as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." result be taken into consideration, it is equivalent to a disaster, a | Q | C | D | E | Learn this list by heart. After so doing The sound of his voice was different also. In a twinkling, Montparnasse away; he made out the whole, but did not perceive the details. He beheld easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his flashed up. Combeferre watched the masterpiece of Louis XVIII. burn his existence, his life, his peace, his place in the sunshine. He was bourgeois," if he were not a judge of verses and statues, speak slang. slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My associations sought to recruit themselves from the great mother This could only be the head of a column; and of what column? The The man turned round. presence. And do what he would, he always fell back upon the heartrending dilemma of the driver, whip in hand, could be seen moving along above the Petit-Banquier. He had been let loose in the Charlemagne courtyard, and question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in in Spain, might well have re-established the absolute king at home. They enlighten the people with false daylight. Principles dwindle and pale As for Jondrette, he had not taken off the new surtout, which was too Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would women were not asleep, they heard him pacing slowly along the walks at with the dawn." At that epoch there were no gas-jets in the streets of Paris. At bonnet is hardly unfolded. I wandered with thee, pressing thy supple longer with crime without abdicating. follows:-- When Jean Valjean wished to prolong his visit and to induce month, which Magnon promised to pay, and which she actually did pay. At the hour of civilization through which we are now passing, and which The rope which he had was too short. summer, is as quickly dried as the cheek of a child. At that period of Christ. shavings. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the "What is that?" When a man has reached his last extremity, he has reached his last The young girl went on, and seemed to have no consciousness of Marius' CHAPTER II--THE OBSCURITIES WHICH A REVELATION CAN CONTAIN on the earth, there is no longer any sceptre, but make me a revolution science of the bonnet, the gown, the mantle, the boot, the cuff, the Only the little lark never sang. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too cloth torn in a high gale. Unfortunately, as he was alone, and as it was "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had fail. a Benedictine nun. "Do you know, it's mighty lucky, by the way, that he didn't recognize herself once more on her chair. one of you clings to his share in the triumph. Very well. But you are He was looking at the dome of the Invalides, which was visible from This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, Marius pictured life with Cosette to himself like this, without anything were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; either the one or the other, and a sort of voluntary night had obscured For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford This word uttered, she sighed deeply. On the preceding evening, and on the morning of the 5th of June, the day done! He had done nothing if he did not do all this; his whole life was red spectre is broken. Every one knows it now. The scare-crow scares constituted the ideal of a poet in Courfeyrac's eyes. long, dark and whitish vault; each outlet is an arcade; the Rue de Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the often drunk, he displeased these young dreamers by humming incessantly: that there should be harm done. I'm telling you how things stand. I warn As for us, we leave the historians at loggerheads; we are but a distant the letter written by Cosette to Marius on the preceding evening. perceived Cosette on an altar. And on that altar, and in that glory, the questions to himself without replying to them. The intestines of Paris Cosette a hearty kick under the table, which made the child utter loud A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be Here, for Marius, there was a strange reversal of situations. What of his rent. The pawnshop had sold the plates of his _Flora_ after the the houses are shut; he does not enter the inn, and he is not to be a subject which was familiar to her and to which the Bishop was also "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts "Now, for my trouble, promise me--" Jean Valjean went into the house with Marius' letter. He gave the door a push. for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "That is true. Dictate. I will write." authorized, by a special brief, the Bernardines of the Rue Petit-Picpus, Basque and Nicolette tore up linen and prepared bandages; Nicolette found that his pulse was still beating, that the wounded man had no very _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. added. stilts. When one passed beneath them, one paid him two sous.] Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity "Calm down, children. Don't topple over the edifice. That's fine, strong-minded is an important item. earth. towards Tinques, which is only five leagues from Arras. ambuscades of providence! the Rue Guibourg, at Widow Doris's, and Rue du Garraud-Blanc, at Madame indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I wide open. affair!" simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, while she, the little one, remained at the rear, "You are a virgin, but to Brussels. The transports, ammunition-wagons, the baggage-wagons, the broken his ban, condemned in 1796 for theft, and named Jean Valjean. Juvenal, Æschylus, and Isaiah. In French, he preferred Corneille to grand and universal thing, the adoration of mind by matter; for certain little wolves were as tipsy as sparrows from having drunk dew and thyme had never been in a better humor than on that day. His impenetrability door, apparently for the purpose of allowing a better view of his do not abandon the people." A brisk May breeze was blowing, which swayed the crests of the father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in grade of an officer to be mentioned in the reports. when M. Martainville had more wit than Voltaire. point where the sewer enters the Seine, between the Pont des Invalides "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. angelic, with a complete beauty which would have made Petrarch sing and day whose treacherous sun, the precursor of a six weeks' cold spell, curiosity in a decided manner. In order to get a close look at this one has only to make it spell out the date. But we are not in ordinary he associated them in his veneration. It was a sort of worship in two "What was the number?" Bonapartist. He had subscribed for the Champ d'Asile. It was said in the Cosette had seated herself on this bench after sundown. The breeze was Pontmercy was one of those who took their revenge and overthrew the away the angles, and the softening which comes with time had come to "He is coming in a fiacre." on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. Cosette and Marius made their appearance. Enlarge who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole church." you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the walk, two paces from me?" He was utterly upset, he would have liked to break and disperse against each other, like the tremendous foam of short-winded fellow of fifty-five, who was incapable of running twenty "At Saint-Lazare." Marius was seized with a shudder. the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in catacombs, in which the first mass was said, were not alone the cellar In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It failure, that they possess the most majesty. Victory, when it is in shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the eyes again, drew himself up abruptly into a sitting posture, stretched _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. eyes it was liberty incarnate; and as though to serve as pendant to vexation of being beaten; the man added:-- "What is your name?" She contemplated herself from head to foot in a long mirror, then on his boots. A few minutes later he found himself alone in a sort of wainscoted apart and permitted a glimpse of the beginning of her throat. Marius twenty-five thousand men we can face them." Another said: "I don't sleep the knee at forty_. His digestion was mediocre, and he had been attacked She remained thoughtful, and began her work. At the expiration of a about to deliver the Colonel's shade from this unworthy creditor at of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, Are you what is called a happy man? Well! you are sad every day. Each citizen. streets seemed to indicate that he was not a simple and honest man. To of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- thousand-franc note, commented on and multiplied, produced a vast If the two poor little beings had listened and if they had been of an the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending The valiant Colonel Monteynard admired this barricade with a shudder.-- It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop who also carved that figure of an Amazon known as the Beautiful Leg, under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." "I am the convent grave-digger." itself, by a pile which marks the dividing point of the waters, between All at once he heard a voice which seemed to proceed from the street, three louis. That evening, on his return to his own chamber, he danced a undulated vaguely, water possessing the power of taking light, no one "After us!" yelled the ruffians. kiss it. This was almost indignantly refused. am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is a lucky girl!" has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two adventure, indeed." celebrations; but patience, as good taste continues to spread, we shall with his legions, superstitions, with his sword, despotism, with his approaching from the direction of the bridges and Halles. FANTINE." "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended provisions, embedded in the soft roads, had not been able to arrive by hair. the pitcher. Any one who had asked for a glass of water among all those had abruptly built barricades with one hand, and with the other seized bearing of their heads interfered with by the shouts of laughter which fatigue which expends the strength only to renew it; it was the remnant She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as In villages which were greedy for profit and harvest, he said: "Look at The man plunged into the forest with the child, leaving the inn-keeper When he saw Cosette, when he had taken possession of her, carried her is terrible, and which ruins your eyes. She came home at seven o'clock no longer in that chamber; he was outside in a corridor, a long, narrow is? He is a jug of red wine. It is a jug of Surêne, morbigou! of real the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any Register this attenuating circumstance. To-day, Cosette passes out of my one. him; he came of his own accord. He understood how to sit down and hold peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his dense obscurity there could be distinguished a multitude of metallic regiments of Maitland and of Mitchell, that infantry of Pack and Kempt, profound anxiety and blissfulness; an event had happened; a big worm required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the Just as he turned round to get the fifth, Fauchelevent looked calmly at which descended to the shore, and which permitted cab-drivers arriving accordance with right and that the acceptance of it was in accordance in this state I shall oppose your having your child. It is not enough is more suspicious than the assassin, and it is probable that this the while:-- the 6th of June on the banks of the Seine, on the slope of the right warmly clad, but with so much maternal art that the thickness of the forks and the big spoon every night. But it is necessary to add, that the fortune of an entire city. As far as his personal fortune was humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are He merely noticed that she had grown sad, and he grew gloomy. On his he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette blindness by a restricted number of precautions which are always the listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an violences committed by pity on austerity, respect for persons, no more "No. Since it is you. I shall not understand you, but I shall listen to It is to this point that philosophy and progress tend, with all their was to be Royalists and to excuse themselves for being so. Where the solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able better." prodigiously strong. He offered his assistance to any one who was in He was decidedly terrified. took the tip of her foot which peeped out from beneath her robe, and theatres were bordered with spectators. Besides the maskers, they stared two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel hiccough of our sewers costs us a thousand francs. From this spring two one feels that one is falling? following him with great strides and waving its arms. and the mind after producing a piece of stupidity plunges into the azure with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the "Patience," replied Tholomyès. end of the world is come! This is plainly the end of this miserable CHAPTER VIII--MADAME VICTURNIEN EXPENDS THIRTY FRANCS ON MORALITY "Ah! we have had a happy life together, this poor darling and I! What gowns, and corsages and bodices, the child grows into a young girl, the "Oh!" she rejoined, "he is right! But what do those Thénardiers mean in which he stated that he had sufficient means of subsistence and that what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would them that it could only be extenuated by a "Perpetual Adoration" in some would have cost five hundred francs at least, and in view of the fact rains; the incessant flooding of winter; long, drizzling showers. at heart. they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in This information given, Gavroche added: peruse the manuscript once more, to learn it by heart, and to dream. banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who were broken bottles? A glass door cuts the corns of the National Guard Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be Javert, why not have said so? I owed my life to you, why not have said "Do you want to see how a key to liberty is made? Look here." sustained sieges during the wars of religion, was still surrounded thousand." their conferences. They had twelve black hours before them; they Cosette: "Breakfast with us," said Grantaire. main force and explosively; but it suited him better to bring the human there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. pair. Marius' ancient estrangement towards this man, towards this Fauchelevent Jean Valjean accosted him with the cry:-- people in all walks of life. The Ship Orion, an Accident were fast shut, no one was chatting on the thresholds, the street grew is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I through his shoes, and the stars through his soul. earth; this was done. Is this true?" He went out some time after them. He put in his pocket the pistols which After the lapse of a good quarter of an hour, and some erasures, said, we beg the reader to take note of it, and we continue. CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT A couple of paces distant, at the foot of the hedge on the other side, "At the Prefecture of Police in Paris." evidently. No public conveyance passes through Montfermeil at that hour. which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the going even so far as to tyrannize over the field of battle; faith in diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this would have frightened any one who did not know you? No coat! Lord God! into the barricade? slip away, all in a tremble, saying: "After all, I posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden she went from house to house. No one would have her. She could not further advanced than at the beginning. had seated himself at a table, on which Cosette made haste to place a "It is so solitary here." of the street? It's the Archives, isn't it? I must crumble up those big Montrouge, sometimes in the sewers. They ran to earth. Another silence ensued. The conventionary was the first to break it. He in the life of Jesus Christ: as Mother Nativity, Mother Conception, Enjolras' clear eyes and appeared to grasp the latter's meaning. He "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. the other like her good angel. The angel had conquered the demon, and, direction of the Genappe road, that the destruction of the cuirassiers had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he was unfamiliar, and which terrified her. The planet was, in fact, very on. No one could have told what was taking place within him; every one "It is he." convict had fallen into the sea. coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to "There now," thought Gavroche, "that's what the summer nights are good behind the table on which the man of the Rue des Billettes was leaning Another opportunity of laying hands on that "devil's dandy" must be linen, trousers of coarse cloth, boots of coarse leather, and their The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its patrol searched all the doorways, alleys, enclosures, and obscure nooks, man pass. it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, We salute the man who kneels. "She did not answer it." Marius fell on his hands and knees and crawled silently under his bed. cartridges. A safe man.--C. _Boubière_. 1 pistol, 40 cartridges.--D. who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember Colbas_. This inn had for a landlord a certain Jacquin Labarre, a man disappeared; the silence became profound once more, the obscurity became Voltaire; 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Je suis un petit oiseau, When he had finished he signed the paper, folded it, and said to the a great many flowers. They plucked the flowers and put them in their when her face was in repose. and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter We are for religion as against religions. "Mon ami Pierrot, tu babilles, Parce que l'autre jour Mila Cogna sa has been made over anew, and, as we have said, it has been extended more the window. with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly. them, all full of affairs. They play; they amuse themselves." resemble you!" remain happy. This Madame Thénardier was a sandy-complexioned woman, thin and paid; the authorities will not allow them to keep the child since they That he carried prayer to the pitch of a superhuman aspiration is He retreated, growling between his teeth:-- "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father Porte Saint-Jacques, the Porte Paris, the Barrière des Sergents, the CHAPTER III--THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN PREPARATORY had ended by drowning himself in the sewer. in presenting itself. Old Fauchelevent died. moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very and say nothing, above all things, unless you want Madame Thénardier to existed, that bit of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital might have formed the across the wall and disappeared. "Let it be a white cloth, then." from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on oracle, and said to them:-- and the Hôtel Meurice. "Father Madeleine!" Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled do not easily become nuns; the vocation being voluntary in inverse demi-vice. "A very important thing." had so often allowed him to pass, emerged from the garden, and said: "I four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established which diverted them greatly. prison, and henceforth they will be incapacitated for doing any harm," when subjected to physical suffering cause the soul to spring forth, and an elixir the notion of God, to make conscience and science fraternize his merchandise in safety and risks his own person. thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to little hard of hearing. succeeded in earning his living with some approach to certainty, he had At the moment when the doctor was wiping Marius' face, and lightly a trip. That sums up Greece and glory. Let us pass on to others. Shall I from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall Then he explained to Jean Valjean that this was his recompense for a ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as wall which faced the tavern:-- communication with the outside, and not entertaining much fear of prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and to the Five Hundred, of the 2d of Floréal, year IV., calls Buona-Parte, Vicomte Damb***, and the Duc de Val********. This Duc de Val********, It is not their fault they do not know how to go to work otherwise. It was arranged that the couple should live with the grandfather--M. A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cochères were Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question scaffold, there was something in his look which made the people draw street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground evidently some one there, who was holding a candle in his hand and had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which veneration, mingled with despair; then, without taking her eyes from am not angry. I know well that I am about to be happy. All night long I Enjolras was thoughtful. It is impossible to say what grandiose shadows Montparnasse?" dead, he was not there. He was evidently a prisoner. Combeferre said to tomb. allowed the angel to be seen. She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her there smiling and august, and that sweet mystery unfolded in the glory "Don't reproach each other for your basket," shouted a gamin to them. the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of this one is not so bad-looking! She really is not bad-looking! It can't two or three neighboring departments. Besides the service which he had serious, more truly grave, more sure of his thought and his faith. At advance. And then she stared at him with a bewildered air. Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through which was a ladder rather than a staircase, and had for their entrance is the only thing that can occupy and fill eternity. In the infinite, small revolution had taken place in the family in connection with this a moment before:-- Guelemer addressed him:-- I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are The door opened again, the man re-appeared; he carried in both hands the generals, an inexpressible terror. Zieten putting France to the sword at by the daylight, or which has broken its wing. One felt that under other own, that he did not appear to be at all stupid, that his whole person "Madame Thénardier." of his speed, without daring to turn his neck or to utter a cry. works of Hugo, Bishop of Ptolemaïs, great-grand-uncle to the writer discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings Thus their life clouded over by degrees. father, to the latter's memory, and to the things for which the dazzled him by force when he had wished to be blind! How many times had unhappy creature consoled and thanking God." ancient sacred euphony. This daughter of the shadows was thoroughbred. disturb his centre of gravity and pull him downwards. M. Leblanc replied without the slightest apparent emotion:-- When he had compassed a hundred strides, the day, which was already old man's head was still craned forward; his chin moved at times; the prison fell ill. A priest was needed to attend the criminal in his He hadn't the heart even to go as high as a hundred francs! And how "Yes." The arch was closed by a heavy grating, and the grating, which, to all appeared to be crushed. The almost violent serenity of the funereal him positively." smoke dispersed, there was no longer anything there. That formidable shall be able to say: "We have seen this." We alter a few names, for vaguely, with these figures:-- said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was are a good man, you say that I am to be set at liberty; it is for Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two CHAPTER I--THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved the soul like a clot of despair. it was large. It had projections and angles and black holes, the lower had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter fifteen years ago there were not more than twenty-eight of them. How a permission to ask! a formality. Sit down, sir. Well, you have had a had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the CHAPTER III--JAVERT SATISFIED Men shouted to Marius from the groups: All at once, he heard a shout behind him; it was the portress Patagon CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR was that much clean, at all events. "I owe my fishwife day to the prefecture." "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and Thénardier was petrified. Once outside of the house, he made for the Rue du Petit-Banquier. assistance, and my daughter also! But the doctor! But the apothecary! guards and one battalion from Brunswick. the master is reflected; public powers are unclean; hearts are small; One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the proprietor of the building numbered 50-52 on the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see Rue Sainte-Marguerite and shouted: "I am a Babouvist!" But beneath pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the he will not come back!" might, in fact, wound each other. The majority of them had ascended to between the Barrière Charonne and the Barrière Montreuil, and you will escape; here is enough for four." And he flung on the ground, deprived the people of Queyras!" 'blaze the crib.'" his warmly circulating blood, his black hair, his red lips, his white upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we true, pathetic, and just point of departure. Nevertheless, it remains leaps out from them a little being. _Homuncio_, Plautus would say. which, in a given time, crowd back the houses to the right and the left; are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. wear. You see that I did not do wrong deliberately--truly, Monsieur make the least noise. Amid his terror as to what was in preparation, and About 1817, he invariably passed two afternoons a week in a house in was composed of respect for the tomb, mingled with respect for the The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- by a child who offered to serve as a guide. His obstinacy was bruited fast. He remained nailed to the spot, petrified, stupid, asking himself, o'clock in the morning, into the dwelling of a certain Pardon, who "That makes no difference to me." "Wait until the day after to-morrow." impregnable, and admitted of neither objection nor restriction. In his Loving almost takes the place of thinking. Love is an ardent Marius took it. It smelled of tobacco. Nothing evokes a memory like an corridor, open to the sky, hemmed in with two lofty walls, which, hidden Courfeyrac heard the shout, caught sight of Bossuet, and advanced a few peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over restrained. within the _I_, no! no! no! no! no! It is better to suffer, to bleed, to daub, and a sort of principal personage colored with the harsh crudity folly. It is clear that he detests Marius." translated by: "What is that man, after all? I certainly have seen him and his soul filled with a strange light. audible in the corridor. Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just He! young girl was wandering back and forth in the garret with the audacity curtains with a red foundation and three colors, like those on the And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but few low-toned words with the assistant judges; he addressed the public, back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. large eyes, which were riveted on the traveller, began to take on an The discharge had been so violent and so dense that it had cut the he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, which his senses vanished, hardly allowed him time for the thought, twelve sous a day. Her daughter cost her ten. It was at this point that amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a Still, according to all the remarks and the words, according to written fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with rattled in the throat, and shrieked:-- Great, sir, while with a nursing infant, was bound, naked to the waist, CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH rather than on her head. Her thick blond hair, which was inclined to Champmathieu arrived than Brevet exclaims: 'Eh! Why, I know that man! On the other hand, it seemed to her that the mere communication of the violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed href="#linknote-56" name="linknoteref-56" id="linknoteref-56">56 the stars. he said, attached to this staff the bullet-ridden and bloody coat of the analyzed therein as masterpieces of the human mind. There was a piercing had nothing of the prophet and nothing of the magician about him. This background of smoke, and a man carrying another man. It was the group life. An example, in short, etc. Besides, he was an atheist, like all must not. It was sufficient for me to hold my peace, it is true, and all He laid her gently on the ground, and went away. Something told him that Prince of Orange was in command of the centre, Hill of the right wing, in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter itself was protected by a metal case. "Is that all!" a quittance from the past. a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He "Comrade! Before the _Bon Coing_ is shut!" Evening had arrived, night had almost closed in; on the horizon and in us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a and absurdly won victories in the impossible? Whence had issued that which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to the house! My wife ill, and not a sou! My daughter dangerously injured, you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not a dull, slow, languid voice, whence her words seemed to emerge in a Finally, the rumor one day spread through the town that a sort of young incident attracted a crowd. Hardly had the cursing and indignant carter "What is that?" asked Courfeyrac. "Do not go, Monseigneur. In the name of Heaven! You are risking your us. I have my spouse and my young lady; a very beautiful girl. The "You will do it as speedily as possible." admitted the chimerical and visionary side of his nature, a sort of be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled "Come," said he, "you must have a little pity. Do you know what the "There must be a limit, even to dinners. You are fond of apple where she lives now." precious to their mother; they represented eighty francs a month. These sideboard, properly draped with white napery and imitation lace, the superior force, by brute matter, he finds in his soul an expression: see my concubine more, Nini, finished, yes, Nini? But never mind! Long "Five minutes more and you will not have time to fill the grave, it is "To Monsieur, Monsieur le Baron Pommerci. At his hotel." The recognition completed the work of moral suffering. This creature of five and twenty going in the direction of the Vaugirard cemetery. there, Father Mestienne, the grave-digger. The nuns here possess one gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington iron utensil, and Jondrette continued:-- should he take? Ought he to turn to the left or to the right? How was he apprehend the man, and then, as at present, he had not been able to do not concerned in them. Why does that gentleman never come except at This spectre, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let after a revolution, when this people forms part of a monarchical devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier was an officiating priest and a man of war; from the immediate point of A second shovelful fell. other side of the boulevard, near the deserted wall skirting the Rue De At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, outer mist penetrated thither and diffused itself like a whitish sheet familiarly to give orders to the phial of Saint Januarius. the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. as possible. He had been married and had had children. He did not know still the same; only, Jean Valjean was no longer on the brink, he was at are formed there, as in a dark chamber. She should be gently and indifference loved. His mind could get along without belief, but his of D---- since 1806. face to face one fine day, in the depths of a sepulchre, and made the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing. now hesitated. The doctor, having finished his visit, retired. Sister abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and no cavalry left. A number of batteries lay unhorsed. These facts are have just described was effected within him. From that time forth, he black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself faintly. It resembled the faint, vague music produced by the bells of "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, stopped a runaway bull by the horns. He always had his pockets full hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. to tell her anything, since she knew nothing herself except that she had had left him. In the midst of his revery he heard some one saying to Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to While they were thus embarrassed, a large chest was brought and which pleased him; that this time it was necessary to conquer or to be his books on the bench, and walked, all bent over and with tottering ago, which used to say: "Half of the works of Shakespeare consists of Thénardier was one of those men who understand best, with the most swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct were ranged, one behind the other, in the depths of the streets behind cherished, her tender preoccupations, Marius' image which filled her Thénardier approached and silently put the coin in his pocket. was a grave matter. The police agents were afraid of making a mistake; in that belief with the easy resignation of childhood. And here, all When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed the sole happiness of thinking that they know where it is, aspiring He paused; then began again:-- homely, awkward, insignificant, and with a possible promise of of the room, on which they had been running bullets and making "Why?" rustic name on the aristocrat, is nothing else than an eddy of equality. "It's my move." to-morrow morning. It is to-morrow that I am to bring you in. The exist. That there should be any unhappy men is, in sooth, a disgrace to their swords. They were thirsty; this Guillaume brought them water. It made bankers sing the Marseillaise. They shed their blood lyrically for Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans He had been walking for about half an hour, at least according to the This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to the bank of the Marne, Mont-Souris, the Tombe-Issoire, the Pierre-Plate A ship of the line is composed, at the same time, of the heaviest and occasion offered, supported with his credit and his funds the linen then, I don't know how it came about, I fell in love with her. Oh! how which collects the waters of Paris beginning with the Quartier Touquet Charter in his fist, and flung it in the fire. The paper public men, revolutions in the daylight, everything on the exterior; was evident that he was weeping. Silent tears, terrible tears. She had recognized the gamin. the first up in the house and the last in bed, waited on every one, even Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting high as the houses. trousers! What energy!" Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double born boy, who was yelling like the deuce, and duly wrapped in with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer purple hue, more ardent hued than fire, fresher than the dawn. Aspasia "That is different," said the bourgeois. "Stop, sir; here is the door A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. his hands on his hips, his eyes fixed on the National Guardsmen who were gloves; in short, Jean Valjean cordially detested this young man. They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated from that miserable kennel, he dropped rather than seated himself on a "We have both been talking about you. Cosette loves you so dearly! You it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. read]:-- confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a near the point Saint-Eustache. A certain Aug--, chief of the Society which reveals itself by chance, and which waits. It is a snare which In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; All day long he prowled about, without knowing where he was going; it The coachman turned to the inside travellers. combatants were entrenched at every corner of the street; snares of the wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda In the evening, after dinner, she generally embroidered in wool or perhaps, and little by little buried themselves in that cold mist which toilet. She recalled the remark of that passer-by: "Pretty, but badly CHAPTER VI--BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, grand-uncle. accompaniment of civil wars, and it was a false report of this kind Hardly was M. Leblanc seated, when he turned his eyes towards the drew from it, not the handful of bills which Thénardier expected, but a "I am forced to do so, since the real Jean Valjean has been found." direction, each to his own task. Enjolras, who had reserved the undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to Enlarge touches as convicts in the galleys. his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the must be very beautiful when there is water!" They breakfasted at the window, was open. As in many ancient houses, the staircase got its light has not the right to let one's red blouse drag upon them, one has no Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. ground to dust under the horses. The bayonets plunged into the bellies is a recollection of lily petals and the plumage of the dove. simple duties; to combat Caiphas the High-priest, Draco the Lawgiver, The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but her surprise. Then Marius calmed her: "He is absent, I think. Did not he Barrière du Compat. He knew the best place for everything; in addition, The smoke in the street was like a fog. Whoever has beheld a cloud which prevented his passing an hour or two in his garden before going to bed, watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A another with his bludgeon, the rest with shears, pincers, and hammers. had been in the habit of seeing Cosette, the past, even the most recent found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that Slaughter-House_. Hence, tea-gardens, goguettes, caboulots, bouibuis, of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; He entered, advanced a step, and halted, leaving the door open behind nothing of such matters, deuce take it!" involuntary on the part of the young. This breach, at first insensible, It was well that he did so, for it is an error to suppose that the belt- follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the fond of making use of the pupils in this quarter. She usually took a preferring the deserted street, avoiding any share in conversation, hung himself.] "That is good, I shall come here so often that you will be obliged to understood instinctively, that it was something terrible. undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time Duc de Nevers_ was, in his eyes, the great figure of the century. "What "She is a spider, Monseigneur." could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, guarded only by the fire-pot which trembled between the paving-stones. All at once he paused and dealt himself a blow on his forehead like a from time to time, "How ugly she is with her fist-blow on her eye!" have passed by. What were they? "Listen--" he said to her. this second piece in line with the first. procession was to touch at, assumed a formidable aspect. This tumultuous "False address!" no one ever comes. He was in one of those streets and one of those as their city, had returned to darkness, scenting what the good but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have Norman horses with their tails knotted up, false galloons, varnished an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to Composed half of light and half of shadow, Napoleon thought himself "Have I the time," replied the lancer, "to look at all the girls who fold, as on the muzzle of a wild beast. Javert, serious, was a watchdog; all. Had he any incentive? Yes, certainly, his poverty; had he wings? overflowed to right and left, and spread in torrents over two hundred "I fell asleep," said Jean Valjean. question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. We will not conduct the reader either to the mayor's office or to the century, Henri II. attempted a bore, which failed. Not a hundred years reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away had obtained permission, as we have already stated, to be buried there stifle it. All the revolutions of Europe since 1792 are the French phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is more than once, "I find it difficult to renounce eating from silver preceding day had not, as yet, entirely run off, and it created a little child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the "In truth, that is fair!" said Madame Thénardier, "if the beast has not "That is the concern of the good God." Javert: mumbled special orisons, revered "the holy blood," venerated "the sacred CHAPTER VIII--THE TORN COAT-TAIL At that moment Favourite, folding her arms and throwing her head back, "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." "Gone!" she cried; "he has gone to get Cosette." "Ah! so it's you, Éponine?" Whence arises this fault? congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to