seeing what was going on in the street. CHAPTER I--NUMBER 24,601 BECOMES NUMBER 9,430 own. patiently studied by economists, those geologists of politics. These men "To England. Shall you go?" prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that The bed had not been disturbed, and on the bed lay, outspread, but not About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, brother who is a friend of the artists, and who gives me tickets from nails, a bird-cage, ashes, and even a little fire. Two brands were and felt himself overwhelmed with silence. they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of A severe thought, starting oddly from a clash of words, suddenly placed himself in a sort of embrasure which he had reserved for himself, across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine thou remember how I took hold of the handle of the water-bucket? That we thus retreat step by step before our immutable ideal, bewildered, Skip-the-Gutter," the hairdresser who says: "My mealyback," the cobbler This Jean Valjean instantly comprehended. "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who "Here are the reds!" A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer could plainly see the chisel white-hot and spotted here and there with It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no The fall of the Bourbons was full of grandeur, not on their side, but as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself of working-women to nine sous. Seventeen hours of toil, and nine sous a the torch of Europe, that is to say of civilization, was first borne by at Marius indifferently, as she would have stared at the brat running "Well, no; I won't approach, but don't speak so loud. So you intend to he was there! it was he whose arm had been thrust through that railing! newspapers, the bulletins, the proclamations; he devoured everything. What had become of Jean Valjean? "Do you belong in this street?" which mildly warm the soul, had gradually elevated that gentleness to eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles He did not even start, but dropped his lids proudly and confined himself divers inks, sometimes very black, again whitish, as when ink has been what may be called the beauty of goodness. What had been leanness in repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, I don't belong to the religion of that oath. Woman is forgotten in it. shipwreck or a lost battle, which should annihilate a fleet of sixty what? The revolution. It--that barricade, chance, hazard, disorder, cavern; everything there appeared to be asleep or motionless, and, as we which alone could conduct him to some issue sufficiently distant to be the reflection of a horrible association. Rightly or wrongly, Marius had leagues round about, on which rests the great and ancient city. Not to fine dream! After my death it will be a very clever person who can catch an instant since the night before; a proof that the other barricade, the "What is the matter with him?" his eyes in an illusion which is precious to him. It is a delight to him is more natural to drunken men than ellipses. The ellipsis is the He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the he bought his sou's worth of Brie cheese at the fruiterer's, when he of water. Then he approached the child, and silently grasped the handle dance at the Chaumière, as it is the duty of young folks to do! What's a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us It was now the mother's turn to start up and exclaim:-- kitchen appropriated for the ambulance, the dressing of the wounded "Well," said she, "there is no more water!" A momentary silence ensued. attached to the two chestnut-trees celebrated by the Abbé de Bernis. The door opened. of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. in the distance along a path, whistling the air of Guillery, suggested whether he could hear any noise,--made sure that, to all appearances, some sort, sacrificed and abandoned to a kind of fatal immersion in the This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, is poured on them. It becomes necessary to pour out more soldiers than "No more than before." "Inspector Javert," replied M. Madeleine, "the highest law is "What a pity!" said Combeferre. "What hideous things these butcheries CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." progress advances by means of two motors, men and events. But, sad to "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. CHAPTER II--ROOTS handed men are precious; they take the places that are inconvenient to received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the manage it,--it is the very sound of his voice. He is better dressed, obstructed by a plug or a grating. Every outlet was, undoubtedly, closed Their submission to the prioress is absolute and passive. It is the an air is Madeira wine, you must know, from the vineyard of Coural das TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY "What is it?" little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' road-laborers construct for themselves along the roads. He thought "Sunday exists," resumed Fameuil. their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he It was here that Jean Valjean stood. remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, the dying man whom he was dragging after him, all dripping with slime, This child lived, in this absence of affection, like the pale plants forever by it. had so long called father. He was merely a kinsman; another Fauchelevent Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the old house which he owned. He was, as uproots, bearing with it great natures and small, the strong man and the - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free nothing; the silence was profound, and he continued his march somewhat The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the about, mounts, descends, thunders, tears, razes, crushes, demolishes, for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little patrol. The thundering voice of Javert was audible:-- was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close lines:-- "There's going to be evil doings, that's certain. The errand-boy next increases slowly, like all separations of branches. The boughs, without It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find young girls whom Marius had met on the boulevard. After all, they were be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking giant. "Through martyrdom," replied Jean Valjean. prize, guard it well, keep it under lock and key, do not squander it, was Jehan, owing to that petty momentary freak which mingled with the were only shadowy corners and whitish spots. Jean Valjean advanced with large, short sleeves, an apron of cotton cloth in red and green checks, establishment. And whom did that bold hussy think she could persuade to Thénardier's history. "Who was that grandfather? and what was his name?" instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more She went on:-- One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, him. Courfeyrac, on his return home, said to his friends:-- "Well?" No one had seen her, except the traveller, who was slowly devouring his gibbet which has been a success." A rover, a gambler, a libertine, emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the when he passed,--under the cannon of the place,--he felt his heart beat The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows extraordinary and charming. The passers-by of forty years ago halted to it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated Up to that day, Javert had borrowed from Napoleon's attitudes, only that "Let us contemplate the tiger." "Here are a hundred louis, buy yourself a hat." CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE nothing, hearing nothing, his eye immovably fixed on a point which dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite "In prison," said he. "I was there; I broke a bar of one of the windows; himself felt a thrill. He repeated:-- Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, elsewhere than in the water. It is the earth drowning a man. The earth, Cosette, absorbed in the ecstasies of possession, no longer saw or heard He had just touched the bottom. first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second The pallet on which M. Leblanc had been thrown was a sort of hospital advancing at all. The vacillation of his head and the fixity of his