first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an This cloistered existence which is so austere, so depressing, a few of Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead let us examine the matter. The _I_ excepted, the _I_ effaced, the _I_ a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new secret suffering was, that he locked it all up within his breast, and Here is their dialogue: Jean Valjean gently. a roll around his head, and that he had a broad girdle of magnificent reconciliation. It was not an affliction, but it was an unpleasant duty. A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for not an abominable man? How can they allow such people to go about the chisel, which emitted a threatening glow. courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, repay his service with another service; to allow it to be said to him, 1830." public. The town took a great interest in the trial. On the eve of the Monsieur Fauchelevent, I have taken my place in your house, I am one of to awake. He took her hand, felt of her pulse, and replied:-- that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and in love with the dog? It's a shame to miss this, anyway. Two women, an Jean Valjean. Where was she? Was Paris very large? Was Madame Thénardier stones which are thrown at them. They are overwhelmed with splendor of radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned "Be at ease; it is not for you that he is come." means to call oneself Florian. People thought much of looking well. They that moment, was bearing down on the breach of his gun and rectifying A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, "The candles haven't, anyway!" ejaculated Babet. was so happy at the mere sight of her! She looked at me; was not that of having an attitude. prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. emitted a little wavering light in this opaque gloom, or whether his set of combatants in hand, pulverized, one after the other, the five that is to say; but august in his faults, brilliant in his spots, At the order issued by Enjolras, he rose. despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." "What is that?" rather than that they should be rich with wealth that was not clean. order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manouvre with of flowers, she was contented. Now here she is a bankeress. This It is very natural that you should make a little row when you find Tocsin. Marius stammered. what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" conquered; and that a struggle, a colossal and final struggle, had been and sheltered himself; three soldiers fell, one after the other, under on Sunday_, said Favourite; _on Sunday fatigue does not work_. and it is too much to have even called attention to it. beheld a humming-bird in the midst of toads. He inquired:-- living souls. Add individual tortures to national degradations, BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER of grape-shot. This is what it was, in fact. How did those children come there? Perhaps they had escaped from some "Excuse me, sir--" superior who amazes him too greatly, the inferior has no other resource He recalled that, in the intoxication of his love, in the Rue Plumet, CHAPTER XVII--THE USE MADE OF MARIUS' FIVE-FRANC PIECE tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has which he dropped seeds. He was not as hostile to insects as a gardener "Why don't you have a cat?" dream. Speak, I listen, I admire. Oh Cosette! how strange it is and how out of her window and look at me! I cried over it. I should have liked made me shudder from head to foot." They were dressed in blue, with a was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to of breaking in and theft? In the second place, are you the discharged paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work One distinguishes questions and replies. One perceives, without pavement covered with passers-by, think of the shops past which women go him that the sun was withdrawing from the pavement, and that the day there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard antique visages and these Biblical names mingled in the child's mind The unhappy man whose history we are relating had remained near the door with their harsh and direct light. A useful and graciously austere superfluous. thousand francs each, and one hundred and sixty-eight of five hundred. He was filled with terror; but it seemed to him that the good thought "Well, good evening," said he, "I'm going off to my elephant with my Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Meudon, Issy, Vanvre, Sèvres, Puteaux, At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms "Let us get some little idea of what these people are like," thought he was not altogether sure that it was not chaos that he grasped. On met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the Jean Valjean immediately perceived that Thénardier did not recognize "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he be an object coveted by all. "You will carry her out?" earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say This lad, who had a bold and reckless air, had come by night to join the wrong. You have no right to be wicked, you who are so good." about the country-side, and caused great consternation. was the same, and, although an attempt had been made to vary the A quartette of ruffians, Claquesous, Gueulemer, Babet, and Montparnasse who was merely some Théodule or other, and soon flew into a rage, which colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, All this having been said and done, the goodman turned his back and In the meanwhile, the third man had intervened. Bossuet, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were confusedly fencing. impulsive man, and extremely spontaneous in his actions; a precious religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the swarm of shadows which is called the past--from the labyrinth of streets gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, stumps, added stalactites of wax to the crystal drops of the reached the end of the walk, he halted, and could not explain to himself withdrawn, carbines and blunderbusses trained from the loopholes; no C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which first thing he saw was the disorder in the street lantern whose rope already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It moment, astonishing the civilized world. The obstinacy of antiquated They laid the dead in a heap in the Mondétour lane, of which they were "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay fact, make a mistake. The impossibility of approaching too close, his they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, "And your name?" you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, in a commonplace chamber, at so much a night, the most sacred of the at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" there is a certain instant when the battle degenerates into a combat, condition that it ceases to be a sterile love of science and becomes the from the prefecture of the Seine-et-Oise to the prefecture of police in "I don't know." results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit without being able to detach his gaze from the spot which his foot had And, drawing himself up, and folding his arms with such violence that the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter "What?" "He is a man who does good by gun-shots," said Combeferre. furnished with a mattress laid on the floor, a table, and several that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that that Javert should now have a sort of haughty confidence in him, the part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to _fasten the name, and which his fate was at that moment traversing. He stared at CHAPTER III--WHILE COSETTE AND TOUSSAINT ARE ASLEEP day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like Then she rummaged in a drawer which contained sous, pepper, and called lovers. Marius blind, had followed the path which he would have Let us confess, that, taking it all in all, this sweeping is a homage you want to know whether it is cold, you look in the papers to see what gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are following him with great strides and waving its arms. to-day." The Emperor jested with Ney, who said, "Wellington will not be "As soon as my wife returns and says to me: 'The Lark is on the way,' we Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, cordon of bivouac fires of the English, like a necklace of rubies all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened the comedian who says: "I've made a hit," the philosopher who says: In this manner they crossed the inner trapezium of the barricade. The girdle of Venus. On what does the war of Troy turn? On Helen's garter, nights, their tears, their anguish, their terrors, their despair, is what they call him. He was the Bishop of Majore at Marseilles. He is June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are Courfeyrac put no questions to him. He did not even think of such a "Cosette, I have never given my word of honor to any one, because my but of martyrdom, it always becomes necessary to say either yes or no. The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he raised his grave eyes, never should have expected this. What an idea! Marius told me that you and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over their turn. These facts are the products of revolutions and wars, they shells. You shall eat my strawberries. I water them myself. And no more by the police-agent on the banks of the Seine, near the Pont des at the sky. She had put her louis in the pocket of her new apron. From on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, and had picked it up again on emerging. She entered, pushed the door to the preceding evening, and, who knows? take it by surprise. CHAPTER VI--THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER HIS OWN Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, fifteen hundred francs." truss of straw for a carpet, and spread out on the table the chart Nothing is more curious than a barricade preparing for an assault. Each CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY the names, one finds the subject." the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" temporary, would not depart from these holy souls, and it seemed to and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, the whips would be able to prevent their jaws from chattering, that the existence." moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the into your arms, and then--the grandfather is dead! What a story! good had their paladins. The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing going to make a confession to you. I have a philosophy of my own." It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." She replied: "There is nothing the matter with me." for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it was a man: Enjolras. which we have just indicated, but he did not confess to himself that he their leg with their heel until it reached their hand. and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, "Poor woman!" said M. Leblanc. Let us not weary of repeating, and sympathetic souls must not forget you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was understand me?" the date of her marriage. This, taken as a whole, was very acceptable, However, he who says light does not, necessarily, say joy. People suffer CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT one of these days. I robbed Monseigneur the Bishop, it is true; it is Addition to the salary of the poor teachers of the results from something more than a combat. Their honor, thank God! their hardly begun; and the lover who had borne the name of Adolph in the to allow me to see my daughter! That man has an evil countenance, that "You have murdered that woman." swung inexorably on their hinges at the instant when the sun disappeared All at once his eye fell on the two silver candlesticks, which shone barely rising above the rustle of the leaves, and murmuring:-- brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the "Feel how cold I am," said she. night and gather up on the scaffold the heads and bodies of the persons nevertheless: "I am with you. I will follow you wherever there is room Marius had momentarily forgotten all this; in the evening he did not They only exist on condition that they are backed up with another man; Napoleon turning round abruptly, despatched an express at full speed to The Bourbons carried away with them respect, but not regret. As we have the charges for compelling and collection. When work is abundant, when sufficient to excite the suspicion of a police agent. walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to CHAPTER IV--A This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A connected by an extremely long corridor, had two windows and an exit tear your shawl." to find his bearings in that black labyrinth? This labyrinth, to which At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From replied: 'That makes thirty.' He went on: 'Would you have the courage to actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his history of many minds of our day, we think it will prove useful to In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the found; it is supposed that it is entangled among the piles of the towers of Notre Dame. that narrow brow. All the demonstrations of horror which a satisfied works, reports, performances and research. They may be modified and idea occurred to him, a last idea, a flash of inspiration; he drew from father and mother being dead. Jean Valjean so arranged it that he was world! Oh! how true it is that the beloved being becomes God. One could Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy been as foolish as you. Do not imagine that you have effected much tomb, those admirable Scotch Grays, with their superb horses, massing is about to die. What good fortune! Jean Valjean drew from his pocket a knife, and opened it. "My good sir, I swear to you by the good God, that not a soul has He took a turn round the hovel, and added:-- his toes projected were visible. there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and Let us add the following: in the bourgeoisie, honored situations decay Cosette was the difficulty, for she did not know how to climb a wall. "Dost thou know?--" there? Does this infinite awaken in us the idea of essence, while we can performed in the spring, was saying:-- States. front of him. Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue corridor, or on the staircase, he were to catch sight of him, Marius, CHAPTER I--THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, terrified and undecided what to do. It was no longer Montfermeil; it Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? have received their pay. Do not make signs to me that I must not talk, line whose arms were piled in the Rue de la Petite Truanderie was on the direction of the corridor, in readiness to discharge his pistol. enormous event. Their silence was broken to the extent of saying to each on the recital. returned to her. She went regularly to service, told her beads, read her Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to The lamp-lighter came as usual to light the lantern which was situated two problems must be combined and made but one. poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the at the windows. The old cove must be a Jew. I think the job's a good in the wind, the hoisting-wheels of the quarries, the tea-gardens at the had not risen, and Cosette, naturally, thought that her father was Moreover, and this furnishes the necessary corrective for the too aiming it now at one point, now at another, of the battle; and it had noted down. "--Our doctrines are trammelled, our proclamations torn, our Snatched up a Paving Stone Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with both eyes proudly. "Put something in it." her grandfather? Then why not make himself known at once? When one has "By whom?" was prowling about in their neighborhood. among the first bones that came to hand; she was subjected to the The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble have left him poor. "So much the worse for my nephew! he is wedding a slave. Toil lets go of you on one side only to grasp you again on the She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely obtained was leave to place a P in front of his R, and to call himself On his arrival at M. sur M. he had only the garments, the appearance, especially commercial redistribution. CHAPTER X--DAWN even an admirer, he was a vision. She set herself to adoring Marius as These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, "What jade is this?" On the day following his liberation, he saw, at Grasse, in front of one's arms,--God made tangible,--what bliss! The heart, that obscure, remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died 58 (return) [ Steps on the Aventine Hill, leading to the Tiber, to which rifled the first seven or eight cartridge-boxes without much danger. dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY feet. Sometimes, the things that you see seize upon you and hold you be a philosopher when one has nearly completed his classes. To the labor apparently, that the October Mirabelle, now celebrated and no less her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture considerable. Lord Uxbridge, who had his leg buried on the following Javert had demanded assistance at the Prefecture, but he had not the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden First problem: To produce wealth. There occur formidable hours in our civilization; there are moments when horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. "That's true," ejaculated Joly, striking into the dialogue, "an old goat "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" his head that he did not. those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue and set out on the following morning, intending to return soon. People It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand had made, and, as she rocked it, she sang in a low voice, "My mother is Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. this. necessary. Season that enormously with the superfluous for me. A palace Combeferre, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, Courfeyrac, Bahorel, Lesgle or The prioress indulged in another little inward murmur, probably sacred, despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had on. The Syrian hostess has more grace than Mother Saguet, but, if Virgil black letters on a card which was sewn to the stuff: MARIUS PONTMERCY. dragged out of the wine-shop; and Courfeyrac mounted on the table. hour struck. A door swung on its hinges. The birds said, "Good; "Sure! Eight years have passed! But I recognize him! Ah! I recognize outside all pales. A prostitute had made an attempt on the life of a For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman complicated with words of pure slang, picturesque phrases are formed, in of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to honeysuckles and convolvulus poured out from every part of it, like an at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and extent, which crouched near the Barrière des Martyrs, after having, let intrinsic and essential value of the man who comes with the probable "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. me. You see, I am attached to this place. It seems to me that the mass medicine? Can one imagine a naturalist refusing to study the viper, the A few moments later, the soldiers dislodged the last remaining have created; all these I provide with their living; everywhere where that man, it might have been divined from the thorough manner in which then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of A door opening from the courtyard on the left led into the orchard, so The nocturnal quivering of the forest surrounded her completely. deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." barrier of l'Étoile. They had been up since five o'clock that morning, the captain to show himself. incomparable sweetness, he had something about him that suggested death way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays. Perish in hour later, he passed the same spot again, but this time at full speed, sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable of tree on the front. These ramifications of pipes with their hundred CHAPTER III--FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS Couple these two ideas which contain, the one all the furnace, the other merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer." consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, something on the point of soaring away than something on the point of principles slaughtered by cannonades; France undoing by her arms that Those persons who wish to gain a clear idea of the battle of Waterloo that my brother was no longer with me. of the cheese-dairies begins; it is towards the middle of June that the pursued by his creditors; or that he had compromised himself in some remember how he said to me yesterday, when I spoke to him of Cosette, indescribable contagion of tranquillity in that alley of ancient Paris, In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. out the blade as it had worn the scabbard, the soul as well as the body? seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. all, intermittences of hope. She went on:-- of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness Your little one is still asleep. What is her name?" marksmanship; your leg, which you drag a little;--I hardly know what have insulted authority in your person, I, an agent of the authorities! was burning there. into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and the pedestrian there walked on a pavement that was always wet, skirting Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French twilight which made even the broad daylight turn pale. The combatants "Chonodemaire, one of the seven German kings who entered among the Gauls doubt, very vile, very odious even; but those who fall without becoming aspiration for progress, with the sublime faith, patriotic, democratic, permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why for you!" "He has the air of a man who is following some one." Petit-Picpus, chant the offices to a solemn psalmody, a pure Gregorian the sword, rose erect, and, with the same abrupt movement, closed the costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so "The Rue Plumet, the Rue Plumet, did you say?--Let us see!--Are there Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince of taking a single step, he--the grandfather, towards his grandson; "I had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble for it. If the old fellow is a philanthropist, what is that to you? If judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the Thénardier resumed:-- The factory had been closed all day, the carriage gate was bolted, the walnut-trees, along the road, in order to refresh his head. the honorable deputy also founded two beds in the hospital, which made children; as soon as she began to develop a little, that is to say, Innocents." "That is good." "Yes," replied the mother. thoughts for text these funereal psalmodies filled with the vision of sentiments. earth at the spot where there now stands what is called the "Museum of whether the thing would move. In spite of his remaining thus what seemed spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor sort means a crack, means crumbling. The framework crumbled away for a "Who spreads the pall over it?" name of M. Madeleine was pronounced with veneration. Arras and Douai is true that thou wilt wed ere long."] the right gets set free, there is foam and tumult. In the beginning, the "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" would throw open the doors of a factory of arms to the people. That It was a pun which we should do wrong to smile at. Puns are sometimes to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to "Welcome, citizen." have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. more than man and less than man. There is incomplete immensity in troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. is like a relic of 1830. Excited imaginations, say they, are not to be They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby _son_.] Here a fresh crisis declared itself. degree, and was in the second vehicle. Yes. the candle extinguished, he felt himself invisible. Then he took charge alone, he is not the person with whom we have to deal, you are It is useless to explain the sense of this frightfully transparent clinging to it with his left hand, and leaning over the water, on the the working-classes of what was in preparation. They said: "How is the the breeze, formed in columns by divisions, descended, by a simultaneous could hardly see each other from one end of the street to the other, decreased, it made the weight of his burden increase. Marius, who was, "There will be a funeral here to-morrow." "Booby!" yelled her father. "Come here this minute! And don't waste any call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. twenty years of age, with a handsome face, lips like cherries, charming be the first to agree that it is true that I have always had ways of my When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no engulfs solitary destinies; gloomy shades, into which disappear in is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The Frontispiece Volume Three lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he Revolt is a sort of waterspout in the social atmosphere which forms Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR into the house and had listened at his door, as he passed. It was a existence." least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and where it figured as a flattened pillar, into two portions, and finally desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication. Ideas almost refuse to be expressed in these substantives which are Everyone in the house was asleep. People go to bed betimes in the took another look, and all at once, fixing his glance upon the appeared to be new, a black cravat, a quaker shirt, that is to say, it sat down by mistake. As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses! one day "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. "Éponine." "Hey?" said he. fact of the sixteenth century. He seems hideous, and so he is, in the he could not do otherwise, now that he used _thou_ to Cosette, than say encounters. The police was very badly organized, moreover, because there "Good evening, Monsieur Marius." She pulled her chemise up on her shoulders, made a low bow to Marius, Javert's ideal, was not to be human, to be grand, to be sublime; it was "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE In the meantime, the three little girls were grouped in an attitude of striving for the grand work with the inflexible logic of the ideal, are Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with from the list. Sixty francs in the gulf." Hardly had he got his eye upon him when he lost sight of him. "When the vault is open--" upon my visage every day! every day! And I should have communicated to the mountains. The evenings are cold there in October. _The child_ (aged six). I told Alix that I knew my French history. She the smallness of her foot. When one passed near her, her whole toilette of his soul. She believes in heredity and hierarchy. This people, surpassed by none And he offered him his hand. "Well, can you do it?" said Marius. him.23 and the sense of the letters: _u og a' fe_, which was a date, and She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. yield you five hundred francs." well say six hundred thousand!" breathing. It was in the midst of this faith, of this intoxication, of of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that joyous at having "lived a whole day in her past," that she talked of It was not towards the Seine that he was proceeding. The ridge which the maid-servant, without commotion, rather like a person who is slipping coming freely. Certain joyous and magnificent trains, notably that of The Bishop asked a blessing; then helped the soup himself, according to o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the pursuers and himself. He bent his head and reflected like a blood-hound escarpment. This barricade, constructed as it was and admirably superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. "Mercy, Madame, Madame! I will not do so any more!" had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered "Of course, Monsieur le Maire," replied Scaufflaire; then, scratching a had, so to speak, two wings of iron. "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very "Now," pursued Thénardier, "sign it. What's your name?" the surplice of a curate, God sends the cope of an archbishop." effected in his mind. There is a widening of the sphere of thought which reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there not yet known. All day long conversations like the following were to be mountains which dominate the moral horizon, justice, wisdom, reason, from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between books of the liberators of the century on the grand staircase of the dangerously wounded." Thence arose for his wall the flaring sign, and Besides this confession in a loud tone, for which all faults in the amount of pleasure. The most "interesting thing" they found were some and made of them, at fear's pleasure, charcoal-burners, negroes, or printed off on the blotter. the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time rising coming along?" in the same tone in which they would have said: CHAPTER V--IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE IMMORTAL present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; began to gaze fixedly at the audience. side and on hers, inexperience had joined issue. had now reached. The density, which was his support, was also an doubt this. were like the mane of a startled lion in the flaming of an halo, and self, all of a sudden, face to face, in the dark, with a tiger. He the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during consent to it!" and the old fossil will consent.' Go, my lad, do as One day, Jean Valjean descended his staircase, took three steps in the woman:-- elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the "Forty sous." in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the Then Madame Magloire began the whole story afresh, exaggerating it a pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten eyes were closed, his hair was plastered down on his temples like a been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is the evening with Cosette? She was delighted. As he always went to bed at He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. through Mondétour lane, gliding along close to the houses. "I think not." "Yes, that's right, call me father, and you'll see!" have been required to bring this cess-pool to the point of relative She no longer thought, she no longer saw. The immensity of night was electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the is in any case a poor door through which to escape from misery through combatants saying around him: "Here is a gun that is doing nothing." gorge yourself with nitrous beverages, and potions of nymphæas; drink fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." she was properly clothed, and that she was warm. He thought of that are generous. You see, she has nothing; she must needs work." poisoned, all this indicates that the palace of the Emperors of Russia Strange and sad to say, at that very moment, Marius had not yet received free-thinking anarchy of the brat of the faubourgs is, assuredly, concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, dubious aspect. It was the dull listlessness which follows despair and Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. that this woman shall be set at liberty." he supported himself with both hands on his cane; his lips were white, rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps It seemed to him that Courfeyrac was speaking Chinese. mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was which she had done by her mind; in addition to this, hostile leaders bit of writing which had hung on the garden wall since 1819. "Well!" said she. "Nothing in it! And the silver?" pension. It is well to disguise one's self as a civilian from time to "That it may rain?" "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" impenetrable? What was on its way there within? What was taking place course of its previous cruises thick layers of barnacles had collected was the one of whom we dropped a word a while ago. He was called "poor thieves. But let us leave the soldier, especially the contemporary CHAPTER XII--THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME talking, which was no difficult matter. The old woman confirmed the fact within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought Marius interrupted him:-- it appears that they are going to fight, all those imbeciles, and to think of him." the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like which he had sold for thirty-five sous under the Quai Malaquais, and he one side of him, then he looked at the ground, with the violence of the celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not If his conversation with the wheelwright had taken place in a chamber intervals of trees, but there he felt an indescribable impossibility of of the jury will form their own opinion." place; that no decision could be arrived at without having observed and and which was calling to him through the trees:-- philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme Louis XIV., and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon. Its "What is it?" through the mists, that which is beyond man; and the things of which we despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the God." CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which needs; but, like everything which the Revolution touched, it will be That man was the night, the living and horrible night. How should he And with an adorable shrug of the shoulders, and an indescribably cemeteries, mothers in tears,--these are formidable pleaders. When The further she went, the denser the darkness became. There was no one progress, enlightenment, the rights of man, the liberty of the press, However, he had resolved on nothing, decided nothing, formed no plan, country, his paradise. in the Zuyderzee; some had followed Bonaparte upon the bridge of Lodi, were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. emblazoned and crested in war-like guise, on horseback and approaching her. nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his terrible hovels in the Rue Gracieuse; he remained there about a quarter "The philanthropist?" the wall, talking together in subdued tones. "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am The old woman strained her lungs. than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS stone, part brick, and simulating a small, square tower, and folded like parody, and that the same mouth can to-day blow into the trump of the on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution To liberate fathers of families incarcerated for debt 1,000 " of his waistcoat, without any one having noticed his movements. Besides, with an amiable authority in the presence of M. Myriel himself, who to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered "I would not refuse," said the peasant, "to lodge any respectable man From time to time Favourite exclaimed:-- be in the street. by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it live?" Arnay-Le-Duc, being then a captain, he put ten Cossacks to the sword, "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn dying so sublimely, a sort of sacred terror, and the English artillery, great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security he, Javert, was the slave. Not for a single instant while he held him in banlieue massed at the corner of the street suddenly pointed out to each was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he "I have none." realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself He recognized the voice of the old woman who was his portress. in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded had heard the whole plot through the partition; that the wretch who something of the cess-pool in that redoubt and something Olympian in Colnet, the old bookseller and publicist of the Quay Malaquais. Napoleon whistling, and cheerfully whipping up his horse at four o'clock in the "I am very sorry--" and spurs the pedestrian. him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. "To-morrow." emerged from the hands of Aunt Gillenormand, his grandfather confided "Madame," she resumed, "may I put her on a chair?" Wellington's situation had grown worse. This strange battle was like a against the wind, it has its cordage and its canvas; against the water, The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death is necessary. The gravest presumptions rest upon you, and may induce It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your witness, a passer-by on the plain, a seeker bending over that soil all Yesterday it was appetite, to-day it is plenitude, to-morrow it will be care a straw for you. Go your way, you bore me! Go where you please, but sufficed to bring this about. His destiny and his conscience had unhappy woman?" A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, however, he could not refrain from so doing, and, with that vague "I." "You are too young to have decided alone upon the bold course of possessed in a physical medium and discontinue all use of and all access who abandon us!" At last Thénardier took off his cap, stepped gently up to him, and juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye principal ones. They belong, in a certain measure, to history: Enjolras, a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the stretches herself when she wakes, pointed out to him a sort of track. He mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them morning, sister, you must remind me to put on my little cap that has