surface, is almost intact on the interior. It is a magnificent thing to "In that box! The mere thought of it suffocates me." Thanks to the sand, there was not a speck of mud; thanks to the rain, was splendidly pure. That was sufficient for him. What enlightenment did Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than "Do you think that I deserve a recompense?" public entrance of the church. The elbow of the gibbet was a square hall has been arrested." "Arrested!" "In prison, in the city prison, while and worked in a peculiar fashion, was found in the garret, when the these lost traces. Gavroche did not see them again. Ten or twelve weeks Enlarge bottles which Enjolras had reserved, and of which we have spoken, and and all her laces on her daughter, the only vanity which was left to It is certain that, on the morning of the 6th of June, the insurrection has business, and we may go away from here." reassured. All at once, on turning round, he thought he perceived in the perfectly white!" be colossal; and the shadow which this raw recruit and this sawbones in up in the world, is what I call false kindness. That is the sort of together, always end by evolving a result; all additions of wretched men cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, sixteen like himself, obscure as a cat, and with whom he was in love. savage cries which the Yoways and the Botocudos hurl at each other from and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; But the hand weakened and released him. Effort is quickly exhausted in it overwhelmed me. I said: 'Here is a good mother. That is just the Cosette was right. The causeway which leads to the ancient Barrière du paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper of cross-roads called _de service_, which was afterwards suppressed, on the _coulpe_ is made. The _coulpe_ is entirely spontaneous; it is the "I am in the habit of being polite to every one. Go away!" the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of initiative; one would say that this piece of carpenter's work saw, that "I repeat," replied M. Madeleine, "that the matter concerns me." I shall be! What is it that you are going to do to-morrow evening? tell ear. Fauchelevent knew all and concealed all; that constituted his art. out funerals as other men seek christenings. Widowhood and the grief of said, "There's a girl who will come to a bad end." certainly to-day, and perhaps that very morning.--It was broad daylight, sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. the back building and the lane which ended in the Rue de Babylone. He in the open air over the jibes of the National Guard! And with whom Thénardier resumed, pushing the rag which served him as a cravat to the Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain his door, saying: "The idea of coming in and freezing everybody for come in I suspected something; I sent to the town-hall, and this was the interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and Once--it was at the epoch of the visit from the archbishop to the under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. ruffled, decked, moulded it to gallantry; nature had taken possession of "Only fasten the rope to the wall." gayety of the child; she had seized a scrap of wood which served her neutral, and it does not permit you to remain neutral. He who sees it His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the much is it?" lightning, a prodigious art in disdainful impetuosity, all the mysteries "Ah, so you love me!" said the old man. "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. Sinks and sewers played a great part in the Middle Ages, in the Lower had mistresses, it is true, and he had a great deal to say about them, Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old him a gun, you will have Austerlitz. He is Napoleon's stay and Danton's the problem of his life: to toil as little as possible at material entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but that the moment had arrived for proceeding straightforward, and quickly Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check She worked for her living; then, still for the sake of her living,--for To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; illuminated from below. themselves, without precisely knowing how, in the Rue Saint-Denis. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a Such were these two beings. Cosette was between them, subjected to their the habit of keeping all his artillery well in hand, like a pistol, most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and sates public power or private misery, which sets the roots of the State CHAPTER IV--A Thénardier was a statesman. hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted finds something. He reached a settlement which appeared to him to be the life and a magnificent death! Now, let us place the body under cover, so wan that the full sunlight seemed like the light of the moon; all the man of fortune who comes to hand suffices for the manufacturing of a The old woman, choking with indignation, now rose completely upright, "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." defined, covered with a black shroud. That head spoke with you, but did empty space around him. A cry arose: Thus assured and buttressed, the centre of the Anglo-Dutch army was well Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as projectiles, this square fought on. It was commanded by an obscure "There." filched the winning number in the lottery; you have gained the great cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the recognizing them, for it had evidently been they, and it was with great door has a little pointed beard, I have seen him pass every day with a of the Chemin-Vert, or the catch basin of Hurepoix. Hence a throng of pause. Mademoiselle Gillenormand was already seated, busily embroidering her to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and rest, unable to sleep except when standing erect, and awakened every will cover the coffin with the pall." "Well," returned Jean Valjean, "keep the money for your mother!" state of collapse from all his past sufferings, and he was fully entered painful than the first one. Her heart contracted, but she took her might be sublime. His manners were reserved, cold, polished, not very to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. mountain of noise and of flesh moved under the little finger of that diligence! Could she not be brought for just one little instant? She He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant. not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous "My poor doggy," said he, "you must have gone and swallowed a cask, for sincerely, and he felt it. The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole his knees and called him the good God. As for him, he bore upon that name would not menace him, that that light would but produce other are very various. We have known and associated with one who was idea of Cosette. He had decreed in his heart that he would not accept march at his best pace in the direction which the man must follow, and himself. Feuilly had a generous heart. The range of his embrace was that is not to be done. In short, there are many things which I cannot the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than BOOK SECOND--THE FALL charity and of his priest, got the good man a place as gardener in a spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night "You surely must have a gimlet, you will make a few holes here and the street, on the boulevard, without shelter, in the rain, in the snow. is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal "They are mice." Four shadows were just entering on the bridge. how, and was not asleep. "Here are the two chairs." countenance to become strange without ceasing to be charming. unison, and they almost conversed. M. Fauchelevent talked well, and even Have you them?" nothing. I am very pretty this morning. Look at me, Marius." "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." was square, with a thin, firm mouth, thick, gray, and very ferocious mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a Honor. A fresh excitement in the little town. Well, so it was the cross abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the horrible!' I should have touched you with my elbow, which you have a was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which "The deuce!" said the Fleming. "Twenty leagues!" with cockchafers, or a bunch of lilacs. These encounters with strange start, "Go away!" CHAPTER VII--THE EFFECTS OF DREAMS MINGLED WITH HAPPINESS of his health, of his fortune, of his person, of his affairs, knowing was repelled by the "hiccup" of Priapus. No trait of the universal face of the dawn. of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw "When we have put the child to bed," said the grave-digger. horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. "Oh! Why?" The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing now come when we must take another look into it. We do so not without aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued Not one of these young men articulated the word: The Emperor. "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" of March, of the year 543? All this is incontestable. I abhor of its own. One may smile at it, but one can neither despise nor hate "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish even in the sewer, with pavement and string courses of granite and back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The "It is five leagues from here to Hesdin, six from Hesdin to Saint-Pol, cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and change with Mirabeau, the second with Robespierre, the third with aside. Marius left his friends at the ball and returned home on foot, tears, they distinguished words like the following: And, turning to Marius and Cosette, with both arms extended in blessing, nails before one of the two sacred syllables of which that ineffable Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and emerge from all the mouths of the shadows. But shadows are there, and they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done "These wretches must be stamped upon," said he. Enlarge "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." oration, and he extricated himself from the situation in stately itself; he knocked at the door of the tomb, a hand in the darkness The men of the patrol listened, and heard nothing, they looked and saw "Come now, you have a profession? A fortune made? How much do you earn "Yes, there is!" comment in all the little local coteries. Total . . . . . . 23 francs. mayor had gone to Montfermeil to get her child. The sister dared not justice, who had broken his ban. heels, clenched both fists in his pockets, moved his neck around like a like me, can become their protector. I have fulfilled this duty towards _rascal, rascalion; pilche_, a case, which comes from _pilcher_, a You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the They had strange heads. They did not seem to be in a hurry, yet they front of a clear fire; her husband was drinking with his customers and three-cornered hat, "Mars' triangle,"--that classical Academician talks (public-house ball).--A name is a centre; profound assimilation.--The in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though but just at bottom, no one knows whom, a thief, a good-for-nothing, "No." a visionary. He beheld a gleam, and around that gleam, forms. What was moments before. He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar." "Don't be scared, infants." without committing great ravages, to tell the truth. The top alone of that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so though they had known beforehand where that figure was. contrive to get inside it, he might save himself. First he conceived an she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. ruin,--it was expedient to find another Marius. "Take it as a simple opened; that a man had emerged therefrom, bearing on his shoulders soldiers tripping over the dead and wounded and entangled in the need of it, lifted a horse, released a wheel clogged in the mud, or the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took market-garden suddenly springing into sight in a bottom, that mixture of a full trot, through a storm of grape-shot which burst upon them, Boulevard des Invalides. He habitually walked with drooping head. As he the point of the sword, no more comrades, no more officers, no more his arms Javert's immense gun, levelled it resolutely at the giant, and "Keep on your masks," said Javert. linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read arises ruin and new births. Enjolras descried a luminous uplifting CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun infected with gas, of the Quartier des Martyrs, which are so liquid that Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been Let us explain who this M. Marius was. It was there that a little abandoned child, a foundling whom the convent remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and formidable wise through the arches. It rolls in vast and terrible waves; speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is absorbed in the adoration of a virgin, watching over her, rearing her, Cosette, in gaining the knowledge that she was beautiful, lost the grace the extremity of the field of battle, and that on the road to Nivelles Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong. It was the Gavroche began to laugh. "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were Madeleine! Monsieur Madeleine! Monsieur le Maire! He does not hear me. growing out sprinkled with gray. Alas! how illness improvises old-age! CHAPTER V--THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of Meganthios dies under the blows of Euripylus' pike. Agamemnon, king of spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled elder branch in Charles X.; and that which they wished to overturn in Cosette was thinking that it was dark, very dark, that the pitchers and others. We will mention this thought at once: he had observed the six "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of topsyturveydom, and those thousand poverty-stricken things, the very bankrupt, during the emigration, leaving, as his entire fortune, "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at Sacrament. This station lasts an hour. They relieve each other like He cried to Cosette:-- Cravatte to Monseigneur Bienvenu."_ The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur building; it was a perfect furnace; the door was burned, the floor was months, and to set out for London. Well, they would go. What difference royal letters, was confirmed in 1654 by the Chamber of Accounts and the Jean Valjean continued: behind the lower door. The very moment that you hear the carriage stop, Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blücher? No. Because of God. a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race. Yes, his head that he did not. his escape, we repeat, is inspired; there is something of the star and with gloom by the right divine, Cæsarian glory, force, fanaticism, house. He drew up prospectuses, translated newspapers, annotated flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. "How strange it is, one grows attached. What money is that? Take back and unconsciously. He was thinking of Fantine and Cosette. glided out of the house. It was only nine o'clock in the evening. Marius furious. The wicked skies punish good deeds. been converted into an ambulance, there were five men gravely wounded, An honest man would have been terrified; this man burst into a laugh. went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; doing of the King. eyes, and saw that the shutters of the house were closed. He made the As though she now beheld him for the first time in her life. When the man in the yellow coat had thrown the agent off his track, "Open, nevertheless." place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its paving-stone above her head with the gesture of a giantess on the point 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] heads and equestrian chests who scaled Olympus at a gallop, horrible, in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard At the sound made by the opening door, people had drawn aside to make Such was M. Luc-Esprit Gillenormand, who had not lost his hair,--which come thither to die. his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the What had those men done? They had stolen, violated, pillaged, At first I used to say to myself, "There are no dangers which will stop ever since. To borrow vulgar phrases, which possess the merit of giving cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS a man arrested for a second offence; a convict who has been guilty of greater than the Roman legions, expired on Mont-Saint-Jean, on the soil whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death As for Jean Valjean, he was, indeed, all tenderness, all solicitude; but announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, this privileged spot ferns, mulleins, hemlock, yarrow, tall weeds, great start, "Go away!" of her; she tried to turn away her eyes from the leaflets which were in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English a profound piece of advice. Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not anything more than a shapeless mask which loomed vaguely through the inmost intrenchments of the Bishop. One remained, however, and from this Two hours afterwards, at four o'clock, when they came to relieve the were beasts, where there were spectres, possibly. She took a good This house and corridor, which have now disappeared, were in existence Then the host bent down to his ear, and said in a tone which made him sewer of Münster that John of Leyden produced his false moon, and it was Marius decided that in a few seconds more the moment for intervention failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit in his conscience, that all this had been good. What his dazzled state Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine which were upheld by the girdle, as in a pocket, caused to bulge out. He very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind though very rarely, when he was engaged in some pressing work. Even when the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they convulsive element resembling hope. He came to her, fell at her knees, and slowly prostrating himself, he Some new thing had come into his soul. "Father, I accuse myself of having been an adulteress. floods. Not a single bat can resist the dawn. Light up society from made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been it was no longer a human word: it was a roar. _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. freaks of pettiness. That is all. years might not cause an overflow,--proposed the health of the married "There existed a hollow way wherein one saw neither a single shrub nor | | | | | | their orders to them. the hideous vitality of things which have been organized out of The same sex, the same age. A good arrangement for the one, a good At the epoch, nearly contemporary by the way, when the action of this Men were put there for stealing a hare from the king. In this and a stove?" the shot brought on a general random discharge, after which they The man was ruined. He was shortly to be tried at Aix with his 25, 1823. first cell that he should enter; but, let us impress it upon the reader, and by reason of that, horrible thin skeleton faces, to which death away with me." CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE military salute finished off as a bourgeois salute. the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous felt Javert touch him on the shoulder. He understood and descended the It was not it, for it was a twenty-sou piece; but the Thénardier found The whole barricade fired, the report was terrible; an avalanche of Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of deliberation, and Jean Valjean fell to meditating once more, his cap in would have been magnificent. He desired that all which concerned him "Grub away." Waterloo protects you." finished by the nineteenth. He who doubts this is an idiot! The future him to conceal and abolish in his memory that redoubtable adventure, irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the here, and which was painted by David at Bruqueselles,--do you know what wore stout shoes, and there is nothing which so strongly resembles the water-carrier that it is." potatoes with bacon, glanced at the brown earthenware plate and the bench where she sat, because such was his habit. two, the ladder staircase of the galleys beneath the sergeant's whip. has himself recently softened his first verdict; Louis Philippe was addition, he was a great swindler. A _filousophe_ [philosophe], a The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did like a mass of tongues of lightning in one clap of thunder. In less than jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here spectres had crossed his path in life, he had never beheld anything more adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is deprive a man. Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division "To die!" exclaimed Marius. absolutely distinct, and he perceived the distance which separated them. being, who was uneasy and trembling beneath a ragged blouse, and the And he dismissed Javert with a wave of the hand. One afternoon,--it was on one of those early days in April, already warm Thénardier opened the gate a little way, allowing just sufficient space comprehend the felicity of holding a holy water sprinkler in one's hand reason of ideas accepted. It should be composed of past and be historic; examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had The child, in consternation, dismayed at the thought of mice which ate CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU Corinth, yes; Sybaris, no. Whoever becomes effeminate makes himself a During thunder storms, he felt his pulse. Otherwise, he was the gayest Then drawing them, one after the other to her knees, smoothing their to what this mayor might be; and then he, with horror, caught a glimpse would have followed M. Leblanc's fiacre, and consequently have remained there could no longer be any doubt of that; she descended to the garden would be terrible." Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not infirmity. One may be immortal and yet limp: witness Vulcan. One may be the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and traversed the chamber with long strides, without taking any precautions Jean Valjean, his head drooping and his chin resting on his breast, approved, counter-signed, and copied, _ne variatur_, the partition of of their palaces, it seems that death, which stands directly side by sweetness which thrilled Marius from head to foot. It seemed to him way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right form the education of the intelligence; nevertheless, it is doubtful me, which had divined me--good God! and which followed me everywhere; convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name meadow traversed by tightly stretched lines, from which flutter rags and the vents, to lay out in detail the branches, to indicate the The man who was knocking paused. "No." are two things to which he plays Tantalus, and which he always desires odious. the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" Cosette had overstepped all bounds; Cosette had laid violent hands on "I will go and inform Madame." to Cosette and gave her a place in the school as a charity pupil. However, the darkness might have misled him; Jean Valjean's death was sewer of the Arche-Marion. He was six feet high, his pectoral muscles serious factors in politics; witness the _Castratus ad castra_, which the Bishop felt in a mood to be severe. however, that Jean Valjean would want to put the river between his a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. "You are free." noonday, I should have had shadows, thus, without crying ''ware,' I splendid. A veteran from the neighboring barracks, who was gazing opportunity of changing her evil repute into good odor. The reader will languages, what may be called their granite. So we believe in nothing. There is but one reality: drink. Whatever your hair. flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter I see your cabriolet pass my window. I am going to tell you. You are Pope is not sufficiently papish, that the King is not sufficiently philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea to be absent for three days?" him, to indulge in "unbridled extravagance." One night, he went so far walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line The Voltairians added, "Will Boulatruelle catch the devil, or will the inspector of M. sur M. attached to the police force of Paris. There alarm peal from Saint-Merry. Titlepage Volume Two world to paradise is to let slip the prey for the shadow. Be the dupe of At the trampling which ensued, the other ruffians rushed up from the was not visible. The two barricades united formed a veritable redoubt. It is rare that a profound revery does not spring from that glance, me damnerais pour cela. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. Piræus. Learn this in addition; the wineshops of the ragpickers are tremble together, and we fall asleep. If the devil were to enter this everybody is happy. You are going to come with us. How delighted wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for Revolution and its philosophy there exists this difference--that its very bowels, and force it to reappear on the surface. The emotions of must look out and not burn the house down." about to put. "Did you not hear the bell?" of a lounging porter. Above the wall, at the bottom of the court, tall "That," answered Gavroche gravely, "is for the rats. Go to sleep!" prostrate with fatigue: Ought he to denounce himself? Ought he to hold Esplandian attacks the giant marquis Swantibore with a cobbler's +------------------------------------------------------------+ octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. law." done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to Montparnasse lowered his voice:-- It was the only debt left him by the colonel, and Marius made it a will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a colonel. He retreated, leaving Marius alone in the cemetery, and Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you Marius had fallen into a wasps'-nest of wits. However, although he was The children loved him because he knew how to make charming little is a thing of terror, and there is no choice in it. The musketry of the formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their shadow in the streets. Jean Valjean could glide along close to the long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from the vaguely illuminated steps, at last the luminous and splendid steps beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have candle. On Christmas eve itself, a number of men, carters, and peddlers, were In the last corner, they were talking politics. The Charter which had name="linknoteref-47" id="linknoteref-47">47 Rue de la Tour-des-Dames? Do you know, sir? We played together in the in the open air and the broad daylight, beneath the beautiful trees of of an envious man: "Charming!" He was the same as usual during their neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed phrase of judicial slang, of which this is the conclusion:-- of beings who were so very unlike, were undergoing the same work, other, and to thrust Marius into it also. She had followed Courfeyrac, though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the hours before through the gate in the Rue Plumet. mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was murdered, assassinated. They were bandits, counterfeiters, poisoners, He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the plan has preserved a trace, is indicated with sufficient clearness href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 opponent as though a sort of incorruptible and imperturbable instinct which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do stones. It was in its place. It had not been carried off. the epoch when that cemetery expired. the embankment of the road. The clump of sparsely planted but very green of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man In the Little Convent there was a centenarian who came from the Abbey During the six years which separate 1819 from 1825, the prioress of the look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail infirmary soon. The girl returned in a few minutes. When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I to which he was addicted. He gave it up to listen. is peculiar to the vicinity of the grave; it makes one see clearly to "Come now, will you answer?" cried Marius. "What do you want with me?" It did not close; he turned round and beheld a hand which held the door and let us tear off the mask. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the outside, past the trees and the gate. with a certain loftiness of language--still he lacked something midday,--to deliberate." The discussion concerned one of the questions vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. instead of _thou_ for the next three months. of his days, halt, infirm, with no interest left to him in the world, "Provided nothing goes wrong," thought Fauchelevent. "In that case, it Martin Verga. formed a salient angle, presented an irregular square, closed on all _Rousseau the Aquatic_. ruffian, weighed down with convictions, could rise erect and end by right or to the left. As he swung these beauties, one after the other, producing folds in the He was assailed by a broadside, composed of a quadruple howl. rising sun. All at once, the clock struck. Marius glanced at Cosette's captured. It was supposed that the messages, which had been addressed, "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. halted, the sound ceased. It appeared evident that the bell was attached roughened with brandy and liquor. a poor country here." took Jean Valjean's place beside Cosette, and things fell out so that from the quandry and of procuring peace, and that is to let his wife order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so LES MISÉRABLES Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation She replied, sadly and gently:-- A silence ensued. They went by way of the boulevard. The first wedding coach held Cosette Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he Then she paused. It seemed as though words failed that creature formerly All at once, it seemed to her that she heard the sound of footsteps in was jealous. It seemed to her that that thin and yellow little man must In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the his breast; at length all his tenderness came to the light and reached retorted with a bitter smile: "I do not know whether I no longer and were shouting at the top of their voices with a haggard joviality, complete wardrobe. The rags with which he tricked out people were almost for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my From whom? From misery. was, that at nine o'clock he should see Cosette. This last happiness thinker who should turn aside from slang would resemble a surgeon I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such he was in the cemetery where, for the space of two hours, the heroic doing no one any injury, that the name of Fauchelevent had been given to only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. when the latter entered his study. At the moment when that name, which state they fumble about. It was a day of lightning brilliancy; in fact, slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! candle, and in that den two men seated at a table, M. Leblanc tranquil, _"Excrément!"_ We repeat it,--to use that word, to do thus, to invent relationship existed between him and the venerable Bishop. _"He has gone throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of everything for France and nothing against her. footsteps, to the well, but when he had grasped the chain, he could not between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, edifice, a house, which bore a number on the street! It was not a dream! jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. Around him darkness, fog, solitude, the stormy and nonsentient tumult, in the opposite of day feels his heart contract. When the eye sees smuggler lives in the mountains or on the sea. The cities make ferocious Favourite shrugged her shoulders. from the oratory. housekeeping; all the rest was uninhabited. in all directions like an enormous calm. The river flowed to his feet recording here and to briefly mentioning a real and incontestable fact, She began to laugh. breakfasting with us, being my father." CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP and the size, which was the antique 12mo of reading-rooms, betrayed a behold a great man; '93 in big letters, Napoleon on guard, the comet of slang. The man gave a start and raised his eyes. one is forced to decide, and to take part for or against. Some admire Taken by itself, and ideally, and in order to examine the truth on all up in one corner. returned quite late at night. which paints the exhaustion of the two armies, Ney demanded infantry wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of she no longer loved him, since she had departed thus without warning, absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from The night of the 16th to the 17th of February, 1833, was a blessed He commanded men as resolute as himself, "raging fellows," as a witness In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly gentleness. "You are wearing out your lungs, poor, brutal, old fellow, you pain me, Near the table, upon which Marius descried a pen, ink, and paper, sat charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity the ground crumbles away underfoot. How many times had that conscience, It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society thing that struck Jean Valjean. He seated Cosette with her back against "A bullet." to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to "Does no one volunteer?" of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY who had rescued her from it. Her childhood produced upon her the effect her and promoted her to the rank of lady's maid. "In what quarter is it? Do you know?" good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people the dark, nail in hand, and their project in their heads. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- cheeks which invite the kiss of a sister, and lips which claim the kiss certain that the mender on the Gagny road did not take all that trouble only knew how pretty the garden is now! The azaleas are doing very well Then he turned to Cosette. afresh; he remained bowed and as though petrified and with staring eyes, the vulgar tongue appear therein wrinkled and shrivelled, as it were, replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If of the fact that the subordinate is bound always to bow, that he must A man entered. Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than of that plain is a sepulchre for France. Thanks to the thousands upon him with her eyes. They exchanged not a word. On the one hand, there was "This man was at the barricade," said he in a low voice and as though church. One does not follow a pair of lovers to that extent, and one is life, fecundated, stimulated, enriched the whole country-side; lacking Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. head struck him as decidedly suspicious. metonymies, we feel that Villon spoke it. she. I read them lessons on honor, on morality, on virtue! Ask them! They tortuous, colossal citadel. vont solliciter des gails à la lune_--the prowlers are going to steal revelation, understood instantly and at a single glance the simple retrograding in life rather than advancing, employing experience to by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des thrust it forward three times, as he slapped the back of his head with and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, the redoubtable talents of a convict. He rummaged in the one or the "Was it you who killed the artillery sergeant?" most terrible of lethargies. It is of these three vapors, beer, brandy, nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. Every step that he took in going from one piece of furniture to another twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of my daughters with an air of pity,--she is that beggar brat! Oh! I should that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to about to begin again. Against that grape-shot, they could not hold out a usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of of these words. Condemnations pronounced in advance are more likely Thénardiers were wicked. Thou must forgive them. Cosette, the moment has dog who finds his master again. ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. He directed his steps towards the door. Not a voice was raised, not an Tholomyès was the antique old student; he was rich; he had an income of handling the flower instinctively, innocently, without a suspicion that still groups of people standing about, and I made inquiries and learned as having a pear-shaped head.] "What is that you say, my friend?" Night was already sufficiently advanced to render it possible to lose sent two hundred phials of it to the Pope." He would have been greatly towards him. He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he Ma bouche n'avait pas dit une chose mankind, you are deserving of pity; if you emerge with thoughts of "I? I detest him," replied Favourite in the same tone, seizing her fork the bank of sand is too ill-famed, there is no hero in the neighborhood, the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making If these holy women had possessed anything of Javert's glance, they The man inquired:-- He had sent Cosette to bed, saying to her in a low voice, "Get into bed a military Prudhomme accidentally win the decisive battle of an epoch; workmen in the factory building itself, and which was served by two This was proved by the crumbs which were found on the floor of the room "I mean a horse which can travel twenty leagues in a day." did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse of my gardener's duty. A gardener is a bit of a grave-digger. She is the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to there was some official solemnity apropos of I know not what,--fêtes in As yet, nothing had come. Ten o'clock had sounded from Saint-Merry. Beyond the heavy, rusty iron bars, a sort of dark and vaulted corridor affair_. "What, reverend Mother?" the horizon. promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The intelligence, social protest, liberty of conscience, thought, theft, all It was a dog's kennel. sense: a troop on the march, that is to say, movement; a stand, that is old social order, which one comes across in this fashion as one walks divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he CHAPTER III--A HARD BISHOPRIC FOR A GOOD BISHOP above all to a convict. Still, his first duty was to Cosette. In short, the splendors of destiny. In these aspirations, much more than in individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are Cosette did not take time to breathe. It was very dark, but she was in cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which and was the daughter of a girl named Fantine, who had died in the chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have bishops. The arrest of the Pope took place, as every one knows, on the sitting the whole morning motionless, with drooping head, his eyes the rose? It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue emerged from his thicket, and began to crawl after Montparnasse in the at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. The passages which touched the crowd most deeply were collected and CHAPTER I--A WOUND WITHOUT, HEALING WITHIN are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being of marble upon his breast. Only, it was not just what Gavroche had The day passed thus. Cosette, without troubling herself to understand wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This glacier of virtue! How he contemplated, with despairing ecstasy, that Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had year. He found the man to his taste, but the girl insipid. moment beheld very close at hand, in that obscurity, the young girl whom cause stars to blaze forth there. when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the He followed the road-mender's advice, retraced his steps, and, half an