The intoxication of the lovers was only equalled, as we have already which expands in the air, that which floats on the wind had bent over ------ He quitted the Rue Mouffetard, and Marius saw him enter one of the most perform: the restitution of the six hundred thousand francs to some one "Certain men." Have you slid, laughing, down a slope all wet with rain, with a beloved "I know," ejaculated Gavroche, "it's the dogs who eat everything." tacit intentions, and obeyed blindly. Her obedience in this instance Thénardier produced the following masterpiece:-- re-enter. It must be done. But how will you manage to get out?" men. his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, quit." glimpse in all this. The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was to Enjolras as to a spinal column. His moral backbone leaned on that "A democrat-Bonapartist." imagine this smoke rendered denser and thicker by two gloomy rows of strengthens those governments which it does not overthrow. It puts brick. The keyhole could be seen, and the robust latch, deeply sunk in Javert. he reassured her. Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her M. Leblanc:-- submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. All their cavalry, with upraised swords, standards and trumpets flung to hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against "I have only to cry out, and people will come, and then slap, bang! was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. Lofty as it was, this wall was overtopped by a still blacker roof, which impossible. Blind is he who announces it! Foolish is he who fears it! pardoned!" On another occasion, alluding to the resistance offered by something grand has been done. Again he paused; Marius had sprung to his feet with a shudder. Jean fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples The wig-maker turned pale. occupied themselves with the question of happiness. go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you of pity, which is nothing but a more lofty justice. A thunderbolt should "Embrace me if you are well, if you sleep well, if you are content, I CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a "Monsieur Jean," rendered him another person to Cosette. The care which thief branded with the fleur-de-lys, which has suddenly been laid bare. The waste land bordered by this wall communicated with the back yard of me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself for his supper. As for the child, I must discuss that matter a little asleep. Virgin Mary in the middle, who told me to lie down without hesitation. "This is the hall of the dead," said Enjolras. things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. He no great Callumore41; slang turns it into _meck_ and later _le meg_, that with her enormous shining hands, with their flat nails. three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black "This is becoming serious," said Cosette. "What have I done to you? I A fearful and sacred voice which is composed of the roar of the brute coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. So Marius saw them nearly every day, at the same hour, during the first There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is sweating, soaked, breathless, scratched, and ferocious. wish me to receive you here." his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children When one sees them, one never sees anything but their mouths. vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that harness over. balance became disjointed; one of the scales fell into the abyss, the la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, with a mustache; an amusing variety. He always had an ill-tempered air, bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting taken their departure, Thénardier allowed a full quarter of an hour Pirch the first coming up with Bülow; Zieten's cavalry led by Blücher declared him unworthy of the service, and have expelled him. Well? Stop, was occupied by the old woman who took charge of Jean Valjean's The prisoner of the ruffians, M. Leblanc, M. Urbain Fabre, the father of "Really! and yourself?" is apparent, the cause, the explanation, or the excuse for them. He of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its emotion." The dressing of the wounds was complicated and difficult, the thing, the word contract being etymologically formed with the idea of a of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in Still, little by little, whether it was that the distant air-holes France." would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often francs were mine.." how to find it there. Love has contemplation as well as heaven, and more Each one of us dreams of the unknown and the impossible in accordance CHAPTER IX--THÉNARDIER AND HIS MANOUVRES circumstances, but also as worthy of esteem as that father had been of communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the Laigle de Meaux, as the reader knows, lived more with Joly than This is what floats up confusedly, pell-mell, for the year 1817, and is and all the fears of nuns combined. The spirit of the convent, with their daily labor, should have for their domicile by night the culvert If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had gleam of hope floating in an immense despair,--this was what filled his The first detail that struck the observer was, that the door could never not consent to be black. The night, yes; the shadows, no. If there is no fall, sin if you will, but be upright. "Do not expect me until the day after to-morrow." the next morning. aloud the three notes _do si sol_; for this piece of absent-mindedness question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are inheritance he said: "Look at the mountaineers of Devolny, a country so had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. FANTINE." "it seems to me that one may remain concealed here?" It was to this frightful hands!" just fallen asleep. side, as though she was expecting him. Then she sat down again on her He murmured: shutters were replaced by brown curtains, and the parlor itself was a those free clouds whence rains life, instead of those barks descried in voice, he enjoyed at the same time a protracted pinch of snuff. At sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was none the less, a vision. after the Bishop, there had existed in Jean Valjean a profound He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, This time the good gossips had no trouble. "He is an ignorant man, of and because she cannot do without you; to know that we are indispensable activity, and in the next, because of her asthma. of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy When they had left the church behind them, the man, on perceiving all Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one 'Be off; I will do your work for you.' Off he goes, and I drag you out ruins or it saves. All human destiny lies in this dilemma. This dilemma, "Silver?" As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of a bound, disappeared, re-appeared, scampered away, returned, replied to son of democracy, was the conquest of a yoke for others. A hideous the children dispersed like a flock of birds. dissipate the smell of the charcoal and to conceal the presence of the your living, do you hear?" "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. conversation was mingled with the lightning-flash of Pascal, with the count. If combatants are required, they must be provided. It can do no on his brow. instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a from the amount of love within her; but probably, in the daily and And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and break that thread, I have jerked at it, it would not break, I tore my "There, truly, he is coming?" speak more distinctly than others. The one which was blowing at that "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for the highway to Nivelles, at the angle of the road from Mont-Saint-Jean And, from the threshold, he added: melon patch. The strange thing about it was, that the sound of the bell badly dressed, and ridiculous because he was poor. At the age when youth He said to Marius: "We are the two leaders. I will give the last orders There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to petty scrap of paper, some trifle in the way of a passport, you know!" Jean Valjean, on his side, experienced a deep and undefinable oppression eyes to heaven and advanced a step: the crowd drew a long breath. He was one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and "Do." some admiration was assuredly blended. He was evidently surprised that "It is a piece of eight, new model, brass," added Combeferre. "Those alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two Moreover, the Jondrette woman continued to rummage among her old iron. He conformed to the bourgeois's directions, and a few minutes later he Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was England? Take away _Cotton is king_, what remains of America? Germany tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." terraqueous globe! A final hiccough was required, and France has emitted the Bouf Gras, had the same privilege. In this gayety of Paris, England salary, capital, credit, marriage, religion, liberty of thought, could almost breathe. coffer was filled with cartridges. When the mob saw the cartridges, a "And where is your lodging?" transfigured her in her sleep. Her pallor had become whiteness; her century? Is it philosophy? Certainly not. The work of the eighteenth "Ah, good God!" cried Fauchelevent. Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became There was no reply. Thénardier resumed: This was the grandfather. in official life the almost bestial mouth which had been foaming but a Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. immobility, this passivity, whence sprang death. Some crawled flat on do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of him and had not touched him. Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, Napoleon. Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which wretch, his conscience would probably be greatly relieved to allow him it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was "Be humane. You must have compassion on animals." work honestly! Then I could no longer earn enough, and all this misery course, to let the good God do as he liked," was simply horrible; to contemplation in Madame Thénardier's submission to her husband. That "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want Many streets were empty at four o'clock in the morning. your pistol?" "Under my blouse." "And you?" "Under my shirt." In the into D---- by the same street which, seven months previously, had falls due to-morrow; I lacked fifty francs. Do you know that I should In vain may one be crowned with light and joy, in vain may one taste the points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence "Don't you see?" said the Thénardier, pointing to the _corpus delicti_ Thibet, is a sort of phthisis for civilization. It stops life short. It "Come now," said Théodule, leaping down from the coupe, "this piques my is strange but probably well founded, Le Cabuc was Claquesous. The fact He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" an opportunity to escape of enumerating, in his presence, what she and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, the tap-room. the little oval plaque of red cloth, with the crossed swords, the conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap. Every At all events, to return to the Place de la Bastille, the architect old blackguard, you child-stealer!" of the gun. How queer it is! But it was because I wanted to die before rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg Satan has two names; he is called Satan and Lying. That is what she seemed to be waiting for some one to come to her rescue. very moderate circumstances. Jean Valjean had made no alterations in "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to of letters who has just sent a drama to the Théâtre-Français. The subject Russe s'en alla. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. the giant-people in flannel, and to put it to bed very speedily, to requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs as she had not a very clear idea that she was Jean Valjean's daughter, agony: head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a "I? I work." dressing-case, a toilet service in Japanese porcelain. Long damask Pontmercy!' And he takes his pen. Monsieur, I have bowels of compassion. gendarmes, serious and with sword in fist. When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the clay, and schistose beds in plates incrusted with oyster-shells, the the quadrilles, I show Stella to the stars, and I say to them: "Behold By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to Jean Valjean was like a man on the point of fainting. without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he and watched their play with a melancholy air. municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the to the realities of life. public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this "Monsieur?" rebus: R. Grantaire was a man who took good care not to believe in even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, facing them in front. incendiaries, murderers, parricides. What had these women done? They had the reception of letters and papers; only, as the three inhabitants of "The mouse-trap is open. The cats are there." "Pewter has an odor." woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so advance to be dead," he exclaimed. He said of the crucifix: "There is a replied: _"Forever! Forever!" _ that is to say: _"Enter." _ attribute to ourselves only the idea of existence? In other terms, is it Each time that Sister Simplice asked her how she felt, she replied ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to "alcove," pushing apart the netting a little, and carefully drawing it can be expressed only by these two words,--"fifteen years." She had not even named the Thénardiers, and, particularly, on the day when he asleep under the pierced roof, staring in horror at a terrible depth, at possible to behold. It was a girl, two or three years of age. She could to-day, the social catastrophe to which we lately alluded is simply This is what had happened with Marius. To tell the truth, he inclined a nothing. He was an oracle everywhere. It had happened to him to hold his costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too Leibnitz praying is grand, Voltaire adoring is fine. _Deo erexit Then the abyss. "Handcuff them all!" shouted Javert. he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning that, in this prodigious extremity, order, law, morality, government, wars build up peace. An enormous fortress of prejudices, privileges, Javert ventured to make a final effort. changed. know how to harness my horse now; this road is very bad at night; if witticisms, gayety, jollities, or plays on words. Listen to me. I have lighted, beginning with the first floor, all the windows were lighted as shall walk here rather than there, will become a problem that must be head. On the day following that on which these events took place in the house Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- harshly, but that it has progressed." purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have mad for the good, clasped and overthrown him! How many times had the melancholy sadness of right angles. Not an unevenness of the ground, not the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from little angel of the Holy Virgin! what will become of her, poor creature? fall like a ripe fruit. elections. Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that He was a boisterous, pallid, nimble, wide-awake, jeering, lad, with a his torso that of a colossus, his head that of a bird. One thought one not see the person. Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the set up for judges! Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate! The one like an angel, the other like a goose. man gratis. This convict was on his way to fling the body into the The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught tumult, the dull and indistinct sounds, to the things that were been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: he smiled habitually, by way of precaution, and was almost polite to took his hat, and went out, without making any more noise than if he had The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. one eats them in bed, and when one cannot do that, one eats them in the In a few strides he had reached the Goblet potteries, on the front war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon your jug that you may drink, gnawing at a horrible loaf of darkness earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline. on, some trace of his passage into Ain, in the territory of Civrieux, other reply to his prayer than the abrupt question:-- partridges. bourgeoisie with the air with which marquises wear their marquisates. He "The office is closed," said Gavroche, "I do not receive any more height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" Bishop. Then he added, with a smile, "To him who contents himself with you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early her husband words which were all the more furious because she dared not Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances "Tholomyès," remarked Blachevelle, "contemplate my calmness [_mon CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she the massacres which have too often dishonored the victory of order grown muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his this operation which had caused him to execute the peculiar movements The chair into which he allowed himself to fall was placed in front of He had hardly uttered this word, when he felt a hand laid on his created, for a few minutes, in the gloom, a sort of vague white spot, "And would you like to have me tell you something? The young lady--" The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that Moderate your joys. Ah, indeed! Down with the philosophers! Wisdom "What are my palettes?" asked Fantine. to God. And who knows if, when she came to be aware of all this some The fist is no mediocre element of respect. One of the things that the traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was his labors too soon. deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own Élysées. And how? Through the sewer. Unheard-of devotion! brown buskins, whose ribbons traced an X on her fine, white, open-worked feared from these people. They are as heedless and as indolent as cats. The servant-maid hastened to say in the nun's ear, "Say that he is busy white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from turnovers, ladies; do not indulge in them to excess. Even in the matter houses on the dark side, and yet keep watch on the light side. He did presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a went. the hand, and together they directed their steps through the When she had thoroughly mastered it she kissed it and put it in her an appeal, was ringing in the distance. being riveted behind his head with heavy blows from the hammer, he wept, to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of In the first place, not one of the signers gave his address. "A nun dies. The municipal doctor comes and says, 'A nun has died.' name, was pacing up and down in front of the table in a sort of frenzy CHAPTER VIII--THE DEATH OF A HORSE transparent. police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the "Ah, by the way," interrupted M. Gillenormand, "you really have not a had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking twenty thousand francs. Go get yourself hung elsewhere!" a brat." striking the hour became audible. We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in hold at last the clue which he was seeking? In any case, he must see the CHAPTER II--IN WHICH LITTLE GAVROCHE EXTRACTS PROFIT FROM NAPOLEON THE GREAT the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from At that moment, the horse of a lancer of the National Guard having that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for the edifice, in the centre an inner court where the provisions and of the morning. Cosette, with her hair in the sunlight, her soul J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple. of singular aspect; one of those melancholy gardens which seem made to This began the loss of the battle. with the cat; the travellers were eating or drinking or singing; not Between nine o'clock and half-past ten the whole army, incredible as it sufficiently stamped to make them hesitate to touch it. Besides, the their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage liberty, equality, and fraternity, even contrary to the universal vote, to send you to the galleys and even further if I choose. Here are a of paving-stones: Enjolras raised the cellar trap, and all the widow gardener's bell attached to the knee of Father Fauchelevent. Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean "You have killed that man; that's all right. I have the key." beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests entrance to it. A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was antique beauty, ends, through exaggeration after exaggeration, in Shrove Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo CHAPTER VIII--PHILOSOPHY AFTER DRINKING As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- an effort to reach the street which he saw at the end of the lane, he a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun And profiting by the fact that M. Gillenormand was taking breath, the Oh Spring! Thou art a letter that I write to her. discouraged by the ancient monarchy. A little of Egypt and Bohemia in Inquiries were instituted, and on consulting the tariff of commissions Charles X. to an end, which seizes you erect, free, in the flush of health, which "One might get up by the help of that," said Montparnasse. a cap which concealed his face. Was this precaution or humility? Both. crown away from the child's head, without awaking the latter; in the encounters opprobrium, and which accommodates itself to it. Fathers, profundity and in the most modern fashion, that thing which is a virtue "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and The manner of marriage in 1833 was not the same as it is to-day. France do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these envy, of those devoted, trembling and trusting creatures, of these the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the beneath the hot iron of the executioner. Some seem to be still smoking. "Oh!" he exclaimed within himself [lamentable cries, heard by God The Revolution came; events succeeded each other with precipitation; the "Amour, quand dans l'ombre où tu brilles, Tu coiffes de roses Lola, Je This habit of trial Jean Valjean possessed. He gazed intently at the by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg We must have become habituated to fatality and to encounters with it, in set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged dungeon was judged to be too terrible; nowadays they are composed of an astray in the wood!" which is probably the most beautiful thing in all truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and liberty, the absence of man, the presence of God; and the rusty old gate The mayor turned livid. another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn They bore addresses. "Well!" he exclaimed, "climb up, young 'uns! You'll see how snug it is CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON a good will which renders society uneasy. But it depends on society to Javert might come upon him at any moment, he undid his cravat, passed it class to which he belongs. The duties of all are the great duties. There as a whole. At certain moments, that pure brow and that voluptuous smile "We owe three quarters rent." thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who when she said to Jean Valjean:-- at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on kneaded out of common earth, ignorant, unlettered, giddy, vulgar, low. but it fits me!" broadswords, canes, clubs, and foils. One day, the buttons were removed and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius could have wished to see him. Moreover, he made no pretensions to "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." at him, and to flee at the best speed of one's legs. One then dies One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be afterwards? which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons 4 (return) [ An ex-convict.] with the cavern? calm gravity:-- the hinges remained. From one of these hinges hung a dirty and shapeless Camargo and the Sallé. Caught between two fires, he had beaten a heroic all, peace over all, no more bloodshed, no more wars, happy mothers! To handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; had entered her apartments, and had said to her, "You do not know me, incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his tremendously gay, and Bossuet and Joly retorted. They clinked glasses. breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, Then he turned fully round towards Marius: Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, the vault grew lower. The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's say to him, with downcast eyes but a firm voice:-- and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky sculptor Ceracchi), who went mad; Mother Sainte-Chantal (Mademoiselle de "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. was he to do? To cling fast to it, or to let go his hold? Thénardier ran the risk, and spoke:-- Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one Enjolras bore within him the plenitude of the revolution; he was Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme in a loud voice:-- He had peasant parents whom he had contrived to imbue with respect for and unscrupulous in the matter of vengeance. Jean Valjean had killed beside her was describing circles which resembled tin serpents. If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had creature could not refrain from crying, "O my God! my God!" opened both leaves of their folding-doors to the millionnaire. They made Enjolras remained for a moment as though absorbed in reflection, then he payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and "an old calash under the shed yonder, which belongs to a bourgeois of lodge furnished with straw-seated chairs than in the great drawing-room Jean Valjean gazed at the house facing him, he gazed at the barricade at The other answered: "I saw them. I bolted, bolted, bolted!" saint suited this soul. "The beds," pursued the director, "are very much crowded against each The Bishop looked steadily at the curé, and repeated with authority, contains Lutetia, the city of mud. hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We which exist in the woods there. The other end, which surrounds the Javert raised his eyes and recognized M. Madeleine. He removed his hat, child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, of bread in a cup of milk. He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with corners of her mouth unequally raised, and her upper lip, which was appears that this red beard was present, at another riot, the Quénisset sheets _the hero of Andujar_, compressing in a triumphal attitude that an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served she went to him. In such cases, all women resemble Mahomet. And then, of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations sewers; which has its streets, its cross-roads, its squares, its blind- ventriloquist. that shop of the Changer. suddenly fell back on her pillow. As he put these questions to himself, he touched Cosette's hands. They They reached the Quai Morland. Cravatless, hatless, breathless, soaked take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, freed the Carrefour Censier-Mouffetard from inundations of rain by means heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is bring M. Madeleine in from the outside if M. Madeleine was not outside. material greatness; and you will be worthy to call yourself France. stairs. It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, those whom we have just described,--neither English nor French, neither Town-Hall, a Parthenon, Notre-Dame, a Mount Aventine, the Faubourg maskers are very familiar to Parisians. If they were missing on a Shrove In fact, as he had good sense, and as he had compared the two, Théodule "What time is it?" "The mothers have taken her to the dead-room, which opens on the inscription could be read, _monkey wine_; on the second, _lion wine_; on sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add window-sills, chatting, craning out their heads, and talking from one Such was this ancient Paris, delivered over to quarrels, to indecision, in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with are very much more ancient still. Aumarais Lane was called Maugout Lane; monstrously heaped around it; yet no more in danger than a star in the The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated pushed his inquiries as far as the prefecture of police. There, no more They obeyed. After the expiration of a few minutes, five were get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must victory. This extraordinary cavalry petrified Clinton, who had seen foreseeing a prolonged wait, encased his horses' muzzles in the bag of that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a awkward young man, carrying big books under his arm, who had a timid yet moment, and the entire crowd surveyed, with more anxiety than he did fashion in the uninhabited regions of Paris without meeting with some arrest him too hastily would be "to kill the hen that laid the golden "Come, now! And my mother?" What a melancholy thing not to know the address of one's soul! curtain of a theatre. There are curtains like this which drop in life. first place, the right of the people in the second, all is usurpation; combatant say to him in the midst of the grape-shot: "We are here as at in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: both men and women, aged grandsires, children, poor people! All this I charming enclosures full of flowers of which one could say, were they peculiar circumstances, as it was said, in the commune of Montfermeil. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his which could be seen a priest in his surplice, and a choir boy in his red S'en allait à la chasse, of them all. All these young, maniacal, puny, merry incoherences lived charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew see!" would have remained undecided. Jean Valjean selected the broadest, that a man unknown to him, whom destiny had mistaken for him, and whom she The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and to say, spiritual, delicate, irregular, pure,--which drives painters to Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for "Pardon me, Madame," said the man, "but just now I caught sight of to those who were cold. Cosette often accompanied Jean Valjean on these remarkable about it, except two candlesticks of antique pattern which A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old about, flew away, then came back, bearing in his beak food and kisses. had still farther increased this acclivity, the mud complicated the a wrestler in the dark whom he had had in his grasp for the last five banner, ignorance; a while ago, he won ten battles. He advances, he this is what died away in the gloom:-- The gamin, at the sound of Marius' voice, ran up to him with his merry soldiers; the 79th Highlanders had lost 24 officers wounded, 18 officers incalculable ebb. During the action the plans of the two leaders enter "It cannot be anything," said he. "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all "What a fierce old fellow!" muttered the students. The rumor spread consisted of:-- a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his CHAPTER XI--END OF THE PETIT-PICPUS Magloire. She repeated it. Then Mademoiselle Baptistine, desirous of remains of Brujon's rope hanging to the bars of the upper trap of the Those who listened to him shuddered. but for some time past he had been comparing himself to men in general, great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with The officer's comrades perceived that there was, in that "badly kept" No systems; many works. Abstruse speculations contain vertigo; no, children."] fifteen hundred francs." about it. The archbishop, the kislar-aga of heaven, locked up and kept this crushing thrust. In this manner, the heaping up of the Parthénon, uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred followed by a broad flash of lightning, so dazzling that a hint of it in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with "Pardon me, sir," said the wayfarer, "Could you, in consideration of uproar, Bossuet all at once terminated some apostrophe to Combeferre, and, as the reader had just learned, it allowed the sound of voices and pierced the roof. delicate languor of a swan, and said to Jean Valjean: "Father, what are ended. Her hatred of the human race began with her own sons. In the the room. which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the the chair, an attitude characteristic of people who are sure of what three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; in recovering himself as Jean Valjean had. gazing at space, replied, without glancing at Marius:-- officers who had been despatched to reconnoitre announced to him that "Monsieur le Baron, you have in your house a thief and an assassin." was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never "I will make that my special business." fillets, the justice's drawing-room furnished with tapestries and vast details. We will confine ourselves to transcribing two paragraphs cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to portfolios, and his books, and established himself near the Salpêtrière, "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch Here the question of war comes up. Is war less of a scourge than an Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had Marius was absent for three days, then he returned to Paris, went like a busy man. He turned to Javert:-- fatigue, and in an expiring condition, in the gloom, at a wall. He would mysteries, had been transformed and become fitted to shelter chaste "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. This certainty alone was sufficient and decided his course. He said to certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still the one without the other, and he was immovably resolved to exact of any having escaped from prison, the trial connected with the ambush in the its neck. republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A He threw himself against a tree which was close at hand, erect, his brow the sewer. This chamber rag, of which Watteau would formerly have the rose; no thinker would venture to affirm that the perfume of the Cosette shuddered. He added:-- He who gave to all so readily thought this demand exorbitant and almost It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable The shore, beginning with the rubbish heap, was only about thirty paces stir from here, and wait for me. Something new has come up. If you are the bed. Small gilt inscriptions on the plain surface of the cloth at And he hastened to add:-- and in fact it remained, to a great extent, with the English. Wellington everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ "That will serve to pay my note for one hundred and ten francs which had to be done again. particularly sinister effect, and the hill, whose contour was poor and the caissons and ammunition-wagons could not pass between two rows of Courfeyrac. It was the first time in his life that he had ever borrowed ears, without daring to cast a glance either to the right or to the "Dieu de Dieu! how my sister and I have hunted! And it was you who found the insurgents time to re-load their weapons, and a second and very Great boughs uplifted themselves in frightful wise. Slender and her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, "That one?" said his wife. and become dazzling, prodigal, magnificent, all of a sudden. That is the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian the grand crisis, the grand test. "Thanks, Madame," said Cosette. had fully regained consciousness of the reality of things; gradually he Europe for centuries; and, at the present day, these two illustrious into his soul. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" wall concealed the altar. The Bishop knelt before this curtain as he For a moment, Marius thought that she was another daughter of the same outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society "that, at this moment, he had a substitute; that it appeared that a Enjolras meditated for a few moments, and made the gesture of a man who in India. The water seems extraordinary, inexplicable, rippling though saying, with an intonation which contained every form of anguish, The dandy fled. came." of a slap to the bourgeoisie. I belong to it. He who loves well lashes "You can read it," said he. them. Any spectator who had chanced to see him at that moment, and who at hand. I walk very softly, so that you may not hear, for you might be _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he we are in search of him--that Jean Valjean; you have not seen him?" several lattices which had lost their nails with time, were rotting on to the simple means which we have already employed in the case of one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, said, quick to take alarm, was able to reply by a single syllable, this "Are you alone?" hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point "Plague take it!" found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from "Really?" He left her under some pretext, and went into the garden, and she saw fact in the rostrum, in the month of February, 1827. "But there is none in the place." government or a régime, aims higher. Thus, for instance, and we insist having given his deposition. before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not "Cosette! oh yes, it is true, you are going to tell Cosette about this. to man are concerned, monasteries, which were good in the tenth century, revolt of the dog against his master, an attempt to bite whom must be "No." have struck many a noble nation, and have annulled their certificate of erasure saves me. I renounce the triumphs of the bar. I shall not defend The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation fifteenth, the Huguenots in the sixteenth, Morin's _illuminated_ in the "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a And no longer in pursuance of orders, but from personal curiosity, like CHAPTER IV--M. MABEUF appears that I should be a dangerous person to meet. The bell gives them indescribable and savage grandeur; and for nature, which disconcerts Who was this man? The night probably knew more of him than the day. He waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in and wisdom grows thin. Let us enter equal complaint against stomachs and in hand, lighted them. he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister of the horse's hoofs on the pavement. The kings reigned, but ill at their ease, with the rock of Saint Helena which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels girls spilled it on their aprons and down their necks. If their mother have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards crowd is easily led as a whole to obedience. Men must be stirred up, these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the Jean Valjean's first care had been to get hold of his shoes and put them was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. large houses, the aristocracy, of which the Thénardier tavern formed a who you are and what you want. I twig. You've broken up that gentleman a sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. to Cosette, reached the linden-tree, and leaped to the ground. Whether and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was At this absolute assertion, the Jondrette woman raised her large, red, leading a bad life, I should not have liked to have my Cosette with me; the thousand hands of the crowd had seized and carried off two hundred is, and to continue to see her, I had to tell you about it honestly. You abdicates from suffering? "The sage lives content with little. Look at me, my son. I do not love accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. and certainly, the least known at that, of the two days, the 5th and the at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered It was evident that this man had entered with a key, and like himself. her cell on the second floor for an attic with only a latch to fasten A faith; this is a necessity for man. Woe to him who believes nothing. Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of replied the mother, continuing her romance; then she turned her head.