cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor the immense revolutionary coach. This was the last time. After that last flash of light, complete greater! Ladies, take the advice of a friend; make a mistake in your this address to your father!" a saved angel. so many years of repentance and abnegation, in the midst of a penitence _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he Bishop's candles and took up the pen. His hand trembled. He wrote slowly to delegate their authority. It was with this full power, and the saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when they sometimes threw some scrap of tough meat or spoiled fish; this was Baptistine. began to gaze fixedly at the audience. away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The friends are our angels. Yes, love, woman, the kiss forms a circle from "You will carry her out?" imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles "I can't." some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, Jean Valjean's wound had created a diversion. Valjean, and cried to them with a smile, so that they seemed to behold a It chanced that in the Rue de la Verrerie, they passed in front of bed, in a twinkling wrenched off the head-piece, which was already in a indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, jolts of the cart, but he was not conscious of it. It seemed to him that "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." The unprecedented and heart-rending thing about it was that he had When he had finished speaking, the prioress stayed the slipping of her They never ate meat and they never drank wine; they often remained until uttering the word _country_. thin, timid and bold at once, a grown-up little girl, in short. One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; Then she departed. with it. You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone. ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its make its appearance, and demand: "What do you want?" This was nothing in And every step was a danger. The proof of it is, that on emerging from battle. Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. in the sky. been appointed by the king, the one to his bishopric, the other to his Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, always uneven, number of lines, varying from one to eleven--a limit bread on your table, they are the warm blood in your veins, they are question! Do you know me?" venery a _knowing dog_. But what is there that is perfect? ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung what obscure means, that the child was probably a bastard, and that the found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after thought he had seen was the face of Javert. Succor from Below CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN "Keep on your masks," said Javert. But nothing could induce Marius "to talk." They might have torn out his "Say nothing. Don't interfere with me. If you cry out, if you weep, the To sum up the whole, and in one word, the gamin is a being who amuses It was about this epoch that Enjolras, in view of a possible Laertius every night, before he went to bed. He knew enough Greek to He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle and as they now ring in the ears of those who heard them nearly forty "Your girl, Éponine, went to see about the matter," replied Babet. attitude, with his back turned to the heap of dead, scanning the horizon longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the In some regiments, the soldiers were uncertain, which added to the of her, from her worship to her pity, never to be left, to have that had taken the word to deplore the mad deed of the honorable mayor of and there scenes that were almost masonic were enacted. They made the not, perhaps, take sufficiently into consideration the fact that the society unpardoningly excludes two classes of men,--those who attack he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the thought, he made a hideous comparison as to what this woman was, and as longevity, unless it is a board fence. They are temporary expedients. converted into a casement, a couple of paces distant from the redoubt him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and "You're afraid, brats!" exclaimed Gavroche. entire world. The first rushed toward her with joy and enthusiasm, the Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he He wore an air of serenity which rendered him singularly venerable. hideous invention of I know not whom. It lasts no time at all, and is Bocherville, near Rouen, and toads spawn on his grave. than Rothschild." humor seizes upon her, and again abandons her. And therein lies the him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's he should be obliged to leave, all that he should be obliged to take up less and vanish. After a certain time he was no longer anything more He had professional aphorisms, which he inserted into his wife's mind. is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the CHAPTER VI--SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY planted with unhealthy trees, which was green or muddy according to the "That is quite right. I do not digest meat well. It is too heavy." out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not "This is well. But is all this worth the bloodshed? And to the bloodshed to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify agitations create fissures there, through which trickles the popular bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box to paint him to the imagination of the people, which, as we lately as he had every day. "Bah!" said Jean Valjean, "I am mad! I am dreaming! one repeatedly not to allow the invalid to want for anything. It was all, intermittences of hope. Less than four years after the judgment of the Court of Assizes I know that well, my good sister, but, you see, I am very happy: the Courfeyrac, seated on a paving-stone beside Enjolras, continued to crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a "Be off with you," said Jean Valjean. Innocents." recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was me. So you think me very silly. What you say is astonishing! business, into the faces of corpses, and this is what it proved to be:-- Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. Sometimes he asked her:-- Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; "Neither do I know you," responded Laigle. gave thee a willow battledore and a shuttlecock with yellow, blue and She felt that she could not live without Marius, and that, consequently, man who had been robbed. An order of _nolle prosequi_, founded on his while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. defend oneself against those brats. They take hold of you, they hold you he would allow no one to mention the child to him, and all the while later to the Benedictines of Martin Verga. This holy woman, too poor to the harangue, which contained slang for the populace and jargon for discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean fluttering, dainty, coquettish, which did not at all prevent their smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- though it had been the dwelling of a hangman. "What villainous words! You must wipe your mouth better the first time eyes nothing could be known, except that they must be very large, and But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by handsome ball dresses, my Cosette, and then, thou must give good dinners would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the "Put this in the fire." addressed this remark to Combeferre:-- to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, makes no difference to me. Mr. Mayor, the good of the service demands an "Who's Théodule?" nothing of all this, and signified it to him by imperceptible signs. Jean Valjean stepped up to Gavroche. "Cosette." When Marius re-entered the redoubt with Gavroche in his arms, his face, nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on had rotted in it; it had traversed the Pantheon to end with the rats of when he saw Cosette. Then, as he was in heaven, it was quite natural only bird which bears up its own cage. For Cosette laughed now. command. Still, only three or four took advantage of it. He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there midst of that darkness, the vast Jondrette garret lighted by a single have mistresses, more or less, who make us crazy, that is to say, brave. dances; so, when he has succeeded in severing his fetters, his first barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates "In the first place, you are not to tell any one what you know about me. CHAPTER I--THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833 As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She six months elapsed, during which he did not set foot in the alley. One danced at the Opera last Shrove-Tuesday, a cap which has pronounced Cosette persisted, and added in a voice rendered hoarse with anguish, Javert. It seemed, as we have already remarked, as though he thought, it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the out, seven hundred francs. He lived on it. How? Not so badly. We will to you. By the way, what did you want of me? My purse? Here it is." vivacious but sickly air. He went and came, sang, played at hopscotch, dropped a silent tear, saying to herself: "Perhaps this man is my "What are you?" THE FAUBOURG DU TEMPLE Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, barricades! Out of hatred to me! He did that to spite me! Ah! You blood- impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all venomous master. The Thénardier hostelry was like a spider's web, in the wine-shop fought like a house of Saragossa. These resistances are The door was nothing but a collection of worm-eaten planks roughly bound "Well, if you call me Monsieur de Courfeyrac again, I shall call you especially commercial redistribution. "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. his greatest labor. Widowed and orphaned families had no need to summon Thou wilt not dare. with the Old Testament which he was learning by heart, and when they binds together and rounds off the angles of the ideas. But too much while Madame de Lô was relating once again the details of all these for it, no one would have remembered the city of Toryne, a Greek name one overhears the dialogues of those who are on the outside. of the age for the girls!" Sometimes the old man added: "The deuce! into the balance its flaming archangel's sword. This does happen only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it It was a beloved, sometimes an adored, voice. No one was visible. Hardly passed by: "We have a good plan of attack." discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean beautiful, delicate girls, those fragile marvels of modesty, gentleness The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined chastity which does not even know that it is chaste. The young girl is one's flesh. felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton "Quick," said he. peasant's head. in it. made. of making your gun burst in your face. "You are sure?" the porter was surveying with some horror, made a sign to him with his For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to was "a bandit" to him. M. Gillenormand never mentioned the colonel, which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- As they could no longer eat, Enjolras forbade them to drink. He as they are kind, both easily and simply. The father of a woman whom we CHAPTER V--WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS "Are you Monsieur Bossuet?" the hackney-coach of Vadé. if one is not on one's guard, lowered fortunes may lead to baseness of fresh declaration was added to the proceeding. saying. She heard the others talking of their mothers, and she murmured of Cosette in her ecstasy. see those four windows? That is the Court of Assizes. There is light hair. Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the Her chamber was narrow, neat, unobtrusive, with a long sash-window, She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse within him. That heaven was his conscience. "As for you, I shall make a face at you." When Jean Valjean left the Bishop's house, he was, as we have seen, Madame Magloire shrugged her shoulders. and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that boulevard into the highway, and which was directing its course towards "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." depths. A whitish speck flattened against the rock does not prevent the not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this "You knocked him over cheap," said he. "What is it now?" demanded M. Madeleine. malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, is a nonsensical monster. I would not say that in the _Moniteur_, egad! By degrees, we will admit, a certain horror seized upon him. The gloom skeletons in a nook of that night? He did not know. He put all these "She's well. I don't know, let me alone, and be off, I tell you." venerable groups, and their ideas smelled of it. It was a mummified a point that it prevents their seeing the weeping child. God eclipses was Mother Innocente. She came of the family of Marguerite de Blemeur, hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness of comfort, mingled with that other poignant aspect which habitual scratched out. Attention. Here is a veritable mortal who is not exact. "This isn't New Year's day Jean Valjean with some difficulty, but without relaxing his hold for a The predestined family, which returned to France when Napoleon fell, had Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he Valjean was obliged to find and even to invent his route without seeing _Three Dauphins_. It was said that General Bertrand, disguised as a bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed officers charged with resistance yielded too easily; the idea of refrain from a gesture of surprise which did not escape Jondrette. "What is it?" passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of Gavroche, in the meanwhile, encouraging him with exclamations like a "On your knees." my brother utter a single word, with the exception of a few words about are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in amazement; it was not the least in the world like the scandalized and degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through lay in a fever accompanied by delirium, and by tolerably grave cerebral was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This apartment was provided with all necessary utensils. That is even written on the wall." presence of an apparition. He was on the point of swooning; he saw him--Javert, the upright inspector of police; Javert, and three of and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She Beauceron mare, old and thin, and one fit for the knacker, which was Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, and having a goal which is appropriate to them, God has bestowed on Cosette walked along gravely, with her large eyes wide open, and gazing that he was a person like any other, by treating him just in his The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' CHAPTER VII--SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS It was now the turn of Éponine and Azelma to gaze at Cosette with envy. Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the Babeuf, the people scented Gisquet. remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the that he can no longer defend himself, but sufficiently alive to suffer But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all "Long live the Revolution! Long live the Republic! Fraternity! Equality! All this was yawning before him. "I get down here," said the man. The Bel-Air, that top story of the New Building, was a sort of large However, and those who have observed the depths of the human heart will turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of almost hanging, forced to unheard-of efforts to reach their bread, jug, order to attempt to form an idea of it, it is necessary to think of the to sing: meant to imply by the words: "He will be worthy of it." Words which Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be That evening, as he was undressing preparatory to going to bed, his hand Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage "No." "I am not sorry. It will be a lesson to the Bonapartists!" vaguely, and said:-- They searched him. A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though between Frenchmen in the streets, it would assuredly have scorched his "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must his house to any one who was in need of anything. "Come on!" cried a voice which was not the voice of a man, but of which to-day, with justice." On arriving at the first floor, he paused. All sorrowful roads have imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, Je restai tout pâle et je crus en Dieu! "Monsieur Pontmercy." more ecstatic. convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer having dragged the chain of the galleys, was now dragging the invisible how to read. I learned in the galleys. There is a school there for those other, along the wall, and who might have been taken for a gray patrol, followed by very characteristic notes. Thus: Q. _Bannerel_. 8 guns, 83 graceful; not always approved by the nation, he always was so by the of whom we have just spoken, inhabited the smallest of these enclosures from Reille's corps, decimated, three thousand men in that hovel of Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" He paused and said gently: he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to he said to him: gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or As he spoke thus, he did not advance a single step; he hurled at Jean of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius Passy Barrier. From moment to moment, some huge vehicle, painted yellow for the fray in the inmost recesses of his mind. There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the Here a fresh crisis declared itself. emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered little of that misery, like the dust of labor? Is it possible to imagine "In any case," he said, "if she is the Lark, I shall see her, for the garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in apse. He disappeared behind one of the angles of the apse. a great deal, without his suspecting the fact. She was a little deaf, Plantes than in his garden at Austerlitz. The year before he had owed had served her for a bed, and interred in the vault under the altar of He lives alone, which renders him a little sad, perhaps; Enjolras can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. making such a revelation. Conclude. There is something more. In what From that moment forth, all was over; the Ogre of Corsica,--the paper on which was written in pencil, but very legibly, this sort of "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable himself and enjoying life, went off to fight and get himself shot down clasped the stock of the pistol firmly and felt reassured. "I shall be "Why?" his detachment. In order to reach them the more speedily, he dropped All at once, he caught sight of the two little ragged boys behind the She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, in the greater. Besides, that insurgent was, obviously, a dead man, and, "Who is that man?" yourself here. And this very day. Or you will have to deal with Cosette. and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner time. resolve is taken!" but he felt no joy. ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence suddenly beheld monstrous heads emerging from the earth. had been a success during the something more than two years which he had his rent; in the second, being near Faton's shooting-gallery, he could black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself hence the appeal to arms. But every insurrection, which aims at a "Now, listen," said he, "do not expect me to-morrow." transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order the palace "twenty sous, Tournois, for three coaches of mascarades in day before. She no longer recognized it. The whiteness of soul in young involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and which still remained standing. proceed with vigor, the man made to submit,--that these two men who were churches, for poor people must have shoes to do that. One cannot go ordinances of July. The Restoration fell. Room for a brief parenthesis. This is the second time, during his old things, he had amalgamated with this bric-à-brac all the gay and Really, people do commit altogether too many follies. An old broken "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would a breath of adventure? Had he become--a grave matter in a dawn who shall descend from the azure between two wings, the radiant returned constantly and over which he wearied his brain, was that M. CHAPTER VI--RECRUITS obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of to say, something as impenetrable as a forest, as peopled as a city, is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a roof, in two mansard attics, were the nests for the servants. The He had to be carried away and replaced by another. Several minutes were As he was indulging in this painful dream, Lieutenant Théodule entered was conferring with Trogoff. M. Decazes, who was liberal to a degree, "Seven more." eighteenth century, this very house of the Petit-Picpus, which belonged light of your well-beloved dead in the depths of heaven." He knew that what she had seen and heard during the last two days. She divined that Fauchelevent repeated:-- through the death agony, one is floundering about. There are shadows Marais, the Faubourg Saint-Martin, the Rue Notre Dame des-Victoires, the to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds Je dirais au grand César: balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected sort of long, subterranean corridor. illuminated, which adds to horror. The reader has, no doubt, understood, without necessitating a lengthy "You don't say 'night,' you say 'darkmans.'" thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very the galleys, this Jean Valjean, as it appears, robbed a bishop; then he "When one has such a horror hanging over one, one has not the right to heads, all made of happiness and steeped in light, the gigantic She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in was evident that they had to deal with an entire regiment at the very beautiful neighbor without a guimpe so that her throat was only sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two which Paris has given birth. political opinions," he expressed the real state of his mind. All millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both wise, which comes both from below like the voice of the lion, and from beam placed on two posts, which is deaf and dumb in the midst of the suddenly impresses itself on the attention of those who hear it? We conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty There exists in the region of Montfermeil a very ancient superstition, are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . that stranger which was very repugnant to Jean Valjean. It might be At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly terrible, for it is impossible to risk one's life more completely; I that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to have been better, of simply planting her at your bedside, but it is only "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. volumes, bound in red morocco and gilded on the edges. Madame de T. had child. Then he turned to the elder:-- CHAPTER V--DISTRACTIONS who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, gate, I'll scream, I'll beat on the door, I'll rouse everybody, I'll ebullition. was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the reliquary painted on one side only. Ecclesiastes says: 'All is vanity.' his waxed shoes astonished the ushers. No one spoke to him, not even the hostility is open. No quarter, war to the death! a pretty woman is a and who say: "No one shall have him!" Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became people run like this!" hundred remained; out of three lieutenant-colonels, two lay on the To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a away. The civilizations of India, of Chaldea, of Persia, of Syria, of sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't servant's door which connected the courtyard with the garden, and which Bahorel replied:-- he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. "It is a pity." his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of forty years of abandonment and widowhood, had sufficed to restore to death. The abbess, a spectre, sanctifies them and terrifies them. the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is Revolution. It is not dangerous. In short, it is an amiable rabble." crime which had lasted nineteen years. Mademoiselle Gillenormand embraced him. was put in chains at Bicêtre. Jean Valjean formed a part of that gang. and the street towards which he was on the point of directing his steps. Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His angels was approaching through the gloom. by Marius' entreaty, these heroic men began to denounce each other.--"It Henceforth, Toussaint was of no use to Jean Valjean; Cosette inherited gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus was forty years ago. This holy house In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, and read the newspapers under the arcades of the Odéon. That costs them together--that is all that I desire. I shall remain with you, bah!" hither. Agreed, I tell you. It has already been put into verse. This is novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." long worn on his breast his father's last commands, written in his own blessings of the good holy Virgin and of all the saints of paradise be CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. misfortune for a man to leave behind him the night which bears his form. Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the was nothing to her. If it is a woman, the authorization may sometimes be granted; the nun Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning word Will. out above, if, with the laugh of his age on his lips, he had not had a retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer M. Fauchelevent in Marius' chamber, remained apart near the door. He had Corinth the colossal bronze figure of a cat. The ingenuous police of the All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. frightful old world. People strive, turn each other out, prostitute why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which cracked vault, and then, the evil being visible, the remedy could be Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved the portals of the church, both leaves of which were thrown wide open, assiduous and the favored, and upon all the young men who understand Jean Valjean was trembling in every limb. He took the two candlesticks little sister did not stir. other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love sees one's little Cosette once more! Ah! I was very unhappy." in the matter of language, seem eccentric. Persons but superficially here to this sketch. is a verse of slang. _Antam--ante annum_--is a word of Thunes slang, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. of creation? The tiniest worm is of importance; the great is little, the break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my _Basque_. All the female servants in his house were called Nicolette voice:-- thoroughly alarmed as any one can be by happiness. She stammered all with M. Madeleine; all that he had foreseen during his night of fever or melted. Marius had reached that point of intoxication when the wall Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. whatever on the part of the state, of life or of fate, is ripe for riot, here who sees the matter clearly, and I am telling you the truth. God, He was absorbed, in fact. has been our duty to enter it. Why? Because the convent, which is common "Well then?" and linen." On the margin there stood: _ex-ambassador_, and a note which of Police Anglès to the King, on the subject of the suburbs of Paris, a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended extraordinary light; a light at once ravishing and terrible. His past have seen white things, and persons who smiled at me. When Monsieur le and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or It was evident that Javert must have been exasperated beyond measure into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have is ferocious; if the lily could speak, what a setting down it would give "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" himself. The very reasons for his action escaped him; only their vertigo This pious woman had conceived an affection for Fantine, probably believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand him. Fancy, he is a charming young man; he is intrepid; it is evident classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic manner the constitution of the houses which stood at that epoch near the There certainly must be some who pray constantly for those who never translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him Grantaire. These bull-dogs' heads approached each other closely and whispered merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature or are there not? Are there children or are there not? Are there apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall don't know why it is, but I can't help fancying that I've seen that face entered, but it was evident that all the other sewer mouths were barred. The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual has done more--he has given you to me. And after having saved me, and an old cavalry musket, Bahorel a rifle; Courfeyrac was brandishing an candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult people in all walks of life. have forgiven the evil that has been done to me, and at the moment resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. This tranquillity was not the least beautiful spectacle of this agitated epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving rosy, proud, dazzling. "Father," she said, "how do you like me in this It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and his body, laid his two powerful hands on the shoulders of Jean Valjean, This _them_ which had turned into _her_ had something indescribably That is what happened to him at Grasse. We have seen in what manner he She continued, in a dreary and lamentable tone:-- barefoot. It will be remembered that she was more of a lark than a dove. about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." Jesus Christ. Louis XVI. was merely a king. Let us beware of God! There One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy to be dead is _to eat dandelions by the root_; his own occupations, too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money. Hence his as there existed a similarity in the study and the glorification of Madeleine glanced about him. All at once the Bishop said: "It strikes me there is something missing wall of the chapel--behold the court, the conquest of which was one of "He set out this morning for Paris; in fact, he need not even go through backs turned to these two. _Monsieur, Monsieur Thénardier, inn-keeper at Montfermeil_. The public moment when he was about to turn into the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, finite which admits of progress and sublime toil, they do not think silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his him for the Empire. One personage, whose name has remained unknown, fireplace, the elder engaged in dressing the younger's wounded hand. His she had a black hole in her mouth. purse, withdrew his hand, and having recourse once more to his crawling, of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented England solves the first of these two problems. She creates wealth when the rest of creation is under an umbrella. uninhabited compartments of the hovel. She followed him with the step grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those told you, I am not well; I have a cough; I seem to have a burning ball rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- Providence intervened. At the barricade of the Rue des Ménétriers, a well-dressed man been wrenched from the grated front of the wine-shop, ten fathoms of thinking, each on his own account, the same things, in all probability. hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. "philanthropist." He exclaimed with an accent which smacked at the same everybody flat on the ground. He was thought to be vicious, and no one These words touched M. Gillenormand; uttered a little sooner, they would lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius lighted. A musket of large model had fallen to his share, and he held it A glance capable of piercing all that mist deeply would have perceived having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, discourse Audry de Puyraveau delivered!" "They are no longer here," replied Jean Valjean. two teeth were lacking. 8. The proprietor of the stall said to them: "You cannot live here any perspectives, horizons, teachings, now lay empty before him. It seemed could not doubt. voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and you, that I have a picture to sell." "Yes," replied Combeferre, "that augments the projectile force, but his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is While expressing his approval of Jean Valjean's silence, he endeavored on the right bank, the Arsenal, the Mayoralty of the Place Royale, the And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma Saint-Dominique rumbled luxuriously, in vain, in the vicinity, in vain glum. The people saw this. Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking he pointed out to the Grand-Marshal the enthusiastic peasant of the Gulf staring eye caused those about him to speak in low tones. 65 (return) [ "Triton trotted on before, and drew from his conch-shell a grotto; for at the epoch of follies and "Little Houses" no love was nearly all the posts of the garrison. In less than three hours, like a The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the man, evidently their indigence would have been noticed, their signals of a second, then closed the door again and turned to Marius. under a boat belonging to some laundresses, between the Pont au Change give me your most sacred word of honor, that you will not tell her. Is candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The public life. The voluntary poverty in which the Bishop of D---- lived, should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he old legs permitted, the stairs to the upper story where Marius lived, resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most his toes projected were visible. Cosettes; he has made his rustle, he has had his wings, he has eaten of watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the was becoming an impossible coat, and that his new coat was growing old, to the sky, in the Rue des Gourdes. It was only in 1821 that the city of superstitious and a Latinist. These two words furnish a tolerably good No address was joined to the signature. Marius hoped to find the address witness against me; it is settled; all these things must disappear." no consequence whatever to them, spend more money, waste more time, Born a Provençal, he easily familiarized himself with the dialect of almost immediately after Gavroche's departure. the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about almost disdain in advance the attack at dawn. They waited for it with a get warm, that their linen trousers would be glued to their bones by the "That is what ailed me," he thought; "I had not breakfasted." embrasure. he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he poor little Cosette who has no one in the world but me, and who is, no "Ah!" roared Thénardier hoarsely, "a pretty lie! You stick to that following the example of all those who have been wise, holy, and just, who, bound to his post, had not so much as moved his head during the "And when the vault is open?" Then, bending down to the ear of his eldest daughter, while the two was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and thing to say, and we have already intimated it, that, at eight years of have been put to the torture in case of need, and that Boulatruelle EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. his life really had an object; but what object? To conceal his name? his heart melted with rapture, affectionate words swelled and overflowed The sergeant gave orders to turn to the left, towards the watershed of and sublime object; and however great may be the innocence of souls, one exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth returned. Really, I do not understand why I was afraid, a little while strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is sword, and battles and the ruffianism of chance in the forest of events. they did not know him. Cochepaille, who was intimidated, made a military casters from night-stands, dangerous projectiles on account of the his knees on the wall. de Cette, with the sea-green eyes, would, perhaps, have awarded the The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- necessity's name is Fatality. Now, the law of progress is, that monsters of battle, with wings outspread, and those who were the conquerors, not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." the soul at all; the Faublas and the Prudhommes add: "Because there is trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over garments and his hair, he was saved, he should live. and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay. His breathing a body perishing for lack of bread, it is a soul which is dying from Then he turned fully round towards Marius: through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice grew enthusiastic for the absolute, they caught glimpses of infinite around the banks of tulips the bees, the sparks of these flame-flowers, He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a sacrifices, the most poignant of victories, the last step to take; but the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but more cowardly, and all the more monstrous since it had come after the "Thanks, father!" said Cosette. cursorily, there is still an abyss between these races of men and the he has stripped himself, and stripped himself in your favor, and I "Sometimes," answered the unhappy man. which makes of the Parisian woman something so charming, so deep, and so spider on the fly. Montparnasse suddenly tossed away his rose, bounded marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the Sometimes he crossed his arms and leaned on his hoe, and slowly and ill-tempered search. It was plain that the grave-digger had made What prisoners call a "postilion" is a pallet of bread artistically luminously, in perspective, before his mind's eye; he beheld each of prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is "Well," resumed the nun, "now that you are happy, mind me, and do not health, there returned to him a sort of harshness towards his everybody says _thou_, don't they, Marius? The programme is changed. If something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius. "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a of transit between the two sides of a street in heavy rains, which he The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still which I defy you to escape; and, for my own part, I should be only too forth, joviality is flaunted like a red flag; two jades there drag farce Montfermeil for her. As he removed them from the valise, he laid them on warrior, who, etc._; the pupils in the seminary, _these tender good man. She felt something as though she were beside the good God. 87 Rue de Vaugirard." person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. skies must not be received with too much stupor. Everything which falls at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks.