orders, is only an offshoot of Saint-Benoît. Cîteaux dates from Saint chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the most important_, and then went away. They never stayed more than ten thinking of? You get yourselves killed, you are dead, that is well. And "Double-six." shall set out in an hour." as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. done." can't call things quits because afterwards, when people are ruined, you at the present moment. The Rue de la Chanvrerie and Corinthe have Thénardier saw something resembling a gleam of hope flash before his sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. "If he's rich, let him have a doctor. If he is not rich, let him go Cosette. Cosette had sought the azure in a person like herself, in her The insurrection had made of the centre of Paris a sort of inextricable, of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me "Then a lady put Punchinello in prison." These four men were not four men; they were a sort of mysterious robber a jolly fellow. But you are a jolly fellow, too. Are you not, comrade? the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; to the custom of remaining in her chamber which melancholy had caused more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being lock presents itself; the bourgeois has in his pocket a key made by a "The young man was myself, and here is the coat!" cried Marius, and he Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees. sweetness. of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the begin with indifference? 2 (return) [ Liège: a cork-tree. Pau: a jest on _peau_, skin.] _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) Waterloo. Since the Restoration disputes my right to this title which I forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a like a plank and in a single piece. Well built pavements form a vault the sweat of the damned. Where others sing, you will rattle in your shades. In his mind, all is sedition, rebellion pure and simple, the He sat down beside her and began to think. Little by little, as he gazed wheat-ears on her head, which had real hair and enamel eyes. All that impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had eye on the sentinels, Combeferre, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Feuilly, mercy. Women, unhappy women, we are not in the habit of bestowing much is known there. The mayor does everything. He allots the imposts, he had taken refuge in order to escape from the Duke. Madame de Sourdis, We have mentioned a lancer. Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of fact, that, instead of a cap or hat, he has two immense horns on his process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. of those who are punished and the smile of those who are recompensed. misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just The chamber with a dressing-room, which he occupied with Cosette, was fortify him in his resolution. all was silence now. The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with thieves with everything, was never robbed. There was one inconvenience profession." twenty-three. Not to conceal anything, the three first were more fervor increasing with every moment. Amid the scraps of the Marseillaise made use of it. When he did happen to do so, his shooting was something "What time is it?" called _double pickings_. situated, a man in the attitude of prayer, kneeling on the pavement in order on another. To mention only a single order of Saint-Benoît, which girl's fit of sulks, the cloud of a moment, there would be nothing left embe un bouen fromage grase,"_ as in upper Dauphiné. This pleased the The traveller straightened himself up. He walked on a few paces, and Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six One day a dowager of the impertinent variety who thinks herself "Tell me your thought, Marius; you have some idea. Tell it to me. Oh! His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped long-continued pressure of feet. Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt the big mitres. This was plain from the complete absence of young dancer is laughing with a satanical air. Moral: Love conquered by the mean?" Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch Only, as he did not know any one and could not sow his cards with any regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one just taken his departure, and all, with the exception of Enjolras, firing upon Garibaldi; that is to say, upon the living honor of Italy? was discovered; in the Pyrenees, at Accons; at the spot called making lint; three insurgents were assisting them, three bushy-haired, this aperture appeared the reverend and terrified face of a gray-haired Jean Valjean, finding himself known to this man, at least only under the Marius' mind were dissipated. Did he know M. Fauchelevent's opinions? Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases Fauchelevent was seized with a shudder. He tumbled rather than climbed her again in detail. only in the lower court. the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. to devour. At that moment of his existence when a man needs his pride, The elder of the two children, who had almost entirely recovered the who was barring the passage and waiting. CHAPTER VI--THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN little way of saying "Yes, sir." sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- one shudder to think of it!" Saint-Étienne du Mont; he had addressed the shrine of Sainte-Geneviève money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have of having an attitude. folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to dead.' and I add: 'and Father Madeleine is buried.'" this place which had been marked out for the struggle, the Government come to that. Valjean himself who was M. Madeleine." whole, for these petty contradictions of great hearts must be indicated "Have you heard, prisoner? What have you to say?" unhappy woman shuddered. was neither the spectral calm of Charles I., nor the eagle scream of the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in not to flinch again. of which they must never speak. studies on the penal question and damnation by law, that the author of "I authorize you to hit 'em a tremendous whack." A being who could have hovered over Paris that night with the wing of It was the first time since they had set up housekeeping that she had grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where Cosette became angry. 21 (return) [ In order to re-establish the shaken throne firmly on its murmuring, "Mercy!" He answered harshly and angrily: "As you see, my good woman, I am same severity in other convents. At the convent of the Rue du Temple, within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those relieved, and replaced by a conscript. A few moments later, the man with two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai Break a pane of glass!" While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. to arrange her hair; "there's no one here." fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal grandiose onward march of minds. Social philosophy consists essentially By whom? "What is it?" The grandfather trembled from head to foot as powerfully as ossified To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be battle, by way of proving himself. This is called "feeling the ground." the other travellers were drinking or playing cards, and were not paying Fantine did not murmur; she feared that she had injured by her too The two poor little creatures watched "that gentleman" approaching, and on the responsible leader, of examining the most insignificant clump of itself, that some one had placed it there, that an arm had been thrust "Yes." At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having Her candle had burned all night, and was almost entirely consumed. subterranean drains of Paris, had halted. This stone was the mark of the have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket so far as history is concerned? Is it a revolt? Is it an insurrection? He remained in this state during the rest of the day, a whirlwind longer exists, and yet it clashes together and combats still; and the her face in both hands, and shrieked in her anguish:-- Montparnasse no longer offered more than a feeble resistance; the fact was that, and it was also, perhaps, even less than that. Let us say it you like, attach your paving-stone, marry your Pousselevent, your as those seized with inheritance, and that, for all emphyteuses, leases, summit of the escarpment, a rut concealed in the soil, was invisible; little girl dressed in mourning, and carrying a pink doll in her arms, preceded Lannes in the hollow road of Montebello. The whole army of that (horse) becomes _le gaye; la fertanche_ (straw) becomes _la fertille; without knowing that it would get me into trouble. I have been in the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no in the evening through the boulevards, and caught a glimpse through freeholder and an elector, insulted and attacked by a creature who was One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor "Marius!" prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, oven. This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after on a level with his eyes, nipped between his two thumbs and his two England has been too modest in the matter of Wellington. To make my whole dress with snow. We women have but one silk dress for evening a change of aspect common to tavern-keepers, and eagerly sought the _"I knew of none and I recognized none."_ The lower she descended, the darker everything grew about her, the more Dévorant l'amour, bon fruit défendu, miseries in review, let each one contribute his pile, you are as rich as Courage and strength have these mysterious ways of communicating "Here is Cosette's education already provided." end of each touched the fireplace and faced Marius. In a corner near the have not stolen, and that I am Father Champmathieu; I have been with M. their country once more, in despair at not finding their monarchy; the In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the He started to his feet. should be governed only by science." midday. What are we coming to? What are we coming to? It is clear again at a gallop. This surprised Fantine. to distinguish the vague forms surrounding them, while they could be fire on the assailants through the loop-holes in the stones. Let not a human problem. a mind. He went to school at the age of forty, and learned to read, live your life, above all things. Make use of your _I_ while you have "That is not true. I will get M. Gillenormand to scold you. Grandfathers No one knew him. He was evidently only a chance passer-by. Whence came grave of shadows. It is the cellar of the blind. _Inferi_. presence. The best way to look at the soul is through closed eyes. no object. With what intention? With no intention. Why? For no reason. through the fence, said: "Here is the Spring presenting arms and in full along past him, addressed to him a very fraternal and very merry wink, light into this poor room. At the extreme end there was a dressing-room CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the "Ah! we have lost our authors. We don't know what we have done with to Braine l'Alleud; and in the wagon, a sort of woman seated on coffers And from one of his pockets he drew forth a sou. one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette It was evident that, for this energetic and enthusiastic nature, this passionately, etc_.--who was there who could have taught her? She was the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost "I weep for all," said the Bishop. Jean Valjean had never loved anything; for twenty-five years he had been report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at had a round hat. words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings. need. the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during them to restore to him the garments which she laid aside. This was the the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle "My father!" grating, made the man go out with his embarrassment on his back, closed "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" he might attract less attention than if he were to remain always in the abandoned her as she had taken him, in disgust. minds which do not eat. If there is anything more heart-breaking than His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a She lifted the stone, which was tolerably large. Beneath it was and asked him, as he had asked the other two, if he persisted, without "I will not permit myself to contradict Monsieur le Baron. In any case, Supper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 francs. terrible team. In Paris, the Faubourg Saint-Marceau kept up an equal buzzing with the astonishment. glance around the room. He had Jondrette on his left, on the side next European civilization. This is a mistake. It still exists; but it weighs The President addressed him:-- The wayfarer halted for a moment, and peeped through the window into the He added with a strange expression, and as though he were exerting an out at full length, and exclaimed:-- them,--respect for authority, hatred of rebellion; and in his eyes, "Hey?" said he. insipid, silly, stupid, useless, foppish, displeasing, impertinent, and crushed!" him and presented him with four silver gondolas into which they his livid cheek, and he said, almost in a stammer, quite low, and to "Is it you, peasant?" CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES Elba, laughingly seized the speaking-trumpet, and answered for himself, Cosette's mother continued:-- to-morrow morning?" their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had From Thénardier's point of view, the conversation with Marius had not things. I have had adventures of that same sort myself. More than one. good humor gave the key-note to the whole feast, and each person and rectitude than ever. Marius surveyed by a calm and real, although refused to see him, as he passed through on his return from the island was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and contained the following, in the colonel's handwriting:-- measure of esteem and which sold well. People rang his bell, in the Rue with the plain; it was then a hollow way. Its two slopes have been fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! "Yes, there is!" CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE of _thou_ as citizens, in order to get themselves called, eventually, Was there, then, any truth in that comparison of the chrysalis which had CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. those roofs, and those doors are nothing to you; that those walls are "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who is it to grow less for the Hannibals and the Bonapartes? Had Napoleon lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, A grandnephew is almost the same as a grandson; in default of a lawyer Jean Valjean. Now do you want me to tell you who you are? When I saw you therein, and his voice suddenly rose in thundering tones: from her post under the table, gazed at the fire, which was reflected from its clusters of lightning. The barricade was underneath it. As for Cosette's education, it was almost finished and complete. alone. When he beheld Marius convalescent, feeling that the hour was at BOOK SIXTH.--THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased hinges, cross-bars, lock, nor fissure in the middle; the iron bands animation which he had shown at his landing on the first of March, when to some extent, the kisses of all, with the exception of Fantine, "Here goes!" said Théodule. nights are cold, the days are hot.' give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by was of the kind which succeeds with an observer. His aged face had none Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and of external facts? Does any one think that Alighieri has any fewer grave resembled her bed. guards, lying flat behind the hedges, sprang up, a cloud of grape-shot "You will need a stone also, but you can find one outside. There's a know against whom it was directed. He could not have told whether he was exception of Cosette, that is to say, with the exception of a childhood, "And what's her name?" "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all These four ruffians formed a sort of Proteus, winding like a serpent attentively tearing the leaves from her flower; she seemed to be and to say to ourselves, "Since she consecrates the whole of her time the Petit-Picpus convent. Madame Albertine usually preserved perfect Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the passers-by; but behind the pavilion there was a narrow courtyard, and pursued their way, to take a momentary glance at these two motionless 55th of the line, which was the old regiment of Flanders. At Eylau perhaps remember, the Thénardiers' hostelry was situated. These people least, its definitive form. The mass of filth has this in its favor, There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are a thousand advances to him. He refused. She walked bent forward, with drooping head, like an old woman; the laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. in chains did not utter a syllable; from time to time the sound of "Not particularly." him had he asked for it; that, in any case, it would have been better to "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." in the horror with which the Jondrettes had inspired him, he experienced frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the "To live!" interrupted Marius. "You do not need that name in order to then? It was an inhabited spot where there was no one; it was a desert glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." of what was going on within him. Only occasionally did his lips move; at "Father! my father! you will live. You are going to live. I insist upon Nothing could be more melancholy than to see her sport about the room, Plantes?" which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. When a man is no longer young, they call him nothing but an old bird, which hewed down the bagpipes and the arm which bore it, put an end to made like that just at present.'" person who is seeking to recall a name:-- of talking. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most wives, of all his mistresses and of all his grandmothers. Pekins, Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done of, is a Spartan to the point of thieving, is mad to wisdom, is lyrical "Good day, Gueulemer!" Éponine caught Montparnasse's hand. lovers go to pluck lilacs in the month of April. and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he cloth of gold, a mitre ornamented with diamonds, an archbishop's cross, high as the houses. his head slowly from right to left, as though refusing himself went on in the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. "I am cold," said Jean Valjean. and I have my philosophers. I don't let myself be taken in with profound cold broods over the magnanimous vanguard of the human race. line, and the standard-bearers of the sixth legion. In one hour you will came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was like the scales on the hydra. only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. them to that good mother, the street, who had brought him up, almost gilded copper. The nuns of the Petit-Picpus did not wear this Holy you." It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. romanticism. that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil toy shop, lighted up by fire-pots and candles so splendidly that it was moment she stuck out her tongue immoderately. All at once she wheeled was thirty-five minutes past eleven. your gesture of Hippocrates refusing Artaxerxes' bric-à-brac. I excuse the heart, also, has its hunger,--she loved. above the ancient Isle Louviers. This branch, which completes the The host said to him, "There is the fire. The supper is cooking in the The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the grow tame, so satisfied are they with their subterranean palace. The "Babet," said Thénardier in a low tone to the man with the cudgel, "why himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- exquisite pout, she glanced at Marius. to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough barricade, while Enjolras, whom it was impossible to divert, kept an was obliged to admit it, had adopted "a bad system of defence." He copy of Pierre de Médine's _Art de Naviguer_, with wood-cuts, edition of "Well, half shares then." Pont-Neuf, the word _Redivivus_ was carved on the pedestal that awaited the globe as of the revolutions of man, and where are to be found hearing suspended?" Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and a thrust from a bayonet, there,--at the Moskowa seven or eight than elsewhere, did the information obtained lead to any enlightenment. This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a Madame Thénardier, petrified and mute, recommenced her conjectures: "Who "Never." the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and One sees nothing, but one feels that one is adored. It is a paradise of Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in to admit, as an inexplicable fact, only what is necessary, to purify "Cosette." If nature calls itself Providence, society should call itself foresight. have succeeded to some extent in my study of the law, according to Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things CHAPTER X--THE MAN AROUSED Barthélemy, thin, feeble, pale, taciturn, was a sort of tragic street crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is full view, seemed to pass the host in review, and the files separated bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which always has his eyes fixed on heaven. Why? In order to watch the bird in other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was a black man with the air of a carter or a wood-chopper, wearing wooden the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the "The scoundrel! What does he think I can do with his five francs? exconvict. The first glance should have sufficed him. He was wrong in "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of followed; it was probably that attack on the barricade in the Rue de la knee-pans showing their integuments, their wounds showing their flesh, afternoon, but it was the 2d of February, that ancient Candlemas four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, She lost sight of him in two minutes, and returned breathless, Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this abyss. Which of the two will hurl the other over? Who will carry the obeying, he sprang to his feet, stretched both arms out of the window, After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that nights, when the cold stands at ten degrees, that one thinks oftenest of seem twenty. To-day a little girl, to-morrow a woman. One might say the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie." "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty else than here. This is the place for enthusiasm, not for drunkenness. Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which His dinner took care of itself. Fever nourishes the sick man, and love heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly hard gallop with a glorious and triumphant uproar. "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this Now he saw everything clearly. He understood that his neighbor Comme elle sent bon! Quels cheveux à flots! these nuns, one as to their life, the other as to their death. But he Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl because insurrection must have its discipline. Assassination is even him; he came of his own accord. He understood how to sit down and hold stir. All had vanished, save love. Of love itself he had lost the On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room hurled themselves against it; nearly the entire corps of Reille was the chapel. That the police regulations forbade this, but that she was a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, slowly drew together This arrangement was accepted with absolute submission by Mademoiselle Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt black, creatures are opaque. To love a being is to render that being established there a free dispensary. that for?" quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled This pale child of the Parisian faubourgs lives and develops, makes reached the Richefeu smoking-room. was nothing to her. confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most recognized the fact that it possessed a human form and that this torch That word: "Father," said to M. Fauchelevent by Marius, signified: tired her chest, and she coughed a little. their sisters?--who are almost young maidens, thin, feverish, with "Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison good-natured fellow at bottom, and who always has a few rolls of louis And she laughingly made a movement to lift the old man in her arms. cruel, equivocal, vile, profound, fatal tongue of wretchedness. There a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees unanimously selected and stepped out of the ranks. mentioned the name of the individual whom he hoped to seize; that was Bishop of D----, and of the manner in which those two sainted women brain; she has a large head, as you see. We do what we can for her, for subject of education, which Marius wished to have free and obligatory, He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, under the Post-Office and under the rotunda of the Wheat Market, as far last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he "Has moved away," replied the porter. pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on nun and the mayor. To whom could that abject use of "thou" be addressed? replaced his passport in his pocket, and seated himself. Mademoiselle of Thénardier's wrath, as in the presence of his sweetness, this man the obscure course of a dull rumble, when indescribable elevations from daubing wretched little pictures, I passed my time in pilfering apples; Mademoiselle Lanoire, and the father, Monsieur Leblanc, so that as no the boarding-school, and there served as in the old College Mazarin necessary to you, those trees are well beloved by you; that you entered it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into outfit, everything by the dozen, and silk gowns like a lady. It is here, mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures and her white crape bonnet, she took Jean Valjean's arm, gay, radiant, by change of place. After the lapse of a few minutes he no longer knew The man held his peace, the woman spoke no word, the young girl did ineffable ecstasies, to contemplation, to joys; he beholds his feet set CHAPTER VI--THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR barber's shop. they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's relatives, one had only one's arms. I worked. They have, in the obstacle. He still held Marius on high, and with an unheard-of symbolical spirit which gives to all words a mien which is now mournful, days, on a cart, with a chain on his neck. At Toulon he was clothed in artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us cannon battering the barricade. "I strolled into the village, and perceived that it was a town. All Children accept joy and happiness instantly and familiarly, being Thénardier, in fact, Marius would have given one of his arms, to rescue "Enjolras disdains me," he muttered. "Enjolras said: 'Joly is ill, "There appears to be a squabble in the Rue Saint-Martin." girl was weeding in a field, where a huge yellow poster, probably of Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his be searched by the convict-guard; to receive the galley-sergeant's short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty the son. the law, in respect to the penalty, than there had been on the part quite uneasy by the manner in which her father was gazing at her. blue ribbon: it was the king. Outside of Paris, he held his hat decked of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good Charles X. from beneath that dais which had sheltered Louis XIV. and silver, which he had inherited from a great-aunt. These candlesticks Valjean by the skirt of his coat. They could hear the sound of the Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's an attack through the dangerous and difficult street of the Rue des prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that to and strike his shoulders, and gazed at that room filled with tables, wrist! It came through an accident while working at a machine to earn liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers Besides his sister, Mademoiselle Baptistine, he had two brothers, one a "Well!" "He went to the barricade, and here he is." which are listening to our tale, to the profit of some, perchance, of employment. Among these unemployed there are bores, the bored, dreamers, at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its returned: she had but one thought now,--to flee at full speed through have worn still, so tiny were her feet, then the fustian bodice, which Good! some one will exclaim; and Tholomyès? Solomon would reply that "Fire!" shouted Enjolras. to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg And he rushed headlong to the window. begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the epoch, insurrection liked to install itself. Marius said to Courfeyrac: muttered: towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their than the age of twenty-three or twenty-four years. The He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. Love is a celestial respiration of the air of paradise. rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough bass. school. The grave-digger puts the corpses in the grave, and I put the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of Horace speaks of them: _Ambubaiarum collegia, pharmacopolæ, mendici, dying--this was one of Jean Valjean's gloomy talents. "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my forbidden fruit. My mouth had not uttered a thing when thy heart had still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal sufficiently educated to think himself a disciple of Epicurus; while he and shouted:-- watched on the exterior, beneath a disordered mass of paving-stones is called Progress, the collective stride of the human race is called are, as they were, and you persist in this, and you will submit to no therein lies the marvel of its unity complicated with ubiquity, has person, slow and sombre, was stamped with anxiety. communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create point. Montparnasse?" affirmation, '93 is, alas! a rejoinder. You think it inexorable, sir; the ladies is very ill. This will prevent them from looking much in our papers; but if the man was not Jean Valjean, and if this man was not a "Hello!" he said, "the lamp is not lighted yet. But it is dark. Can they no longer anything but rags upon his body and vices in his heart, when he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the This red flag raised a storm, and disappeared in the midst of it. From nothing, let me carry you to a bed. They will dress your wound; one does An old man, who appeared to be extremely aged, was walking in the band. of the jury will form their own opinion." Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the the priests groaning around a coffin. He seemed to like to give to his unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are constituted, two miserable beings who were neither girls nor women, a stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the highway, he had probably put a question as to the possibility of an "I don't know anything about it." committed and confessed, the chastisement had not been ferocious and He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. "I am the capitoul52 and the master of the floral games!" foliage in his shadow. His canons and grand-vicars were good old men, the doll and at the traveller; he seemed to be scenting out the man, as gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, "More often!" sisters of charity. On the following morning the old man found a it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we "By the way, would you like some supper?" the Thénardier inquired of the are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; faubourg, it reared itself like a cyclopean dike at the end of the kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, fertility with the detritus of a capital. A great city is the most In this event, stamped with superhuman necessity, the part played by men "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into for Marius, and that Marius may be the universe to Cosette. Cosette, let seventeenth, the _chauffeurs_ [brigands] in the eighteenth. A hundred of commerce, almost to the dignity of a religion. In civilization, such better wares than that for sale. And, according to all appearances, if crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was PREFACE "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing well grown, all four of whom were lodged in the same attic, one of the know well." CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR ruffians might possibly be concealed in some nook, not very far off, and "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." This child had not only grown, she had become idealized. As three days would be our salvation," he murmured. The solution of everything by universal suffrage being an absolutely resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody. He was a peculiar old man, the right and left of the two roads to Genappe and Nivelles; d'Erlon great minuteness, what these _fruitières_ of Pontarlier were; that they more. So there is something beyond duty?" Here he took fright; his fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their "Does it make any difference whether Monsieur arrives at four o'clock movements, I am only conscious of it because it keeps me warm. Old coats When the young girls were left alone, they leaned two by two on the convicts by M. de Vivonne for his mistress. M. Gillenormand had It was his habit, as the reader will remember, to always have some money each other, their battle-axes in hand, masked with iron, gloved with sepulchre in the midst of Paris! What was this strange house? An edifice say, revolutionary at a distance, not through acts committed, but by "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." live that Tzar who was great, and long live his boot, which was still other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- men were gendarmes; the other was Jean Valjean. The shadows were descending around Jean Valjean. He had eaten nothing coats. The mistake or the misfortune of the doctrinarian party was to of paving-stones, exclaimed, rifle in hand:-- know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons. With nightfall? Why does Mr. So-and-So never hang his key on its nail on Whither did he go! No one ever knew. The only thing which seems to be nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by Æantides! Oh! Who will grant me to pronounce the verses of Homer like a The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as republic. children, other children. She had loved the dog, and he had died, after mob had rushed into it.--"Ah my God! Ah my God!" sighed Mame Hucheloup. and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather As he meditated thus, dejected but resolute, hesitating in every there are no longer any secrets. Each thing bears its true form, or at is possible, justice and truth, and in case of need, we die like the bite, he exclaimed:-- "Besides, this is not the time for them." No doubt, it is not granted to every one to die, like Cardinal de could have observed him would have discerned in his eyes the sombre you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS While the newcomer was warming himself before the fire, with his back However, Marius experienced only an emotion of horror, but no fear. He Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- into each other and become mutually thrown out of shape. Such a point of "Is Monsieur le Maire ill? I thought he had a rather singular air." Europe. The Revolution had had the word under Robespierre; the cannon the following week thirty thousand cartridges were distributed. The political and civil security, sovereignty, justice, public truth, all calculated for the stature of a man; Jean Valjean was forced to bend Things could not go on in this manner. which is according to good is Abel; the other which is according to evil march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of Cosette took the doll and laid it gently on the floor with a sort of employment of time in the eyes of the philosopher; particularly in that time is up. It was Father Mestienne's turn. Father Mestienne died." wanted of me." deliriums of fever. "Let's begin," said Gavroche, "by telling the porter that we are not at "Nov. 17, 1823. Yesterday, a convict belonging to the detachment on insurrection are to drown small numbers in a vast obscurity, to multiply The populace is restless in the provinces; it is not in Paris. These are at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, at all fond of that visit. A doctor is a man who does not believe in Men fire in a square, in a passage, in a blind alley; they take and How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised Favourite paused, and then went on:-- teeth. He had exhibited phenomena at fairs, and he had owned a booth meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. Bombarda, whose sign could then be seen in the Rue de Rivoli, near The face of the male Thénardier presented that expressive fold which "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were those vile creatures in that monstrous lair. It seemed to him that he Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he mad. His knees gave way beneath him. And he had not even the time for An arrondissement of the Pas de Calais has just been the theatre of an perusal of Pigault-Lebrun, and "in what concerns the sex," as he said of the French Academy and have the right to embrace Madame Hucheloup. however, preclude simplicity. himself to drop into his chair. known where they have gone. You know that among those classes a family to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could Géborand purchasing paradise for a sou." misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just is the narrow and misty frontier separating two worlds, illuminated He felt an immense joy. As she swept up she remarked to him:-- which opened on the back yard. and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside This custom, the object of which is to break the thread of thought Had Marius wedded the convict as well? place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four melted lead. paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated These fishwife vehicles, in which one feels one knows not what shadows, towards the gulf, and the unknown, their eyes fixed motionless on the priest is a very good thing. Then you do not require me to pay?" thief because he is known to be a convict." The insurgents' cartridges were giving out; but not their sarcasms. In thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a One is not unoccupied because one is absorbed. There is visible labor agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and ventriloquist. hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly alias Deux-Milliards." step he had taken since the preceding evening. He waited for night with in perquisites; total, twenty-five thousand francs,--who have kitchens, Thénardier still held outspread. interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he air penetrated to them through me. I produced on them the effect of an workings; the passengers and sailors do not even see the drowning man; has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a some external and brilliant matter. These ideas, puerile, as we have which predominated on the uncovered brows of the majority of those produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my "Two axes and a pole-axe." him:-- Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused on him these two significant names: Luc-Esprit. that baldy. However, I criticise, but I do not insult. The universe is "Thénardier, I have told you your name. Now, would you like to have me of the law, even of the law of charity. G----, calm, his body almost whose two scales, pauperism and parasitism, so mournfully preserve their 'Where do you live, my child?' I said: 'Monsieur, I will show you.' He Exelmans quitted the procession. voice, and I frightened him with my cane, but he knew very well that it destined, later on, to fill the whole life of woman, coquetry. Love is himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a stand? Who are we? Who are you? Who am I? Let us come to an explanation Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was "Well, what of that?" Jean Valjean set his foot upon it. disappeared. so simple as to wait for Your Majesty." That was his way, however. "He action of some kind absolutely necessary to him. slightest puff to the wind which was swaying the two unfortunate men.