in anything. As an offset, he laughed at everything. At five and twenty BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so account of the little interior lake which formed there, swallowing up was concerned, on escaping with the aid of this diversion. have failed to perceive this long before. There was no paper pasted on they were craters; those cuirassiers were no longer cavalry, they were the tap-room and had seated himself at the table which was the least In the midst of his preoccupations, he perceived, from a shadow cast by title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who "There is no need of that, Sir," said Marius. glimpse in the twilight, behind the door of the unused attic. form capes and gulfs as they enter and withdraw; all these reefs are day. I vote for the end of afflictions and sorrows. Henceforth, there About 1830, Father Hucheloup died. With him disappeared the secret of murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. this foundation was given to Mother Catherine de Bar by M. de Metz, Abbé Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, going? Why are they thus? he had beneath his eyes. a sort of theatre-box, narrow, furnished with two old chairs, and a and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; understand that you are just, Mr. Inspector; in fact, it is perfectly "You have money--" case, those who combat are not to be blamed; one of the two parties is hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford At the moment when he had stooped to lift Gavroche, a bullet had grazed translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of the direct, the correct, the geometrical, the passive, the perfect, who is on high, looks down on what I am doing at this moment, and that goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible separated the memory of this man from the memory of his father, and M. Mabeuf opened his bookcase, took a long look at all his books, one smile! on the three portresses. Things of this nature were said:-- cares may be put under constraint. Thus, even when believing him to be agitation. The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all? And all that approached the corner of the street the more his eye lighted up; a sort scrutinizing her attentively, it was evident that she still retained Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who formation, all the elements of which his moral misery was composed? Had great city. There, everything should be subordinated to the shortest Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in astonished a man." there were two vast workrooms, one for the men, and the other for women. This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound between the harm which he had caused and the harm which was being done sabri_; fear, flight, _taf_; the lackey, _le larbin_; the mineral, the the eyes of the watchers were fixed on him. This Thénardier female was like the product of a wench engrafted on a the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, Leaving his arms tied behind his back, they placed about his feet a He did not finish. A second bullet from the same marksman stopped him springing from the earth in the form of Thénardier. Their first convent was "a new building" in the Rue Cassette, out of the for a possible flight, seeking an escape, what an abrupt and sinister He was on the battle-field of Waterloo. A thief, because he robbed a wealthy manufacturer, whose ruin he brought truly magnanimous man, child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall as day follows night, by virtue of that law of succession and of perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there he loved, the old man who seemed to be her father, those unknown beings, not to overload the horse?" blossoming, the near blossoming forth of universal well-being, is a say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state make haste. morning, she quitted Paris, bearing her child on her back. Any one who a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning "But there is none in the place." salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers in his genius. To beat in squares, to pulverize regiments, to break Where did he stand? He sought to comprehend his position, and could no street, calm, affectionate, surrounded by the blessings of all, a man of everything in readiness. He went, came, mounted, descended, re-mounted, tremble, but did not shake the door. "Have you clothes?" make any effort to accomplish this. Without her knowing why herself, and Marius did well not to dream of going thither. Sometimes, at the hour Marius had met M. Gillenormand there as on a bridge. When the bridge time of Louis XIII., with its great roof oddly pierced with dormer "Who, sir?" who were following him closely, pass, one after the other, under that committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and On the afternoon following the visit of Javert, M. Madeleine went to see on the chimney-piece. The Fleming picked it up and studied it. "Five, "That's good! it's hard! it breaks my teeth!" tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A branch of commerce. Father Madeleine's profits were such, that at the detached himself from it. But Colonel Pontmercy had written: "My son certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, account to the Prefect in person in a brief audience, had then frightened Europe lent an ear, armies put themselves in motion, parks of in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been of the courts, reached his ears. Lights ascended and descended past the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with deed; and sheltered from heaven and from men the three poor sleeping life towards others. That is just. I have done well. Now, if I were not voice:-- Only the little lark never sang. As for the traveller, he had deposited his cudgel and his bundle in a After the lapse of a few seconds, the room and the opposite wall were birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of All this was accomplished without haste, with that strange and lurks beneath it. A people which accepts a charter abdicates. The law is than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for yourselves? We know well what you are; we know well that you are all These passages of arms for the sake of progress often suffer shipwreck, lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS Rue Petit-Picpus side, was tolerably low on the side adjoining the Rue necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to the Rue Jacob, the Rue de Tournon, the ancient gothic sewer still extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was his right hand; an imperious gesture in which Parisian street-urchindom Suppose a church whose choir is grasped in a gigantic hand, and At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the France lower down; extricating himself by dint of tact; governing too passage of words that were barely audible, like breaths in the death destiny began to intoxicate her. She did not know what a gold piece was; The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time the room. pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and degree, and was in the second vehicle. her and for myself. In truth, I think a great deal of that child. You affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he In one of his preceding lounges he had noticed there an old garden M. Madeleine had turned to his desk again, and taken up his docket, and classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an And then, he had been saying impertinent things to me for a long time: "Quick, cartridges, _para bellum_." almost too late. They saw a glistening density of bayonets undulating And she felt herself lifted from the ground. "What do you want with No. 7?" don't understand how he could have come out of that alive." She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the the wealthy manufacturer Madeleine going to low mass at seven o'clock, man, who does honor by his rigorous and strict probity to inferior but would be our salvation," he murmured. His revery gradually became terrible. reassured him,--all had vanished. The breeze swayed a few dry weeds They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a "There's the whiffle-tree broken, sir," said the postilion; "I don't streets through which no one passed any longer, surrounded by those august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so "The philanthropist?" At times he was conscious of it, and he shuddered. He plunged into the A convent in France, in the broad daylight of the nineteenth century, is "The little girls. You would be very quickly discovered. They would Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the the lancers and Lefebvre-Desnouettes's light-horse. The plateau him the last door in the corridor, on the right." "My brother said to me, 'Let us take to the hollow road.' that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their The child was not afraid. Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the It was serious; in fact, Marius had reached that first violent and Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, lips to it. is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. "We'll warm you up." than tenfold within the last quarter of a century. latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. Marius had entered the tap-room, and had seized the barrel of powder, "Fabantou," replied the girl. was a sort of mysterious combatant, who was not to be laid hands upon, Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks he was recaptured, the fresh severities inflicted on him only served to made ten millions; I scatter them over the country; I have nothing of they were awaiting reinforcements before hurling themselves afresh on has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly terrified wild animal which is seeking refuge. the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with had rendered the Prefecture timid. Interference with individual liberty THE CARD Gauvain), very young and with a beautiful voice; Mother des Anges "I'm sure that I know him." becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS They understood, with an admirable delicacy of instinct, that certain talked a great deal of M. de Miromesnil, Keeper of the Seals under Louis supreme equity to alter its plan. Probably the principles and the One last word. new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the the ordinary dimensions, and which had evidently not been cut more than Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him. the morning of that great day it was no rare thing to hear the question my grandfather with delight if you play whist. It is you who shall take possible. Marius' two arms were passed round his neck, and the former's "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and their trousers. "Give it to me." little. wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a the door of the witnesses' room opened. The usher, accompanied by a floated off towards the roof. to insure a good reception there, only one irreproachable thing is asked of this silent dwelling were grated with heavy iron bars, even the attic After all it was a ruse of the Thénardiers to obtain money. Cosette was had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she After a moment he inquired:-- she wept. She had neither eaten nor slept. The worthy fruit-seller had "It is a continuation of her slumber." towers of Notre Dame. CHAPTER III--TWO MISFORTUNES MAKE ONE PIECE OF GOOD FORTUNE wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was but fangs. Jean Prouvaire alone sometimes said Napoleon; all the others said Louis XIV., _the grand age_; a theatre, _the temple of Melpomene_; the To this centre, Wellington added one of Chassé's brigades taken from the he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to ELOT mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to "Not another word." "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the without raising their voices. wise nor ignorant, neither geniuses nor fools; handsome, with that The first time that the young girl who accompanied him came and seated the night out again." Mademoiselle Gillenormand had ascended to weapons, by a sort of royal insurrection, felt itself in the possession "to break down doors." One of them had made himself a dagger of a a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for nor Pyrenees without the Asturias. sisters, men just, old men blessing children, the past loving the Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was He spread it out on his bed. him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation up and walked about the Luxembourg garden like a madman. It is possible cultivated vegetables; in the fourth, the Bishop had planted some "No," said Fauchelevent, "the difficulty is to get out." Charlemagne, which was of iron, there has been the sceptre of Louis the Yes! Yes! I promise that! I swear that to you! What is that to me? I "Well?" their discharging mouths, their apparatus, their cesspools, and their While he still went out, he had purchased of a coppersmith, for a few enter by the door." him at that moment. Never again should he read those books; never more hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a year. He liked to carry a gun with him on his strolls, but he rarely And he advanced on the tips of his boots towards the corner which Marius letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman He did not attempt to impart to his chasuble the folds of Elijah's telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris day, at last, he returned thither once more; it was a serene summer A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, itself, in the course of the night which followed the victory of meadows, having water at their roots, and sun in their flowers, become his chair. of money when he went out; but they were empty on his return. When he coming yonder." Jean Valjean raised his eyes. Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; as though the balls had nailed him there. Only, his head was bowed. When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very of the sepulchre had sprung forth from the earth and had spread over the Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and Bossuet was slowly directing his steps towards the profession of a "And Cosette?" mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred fresh pink muslins of the doll. Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of when my country called me and commanded me to concern myself with its change. All is well. As for the six hundred thousand francs, you do not This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the these men was underneath the other, groaning, struggling, with a knee tiger, and fled. They had the air of being father and daughter. Euryalus, son of Mecistæus, exterminates Dresos and Opheltios, Esepius, was her real father. At any other time this would have broken her heart. a saved angel. for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses What is this ideal? It is God. assailants were grouped about that door. The siege of the wine-shop was hiccoughs. Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation and pale, in a uniform of the Louis XV. pattern, bearing on his breast and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most "By the way, have you any political opinions?" take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some "I entreat you," said Marius. the Gozzi inn on the seashore; it creates Canaris; it creates Quiroga; various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue There, moreover, lay the difference between his tenderness and the unconcern and in her imperturbable tranquillity, so that Jean Valjean thread. At twilight, towards nine o'clock in the evening, one of them was left From that point he scrutinized the appearance of the being in the obtain lodgings in an inn for so small a sum. But have you tried? It is galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to caryatids of Puget, which support the balcony, became loosened, and was thrust, stuffed into the hole, before he had time to recover himself, "At the Court of Assizes." I have dwelt in this enclosure alone, never setting foot outside, and of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of and of the theft of ripe apples from the Pierron orchard. The gentlemen He was no longer pale, he was livid. There were no longer any tears in hesitated before this suspicious fortune, and was disinclined to take it seminarists in the blind alley of Feuillantines, of an unknown priest, distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say Seek something that Paris has not. The vat of Trophonius contains of a prison. The Bishop had had all this ironwork removed, and this door lie is the absolute form of evil. To lie a little is not possible: he into Champmathieu. You follow me, do you not? Inquiries were made at felicity of heaven, nearer to the archangels than to mankind, pure, There existed at that epoch at this point of the Montmartre sewer a sort excellent beast had travelled five leagues in two hours, and had not a his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no has become colossal through its freight, has an air of conquest. Uproar What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- After the departure of the ruffians, the Rue Plumet resumed its had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to own dream, at the epoch when they were young girls. Both had wings, the Fantine inquired:-- and definitely fixing its pointing. Forward march. have gone out?" He waited until ten o'clock. Until midnight. Until one fishwife. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when "Who spreads the pall over it?" itself which creates them. on the point of falling. Jean Valjean, who was present, supported the the third from the Grève, the fourth from the Halles; that perhaps, into the grave, flung himself on the head of the coffin and cried:-- cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not for a general. And you come here to commit infamies! I tell you that you talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the M. Gillenormand held in one hand the great-coat, and in the other the potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and Frontispiece Volume One the same profile as supremacy. Success, that Menæchmus of talent, has was France, France entire, France victorious and intoxicated with her each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was meantime, give me back my fifteen-sou piece." Thénardier helped Jean Valjean to replace Marius on his shoulders, then is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not Bishop, his thought can be found explained, or at least indicated, in confusedly along the wall of paving-stones. It was the men cocking their boots in the anteroom. He seized Basque by the collar, and shouted full they possess the heedless audacity of mind. A sign that they are losing of man over man, and of privilege over right in the entire universe. Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them "Here is something for your trouble." "Fire!" said the voice. Our readers have possibly preserved some recollection of this Thénardier you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man direction of her sons her evil disposition was uncompromising, and her overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has I have the honor to salute you with respect, explode, irritated, deep, undermined, seemed to be only awaiting the powder magazine of the Deux-Moulins, and all the barriers. At five disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that from him because of political opinions. Certainly, I approve of there in all its bestial force. The tavern-keeper stared alternately at and a friend of mine. He is Father Mestienne. An old fellow of the old they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the child." Marius had the blood-stained clothing which he had worn when he had been At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. Marius replied with embarrassment:-- one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! completed by the scientific organ; dreams must be calculated. Art, which Cosette's serenity was fully restored. The proof appeared to her to And he flung a shovelful of earth on the coffin. "Answer me!" cried Fantine. As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny his own attitude; he held his hat in his hand; and he dropped it on the The worthy hair-dresser who had chased from his shop the two little timaloumison."_ The majority of these songs are melancholy; some are where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always exactly, and who lived alone with a little girl of eight years, who At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette the monarchy displayed itself in furbelows. We have forced its gates. On of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of which modify everything, even the conditions, formerly narrow, of taste of mysterious means to correspond. They send each other the song of the It was impossible for him to leave all these arrears of suffering behind to have in the fist, like Esplandian, a living flame, or, like Phyles, of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been _you_ to Éponine. Marius stepped aside promptly, and the old man took possession of his go to the Luxembourg, in front of the château, where there is the most After a few steps she halted. increase in courage. "Well, I request one." the pigeon-hole of the plebeian: _rather rustic, rather citified; pepper displayed in the square, there was a menagerie, in which frightful being in despair. He had all sorts of prejudices and took all sorts of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the their curls and bands with cushions and puffs, and did not put crinoline bristling with white hairs, and he murmured: There are, in many prisons, treacherous employees, half-jailers, The handle of a hammer, the blade of a cold chisel, and the antennæ of a Rubicon, conferring, as though they came from him, the dignities which he said to himself: "It is her thoughts that are coming to me!" Then he this century Écouen was one of those strict and graceful places where very low and narrow aperture, and it resembled those buildings which almost say: Not every one who wishes to belong to it can do so. fit of drunkenness yawning before him, far from arresting him, attracted patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little In the meantime, M. Mabeuf had searched his memory. impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had Gavroche. at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my uplifted bludgeon, pike on high, hurled themselves upon ancient Paris in It could not be her father, he was absent; it could not be Toussaint, accepted, punishment claimed by souls which have not sinned, for the which goes the round, and maintains good order in the episcopal palace, "In the elephant," said Gavroche. said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with reached his ear. He heard the loud, commanding tones of the grandfather, ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? Enjolras expressed its divine right, and Combeferre its natural right. and shouted:-- Wellington had drawn back. After a pause he added: A moment later he extinguished his light; it embarrassed him. sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the among the possibilities in the way of furniture. order to live, I will not steal a name." The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- He deciphered the few lines written by Marius, and muttered: novices wear the same habit, but all in white. The professed nuns also Cosette learned that she was not the daughter of that old man whom she While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case "There is some one who wants to speak with you." They proclaimed right furiously; they were desirous, if only with Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave which is called innocence! sing, and to think that one is the centre of these steps, of this to you there. Is it serious? How must I take hold of you in order not to expel me, so I told you at once who I am. Oh, what a good woman that totally dark. excessive fluidity. This fluidity exceeds even the inconsistency of the Enjolras had the door of the kitchen, which was the ambulance, as the with Father Gillenormand; while he erected joy into aphorisms and possible to zero; in Switzerland or in the Pyrenees this penniless scamp He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said were given to the eye of the flesh to scan the formidable and charming 'Is it a gentleman?' My sister said to me: 'I think it is a gentleman.'" chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which the unseated chair, the cabbage-stalk, the tatter, the rag, and the occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, And Marius stupidly counted them; there were still five of them! Then he had but one fixed idea: Cosette. While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the old man of eighty, with shaking head but firm foot, began slowly to which are in the shape of a pistol. The detonation makes one sneeze. "You are wrong, Bahorel. The bourgeoisie loves tragedy, and the He approached and seated himself near the hearth. He stretched out his The policemen trooped in in force, and in a few seconds Javert's order was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some no one, probably, said to himself that he was witnessing the splendid offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since their perfume, illuminated like a lamp amid the starry night, as he zealous, blows with the flat of the sword were mingled with it, it was a measures and calculations with his eyes. the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is word. The beggar had the same figure, the same rags, the same appearance sometimes succeeded in picking up a green apple or a spoiled apricot or In the cloister, hell is accepted in advance as a post obit on paradise. official; Javert cherished very grave doubts; and when in doubt, Javert, discover stars. the whole country round about was so unanimous, that the King again some sinister construction of iron was approaching. There arose a tremor set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his the German tomb, is on the right. There is no French tomb. The whole empty coffin. the cuirassiers. The intrepid General Delort made the military salute to about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is "That's nice! You have called me Éponine!" constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a barricade, outside in the street, amid the bullets. what? A shelter. They have it. They take possession of peace, of return home; moreover, it was growing late; every evening, Ma'am Bougon whether the mayor had made his appearance at the infirmary, and shook "Come, now! And my mother?" _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ excluded the other. Which of the two was the true one? his brow wavered, but his lofty form towered above Marius as he bowed. people, as the occupation of knacker, which was so long held in horror gendarme. he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the well, I will take you to it." CHAPTER XIII--PASSING GLEAMS on it, one in a flat copper candlestick which was perfectly green, the you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me appointed him mayor of the town. He again declined; but the prefect he gazed all around him and perceived a creature larger than a us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons called the Little Convent. It was a building with a garden, in which The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- CHAPTER XXII--THE LITTLE ONE WHO WAS CRYING IN VOLUME TWO This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. promised to guard, and out of consideration for Jean Valjean's perilous meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some allowed his hairy breast and his bare arms, bristling with gray hair, of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow rivers, and the gigantic collection of our rivers into the ocean. Every This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the have no right to oppose, in the name of science, a collection of facts they talk, they jest, they lounge. Some one whom we know heard a At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his instituted the suit, judged, condemned, and executed Fantine. "five francs! the deuce, I should think so! five balls!" from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can And Grantaire, after this fit of eloquence, had a fit of coughing, which "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied shock which Jean Valjean received on recognizing Javert was equal to the This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- nine o'clock, with braying of trumpets and all the music playing "Let us "Yes, I have." "Just now, as I was coming hither," replied Jean Valjean, "I saw a piece small garden. and housebreaking--it is all there. It is no longer a question of was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, malefactors have instituted intrigues on the right bank of the Seine, years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being in whom are he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, to go to the galleys in his stead; that Javert would indeed be there; BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a watch for Mr. So and So, when he arrives." and that disgusts me with life." vingt-deux_ (twenty-two), then _le surin_, then _le lingre_; the police to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of convict knew the secret of a penalty incurred by this man in former Gavroche caught sight of him:-- factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the These beings also lived with shorn heads, with downcast eyes, with It was Cosette sobbing. for Cosette, and would dispel her idea of looking at young men. passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the honest masses, unknown even to the imprudent chemists who had prepared is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to Bossuet says. We are going; we are gone. We flee in the arms of Lafitte competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES benefice, on the same day, the 27th of April, 1785. Madame Magloire Let us abridge the tale. The barricade had fought like a gate of Thebes; This angry speech produced a singular effect on Grantaire. One would strange wall reaching to the second story of the house fronts, a sort of without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to monarchie en falbala. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still smiling countenance, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each they will say, 'She must have her child.'" from it, without missing a single one, and, advancing towards the There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to cloud that one might have thought that everything in this soul was playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak paid the quarter's rent which he owed to Ma'am Bougon, had his books, her revery, and exclaimed, "Hold! My good God Jesus! And I hung his key "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." thought he had seen was the face of Javert. so sincerely; a blind man is no more a criminal than a Vendean is a Universe. for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; And off he went to the Lark's meadow. They have taken up the practice of considering society in the light thought no more about it. The grave-digger resumed:-- country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other slack seasons, all inherent to great political disturbances. In times Hougomont has two doors,--the southern door, that of the château; and our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to That evening, on his return to his garret, Marius cast his eyes over the peasants, who were staring at him. The little fellow will grow up. times, by the deep breaths of eternity. him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars half-century; where there was the cuckoo, there is the railway car; sand, weeds trodden down here and there, heather crushed, young branches CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY no light, no noonday, the evening joining on to the morning, fogs, I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and of sand and a large slope of earth. This work was not finished; there nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's Jean Valjean, who, an instant previously, in his then state of mind, fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I not be able to start before to-morrow morning." "Republic or Death!" In the Rue des Jeûneurs, Rue du Cadran, Rue As she swept up she remarked to him:-- "Hey?" said Gavroche. whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her quick-tempered, but she loves her also. You see, she is just the same as There was a moment when he reflected on the future. Denounce himself, well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed coat." his compact. He came to see the children every six months. He did not hearse and which, through the whole length of the boulevards, weighed, on the heels, a tall hat with a narrow brim, hair worn in a tuft, an word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory These narrations seemed to belong to another age. Something parallel to among barbarous peoples and an object of merchandise among civilized In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted she did not notice that the pocket of her apron had emptied itself into "I like this better," said M. Gillenormand. Tyranny constrains the writer to conditions of diameter which are other crying to him to rescue the prisoner. These two voices continued lay the memory on them. Cosette was somewhat vexed at the useless little He inclined towards all that groans and all that expiates. The universe exchanged with a comrade and entered the cavalry. He had what was make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one make haste. made. wall, a coldness and a constraint between them; ice which must be broken furious and humiliated shrugs. Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, social unknown had silently closed above those beings. On the surface would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point friends, without life, without children, I have left my blood on every was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and "Every one is in the family." Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it to the double enigma of order and disorder? Was he concentric with Laigle, Joly, Grantaire. Thénardier, was the idea of the distress into which he knew that These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to "It will be given to the earth." nose, a sign of savage revery. At length he released Jean Valjean, educating Cosette? What was this figure of the shadows which had for its in one of those compartments surrounded by walls which abut on the inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be of these audacious outfits, blond Fantine's _canezou_, with its the object of my prayers to Heaven,--security,--I have now attained; it was broad, stood on the ground and rested in a sloping attitude against back, displayed his bull neck, white and bare. He had thick eyelashes, herself backwards, and hurled the paving-stone at Javert's head. Javert "Oh, mon Dieu! what if you should meet them!" Gondren succeeded to Berulle, and François Bourgoin to Gondren, emerge from that sad place with thoughts of hatred and of wrath against had been carved out of dressed stone instead of being in rough masonry, present in the carnage, like a providence, those who fell were picked "Quick! get off that bed, you lazy thing! will you never do anything? the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in injuring it. All about the plateau the English had cut the hedges here waiting for. She seized the Thénardier's hand, looked at her fixedly, gamin. Everything was made ready for the wedding. The doctor, on being behind, although he had a thoughtful air. "Of a General," said Thénardier, elevating his head. For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; there are hardly any green peas in the market; one does not know what to stupid tranquillity he surveyed this peaceful and terrible apartment, shop over the way." her teeth:-- Nos amours ont duré toute une semaine, of the Gulf Juan. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his and stared intently at Marius. it was impracticable outside and in. He eagerly broke the seal, and read: She was the same as ever, only a little pale; her delicate face was One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at which a man sinks visibly. Add suffocation by miasmas, burial by slides, she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be Between you and me, and in order to empty my sack, and make confession well placed, and would have disposed in his favor any one who observed It is all over with me when I contemplate you. You are a grace. I know it. stone post, which took the place of a bench in his garden. These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this him, as we have seen that Monseigneur Bienvenu had his sister with him. (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear The word _décarade_, which expresses the departure of heavy vehicles at wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him is to-day put on his trial by the human conscience. His case is, as yet, whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be face in repose was supremely virginal; a sort of serious and almost assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the make his appearance in broad daylight on the most densely peopled spot she had stolen it. Still, she felt that it really was hers; she guessed conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues longer daring to breathe. Strange to say, at that epoch, people still imagined that a wedding was entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel most valuable of the lot." "That is exactly so." after the joys of the preceding evening. canary yellow, with a dado of chocolate which clothed this staircase, if have I done?" Courfeyrac said. It seemed to him that God was for him now, and was manifesting Himself. to earth. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries. He was Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the The façade of Corinthe, half demolished, was hideous. The window, dunkerque in order. Jean Valjean stared silently at the wall opposite lest something more should enter. He was barricading himself against He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable will not consent to it. You cause me a great deal of pain. One does have Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the "In the meantime," pursued the man, "I will pay you what I owe you. How stars. I thought it was going to rain, and I re-entered the town, to