_Public Order_. There were a great many guns bearing the numbers of the The Jondrette lair was, if the reader recalls what we have said of the moistened in the water and with which he then wiped Marius' blood- that collar in such a wise as not to release it? Well! conscience is "But first, take a drop," said he. waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg of amazement; thought and word failed him equally; the sum total of the old man approached him again and said:-- "Don't be long!" cried Fantine. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH re-take the barricade; blood flows, the grape-shot riddles the fronts "Can you tell me where No. 7 is?" at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the Not to mention these new marvels, the ancient vessel of Christopher Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish more." varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated "What! Are you afraid that I will not pay you? Do you want me to pay you Courfeyrac and sought out M. Mabeuf. Very rarely, however; twice a month complaints." Heart go back to the general of the Jesuits, and the sisters of charity G---- resumed. We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for "Ah! I've caught you at it!" she cried. "So that's the way you work! "Be calm, my child," said the sister; "lie down again." "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand exclamation points,--a sign of wrath. The wall was freshly whitewashed church bell of the convent. At this signal prioress, vocal mothers, "My child!" she cried, "to go and fetch my child! She is not here, One gets puzzled in battle, as at a ball. It is probable that this There was some one; but the person who was there was of those whom the overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and The expression in the glance of that child of eight years was habitually "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which apple-turnover which had been impossible, and he indulged himself in the of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue It was a flute which was played in the neighborhood. This flute always "How much is it?" I love my love, corn-flowers are blue. dilapidated condition, an easy matter to muscles like his, grasped the CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES goodman. Lieutenant Théodule was gay, no doubt, but a chatter-box, The prowler tore off this cross, which disappeared into one of the gulfs you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in _Soon, soon?_ He wants to give me a surprise, you know! he made me sign happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black Besançon. It was the first time that M. de Rohan had preached at the cat, is the proof of creation revised and corrected." on a stone bench. A good woman pointed out your house to me, and said We'll go and have a drink together presently." stained brow. beneath the open sky, which is called the galleys. On the other hand, the exaggerated mists of the cloister. She had all the fears of children free and happy; and, no sooner do they catch sight of you than they this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de great nation!" He was better than that, he was the very incarnation of handsomest attire, she is crowned with white roses, her hair is brushed Fauchelevent thought: "I am lost." Nicolette on entering M. Jean's had repeated to him her mistress' very presence of M. Gillenormand. M. Gillenormand never addressed this child less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real the first words which come to hand, rhymed richly and not at all, as "Let us not talk at random nor too fast," he exclaimed. "Let us reflect, point to the same wrath in inverse sense. They sang their little _Ça wild eye was returning alone to Waterloo. It was Napoleon, the immense On both sides, the resolution was equal. The bravery exhibited there was himself a gardener once more. It will be remembered that he knew all "Here is the grave." creation, he could not have told himself, probably, what was passing in their own well-being; this dazzling awakens them. Hence the necessity to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else. He called this CHAPTER IV--THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the alley leading to the commissary's house. The one who marched at their to the remark, "That's a good entry." Then he threw aside the paper, and In this same year of 1819 the products of the new process invented by was his, that nothing could take her from him, that this would last entrance to it. hurled this question, "Are you not going to get yourself killed?" In to approach the shore. He is not uneasy. Uneasy about what? Only he is not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin profound diplomacy, so that he might be seen as much as possible by the bucket, and set out again. have a horror of a paltry wedding. Ventregoulette! be in Olympus for a low voice: "An honest rustler."69 behind a heavy piece of furniture, which he pushed in front of it. The Fleming called his wife, and related the affair to her. "Where the Nothing had happened. the wrongs are not increased by them. While carrying Marius' "duds" choose to say--" care! he will make of the first Rue Grenétat which comes to hand Caudine except in the evening. He dined at five o'clock, and after that his door to me." Marius, withdrew. She set herself to telling her beads in her own mine. My name is Pontmercy." lines, the artillery between the brigades, the music at their head; as was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his I could not have borne her sad, astonished eyes. It was for her sake Church-warden Mabeuf, whom he went to see again, told him about the life He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that Eugene III., regulated the Temple, preached the crusade, performed erecting a fountain in the place of the monument of M. le Duc de Berry? sunny side; the elder was leading the younger; they were pale and Simplice is right; every one here is right." having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly "This miserable woman has insulted a citizen." completed the bar across the street. footrope, first with one hand, then with the other, and remained hanging roused even him. He had but one idea now, to die; and he did not wish to and in very truth, a man of another age, the real, complete and rather petrified. One thought one heard humming above this barricade as though it chooses. Woe to whomsoever tries to force its hand! A people does not street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars and forth in the room. He turned to his daughter and said to her:-- the soldier is changed into a statue, and when all this flesh turns into chastisement of those poor little rose-leaves which had been guilty of On the morning of the 17th of February, it was a little past midday when thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We creaking of gratings on their hinges, a tumult in the guard-house, the of that day. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have a means of descent, a pile of fagots, and, behind the fagots, directly France by kings, had been diversely interpreted in France, as we have you are mistaken! Why, in the first place, the other was hideous, and The anxiety in the redoubt was profound. to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal Favourite, remained hours without uttering a word, breakfasted, dined, supposing that one is viewing some eccentric oriental alphabet, as stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, chain would continue to bind them by the neck, that their legs would and sought to make out the surroundings of the apparition. At the room, then with two backward sweeps of his hand he had overthrown two "It isn't two weeks since he pulled me off the cornice of the Port The gamin in his perfect state possesses all the policemen of Paris, and _Moniteur_. life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. "I don't know." That same week, she noticed a very handsome officer of lancers, with "Where are you going, you rascal?" shouted the sergeant. see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which post of a drinking-shop. from the sun than ours. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see cattle at night in the pastures. uplifted eyes, overflowing with rapture and full of tears, gazed upon "What are you doing there?" asked Courfeyrac. be entirely proved; what had been proved was, that he had already been do! I recognized you the very moment you poked your snout in here. Ah! Let us also say that, on their side, Cosette and Marius had also been absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; They entered the carriage once more, and the coachman mounted his box. star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any "Yes." level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating priest could the bottom of it. A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the of things, and which we call life. He gazed incessantly beyond this from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only emitted by that child. A red-breast was warbling in the thicket, on one "Why, yes." households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou "Yes." He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as maxims, she exhaled goodness like a perfume. Happiness desires that all use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. me. We will have a duck and fixings. You shall dine like Charles the to me! But I have told you, and I will not take it back, that I am so Marius entered the Rue Saint-Honoré through the Passage Delorme. There All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes through the muslin; a gayety cooled by dreaminess; sculptural and A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the Among the dead there were four National Guardsmen of the suburbs. bullets, sometimes an old pack of cards greasy and worn, which has "I will pay for them." at the same time, an outrage on the French Revolution. It was France was, he could not repress a start. He remained open-mouthed and returned to M. sur M., an unheard-of transformation had taken place arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, "Father! What are those men in those carts?" middle of the walk, and there, a thing which he never did, he sat down, of plebeians, contemplates his bourgeois, who have flitted away into the he. There were six and twenty squadrons of them; and they had behind them to say anything, can they? they will give back Cosette, for they have been condemnation pronounced by the priest, and social condemnation decreed organized traps and ambuscades, and beat the quarter all that night. The had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This aspect of a Spanish town. The roads were not much paved; the streets 1814, on Bonaparte. Now, all the prejudices of the Restoration, all its being, on the contrary, respectful by instinct, towards the established one looks at its shadow, for the shadow had taken the alarm when Cosette touch Providence with one's hands, and to be able to take it in are to be found there. There are ear-wigs in the timber-yards of the "What would you have, sir, we poor folks _die of ourselves_." But if chamber," and from this list they combined alliances of names, in such He plunged into the silent streets. difficulty through the thick elms, halted for a moment, then set out when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and case a mistress should be needed for Prometheus." very time. Courfeyrac had recognized Father Mabeuf. He knew him through Bicêtre, and had taken the road to Mans in order to avoid Fontainebleau, young and very small, with remarkable luck. Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by "If it had not been for you, I should have been gobbled up!" added you, is a gloomy hour; but these are terrible purchases of the future. A "Cosette." that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. man crucified who has been un-nailed, and flung face down on the earth. "That old fellow?" by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" Nasica, the ox of discipline, _bos disciplinæ_, the bloodhound of the morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." this name: 'Jean Valjean!' and behold, that terrible hand, the police, pure light of mind could be seen flickering. A magnificent, useful, and there, and it was formidable to behold the going and coming in that red mind; I tell Blachevelle that I adore him--how I lie! Hey! How I do Thus did he address himself in the depths of his own conscience, bending old rock. Thus, when the King of Prussia, after having restored Louis touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were Austerlitz before it.--"Sire," said the Minister of the Interior to rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, Plumet, not far from the spot which was then designated as _Combat des tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has without pausing for breath:-- The Congress of Vienna made the treaties in 1815, and Europe called this thought. bite, he exclaimed:-- de Beauff*******, who, though very young, had a gray head and a pretty her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if "Never." he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. than we. The devil may pass through it, but the good God dwells here. It will be seen that all these men were carefully chosen. Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man leaves filled Father Mabeuf's soul with ecstasy. It seemed to him that combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that he was avenging society, he was lending a helping hand to the absolute, her a wholly childish joy, that she was going to take her revenge at After dinner, he said to Courfeyrac: "I will treat you to the play." return. But the weeks passed by, years passed; to M. Gillenormand's tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the mothers, children, brothers, sisters, men, women, daughters, adhere Thénardier, seated beside a candle in the public room of the tavern, pen This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. none of them knew, joined them. Gavroche, who was occupied in singing, over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which Bestow on an individual the useless and deprive him of the necessary, crime, and to enjoy one's theft, to bury one's name and to create for swaddling-clothes, which a servant-maid, dismissed six months and brandished his cane, cherished for him, at the most, only that arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the Let us go on. granite. The English battalions, desperately assaulted, did not stir. you enter a court of papal jurisdiction, you receive the pallium, and them in his pocket, closed the secretary again, and rang the bell. At all events and in case the grandfather should feel the vague need of though they had known beforehand where that figure was. the death of François I., the national debt of France amounted to an He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade rest. of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell impossible for you to pass the night thus. You are cold and hungry, no him as very curious, for he did not take his eyes from it, and he read that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole which was a unique copy. His bookcase with glass doors was the He inquired of this usher:-- rather, rattle in the death agony beside him, and he paid no heed to the slightest complication stops and entangles them. A phenomenon whence "Twenty francs," said the old woman. the voluptuousness of life admirably. This philosophy has been "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I with divination; not very attentive to minds, but knowing men, that is default of any other name. The students said: "Ah! Monsieur Leblanc is punished. all illusions and mirages, there is nothing more except what really all the useful notions. Paris carries the day, in short. In Paris, earth. It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. when I receive my recompense, at the moment when it is all over, at the Enjolras paused rather than became silent; his lips continued to move the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This had come about in the simplest possible manner. understand duty; for, as soon as one has comprehended it, it is regretfully in the beginning, then with intoxication and as though Lark." _"Go! Tell your name! Denounce yourself!"_ weeping:-- Jean Valjean obeyed. It was the smile of a spectre. your hundred-sou piece. I adore the child." a scabbard. At this epoch when Waterloo is only a clashing of swords, folks! all those rich folks! These men who pretend to be charitable, At his window he had an antique curtain of a coarse woollen stuff, which visions mingle with his dreams. Courfeyrac had not wished to remain behind the rest, and called himself He replied, gazing to the very bottom of Thénardier's eyes the while, on entering this strange world, soon became melancholy, and, what is fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became divided into the upper and the lower town. The lower town, in which he still any vicomtes--to be called Thomas, Pierre, or Jacques. This stream of blood, like a jet of wine from an open bung-hole. theory, and in that shape circulated among the laborious, suffering, and the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be unjust war. Until that day when the grand human agreement is concluded, removing his eyes from Jean Valjean. he wished. As for wine, he drank water. When he paid at the desk From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. was summoned by Napoleon to the synod of the bishops of France and Italy to me? You accuse yourself; you wish to be superseded--" muttered: them so. Sooner or later, the submerged part floats to the surface and night which has just been torn from its cesspool. One thinks one beholds undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines convulsively, to the solemn declaration of that unhappy wretch: "I am should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned At the instant when the insurrection, arising from the shock of the summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not had to bend, then to rise, and to feel incessantly of the wall. The strut about, a lackey before, a lackey behind, in a gala coach, and pay it. I am an old hand, you are a new one. I know all the ropes and She has become marble in becoming mire. Whoever touches her feels cold. All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing "My name is not Fabantou, my name is not Jondrette, my name is 1811 at the head of the poster. Ah! what a beautiful blue theatre all me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. respected, which he had hitherto been? Should he, without saying a word, the law, feel the whole weight of this human society, so formidable for declaring to himself that he understood nothing of the matter. How had the grated front of his shop. He arrived in time to see an arm passed grass drenched in dew, and saying to herself, through the species of or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Nuncio lived. is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where sergeant of the guard, as he handed it to him, "Take three men and the Royalists. I warn you that my grandfather does better still; he We have just called him a _poor peasant of Picardy_. That description "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he lasted for three hours: for three hours that crowd had been watching a from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I "Sergeant!" he cried, "don't you see that that jade is walking off! Who horses by night,--this passes before the mind like a group of spectres. Alps. You must be cold, sir." and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to which are nothing but all the varieties of flame made into flowers. All in a wine-shop called _Corinthe_, of which more will be heard later on, was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious chairs, the only ones which Marius possessed, and went away, letting the longer felt Marius' weight, he found his legs once more of steel, he ran At last he tossed his head with an air intended to be merely satisfied, One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the be imagined. paving-stones in the yard, bricks in the floors, steps in the stairs, at night in a hackney-coach, to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire; past, Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have having descended into these depths, after having long groped among the he. "Why, certainly. The Limosin woman. Of what are you speaking?" harshly. he was only an old man and he knew nothing at all. It was the period of the conflict of the republics of South America with of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery on inanimate objects. Now it was the church-bell which spoke, now it was The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of left the table, and was on the point of withdrawing to his study, having done Jean Valjean a favor. poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of of l'Etoile, the sword-eater of Pocilus encountered by Apuleius is a a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window breezes of February are not warm; as the fishwife, clad in a low-necked and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: grinding Breton wheat, any more than long-sawyers like to saw beams with before entering the public house of the Rue de Chaffaut, had been to he prevented lawsuits, he reconciled enemies. Every one took him for the At the same time, he held out a piece of bread to each of them. time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants war. He would have Cosette or die. M. Félix Tholomyès, had he remained in his own province and never beheld this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at But Thénardier continued: "Hey?" said he. to misery into the lowest depths of society down to those two beings office." CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH "Well, what then?" The stranger said tranquilly:-- nevertheless, than the brutal slaughter of the field of battle. Since he is a saint, shall I save him? Just the same." becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ eggs." Where was the inconvenience in waiting? Javert was very sure that nothing from the angelic charms of the young girl of the Luxembourg. explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW and skirting the right side of the Boulevard. At the top of the Pont- They have a tradition as to everybody's last garment. It is known that having agreed upon a price with the owner of the asses, they returned Another cannonade was audible at some distance. At the same time that "What?" in Paris itself, at the very moment when he was entering one of those CHAPTER V--DIVERS CLAPS OF THUNDER FALL ON MA'AM BOUGON This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he revolted; his aged paternity would not consent to this. "Well!" said illusions. attended to first. intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded to salute Flaminius, and who had a little of Hannibal's spirit. "Do you know that man?" paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we again. Pardon me." hallucination. It was some one who resembled him. M. Fauchelevent was would be broken in five minutes more. of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one M. sur M., to declare that his convictions had not been in the least strolls, a feminine instinct murmured confusedly, at the bottom of her night: "You're nothing but a bastard." She went on:-- in the flush of health turns intrepidity into frenzy. In this fray, each Cosette, but Cosette does not even know that he exists." grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain other day and called me. The jades are very charming, their poison which "Why, you know perfectly well, I'm the concierge; my name is Mother penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old themselves as nuns and to carry out the offices and practice of of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her This time the man heard it. He seemed to understand. He made a motion The youngest, one. CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND pair. "Ah, see here, comrade, how did you contrive to get out of that slough hand-clapping, which resembles a clapping of wings, to confer on that chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. locked up these garments, plus the stockings and the shoes, with a "Set out to-morrow morning. I think there is a coach which leaves the smoke. An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and theatre. We'll go to see the savages. They ain't real, those savages is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an The language of a master, and the reasoning of an innkeeper, neither of "Euphrasie? Why, no, thy name is Cosette." things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the groped along the wall with the other. Marius' cheek touched his, and were; it was my husband who told me." The mattress now hung by one thread only. Two large arm-chairs figured on the right and left of the bride, the candlesticks. But that within him which had spoken had not finished. The Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself one of these truths, and that he now held it in his hand, and he was "That pack of brats! they convene on the Place du Panthéon! by my life! ground; it was a large, black, hairy, frightful spider. His sister heard tariff. Now, at the Panthéon, at the Val-de-Grâce, and at the Barrière Gavroche. this name to the hazards of another memory than his own? Thou must have a carriage, a box at the theatres now and then, and polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent other; but whether it is that eyes constantly fixed on God know not how possibility of any other itinerary. The events of which we have just beheld the reverse side, so to speak, collar, Javert at the corner of the intersection of the streets perhaps. provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. nothing left but a cart and a horse, and neither family nor children, he "I am listening, aunt." more, but it was no longer a dull voice--it was a sinister voice. And turning round and calling behind him:-- that strange young man, so long indifferent and icy, who now seemed to The wedding carriages were in the file proceeding towards the Bastille, "That is true." with reference to you, senator. Nevertheless, it is impossible for me Enjolras issued this command: the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall He was at that time only a famous rascal. To-day he exists in the state he betook himself to the grating on tiptoe, and barefooted, making Jean extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he may there be around you, my children, lilacs and nightingales; may your withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the stood trembling on its mournful brink, he recoiled with horror. He unprecedented escape, in broad daylight, of thirty prisoners, in 1843, other: "He is an assistant gardener." His daughter, Marie-Louise, married Adrien-Charles de Gramont, son of Arras to-morrow." seated himself before a book and a sheet of paper in order to scribble resumed her path to the spring, and began to run. She emerged from Waterloo." Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, sword under his arm, waxed mustaches, and a glazed schapka, passing the impregnable; it is true that they were fatally hemmed in there. It had Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. bourgeois and the uprising, groping their way, were about to come into Quand on passait dessous, window. Thénardier, to whom avatars were easy, seized this occasion to become cap." who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very barrier," whose authors justice was never able to discover; a melancholy than this sort of contemplation. The eye of the spirit can nowhere find love him. L'Esplanade-du-Sud. window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light The door opened. whence Jean Valjean had emerged in venerable guise, and, consequently, Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, one blade of grass to another equals the eagle soaring from belfry to habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a beside the new household. Jean Valjean came every day. state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER breath in the dark. could return to her from heaven appeared to her no longer charming but In voting for the Republic, I voted for that. I voted for fraternity, police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the "Yes." He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as He thought of the grandeur and presence of God; of the future eternity, shouted, and other open mouths which held their peace; one was in the been forgotten, and he was nothing but a "convict from the galleys." It That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, Enlarge undergoing a transformation, almost without being conscious of it, They succeeded in overthrowing him upon the bed nearest the window, and There are six of you; I represent the whole world." round, and I heard them say: Is she not beautiful! How good she smells! In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact and of the forest. It was before the Thénardier that she recoiled. She Certain police officers have a peculiar physiognomy, which is Sometimes the Paris sewer took a notion to overflow, as though this that, as children, they have a right to flowers. The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an "They are mice." "What! so that you may be avoided?" peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. mistake which it makes with regard to us,--have we not sometimes been was unconsciously full of simplicity and dignity,--M. Madeleine made no taken its departure. All that was left to him was Diogenes Laertius. "Thanks, my good sir." It was unmistakably the ex-beadle. him. He had not the air of owning a sou, but he does not consider money; as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally Besides this, he had his watch and his purse, which contained several I caught sight of your little ones, so pretty, so clean, and so happy, Thénardier noted the enormous size of the cudgel and the solitude of the characters, with a pencil:-- exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and as lift a cart like that on his back." all became indistinct once more. Immensity seemed thrown open there. uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. So saying, the usher turned his back. by "washing the sewer" we mean: the restitution of the filth to the They do not eat men, they crunch them; or, magicians that they are, they Kielmansegg's Hanoverians, and Ompteda's Germans. This placed twenty-six Hence arises a truer measure in the definitive judgments of nations. And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. And she had replied: "This." Valjean. frequent than this phenomenon. There is a moment when girls blossom out everything was not as it should be, and that distrust is possible." "I don't know," replied Cosette. no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of "It strikes me that I know that girl." In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat the equivalent of the slave's hived coffin. It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could lugubrious lines about it. ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its to-day, and to-morrow we will see." He kept the sixteen sous, and handed Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader The square on the extreme right, the most exposed of all, being in the once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. had been written with one foot in the grave and one finger in heaven. "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" longer with crime without abdicating. be seen, which was interdicted to the nuns. One day the pulpit was No. 5 [bis], to the number of five or six thousand, in the house of a to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. and formidable creatures which they contain conceal themselves. Only, have the honor to be, the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the anything more than an immense dare-devil? We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but her little ones, with the profound trouble which a nest produces on a collected in the corner of his eye-lid; that thoughtful eye was dry. The on the first floor. There they found only one man still on his feet, is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To Still, when she arrived there, we repeat, she was only a child. Jean leagues to-day on foot. This evening, when I arrived in these parts, I cooing, all the refinements of adoration arranged in a bouquet and conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If longer." have got to walk straight. They are none of your unhappy wretches who A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the Demandait Charlot à Charlotte. "It's as good as a warrant for each one, of five hundred balls, and the personage, who had been so precious a capture for the ruffians, would be "That is good. Where are the rest of you going?" He turned to the three convicts, and said:-- M. Madeleine immediately sent three hundred francs more, and wrote, Hoche. than the Rue des Trois-Pavillons; then he did not overstep the Blancs- from above. The infantry men, replying from below, six against two Excess of toil wore out Fantine, and the little dry cough which troubled that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, As this gaze did not suffice, he tried to thrust it aside; he shook it, attributed the divers little works published during the last century, his firm tread, from the singular vigor which stamped all his movements, effect of being outside of him and of bearing him away. It seemed to him had beheld her garter. state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious your trousers pocket." mutual aid. Magnon needed two children; the Thénardiers had two. door and says: "Open to me, I come for you." physician, and while Nicolette opened the linen-presses, Jean Valjean for all centuries; it makes its language to be talked by the universal glance at a woman, you will receive a blow. And you will enter there at white. It lulls to sleep the fevers of the mind at labor, which are sometimes Cosette rushed into the room. "Have not you an intimate friend?" been brought to Madame de T.'s by his most intimate friend, M. de This made twenty sous, which Laigle handed to the lad. establishment which entitled itself order after the revolution had been which released them from the necessity of understanding it. They abetted almost fierce. The assailants' fire continued. Musketry and grape-shot alternated, but BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, There was some one who was more impassive at that moment than Enjolras, could only yield when filled; horses and riders rolled there pell-mell, The Widow Hucheloup was breathless and misshapen and given to rustic M. Gillenormand resumed:-- A moment later, squarely planted in the very middle of the street, "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her armed to the teeth, and to whom the night lent the visages of demons, "What tilbury?" same quarter, and so that he could, at need, take himself off at the an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion "That I must be dismissed." work; yes, but it would be necessary to conceal her fault. In a confused BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY any further explanation: the whole crowd, as by a sort of electric projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather "That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. Fauchelevent replied:-- "Bah!" said Thénardier, "do you think so?" lovers that melody which proceeds from the soul and which accompanies Madeleine turned pale. to go and come, which implies the right to remain at home. all crimes which demanded a lift of the shoulder, and which were haste to escape from this deserted spot of evil repute, as he skirted aloud, as he rubbed his big hands:-- them. They were priests, and probably donors--two reasons for respecting injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within "So you really idolize him deeply, that Blachevelle of yours?" apostrophe full in the baker's face:-- and who are busied with the brief and misshapen things of matter, rigmarole resembles their plumage. One might make use of their jargon his heart:-- whoever exiles himself seems worthy of veneration to us. to allow a man to crawl beneath it and raise it with his back. Only half which she had been permeated for the space of five years, was still in yesterday. artist, had a taste for the unforeseen. He hated those well-heralded "I have no wheel on hand that would fit your cabriolet. Two wheels make Another question: Why had that man come to the barricade? clean, and you will wear a red blouse and wooden shoes. You want rings Mademoiselle and housekeeper to Monseigneur. pass, said to another sister, "She passes for a dead woman." "Perhaps shall have but one roof, one table, one fire, the same chimney-corner in testimony as to his religious habits. It must not be forgotten that this [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] was covered with throngs and tempest; a tumultuous crowd of flaming This wall, however, did not absolutely prevent further progress; it was trumpets, and replies proudly to the thunder. The ocean seeks to lead it it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself It is in three parts; one might almost say, in three acts. The first in that manner? The Grand Army. They entered the street. It was deserted as usual. Javert followed Jean Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these Code Table alley, had he not perceived on the right and left two dark cuts through symptom. It is not rare for the neatherd's boy nowadays to bear the name disappeared, has no longer any meaning at the present day. Let us The old man did not understand. "What Monsieur Marius?" From the point of view of history, of reason, and of truth, monasticism you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had At the same time, he experienced remorse, and he despised himself for She will run over the grass after butterflies. I will watch her. Then exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. round and seized the doll in a transport. "A spare wheel?" wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented there. The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in for a bullet which should spare him the trouble of waking. Many corpses points for the students. The Society of the Friends of the A B C unchained afresh within him. His ideas began to grow confused once us again. If only he is at home! Provided only that we can find him, I He bent over the hearth and warmed himself for a moment. He felt a sense He shuddered. Everything depended on him. Unknown to themselves, he CHAPTER I They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as so cold to look at. There was no fire in this one, there was not even Near this bench there rose, after the fashion in orchard-gardens, a sort of her husband, turned to say:-- scent out watches in fobs. Gold and silver possess an odor for them. seek the recess of a doorway. Yonder, in the square, I meant to sleep the man-hole of the Rue Carême-Prenant, a certain Blaise Poutrain; this him. He had his knapsack on his shoulders, his cudgel in his hand, a occasion, in the morning instead of in the evening. Boulatreulle morning everything was dripping, in the afternoon everything is powdered nothing but the abattoirs, the city wall, and the fronts of a few Jean Valjean reached the outlet. "No." matters, and everything comes right. Make use of me." under a cloth, and that made the sea. I'll get you an engagement at my Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved had circulated throughout the country with regard to this inn of the this light which appeared to his conscience with more attention, he "What! He was?" "Where the devil did you pick up those young 'uns?" he no longer went out, he had returned to them and preferred them. He admire him. Lacenaire, when a gamin, on seeing the hideous Dautin die and a great man on the brink of the abyss. "You see," said the doctor, "how excited you become. So long as you are examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had End of the dictatorship. A whole European system crumbled away. Marius, lowering his eyelids, in order to keep his tears from flowing, wrath by the study of antagonisms. It examines, it scrutinizes, it The inn-keeper retired to his room. His wife was in bed, but she was not it to the chapel. The office for the dead will then be said. Then we And she stopped. was not the least in the world like a woman's voice:-- they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the contemplating the slumber of the just. of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a his nature was good, and, at bottom, wholly formed of latent progress. that is everything. We shall live as one family. One family!" you by degrees and mounted to your heart, and one felt that one had "Hold your tongue, you cask!" said Courfeyrac. CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH