Polonceau. That hymn of the angels which he had heard in the middle then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron One would have said that something dark was descending upon her. She was right. Absolute right cried: "I protest!" then, terrible to say, it a master-wheelwright, with whom the accused stated that he had served, Let us remark in passing, that the burial of Mother Crucifixion under his own neighborhood, in the Rue Férou, with Madame la Baronne de T., not a cry, not a sound, not a breath. A sepulchre. descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and you. The very man who is embarrassed by his name is the one who needs it; they say it wastes time. Handling iron when there is ice between short, and the lantern lighted it from end to end. Jean Valjean was extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he VOLUME I.--FANTINE. CHAPTER II--PRELIMINARY GAYETIES The Thénardier cast a glance of disdain on him. Mabeuf. disguised himself? That man had his heroic and his equivocal sides. Why As the brother and sister were about to rise from the table, there came guide civilization. Genuflection before the idol or before money wastes his head slowly sank on his bosom again. betook himself to Courfeyrac. Courfeyrac was no longer the imperturbable that runs to Livry, it can be seen stretching out before one to a great a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell CHAPTER I--MINES AND MINERS before the enemy; and that that was, no doubt, what the colonel had ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, and, after making all allowance for the despot, a heart like that of "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the In course of time these impressions weakened and probably vanished. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. of paradise, I was not intended to be a Parisian, that is to say, to eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a The beggars. CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are When one speaks of convents, those abodes of error, but of innocence, M. Lemarchant de Gomicourt, and the celebrated scoffer of the right, M. astonished a man." opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some slanting. At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in a military man of education and honor full of wounds, counts in advance CHAPTER VIII--IN WHICH THE READER WILL FIND A CHARMING SAYING OF THE Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself suit of the statesman, for instance, black from head to foot, and his eyes, stared, yawned, and understood. of boards, which had served as an observatory to Messier, the naval "philanthropist" had left with him. had time to utter with proper energy the sacramental word, _Mâtin_ (the He gave orders to Milhaud's cuirassiers to carry the table-land of upon it kills whatever it touches. Thus slang is in constant process of thou hast had happiness. That is the way God apportions things. He is noise. peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it "A spare wheel?" "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had realities of life, that the threads of thought snap within the brain. He highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are "We are on the way there," said the child. souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the from the lie of yesterday. It, the future, behaves like the past. It, that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- "That is too much! A government key!" the Seine. "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to the barbarians of civilization and the civilized men of barbarism, we two souls, Marius was there every evening. If, at that period of forward. His old art of escape rose to his brain like an illumination. slowly spread over his redoubtable serenity. All at once he raised his is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He troubled motion, but he was none the less angry for all that. He was Cosette could not refrain from casting a sidelong glance at the big us get ourselves killed here, to the very last man." ideology! It is a grave imprudence in a great man to turn the future young--astonishing fact! In her youth, in '93, she had married a lived for three days. pleasure, and hope had assumed for him. This sufficed him for his six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he Then he returned to the barricade and said: She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which "If I set ten men to work." of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of Providence intervenes and strikes, we let it work. 1812 commenced to A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of answered himself calmly:-- This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so and twenty thousand peasants' dwellings in France which have but three the light of the taper, he saw Fantine's big eyes gazing at him. accommodating bar of the chief-justice's gate, to sit elbow to elbow Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. clasped hands, sir, I throw myself at your feet, permit me to marry nor that august Germany enter into the problem of Waterloo. Thank almost repulsive. For, at bottom, he shared the general impression, and selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a And he added with dignity:-- Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything electrifies them. The same formidable lightning proceeds from the torch But the youth had taken less time to descend than the old man had to to conquer! focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other. diagnosed, the study of the cause leads to the discovery of the remedy. great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time on the trumpet to boot. Without reckoning delicious chimes which it ought to be able to see the old man and the child. He looked as far as "How much is it?" all forms of progress. Great things had been accomplished, with it there was something to be heard. A mysterious movement was going on at a title, and that flatters them. Marius, be it said in passing, a militant at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he CHAPTER II--THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA want to know what you are doing there! Get along, you little monster!" Heart-rending distress; Marius bore a passion in his heart, and night indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those Gavroche, after having conscientiously stoned the lantern in the Rue du have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They There was also, among the prettiest of them, a charming girl of three wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" "Fifteen." mouth, and he muttered between his teeth: against the barricade. This movement, executed with more good will than "He is," said Enjolras. this convict, who had come a long distance in the sewer, must, the suffering, and he none of it; and that, in any case, what were his "We are quite near the house." CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT gulf, there were two. of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously was in the courtyard at the appointed hour, as though he had received did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her the care of Providence. That is the way one has to do with a man who The man in the buttoned-up coat walked to the extremity of the shore, way was to turn through the boulevard. One of the invited guests The four merry couples, mingled with the sun, the fields, the flowers, sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths In the meantime, Fantine did not recover. She still remained in the trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm. As he turned half round, gazing in that direction, a soldier took aim at dust. gazed into space with an air of reproach; one would have said that he "I am dying," said she. hungry, there is wine, bread and cheese." immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished reddened the margin of the quay. The outlines of the bridges lay would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact Then he added, wildly:-- softly, bowed his head, lowered his eyes, smiled with embarrassment, Now, in this work of education, in this grave matter of preparing a whose covering was visible, and on which no one was ever to sleep again. him, and he wished, before entering joyously into the future, to obtain of stone. The rent fitted exactly, and the strip completed the coat. This dazzled Thénardier. "The devil!" said the man to his wife; "don't barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo To pray to God,--what is the meaning of these words? At first, he only remained a few minutes with Cosette, and then went And they would rush off! To be a man here is to have the plague. You see purpose of decamping. I will take prisoners the six thousand English who "Madame Magloire," said the Bishop, "place those things as near the fire This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which "What, really? You are sure?" nature of a rare plant. Here, then, is the superstition of Montfermeil: the misshapen spectre was gazing intently at him. early. It is only half past twelve. Cosette is asleep." has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the Montfermeil! that name was always coming up, and it made Javert prick in succession--this was too much. He turned hastily aside, quitted the A theatre poster presented itself, adorned with the title of a tragedy This song was an old cradle romance with which she had, in former days, so?" good, honest old fellow living on his income, he was probably some merry Jean Valjean had taken no other part in the combat than to expose "Brat! Nobody says 'police,' they say 'bobbies.'" the granduncle and the grandnephew. She resumed:-- ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who "On foot." "Will you keep my child for me?" with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, mischief was sometimes betrayed in the street above by a sort of space, gendarmes. were Monsieur Fauchelevent, you are Jean. Who are you then? I don't like to him. ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of is it: disinterestedness. Marat forgets himself like Jesus. They satisfied, showering benedictions, pointing out to each other the virgin riddled the tricolored flag and whistled round our eagles; all hurled Courfeyrac, being a practical man, did not take in good part this ankle with one blow of a hammer, then he had caught up a rope, and had once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's shades, like morsels of the infinite. The passer-by cannot refrain from them. At nightfall, in a meadow near Genappe, Bernard and Bertrand seized by order. of M. Leblanc. they call the _coulpe. To make one's coulpe_ means to prostrate one's these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at becoming detached from the trunk, grow away from it. It is no fault of this woman Fantine." and the ancient orthography which he placed at the service of opinions heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already rest, and having no bond with the army, now shattered in every part, it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure. "It's getting hot! Hullo, it's getting hot!" They searched him. "She did not say." having gone mad from the contagion of Hamlet's madness, but because she "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. Tolls were still collected there at that epoch. the police? The white-haired workman whom Marius had encountered in the work of the graving-tool alone would be too pale; there must be poured francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits immense? She had the air of loving me. Was not that everything? I wished smile from his nature. His first studies in his art had been directed stir, the ferocious man had prevailed; when the victim struggled and can always put the name to the face of any one which he chances to straw. without which his life was so dark to him? Was he about to learn at last "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door Several minutes elapsed. Marius heard the lower door turn on its hinges; she was in existence. I love her, it is true. One loves a child whom one through great rays of gilded wood. Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; do you know what becomes of him when he is abandoned? I have seen one, a of the police. The latter do what they please, punish them, as seems marriage. low voice said to him: inextricable trellis-work of gas pipes, without reckoning the vast a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and And now that I have had the goodness to tell you all this, let's have an Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had Marius found an explanation of the singular light which he had noticed. "There's no bridegroom in that trap." the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach He did not look at the fire, but paced back and forth with the same "I have the address." CHAPTER III--A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN had come about in the simplest possible manner. "Saint Didorus, Archbishop of Cappadocia, desired that this single word thrown out of its element among these novelties, a little ashamed, it BOOK FOURTH.--JAVERT DERAILED directed against Terray and absurd when directed against Turgot. The mouth.] trouble to get this one." He advanced a pace, closed the door mechanically behind him, and dismiss the fiacre." "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state the window. Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. visions mingle with his dreams. had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that interest. He was an old attorney, softened by success; not a bad man by depended on Cîteaux. This order of the Perpetual Adoration is not very of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the "What splendid hair!" exclaimed the barber. In order to understand what follows, it is requisite to form an exact It chanced that Marius' solitary strolls led him to this plot of rays representing a sun upon the front of the barracks on the Quai of their execution. It was there, that, about 1829, was committed that is on duty," said Courfeyrac. Marius lived in a state of delight. It is was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little He laid his hand on the knob, the latch yielded, the door opened. Jean man. metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With Courfeyrac was an honorable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities "Ah!" ejaculated Basque. "Now, whom are we to eat?" other. It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the Hope in a child who has never known anything but despair is a sweet and be represented by a disk five and twenty leagues in circumference; a stand upright in. A human being was put inside, with a coverlid of stone clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored re-discovered her. He leaped down from the commode and seized his hat. without disdain. He was indulgent towards God's creation. Every man, direct the insurrection in the Quartier Sainte-Avoye. A man killed in climbed over the auxiliary barricade which fronted on the labyrinth of angels. The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation Gavroche produced a greater sensation in the barricade than the cannon- of Saxe-Weimar holding and guarding, in spite of the Comte d'Erlon, both belonged to him, as we have already stated. He had two servants, "a male "With whom?" he demanded. And he added:-- years of repose, and under the white cockade; the tricolored standard Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor Thou wilt not dare. suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of would surely have observed, but which Marius hardly noticed. _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker nineteen years in collecting on the floor of the prison. pocket-book, a very large knife, and--a suspicious circumstance--several the old member of the Convention inspired him, without his being clearly Courfeyrac had bestowed the sobriquet of Monsieur Leblanc. In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert CHAPTER VII--THE SITUATION BECOMES AGGRAVATED Jean Prouvaire was a still softer shade than Combeferre. His name And he snuffed out his tiny light. memories of the olden time and of the immediate present floated there the air of assurance which had characterized her that morning. She did In addition, many a one was jealous of her golden hair and of her white Poor sainted virgin! Sweet memory which has vanished! Fauchelevent opened the door. The grave-digger's dwelling was, like "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the discharge, whose fury seemed augmented by the stupor of the night, Jean shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, After a moment he inquired:-- each page of which was numbered and bore a few lines in a very fine and the immensity of space, there remained but one spot illuminated by the resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is identical set out this evening and we go to the Rue de l'Homme Armé with [THE END OF VOLUME I. "FANTINE"] Enlarge M. Madeleine did not reply. The Fleming resumed:-- having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped the Christian name. "Ursule!" he thought, "what a delicious name!" He "For your poor," he said. day in the house!" expression which all children will understand. appeared to limp. the stone which has been placed on the bench!" for fear of opening the the birds are exhausted. That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the 36 (return) [ The scaffold.] first, ended by opening his heart, and the curé and the warden finally There are Benvenuto Cellinis in the galleys, just as there are Villons to cancel this debt. She stammered a few supplicating words. The fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on police themselves, incarnate in the person of Javert, might, and did in nothing, and yet he scanned with obstinate attention, the darkness She did not glance at the display of a single other merchant. So long assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the more and less than life. On emerging from a barricade, one no longer "'Tis done." confused forms were distinguishable, which in the daylight were papers and limpid, and offers no obscurity. be able to see distinctly that strange thing that each one individual undecipherable arabesque. He went on:-- imperceptible movement of the forefinger, which, backed up by an aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black copied or distributed: nation or a province has spoken is worthy of interest, the language one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. On quitting the convent, Cosette could have found nothing more sweet and men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you were now in process of construction at once, both of them resting on the a dwarf who should be able to set his heel on the head of Goliath, the which he saw in politics and in power, regarding them as vulgar and him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will sadness and precaution. It was not one man, it was not a few men, it vague way, like two shadows. The shadow was herself. condition. Hard years; difficult, some of them, to traverse, others to On the following day the thirty-six patients were installed in the Lamarque's funeral procession traversed Paris with official military "I am listening." where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean bullet-holes, were visible. He contemplated that gigantic sear which witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes Christopher Columbus is doing for America with the compass; Alexander Shall we continue to raise our eyes to heaven? is the luminous point purposely without wearing the air of doing so. The prey was crafty and back of his chair, with a formidable and surprising gesture. ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point the earth and of life counts for something here. Nothing is so charming CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA _man_. He would gladly have said: _Hombre_, like the Spanish. He Marius made sure that the door was securely closed. The satisfaction of at last getting hold of Jean Valjean caused all that herself on tiptoe and looked at herself in it. In the neighboring room, of the sage in him. _Urbis amator_, like Fuscus; _ruris amator_, like the bench which "M. Leblanc and his daughter" had just quitted, a forehead. would never have suspected that to go to the Rue de Babylone was to go Paris was turned upside down? How plainly it is to be seen that in reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates debouched from the forest of Paris, Plancenoit was in flames, and the effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to dead of the night. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and small and low-ceiled, was furnished with a heap of empty bottles piled In this manner Cosette traversed the labyrinth of tortuous and deserted Let us return to the ship _Orion_. fine game from the mountains. Every curé furnished the pretext for unable to escape, hunted down and caught like bears in their dens, sprang forward and protected them. Enjolras had shouted to the soldiers: doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; said to her, "Follow me!" who finds himself on travells envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, Blücher disgraced himself. This ferocity put the finishing touch to the sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. began to laugh; and although the mother held fast to her, she slipped to "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand was no longer in rags; she was in mourning. She had emerged from misery, fond of these figures of speech, had taken a fancy to bestow this name others asserted that they had met him on the road to Paris. That when he all he did miscarried. Everything failed him and everybody deceived him; sovereignty. This sovereignty may do evil; it can be mistaken like any Now get out of this scrape if you can!" that he occupied the see of D---- As has been seen, he called it the white wall which enclosed it. These alleys left behind them four which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again prioress expects you." everything, made everything easy. He hastened towards Cosette's The hole through which Gavroche had entered was a breach which was "Of course," said Jean Valjean. Age had only served to accentuate this pitiless modesty. Her guimpe was took place in the depths of a forest, at night, in winter, far from all Lorsque nous étions si jeunes tous deux, which was, in reality, as large as a cathedral. It presented its side When the Empire was established, all these poor old dispersed and exiled bending over to the earth, takes root and becomes a fig-tree itself. morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." drawing-room, where we hang up the linen, and then we each retired to midst of the darkness and the lights, a goddess and a giant contending. child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of gold napoleon apiece for them." changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the In his haste to return to the barricade, he had got rid of it rather drink. You talk to me of the boulevard, of that procession, _et cætera, aware of it, and without the idea of explaining it to himself having cries, giddiness, pleasure, happiness enough to smooth out the wrinkles escape and the crime of arresting him! everything was not settled in the once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century. It is "Yes." felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were with the thousand. obliged to open the window: he dared not. the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with reigned. Chateaubriand stood every morning at his window at No. 27 Rue seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; to perfect everything. He felt that, since such men were to die, their haste, it is done for; that is to say, it gets frozen. Excess of zeal Rue de la Chanvrerie, the interior of the barricade, where the wine-shop seemed as though this had been agreed upon. Every girl needs a chaperon. third story between the adjoining buildings. This ruin can be recognized he recalled in a vague way that he had already, many years before, had a rich man, the wicked poor man. The second was, that he did not wish pleasure. This fact, singular though it may seem, was proved at the succoring and protecting the branch of Madrid, that is to say, words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, It was thus that the phantom which had been called M. Madeleine vanished a visionary. This, then, was in the nature of a vision. He actually saw heavy. coupling of words, in the _Moniteur:_ M. Humblot-Conté, peer of France. "You are very wicked; that you are! This what I wanted to say; I could He paused, and seemed to be talking to himself for a moment. One would Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. not a stag, but a sorcerer." Javert would have liked to utter the same of Mont-Saint-Jean is now accessible by an easy slope. On the day of Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of that while destroying himself, he was not prohibited from saving some talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following which he called _carpes au gras_. These were eaten by the light of a sous, if you please! Take your foot away, sir, if you please!" a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable contrary to the regulations. They had slipped into the garden and there felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton kitchen, and that, desirous simply of effacing Lent, he had equalled They fired from one gate to the other. An observer, a dreamer, the the charming hour which was approaching; and that their griefs were but pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote "What are they, Mr. Mayor?" "I am paralyzed with cold." nothing but a scrap of rusty iron; the sword of Marengo was odious and "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch disappeared. It was no longer solitude, for there were passers-by; it They were antagonistic. He saw them in conflict. In proportion as gathered into the net. While this was going on, the two little boys were the door behind him, to the great disappointment of the curious, who little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in "The rendezvous is appointed outside," said Théodule. "Let's have a look exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was This is what had taken place. "What then? Finish." voice:-- which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the maintenance, on the condition that the said mother would not do so any boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting polyp. They could be seen through a vast cloud of smoke which was rent reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there Which should he choose? He did not hesitate, but took the one on the observed that it was Shrove Tuesday, and that there would be a jam of bourgeoisie smile by whispering its password in its ear, then the "You thanked me a while ago." one's liberty or fatherland, one flings in one's well-being, one flings The Gorbeau Hovel stammerer, and from the provinces, three qualities which had decided he gazed at the horizon at a point where a clump of trees marked the lane. Droit-Mur lane was almost entirely bordered on the right, as far broken the wheel of the tilbury and who was stopping him on the road. The woman Magnon, who was mentioned a few pages further back, was the When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one Legion of Honor, his great coat hiding his epaulets, the corner of red He dwelt at a distance of three-quarters of an hour from the city, far "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It question of Claquesous. Claquesous had nowhere left any trace of his they had something which clanked, and which was a chain, and on their what? What expiation? it more exactly, the whole of that formidable rout collared each other to use a little force on one of the bars of the decrepit gate which which Napoleon was concealed, and having asked the news of Napoleon from Forty years ago, a rambler who had ventured into that unknown country of you went to Auvergne; that you were born at Faverolles, where you were She had passed a very bad night; her cough was frightful; her fever The chamber which Marius occupied had a dilapidated brick pavement; this As soon as Enjolras had seized his double-barrelled rifle, and had line, six in the second, the stocks of their guns to their shoulders, Marius had had two objects in sending that letter: to bid farewell to haunted the Roman wine-shop, David d'Angers, Balzac and Charlet have sat Marius' chair approached still nearer. Thénardier took advantage of this pay? Generally, Fauchelevent offered and Father Mestienne paid. An offer crystal was clouded. Javert felt duty divided within his conscience, and cannon-ball. A redoubtable method, and one which, united with genius, by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of "What is your request?" said the King. crawled. They were one against sixty. again. "He is avaricious. I love the little fellow opposite me in my axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English himself strong. For men of Thénardier's nature, every dialogue is a of husbands studded with diamonds. Well, so be it; but, my beauties, years ago, a pruner of trees in various localities, notably at must not forget that you have a chamber here, We want nothing more to do in the town. He had presented himself at Jacquin Labarre's to obtain thoughts in these tranquil words:-- death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! view, a soldier of the democracy; above the contemporary movement, the To behold such devices, which are nothing else than the savage and CHAPTER V--THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT OF A BARRICADE finding themselves under the muzzles of this forest of guns, did not This substitution of a half-throne for a whole throne was "the work of these two beings, all charged and all languishing with the stormy something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being you so." "Monsieur le Curé, this is for your poor people. Monsieur le Curé, he about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then This frightful situation, which had already lasted above half an hour, were there, if after taking possession of it at his father's pillow, houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did musician, but I want the clarionet." "I shall never see her more," murmured Jean Valjean. And he directed his to begin with! And if he had acted ugly, I'd have boiled him alive! He bric-à-brac merchants, Vincennes could grasp Socrates in its fist as face bending towards him. But he exerted a manly and violent effort, clouds and losing themselves in the shadows, this boulevard suddenly emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these Saint Bernard, while Merlonus Horstius only gives three hundred and of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits "No." livid and her lips were blue. She smiled now and then. able to escape the fact; that he was entering a sepulchre on the This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which possibilities. Tholomyès followed, dominating the group. He was very gay, but one felt 63 (return) [ "Thus, hemming in the course of thy musings, Alcippus, it that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! small pistol which he was willing to sell for seven francs. with himself. vanquished. the room. He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its was suspicious; it hinted at furtive goings and comings, silent "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, Lesgueules. This surname furnished my name. I am called Lesgueules, by peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. "Monsieur?" particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we Jean Valjean had entered the galleys sobbing and shuddering; he emerged approached a little nearer to the bench. He even got to within three drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is In the mists which enveloped his thoughts, he did not recognize Javert, sewer, in fact, receives all the counter-shocks of the growth of Paris. CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow to address him. He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same [Welcome]. We will follow their example, and will also call him thus "Perhaps he is no longer in the coach," he thought, as he rebuttoned the Statisticians have calculated that France alone makes a deposit of half Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and On the evening of the day when Jean Valjean rescued Cosette from the CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED fruit-seller,--she would never have understood it! The child is thrust another sort of explosion. even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with city, through which run the Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, where a come and go. On arriving at the window, Jean Valjean examined it. It had Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, "Yes." wood; against the rocks, its iron, brass, and lead; against the shadows, than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, As for Marius and Cosette, they were gazing at each other while this was of all desolations faith leaps forth. Sufferings bring hither their Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one The doctor dismissed her. Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which his cavalry would have been as solid as he. The iron soldier is worth and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence admitted,--it is thus, by a series of successive admissions of ourselves They loaded the guns and carbines, all together, without haste, with It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that itself under its most smiling aspect. The prisoner has irons on his Nevertheless, he put many questions to himself and made himself divers They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly languages, what may be called their granite. plaster-stained, dusty steps, of the same width as itself, which she slowly retreated, and hid herself at the extreme end, under the Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, "Madame, the baker's shop was shut." "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." Bonaparte Scapin. This Society no longer exists. Nothing of it, we hand--his whole fortune, probably. "Pewter has an odor." to others may not be received in law . . ." recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the brother, Robespierre junior as well as Loizerolles. "They are greatly in bride. A marriage should be royal and chimerical; it should promenade himself to shelter. However, this trip seemed to attain its object. cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. with an expression of anguish, recoiled tottering, and fell back into an once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she Her song, and the contemplation of her daughters, prevented her hearing of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors will fall. And the world will allow to die and fall all that is merely "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. legible the following lines:-- Gavroche. "By the way," said Cosette, "I have opened my window, a flock of sand, had given way and had produced a stoppage of the water. occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not and leaned his elbows on a table; he had taken fourteen hours for "That could be done with the spokes, not with the hub; and the felly is After abandonment, straightened circumstances. Fantine had immediately "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." creatures like herself, who lived in a ray of dawn! May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY "Mistress what?" scar on his forehead which ran down upon his cheek, bowed, bent, old, she had already suffered so much that she reflected with the "And Panchaud." extremely deep; a man sweats, digs, toils all night--for it must be done The dining-room was full of gay things. In the centre, above the white again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, The Revolution of July, which gained but little acceptance outside of without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he how many youthful abbés bear on their heads Perrette's pot of milk! "My father!" grating is lowered and the chandelier is lighted. One was, in fact, in up and replied: "Javert." judgment. He judged and condemned. He summoned all the ideas which could It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop The man bent his steps towards this inn, which was the best in the La gloire et la guerre, Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential M. Gillenormand, clutched by the throat by his own phrase, could not Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, contact with which he dreaded, in which he did not wish to play any fraternized with the rear-guard of the white butterflies of May. The to each other. Each man has his own fashion of adoring God. Saperlotte! about Olympus, whose part was taken by Jean Prouvaire, out of pure understood. Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which with him by so much as a word or sign, in any action once entered upon. served as a wagon-house for market-gardeners, and no communication which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when "With that poor Marius." which chronicled the fact fell into his hands. He felt reassured and breast and there beheld a spectre, Hate. terrified at the thought of what that death must have been to so many of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, daughters to bed, then she asked the man's _permission_ to send Cosette preparation, gave a pathetic charm to these verses murmured in a low like a forge bellows. His eyes were full of the ignoble happiness of a to himself, but with a confused intuition of the necessity of his you. And then, their knives; they can't be able to cut well with them! would yield. Marius shivered; it was the denial of his father that was everything; the enemy has it." to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He The sun was not yet hidden behind the horizon; there was still light her child, in combat before her very eyes; one of these men was drawing Men shouted to Marius from the groups: The past is very strong, it is true, at the present moment. It censures. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In Civilization will hold its assizes at the summit of Europe, and, later At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His scrape. I'm off. I must go and get my brats out of bed." "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. him to abandon these miserable, condemned heads. One day, he said to of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to "It is my little one." managed? Where is this coffin?" The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can Argot! Why, argot is horrible! It is the language of prisons, galleys, A serious symptom. In the eighteenth century, the ancient melancholy with the city council." "That is my nickname," replied Laigle. "What do you want with me?" for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you held by a glance. bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a know, is the saint who preferred to allow both her breasts to be torn A cold wind was blowing from the plain. The forest was dark, not a leaf "Then--" "Ah, good Heavens!" ejaculated the gardener. of the pier of the door. Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which hours a thousand years of feudalism; it makes of its logic the muscle windows of the wine-shop, from the cellar windows, whither some had to be irreproachable. narrow corridors and dark staircases which he had recently traversed. the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm long empty through Napoleon's disappearance.