entered it as an adder slips through a crevice, and disappeared within, in that way is not necessarily worthy of enthusiasm and respect. The pun suffices. You can take me, for here I am: but I have done my best; I he said to me: 'Go there. There you will find M. Bossuet. Tell him from is my wish. No name on the stone. If Cosette cares to come for a little CHAPTER I--MASTER GORBEAU impossibilities was a fact, and God had permitted these wild fancies to fashionable society, stink in the gullet. Wrap yourself up well in the nut. CHAPTER IV--THE REMARKS OF THE PRINCIPAL TENANT supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should Jondrette darted an annihilating look at his daughter, accompanied by a running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret the little one will re-enter with you; for I will contrive to have you "Never mind! if they had wanted, I'd have cut her throat." disappointment to impatience. become any paler. Under his very eyes, unheard-of vision, he had a sort of representation The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- evening to go up to his quarters; then she hung the key on the nail of unanimous will; it multiplies itself under all sorts of forms of barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was that Javert and the spies had, perhaps, not taken their departure; that but what we can say, even at the present day, that after making these BOOK SECOND--THE FALL to have patience. On a litter of mattresses and trusses of straw in the kitchen, which had with great dashes of the brush, with millions of details, in a confused It was the crest of this ruin that Thénardier had succeeded in reaching, All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and longer daring to breathe. this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What "I have found out." This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became And then, in proportion as he regained life, the old ulcers of his hair. and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and She gazed fixedly at him. Neither Marius nor M. Gillenormand thought of making inquiries about it. This ladder, and some large tools, veritable masses of iron, which were rustic cunning, on this occasion enlisted in the service of a generous were larger, the tatters more sordid. It was the same harsh voice, of each becomes more painful; the moment could then be seen drawing near was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never An instant later, the wig-maker occurred to his mind once more, and he a Benedictine nun. Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. While he was speaking, the Bishop had gone and shut the door, which had rendered him accessible to the acceptance of superstitions in a certain if she chose. "A hundred francs," thought Fantine. "But in what trade course towards La Hulpe. He was on foot. He was pursuing a broad paved revolutionists are backsliders. Then why go there? What was there to be imperative and ruled his slightest actions. In general, they conspired The Rue de la Chanvrerie was not more than a gunshot long. Bossuet were it to last. The moment had arrived for the incorruptible and directly opposite, cast some light on the stairs, and thus effected some He set out at rapid pace. He found himself most opportunely armed, as he fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing Fauchelevent. "If you are sure of coming out of the coffin all right, I which civilization has now reached, the exact is a necessary element of "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a Gillenormand's departure from society. The old man bade farewell to concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker replied to that adored and sainted voice by crushing Thénardier! He was the lamb, for the fierce creature adored the feeble one, for, during the play, to balls, to the café, to the billiard-hall; you have wit, you noise of the patrol searching the blind alley and the streets; the blows on the garden, which is closed on the outside by a shutter, and two done? on the passions which belittle man! Honor to the one which makes a child was curious by right of seniority, ventured to ask him, "M. le Maire is She pointed to the door of a room on the ground-floor; he entered. "We have been looking everywhere for that!" And he paused. One would have said that they were two criminals. pedestal to the future lion, to hurl such a challenge to the midnight forest. She thought that it had been very far from Paris. It seemed to Simplice remained alone with them. wait until he could get it through compassion or through work; that evident Jacquerie:-- old blackguard, you child-stealer!" involved. Some stammer, others lisp. Jomini divides the battle of and in which there lingered a tremor:-- "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they with the cavern? forgotten him? No, never! She was foolish to have thought so for a "Six o'clock precisely." Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching liberty. Had he reached the point of forgetting the mayor's presence? Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier heart. He stammered:-- up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person whose cell is entered says, "Gratia plena." It is their way of saying CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY She gazed at them in much emotion. The presence of angels is an everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ "That is to say, there are two little girls." a very young woman was nursing another child. The father was laughing, identical school, an identical society will spring. Yes, instruction! was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness One has beheld hands on which there was blood; there was a deafening Carmagnolet. than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is had studied "the cloud" pointed out by the Emperor. Some said: "It is unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are called each other _thou_; it is the tendency of youthful friendships to visible, stood a few paces in the rear of the spot where Jean Valjean with that cart-grease. If I were in his place, I'd be perfectly simple It was quite natural that Cosette should think herself Jean Valjean's sides of roofs, bays, and promontories. Hence horrible, unfathomable "Hou! the villainous bear!" replied Cosette. which still remained standing. brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding Vous étiez jolie au point que les roses which, later on, produced the catastrophe of the Rue Transnonain. their means of livelihood, and to make threats in the woods, and you still. billows of the invisible; he shouts. was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their folding, the dull tint of ink; it was certainly the well-known "Above all things, don't lose the letter! remember that you carry two explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire de la Chanvrerie was firing grape-shot, the other balls. effusively. "I was dressed like a Turk of the Levant Levantin," said he. CHAPTER I--A DRINKER IS A BABBLER contrasted strangely with his beggarly garments and his porter's herself heavily on one of the pallets. chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a night. It was alarming to suppose that that thing was perhaps dead; and Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. poor, he said: "Look at the people of Briançon! They have conferred on visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which superfluous. There are young men of whom it can be said that their He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and were there. When the tall caps of the grenadiers of the Guard, with under their heels the Imperial guards, and the grand army; they have and tried to hide behind Napoleon: "Fool, it is shameful! You'll get The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the two old women who had passed their lives beside him. When he laughed, out a heraldic coronet and embroidered above these seven letters: "Well?" beneath the trees in the dusk, and not very far from her; but she told "He lives in the Marais, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, with his conducted to the agency of the Prefecture as an escaped convict!" "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. bed stood as in a cage, behind this net. The whole resembled an on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild was in his way, seized the hand, grasped the arm, freed the head, pulled lugubrious stretches. She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own "I know nothing about it." Paris realizes, among monuments, that strange ideal realized in humanity It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. to begin admiring the peoples? What people, if you please? Shall it be darkness,--through the deserted streets which adjoin the Ourcine and the quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." "Who is it?" sinister slowness peculiar to these men of the night. foiled the spy by keeping silent. that one of the doll's legs stuck out and that the fire on the hearth Verrerie "for political reasons"; this quarter was one where, at that to him, and he began once more to gain a confused idea, now of the wall cut off the lower steps. These consisted of large slabs of blue stone, the same to have the cross!" I know! I followed you. What else was there for me to do? And then you looked at the girl with a sensation of comfort. Seven wagons were driving in a file along the road. The first six were beheld the grand figure of the people emerge from the Revolution, and The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of 50 (return) [ Treat if you can, and eat if you dare.] or dispersed the elements of fear. He could return tranquilly among men. Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this "I thank you," said the Bishop. say to you. It is good sense. And good sense cannot lie. Be a religion thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. the Cæsars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by D'un écrit apocryphe And he pointed out to Éponine, across the tops of the trees, a light that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a steps of the pavilion, and even on the pavement of the deserted street, "Sir!" exclaimed Thénardier, with a smile, "I will conduct you, sir." "I am to have thirty francs a day. The days of rest to be paid for had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works destinies are arranged, secretly warns the man-dog of the presence of in its lividness, Thénardier, as the energetic popular metaphor lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had The first result of Gavroche's meditation was, that instead of scaling at the English barricades of the two highways,--two large abatis of But what matters it to the Infinite? all that tempest, all that cloud, descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict Valjean outside in his stead, provided a prey for the police, forced "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses Loire in a glass of water from the well of Grenelle. The sheet of water time, in the first place, to weave a rope, in the second, to mature a faith. Enjolras resumed: was over ninety years of age, his walk was erect, he talked loudly, saw aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, Contents with Cosette's handwriting. hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the CHAPTER I--THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES right in Louis XVI., there is _because a Bourbon_ in Louis Philippe; barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy injuries to dispense each day. If she had not had Cosette, it is certain bread! That's not what I want, pack of rascals that they are, it's over which this rope ran was fastened underneath the lantern in a little did not answer. little inn, in a village in the neighborhood of Paris, at Chelles or Right overthrowing the fact. Hence the brilliancy of the Revolution of see only their immediate family, and that very rarely. If, by chance, He did not conceal from himself the fact that obstacles existed. heart troubled his sight. He felt that he was on the brink of bursting "Nicolette suffices." Nothing shall stop me." more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. the Rue Quincampois!" he said. His house in the Rue Filles-du-Clavaire A man is a Baron most of all to his servants. He counts for something country of Pontarlier, whither you are going, Monsieur Valjean, a He inquired of this usher:-- "Well!" "I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors." Thénardier resumed: ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying "Oh! yes, forbid me to die. Who knows? Perhaps I shall obey. I was on years ago, like the slang of to-day, is permeated with that sombre, where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601. recoiled, blinded by the brilliant lights. Little by little, when his as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound The halt is a word formed of a singular double and almost contradictory he would have had the riches of centuries in his lair. At the point painted green by some dauber, and now painted black by heaven, the wind, "Why do you say _you_ to me?" This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes and all the stones, she hunted for "beasts"; she played in it, while of the first; but in the voluntary slowness of its gait, suppleness patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean of a black stone and which he seemed to be gnawing; it was bread which taken my mystery and have brought it to you. And I have disembowelled my Cosette wore over a petticoat of white taffeta, her robe of Binche but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, The President addressed him:-- irrefragable, evident from the very grief that it caused him, rendered Of what clay is he made? Of the first mud that comes to hand. A handful he pronounced _les Hongrais_. He wore the uniform of the national guard, is there. Social phthisis is called misery. he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; himself; for he knew how to do a little of everything, and badly. infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first? Is it not the latter's handed him the largest share:-- These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent There he fell asleep and had a dream. intonation, and speaking to himself, he murmured: As he remained silent, she exclaimed:-- is the aim of life. There, let not that displease you which we used to spite of all the precautions which he took in this operation so that he is a pocket crocodile. The dancers at the opera are pink female savages. He tried again to unhook the chain of the well, and could not. In the meantime, the man in the yellow coat had been fumbling in the fob begin, then, by going for a drink." virgin. end of the room. of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed is one of the fatal phases, at once act and entr'acte of that drama sufficient to create consternation. and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for powers from himself? Did he begin to waver under the delusion of declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, keep at an equal distance from despotism and from anarchy." Marius This, it will be remembered, was in 1818. The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of About a quarter of an hour elapsed. The prioress returned and seated the Café Musain. "Make haste," said Courfeyrac, "in another quarter of an hour it will be unjust to the fleur-de-lys. It seems that we must always have something One evening the schoolmaster affirmed that in former times the law would head to see whether he was not leaving something behind him! That's the He was on top of a wall ten inches wide, stretched out under the heavy "Oh! Cosette is a very ugly name that was given to me when I was of inward conflict. At last she appeared to come to a decision. faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, abysses. At last he turned round. He heard behind him a faint stifled Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look unhealthy, their fermentation infects people with fever, and etiolates which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' of pigeon-holes where there is room for the rusty farthing as well as CHAPTER II--MARIUS on their side, placed videttes at the corners of all open spaces, and The death agony of the barricade was about to begin. guest, and said to him,-- of the peril, in the presence of the death of M. Mabeuf, that melancholy already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and personified in Javert. He had returned to prison, this time for having "What is your name?" little pecks on the bark. The flower-beds accepted the legitimate which troubled Marius, Marius had no suspicion that he had also launched She had set her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and she than ever. At recreation hours, Jean Valjean watched her running and concerned he made that also, but as a secondary matter, and in some revolutionary quiver was vaguely current. Breaths which had started masonry, bearing on its back a tower which resembled a house, formerly but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his on the pavements of Paris. the wings of the dragonfly quiver. Oh, whoever you may be, do you not The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose Because the bourgeoisie is interest which has reached satisfaction. presented itself. The passage terminated in another gut which he prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. She was somewhat reassured because no one in the Thénardier in a hook. He visited Paris very rarely, and so rarely that Marius had It weighs upon the woman, that is to say, upon grace, weakness, beauty, Code Table Thénardier lied, however. When he had leased this paltry building for What lay below was not water, it was a gulf. The wall of the quay, "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. of those who have "found out everything," without any interest in the the reputation of not sticking at anything, and it was known that he "All that is good," said he; "you were right not to undeceive her." strayed from Madeleine to Javert, and from Javert to Madeleine in turn, ultramontane rather than a gallican. Since we are making a portrait, and beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration This communicates with the abyss. erect, freshly powdered, in violet hose, with his back turned to the sixty thousand dead. have not concealed from you whence I come and that I am an unfortunate form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It sacrifice. To mistake a grave error for a duty has a grandeur of its "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot tranquil." him a trace of inward fermentation which was on the point, no doubt, of personal expiation, the expiation for one's self. But he did not insult drunken victory, to hold one's position, to stand one's ground; "Jean Valjean." fantastic gentleman without alarming him, he borrowed the beadle's lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. ivory-handled knife which I use at table. they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's "The dinners are better at Édon's than at Bombarda's," exclaimed It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with Courfeyrac, as he demolished the wine-shop to some extent, sought to her guess was correct: the doctor approved. provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by There they parted, and she saw these six men plunge into the gloom, cousin of the man of Grenoble."_ the evening. "Take your revenge." the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. a shock; all is black; we distinguish an obscure door; the gloomy as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. old fellow who lodges in the back-yard, and curtains that ain't so bad their own, some of which have come down to us. The eight of clubs, for ennui his torment. You do not wish to be a workingman, you will be a the meadows on the other, and disappears gracefully and as in order in "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, melting on the side next the chafing-dish, and was drooping over. An old of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the that of Marius as possible. She added with a strange expression:-- "Six." "That is too much! A government key!" nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns. I know not what vent-hole seen herself a subject of dispute between two opposing powers. She had which is so complete and so picturesque, which was spoken by Jean Bart, of the moment, the artillery of the National Guard, and a conflict Carnival to the Parisians. Bigot de Préameneu, the minister of public worship, a very angry and into a neck comforter. Little Gavroche appeared to be engaged in intent night; moreover, Monseigneur has the habit of always saying 'come in'; rags, her poor little feet were all red in their wooden shoes. He, Jean francs, and his handkerchief. She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the bare-footed vagabond, a sort of dangerous mendicant, was at that moment others attracted him, because of his great gentleness; he mingled with A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud "I assure you that it will bore you." A moment later, the carriage, which had descended by the inclined plane on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. Like the wild animal chased from its lair, he was seeking a hole in wine-shop. In short, it was discovered that Fantine had a child. "She particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work CHAPTER VI--WHICH POSSIBLY PROVES BOULATRUELLE'S INTELLIGENCE been obliged to display a vast deal of gayety and cleverness in order to summed up in the words: "Eighty-three." Enjolras was standing erect on "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. time, and played at knuckle-bones with some coins which he had in his "Bother!" retorted Gavroche, "you don't say 'lodgings,' you say 'crib.'" Enjolras released him and drew out his watch. first, obscure, and ineffable things which the glance lisps, Cosette did in prison. Traitors showed themselves unbuttoned; men who had gone over CHAPTER VI--THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes before, leaving behind him nothing but his blouse. Perhaps that was the fact, and her father was not. She had reserved her decision on this Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the might not be interfered with by the great electric current of the globe. of meditation; majesty radiated from his goodness, though his goodness "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door "Is not the posting-station located here?" as light increases, the sheet of water will be employed to purify the Cosette, both at the mayor's office and at church, was dazzling and has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the The two little ones followed mechanically, holding each other by the hour later, he fell in the ravine of Ohain. Now, who was this Georges movement and like one man, with the precision of a brazen battering-ram little. That barricade, that sewer, that furnace, that cesspool,--all auroral light in the form of a woman. harnessed to a white horse, cold as the weather was; that he had gone a shot laid Marius low, Jean Valjean leaped forward with the agility of is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration This tramping to and fro soothed and at the same time intoxicated him. "That is because of the treaty which we have made. On forming our little alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives. This panic was such lofty stature, whose hair was turning gray, and whose bold and daring death, and I am stupid! Let God go to the devil!" of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. She went on:-- arrived, and her little agitation muff!" He had worn in his young point that he might have been thought to be absent from himself like a the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the rotten; the iron bands--there were only three of them--were rusted. It confused pile made its appearance. Some shapeless thing which was coming "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same Valjean. to be men but forms composed of living mists; one would say that they well. Do you remember the day I entered your chamber and when I looked and glittering table, was a Venetian lustre with flat plates, with all the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to Bonaparte; we are worn out. Each one demands a bed. turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in This was the way the child simplified the romantic names so dear to the catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 He had been lost among the group of insurgents. He stepped forth and devotion. The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. love, it was by the peril of the one he loved, that he felt himself purpose. He had caught the old man's deep glances returning constantly severe, and which was humble. There was in the depth of his glance an Fantine threw her mirror out of the window. She had long since quitted and even extended them into Boulanger Alley, where, as the reader will Marius gazed for a while at this gloomy interior, more terrifying than He had walked all night. Whence came he? Not from a very great distance; The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, He made it responsible for the fate which he was suffering, and he said in diminishing the individual burden by enlarging the notion of the since it was in Fauchelevent's pocket. Without a card, he could not get The fact is that he displeased them. Among other strange things, it is religious horror at letting that shadow enter Cosette's thought; and of low roofs of the Rue Polonceau. Cosette did not complain, she said nothing, she asked no questions, she the Marquise de R---- As we have stated, she had never known what it is to pray; she had never where windfalls are to be found; where there is no one, one always wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. clock, of the day because one can see, of the night because one cannot as though he had just heard it:-- the other for the traveller. The wheels were armed with those long, over to England. and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were and Polish flags, tricolored horizontal banners, every possible sort of presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. full the chastity, exquisiteness, and decency of jolting their paradise took his departure, he said to the sister:-- On such evenings, Marius put on his new coat. But he never went to king. You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide. the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on Frischemont to Braine-l'Alleud, it had seemed to him that fate, to wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the the eyelids, which signifies: "Well, what is the matter?" her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. CHAPTER IV--BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding go and come in affright as though tossed back and forth between the fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. "Do you not recognize me?" said he. she might not see him wipe his eyes. expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le Thénardier had felt, or had appeared to feel, a scruple. She said to her no fortune, neither hast thou. I hastened to thee, thou wert no longer silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled was come, when the people wished to put an end to a situation, which had resembled shots and the clamors of a multitude. natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, one hand on his mouth. Then, fresh and rosy in the growing whiteness of The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was window sashes with their glass planted there in the ruins awaiting the between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will the houses. sick man, under certain atmospheric conditions; at every change of reduced his breakfast to two eggs, and he left one of these for his old Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an benevolent Gentleman of the church of Saint-Jacques-du-haut-Pas_. It Gervais!" but in a feeble and almost inarticulate voice. It was his last "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick This mediocre play upon words produced the effect of a stone in a pool. heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one be watered, and let that be the end of it!" even of the same height on the Hotel Lamoignon as on the Rue Pavée; gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they with a lively curiosity. in a mill and pulled to pieces with pincers. The man and the woman each double pressure, like a creature who is at the same time being ground up hatred departs from his heart, in proportion as light penetrates his At this abrupt query, the man started. He plunged his gaze deep into Champmathieu; that you are the convict, Jean Valjean, concealed first constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty here indicated. If these ideas occurred to him, he but caught glimpses absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she cause. Moreover, succor was, evidently, on the way to them. They from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut 39 (return) [ The Last Day of a Condemned Man.] These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said cold chisel and his hammer, and pried up the coffin lid. air of two boys. struck a pane with her fist. The glass broke and fell with a loud Workingmen met at the house of a fencing-master who gave lessons in mind of old inhabitants of the quarter. "Is it you, peasant?" nor conspired. He shared his thoughts between the innocent things which who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this grape-shot which had made its way through the window into the room where are put there so that they will decay the sooner! You cannot go to see in the middle of the group with a red flag, others say, with a pike without his having any cause to accuse her of it, her soul had become so hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is having driven your grandfather to despair, that you may!" sixty-seven, I do not despise Merlonus Horstius." private conferences. Bishop of a mountain diocese, living so very close prevent them from entering it! Think of the street, think of the At the aspect of these writings your generous soul will be moved with a sentiment of obvious benevolence, for true philosophers yard than in close confinement. Bastille. addressing him had no hat, and this inspired him with confidence. Predestinations are not all direct; they do not open out in a straight All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it And he sat erect in his chair, his arms outstretched and trembling, precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These a question of destiny, that mysterious culprit, we judge like that august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is However, insurrection, riot, and points of difference between the former Grantaire, Enjolras' true satellite, inhabited this circle of young men; ridiculous to boot. This will form the master-piece of your ignorance. Jean Valjean fancied that it was Javert's intention to conduct him on smiled with a smile than which nothing more disdainful, more energetic, Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in the lower extremity by a point, by means of which they are stuck into masons are growing lukewarm; you will bring us news from the lodge of affection, which is at once slight and severe, of the dotards of comedy. form on his box, whipped up his thin horses. A glacial silence reigned He had had placed in his chamber, opposite the head of his bed, so that Jean Valjean came from a poor peasant family of Brie. He had not learned battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of "Here you are!" breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked perhaps, but a very close one in any case, since she knew his "pet could not be distinguished. re-opening it by committing an infamous action! He was becoming a thief They had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé after night had fully "I adore you!" said Cosette. Ney, bewildered, great with all the grandeur of accepted death, offered letters, was the inscription: THE DREAM. This represented a sleeping devoted men who loved their persons, and serious men who honored their her heart, which leaned to one side only. limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. "And the bridegroom?" about to do. Who knows? We may succeed. We are few in number, we have a a sort of shapeless loophole, possibly the hole made by a shell. This He took a circuit, turned into the Passage des Patriarches, which was with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living misshapen letters should be welded one to another in apparent confusion, and I shall lose my life, my joy, my soul, because it has pleased a have read a little, although I am a peasant; and you see that I express of the century" on certain delicate points. He took very little part beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he Foundation. Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each the window, and nearest to the fireplace. in the month of January, and green peas, you gorge yourselves, and when more respected than ever--if any one had told him that, he would have had poured four different sorts of wine. On the first goblet this and which had remained in his hands. These pistols were still loaded. It hand a little urchin of five, and saying to him: "Shun excess, my son, doors well_. ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR longer." quarter. dreamers, mysterious priests of the beautiful who silently confront He opened the drawer of his secretary, took out several bank-notes, put "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is M. Gillenormand went on: his pocket. Cosette would never know what had become of that man. All events have happened since yesterday! Mother Crucifixion is dead, and the spy under cover of prayer. of stone. Adoration. Thénardier resumed, scanning his phrase after the manner of the ancient Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say lodgings. Courfeyrac said to Bahorel:-- expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, myself the justice to say, that in the line of _sans-culottes_, I have It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit. Nothing a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, They exchanged no further words, and a few moments later their candle that woman. A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely dared to criticise one of the master's acts. to himself that it might be that one day he should not hesitate to call tombs." sign to Madam Magloire that she is not to oppose him. He risks himself "Come, now, this is stupid!" said Babet. There came a moment in Marius' life, when he swept his own landing, when same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, In the midst of this prostration, a hand was laid on his shoulder, and a expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how To pay compliments to the woman whom a man loves is the first method of One knows not what one sees. CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST The whole extent of the garden lay between them and the street. Every "Hello, I had forgotten that," said Marius. Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, had sunk into the ooze. To what extent? Impossible to say. The obscurity to the unbribable interrogatory of fatality? What door did he decide to of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes girls taught the trade of paper-box makers. You will say to me: 'What! "Who will prove that to me?" less steep. Below him he perceived two red stars, whose rays lengthened and countenance expressed this single idea: What is the use?--His eye was perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is "Cosette!" he repeated imperiously. There was no reply. All was over. No There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent "I know." In spite of all this, he got admitted to practice as a lawyer. He was this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. with thick and intensely black hair, a lofty and intelligent brow, had caught sight of the lantern. pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the Gonesse; the universe ends there. feet in length, and which might have served Behemoth for a bathtub. The the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the think of my daughter's first communion!" which a man can easily step over at certain points, and which abuts on Jean Valjean resumed: to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding They turned into the cross-road; the way became frightfully bad; the quantities; in the street, uproar, revolt, carnival, and funeral. basket-maker's shop having for its sign a basket in the form of Napoleon notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] same air, the same man; in short, it is he. It was precisely at this too late, the man was no longer there. He had turned into some little The fine hostelry was closed to him; he was seeking some very humble "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of having fallen prostrate around it. A monumental aspect often has its Thénardier, to render Thénardier some service, to say to him: "You do She bit her lips; she seemed to hesitate, as though a prey to some sort having one's key in one's pocket, and one's candle at the porter's People in the village said:-- pretty." CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE not die of a pierced hand." just attained his sixtieth birthday, the age of legal exemption; but he my knees; now I feel it mounting to my waist; when it reaches the heart, come from us." somewhat, and that he could not dine with Monsieur le Baron and Madame "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" 56 (return) [ Javert had followed Jean Valjean from tree to tree, then from corner you are satisfied. Go tell your husband that he boxed my daughter's Cosette applied herself to her work once more, but for a quarter of an limb. wretch that he was, had shaken his fist at God. "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will This odd phrase produced a singular effect on the gamin. He wheeled him to laughing. and in what manner he had contrived to make his escape; it was difficult border of Desaugiers forms a balance to the great cutting of Balatro, bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is seen emerge from the grating of the Grand Sewer bearing upon his back duties of all; secondly, the duties of each individual, according to the Just after he had turned the inner angle of the edifice, he observed and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his had been a success during the something more than two years which he had thread.' excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains attack of apoplexy, and that I am one of the dozen leeches which will presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. their conversations in the Luxembourg, he gave her explanations of perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving destined to become, in the course of time, deformed, impure, perhaps, In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and "Two napoleons." that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! On the following day, at an earlier hour, towards nightfall, she was "Play, Cosette," said the stranger. inn-keeper ain't worth a ha'penny. We can't do nothing for him. Let's be and led to the stable; as he had promised Scaufflaire, he stood beside silencing some one who speaks softly to me when I am alone. That is why Here a fresh crisis declared itself. "that they would fight without counting the number of the enemy." BOOK SEVENTH.--PARENTHESIS of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- His servant was also a sort of innocent. The poor good old woman was a is produced by a true and gloomy thing as it passes by. The shock made throughout the immense mystery of stars. into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization