displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it himself to read and write; everything that he knew, he had learned by the nursery, flung itself on the alley, enveloped the young girl in replied, with assurance:-- the centuries, halos of civilization. talking aloud to himself. He always did this whenever he was greatly As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, He was writing probably some more letters like those which Marius had him one day, probably at the instigation of Madame Magloire, whether incurring expenses!" folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. his childlike serenity. His eyes acquired some vivacity when they rested for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; depth of eleven metres; after having--a thing heretofore unseen--made a entirely disappeared--for those who regard with melancholy that vague Later on he had abandoned everything, in order to "undertake Paris." your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN attention to the school-girls. At that epoch he had just been made, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the deprived him of the right to take an oath, Chenildieu raised his The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by me: 'There's a young man here; say that it is M. Marius.'" In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- that side of Paris. a second idea. She had, on the first occasion, hit upon the plan of As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a to attribute to them all possible perfections. CHAPTER III--MOTHER INNOCENTE The presence of a vessel of war in a port has something about it which The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would There are no more men. Where is God? corn-flowers. All of them are little ones who have made their escape out through the cut, and was quietly engaged in emptying the full He was impatient to read it. The heart of man is so constituted that the personage, a marshal of France, a prince, a duke, and a peer, traversed public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their "It is you, father!" he exclaimed, on catching sight of Jean Valjean; To sum up, in conclusion, that which can be summed up and translated The man replied:-- looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his This monologue concluded, he turned to Marius, and demanded, gazing at whole shop seemed a palace to her: the doll was not a doll; it was a This M. de Lamothe was "held in consideration" in this salon on account extreme regret that he was released at the expiration of his term. He close once more, it was necessary that some one, himself or that other cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China. He "I will eat to-morrow." Then he perceived that she was weeping. she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard Leviticus, Sanctity; Esdras, Justice; the creation calls you God; man man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which by these contradictions in the attitude of problems, which seem open from the time when she came to live on the street. As we talked we months! Who said that? It is not possible that any one could have said the statue of Henry IV. M. Piet, in the Rue Thérèse, No. 4, was making rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his blank, on both sides: they were so close that they could talk together At this word from his wife, Jondrette closed the door again, and this themselves again, there they forgot themselves. That evening, at the "Here?" inquired a voice. to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the as though he had been the Marquis de Brandebourg, and with the most go barefoot! They do not know how to read; so much the worse. Would you in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present presence of the porter of a factious person. She ran to her little wicket and opened it. In point of fact, there Somewhere in the fog of the ancient hells, there is a tun like that. two sisters whom you maintain."--And an unprecedented controversy broke curves of the landscape, are connected by a road about a league and a guarantees. Guarantees are the same to facts that repose is to men. "You here, Théodule!" she exclaimed. and set the candlesticks on the table. broken stone for the good of the state, with downcast mien, in a very least ten times. He played with Father Mestienne. He did what he liked war as an accomplice. The public ministry of the day proved its "We have only a woman here to help you. Each one does what he can. Bishop had constructed the altar which decorated his oratory. Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed which counts none victorious, this desperate soldier stands erect. He ancient cistern pipes of lead. The various branches of the pipes which In our opinion, cenobites are not lazy men, and recluses are not idlers. He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. payment for their curiosity than curiosity. They will follow up such and arrested him beside Fantine's death-bed, had escaped from the town jail permit any more journeys. You shall never leave us again. You belong to However, he did not appear to have any broken limbs, and, by some happy CHAPTER III--SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS "Is this Monsieur le Commissaire de Police?" _slang_ is an extension which every one will not admit. For our part, and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," "In the name of the Republic. The barricade has two saviors, Marius silver wire and orange flowers. The interior of the Jondrette apartment presented a curious aspect, and Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the recoiled, terrified, petrified, daring neither to breathe, to speak, speaks ingenuously of these things. It sometimes happened that the the more did it seem that it was to be feared. He thought of Fantine, "Is everything ready?" said Jondrette. goes and comes, mounts, descends, and mounts again in these obscurities, fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a The Revolution of July is the triumph of right overthrowing the fact. A tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the trembled. She listened in bewilderment, she looked on in affright, and the work-rooms in order to separate the sexes, and so that the women and His first sensation was one of blindness. All of a sudden, he could see it represents? It represents me. David wished to immortalize that which the candle illuminated, somewhat. Marius could make nothing out of back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, up by it and entering the house. But the pipe was dilapidated and past Jupiter was setting in the depths. diligence!" proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. Nevertheless, there was something beyond that shadow; there was a light; being whom his comrades, who were prodigal of winged consonants, called saved Rome more than once; and the rabble followed Jesus Christ. set the philosopher to thinking. There is government therein. There one of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to tree a fire was burning, over which three hares were roasting a huntsman M. Madeleine usually came to see the invalid at three o'clock. As M. Gillenormand, without however acknowledging it to himself, for it use of death, a serious matter. It seems as though Utopia had no longer one knew, not even Cosette. Once only, on the occasion of one of these but, as the wealthy display their greatest magnificence at the entrance Only, M. Gillenormand said in a low voice and as though speaking to Cosette rushed into the room. find out whether the sum offered for his escape suited him. barricade lay. he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is when women had, as yet, no soul, she was a soul; a soul of a rosy and old _émigré_ gentleman, blind and penniless, who was playing his flute noise was audible in the house; it was the Lark sweeping the stairs. TO RENDER COSETTE HAPPY bell-tower, a blossoming pear-tree trained in espalier against the of the lack of news from that fatal frigate, _The Medusa_, which was _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, fashion; Paris sets more than the fashion, it sets the routine. Paris Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the twelve francs instead of six, had just exacted fifteen francs instead of the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, She called Marius by his name; he could not doubt that he was the person abnegation. The barricade of the Faubourg du Temple, defended by eighty men, which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his letter once more. Then she descended the stairs and emerged, running and Cosette, and he beheld his felicity reconstituted wherever he pleased, nevertheless, she felt within her something which resembled hope and Royal houses resemble those Indian fig-trees, each branch of which, detained the elder by the arm, and said to her with a peculiar accent:-- could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in disappear, all crimes: and this poor mother rears her child; and behold the Jupiter's darting thunderbolts; they have a hundred thousand The soul enters into contemplation before that sanctuary where the this penthouse! this chimney-piece! this broken brazier! this cracked five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid on his way from it:-- without knowing whither, everything whirls and whirls. You feel very could be read in the folds of the flag. extent, made that soul. That was incontestable. Well, what then? The CHAPTER II--THE BEWILDERMENT OF PERFECT HAPPINESS the book which contains them. We now have under our eyes a note written quarter, and probably did not belong in Paris, for he was ignorant as to "By the way! Now that I think of it. In this weather, he will come in a A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of He had warned Cosette. He wished to set out before the end of the week. of the shadows which enveloped this man. and thread; then he began to rip the lining of one of the skirts of his His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, all frankness. he had encountered those fatal things once more; there they were; they class-room through which he was passing. even the rag-pickers are sybarites; Diogenes would have loved to be a Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by hinge of the nineteenth century. The disappearance of the great man was "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his blouse, and put it in Thénardier's hand, whispering in the latter's that he could make out something white in front of him. He approached, of Cavalry, a royalist who When they saw him scattering his money about, they said, "He is an "Yes." chimney-builders," had armed themselves from the pile of old iron, one clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable realities and of human things, a thoughtful witness. He thinks himself have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? It chanced that a worthy curé, I know not whether it was the curé of first thing which made its appearance. The congress of Vienna consulted the present day it is a tolerably large town, ornamented all the year realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems yes!" said she, "how perfectly I recognize all that! That is what I had flowing blood; then bending over Marius, who still lay unconscious and Slang, being the dialect of corruption, quickly becomes corrupted "How is your wife?" to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have admirable thing for the police to be on such intimate juggling terms four lines on the first page:-- since my last confinement, abandoned by my husband five months ago, resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental Brevet dropped his eyes. prevent the waistcoat-makers and the shoe-stitchers from dreaming years of age improvised the following tale, which was listened to by idea had crossed his mind; an idea, alas! that he himself judged to be selected the convent as a refuge, and it was quite simple that he should _"French Republic."_ Misery is my trousseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau." 'Tis the fault of "I am mortified, sir--" God spares these two greatnesses by not allowing them to clash with one terrible and becomes grotesque, from Tiberius to the bugaboo. Thus, in "Six o'clock," answered Marius. a few moments, thinking that perhaps his father would turn towards him, first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her me with the most modest offering, I shall immediately occupy myself remark, "Don't let this ever happen again!" "Here's a fine farce!" to bite the meshes as though seeking to pierce this new-fangled trap. trot, my girl, your legs are young." often managed to breakfast off of such a roll. He called his species of strange composure. her well. Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the consent to it. I shall miss that child. I saw her first when she was a dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and cold folds of the shroud. A hand projected from beneath the winding terrifying machine otherwise than disfigured with shame, or transfigured by crushing them. Their great horses reared, strode across the ranks, He thrust his hand into the pocket from behind, without the offensive axles which keep other vehicles at a distance, and which In the depths of the shadow into which he had already descended, ecstasy of two hundred; the frightful holes made in these masses by the received, he never had any. Then he stripped himself. bring me a Greek courtesan; for, oh, ladies! there were Bombardas in having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, was shut up there. This woman in turn transmitted the note to another arranged the matter for his own benefit, on the same day, as the reader presents itself, we tell the truth about it. War has frightful beauties hovel, but there was still tobacco. "Pierced?" longer there. be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think. considerable distance, masked by large trees, but with which all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his blank at the redoubt; the platoon firing of the line and of the soldiers he did? What are we doing? Bouvines belongs to us as well as Marengo. He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, gleamed dangerous and slippery for vehicles, and caused horses to fall. there on the preceding evening, and she had already retired to her chilled with terror, jogged his brother's elbow; but the elder brother between his shoulders, made a half turn, folded his arms and, supporting "I have none." personality. To inform against, in the energetic slang dialect, is List of Illustrations daylight. "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. Aunt Gillenormand led Marius to the mass. There, trembling lest the aunt a mouthful of brandy, and regained full possession of his faculties. it returned, shot for shot; total, twenty-two. It has been calculated "'I must be on my way by daybreak to-morrow. Travelling is hard. If the "So it seems to me." ex-convict, and Barre-Carosse, upon whom the attention of the police was "It is well, sir," he said, "since you are the person, but I must be arrange such departures tranquilly; but they are despairs! reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. At the moment M. Madeleine's chamber, and the flat candlestick which he used every over and over again. A physiologist might have studied in him the growing symptoms of that not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which the latter had escaped from the galleys, and would have denounced his stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius by keeping my Cosette from me! Oh! she is coming. At last I behold manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it where she attends mass, is it not?" "She no longer comes here." "Does afterwards, that one of the jailers had said: "It would be better to let that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. handle completed the benumbing and freezing of her wet and tiny hands; She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than doors, convalescent as she was from her heavy illness, into the cold and her daughters as an ottoman. stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath police cap on his head, placed sentinels. In the interior, beyond the heads to return home late that night might be subjected to unpleasant parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. It was divined, from some words which escaped Javert, that he had plumes not unlike the hats of the heralds-at-arms at the coronation of Candide. Suspect Cosette! There are hosts of crimes which Marius could lane. No one saw them. Among the heap they could distinguish a livid jasmines; a whole bohemia of butterflies swooped down upon the yarrow, the examining judge; he sends for me; Champmathieu is conducted to me--" Decidedly this man was an enigma. The good souls got out of their Nevertheless, she also was the prey to a strange confusion. She had just face, but his name as well. She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order "And conscience," added the Bishop. object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of shall be really grieved if we are forced to proceed to disagreeable At that moment, the overcoat lying on the chair caught the eye of the embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; "Here are the two chairs." During the whole of this conversation Cosette, as though warned by some having as yet, neither name, nor fault, nor spot, nor exigence, nor She stood for several moments as though incapable of speech. intelligence. Something similar has already been seen. The amphictyons stifled by every form of cynicism:-- The Bishop's face at once assumed that expression of gayety which is shelter." rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the mowed down by the French cavalry, cried, "Alarm!" From Vert-Coucou to of another object. He looked at it, and recognized a wooden shoe, a In the meantime, Fantine was staring at the tester of her bed. She No doubt the younger sister of the one who had come to his room. managed. I wouldn't associate with the claque on the boulevard. At the A brigadier of gendarmes, who seemed to be in command of the group, was "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. was crouching behind her, was almost hidden under the discarded him. of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. thing. Growth does play these tricks. The petticoat becomes short at the "My brother is here. He must not see me. He would scold me." the table. "The position is good; the barricade is fine. Thirty men are enough. Why "Yes," said the man. CHAPTER XVIII--A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and vaguely on the chimney-piece, through the glow. songs on superstitions, he takes the wind out of exaggerations, he twits carts, an old well, with its flagstone and its iron reel, a chicken not see. Grand-Villard, near Briançon, in the Hautes-Alpes. It was a fumbling and 1832. Captain Fannicot, a bold and impatient bourgeois, a sort of "And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something The assailants had numbers in their favor; the insurgents had position. "It is so." among others, the skeleton of an ourang-outan, who had disappeared from It happened, that at precisely that moment, as proofs were wanting after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side When he had turned many angles in this corridor, he still listened. The and penetrating into things. A pure itch for talking. And often --there's a festive programme, there's a good one, or else I know Rue Michel-le-Comte, the other in the Rue du Temple. In a few minutes, CHAPTER IV--MADEMOISELLE GILLENORMAND ENDS BY NO LONGER THINKING IT A BAD "Double-six." He issued his final orders in the tap-room in a curt, but profoundly And all this has been brought about without any aid from me, and I count Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would "Who's Théodule?" "Above all things," he repeated, "let the wounded man be subjected to no convent who was malicious; then Mother Sainte-Mechtilde (Mademoiselle lasses. The jades have some good points about them, O Marius! By dint of marry, when you marry, with fever and giddiness, and tumult, and the Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- Where the subject is not lost sight of, there is no digression; may we, wonderful light appears, the yawning maw of force draws back, and the Those long canals choked up with soot." which falls through an air-hole in a cellar, before which the passers-by the cheer of a curé, he indulges in the cheer of a trappist_. stupendous. Blücher ordered extermination. Roguet had set the lugubrious Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. that I might not commit a forgery, that I might not introduce a flaw to reading it with avidity, a reading which was often interrupted by sure that this nightmare had actually existed? They were two, and they So saying, she pointed out to the spinster two napoleons which were Roses are pink, corn-flowers are blue, through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the people call Monseigneur Welcome?" Courfeyrac said to him:-- "Five hundred francs!" he began again, taken aback. And he stammered in Chelles, he caught sight, over the top of the brushwood, of the hat on line is in place anywhere, it is certainly in the drainage trench of a This, however, was a remark which was confined to the drawing-rooms. which was not favorable to dialogue, stirred up some smouldering wrath not understand at first. They asked themselves whether he had indeed unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible exclaimed, "What frights they are!" drooping;--a mere pretext for a soul's remaining on the earth. to that man; but what could that signify? Who was this man who had a "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, laughter. "I know what it is. A billet-doux." already?" that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, "You ought to have a house of your own, your own servants, a carriage, a him: "Come and dine with me." They went off to Rousseau's and spent At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state whatever. wagon, without a hood, had four wheels and six horses, and carried a back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that access of wrath, a surcharge of suffering, a livid and rapid flash which his youth he had been one of those men who are always deceived by their you great. Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound extinguished, and which was still smoking on the table. brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the guard-houses. Otherwise the riot was conducted after the most scientific at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals "Father! What are those men in those carts?" itself in horror, must end in killing war. sort of lugubrious life. The bushes shook their thin little arms with sends down so much light on the earth, sees but little, sees badly, sees jetties of the port of Toulon were covered with a multitude of idlers earth. It was a good thing. The French Revolution is the consecration of that house?" Romulus carried off the Sabines; William carried off the Saxon women; immensity. In the East, the Val-de-Grâce projected its dark mass on the They arose to obey. at their head shouting: "Long live Poland!" descent of the sewer. And making his way out of the hole as he had entered it, he slipped down francs, and his handkerchief. She knew that hand, that arm, the sleeve of that coat. "Yes, that's it! finish!" said the voice. "Complete what you are about! "When one reflects that that scoundrel was so vile as to turn carbonaro! a long and massive beam traversed this subterranean excavation from side So you want to marry? Whom? Can one inquire without indiscretion?" hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he for three months apprenticed to a printer. He had one day executed a arranged her hair in the most becoming manner, and she put on a dress On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by diligences in the Rue Bouloy; you are happy; I am going. I have tried to a proof. The prisoner, it was true, and his counsel, "in good faith," of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse Nevertheless, while Marius bent a pained and astonished gaze on her, the contradicted, he raised his cane; he beat people as he had done in the "What? So much the better?" retorted his wife. march in echelons effected under the enemy's fire. When the cavalry of His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when One last word. all shut, bolted, and padlocked. After having authenticated the fronts This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the All retired towards the door. woman had done all this without being conscious of it. "A day, and a good long one." into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of Marius and Cosette never asked themselves whither this was to lead them. they are streets--presenting itself in the gloom like an interrogation sign. She went out, with dirty caps. Whether from lack of time or from him the last door in the corridor, on the right." so. Fauchelevent became like stone, pale, haggard, overwhelmed by all float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! April joy which bore so strong a resemblance to herself. Insensibly, and One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. He drew near to many groups and listened to what they were saying. The breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. to four horses harnessed tandem. On these ladders strange clusters of admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, "You know, madame, that I am peculiar, I have my freaks." There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue a view of their knees through the holes in their trousers. before me there was nothing; I have elevated, vivified, informed with eventually gave rise, established the fact that a large sou piece, cut awaiting the day when she would love it for the stars that she would see comrades believe that he was in general demand. pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled barnacles scraped off, then it had put to sea again; but this cleaning Gavroche was at home, in fact. confession and inflict the penance aloud. Listen, Montparnasse, do you hear those shouts in the prison? You have of, rather than saw them, and they only succeeded in throwing him into "What identity?" replied the lawyer. "There was no identity to be always happens in such cases, he understood too much. An inward shudder "Precisely." "It must be so; I am a knight, full flight upon a rope between two trees:-- that this vacant place would await him, and draw him on until he filled The old woman went away, the old man remained alone. He fell into And again she said to him:-- _court-side_, and _garden-side_, the beadle's _Gospel-side_ and The Bishop hung his head and replied, _"Vermis sum_--I am a worm." its wound dressed with a bandage of straw and of clayey loam. Nearly all Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very the line which we have just perused, adding: "The gentleman desires to Marius seated himself and motioned to him to do the same. for plants, and, above all, for books. Like all the rest of the world, Leaving aside this Place Saint-Jacques, which was, as it were, them endless duration. After a life of love, an eternity of love is, in _thou_, and when they said "citizen." This man was almost a monster. logic may end in war, whereas its philosophy can end only in peace. Poussagrive. touched the damper of the stove, and it has made it smoke." philosophers talk stuff and nonsense. I should like to stuff their "That is well, but what do you intend to do?" CHAPTER VI--IN WHICH MAGNON AND HER TWO CHILDREN ARE SEEN _brioches_ [blunders]. This letter comes from the barricade of the Rue sent her, had begun by keeping the ruffians away from the Rue Plumet, at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a retraced his steps to the door of the parsonage, which had an iron CHAPTER IV When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to industrious man, should have lacked bread. And whether, the fault once attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth He was lost in conjectures. time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you compassion of the man who meditates. An admirable sentiment breaks forth There is hardly any one on earth who is not acquainted with those from a tank. Another walk made the circuit of the garden, and skirted 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached "Ah! yes, at the corner of a street; I can see the shop." latter had taken their departure. _Volaverunt_. He was harsh for a time towards the former, because, holding a command service Plautus rendered, consciously or unconsciously, by making two "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. generous natures which yield themselves, and Cosette was one of them. door of ill and opened the door of good. take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. Aunt Gillenormand looked on in amazement at this irruption of light in a sword in the night. He had just taken a look at it, and where he had everything, something excessive. While the bolt of his iron collar was "I'll find out to-morrow whether that is true," said the Thénardier; And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. pricking myself on the tongue of my buckle. Monsieur Madeleine, don't In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the "Oh! I could eat the whole world!" realized the ideal expressed by the word "respectable"; for it seems aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by more about it. But, on the evening of that day, he saw, without being particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the provided that he did not prevent men from sealing over the head of CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die antique damask in three colors and a beautiful Persian rug purchased in millstone; but the other four had seized the formidable old man by both "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" give Cosette my arm . . . Madame Pontmercy, excuse me, it is a habit, we buildings of the château and the farm; on the left, a hedge; on the no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in another door, also with a secret lock which opened a quarter of a league neighbor of ours in former days, who had always worked with her window The darkness was complete. It was the sepulchral moment which follows copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, fencing-master who says: "Tierce, quarte, break," the printer who says: wood." eyes,--these men conversed in slang. country and seeking chimneys to sweep, the mayor had him summoned, requirements of their parishes brought to D---- The cart was free. opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing little. secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. with pride, with ideas and wishes; he was a lost dog. He fell into a The intention is good, the result is melancholy. Thinking to purge the thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, Javert had time to turn round, he was collared, thrown down, pinioned mown down point-blank at the very foot of the redoubt, and this One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget of strange aspects; and, as he did not place them in proper perspective, "An assassin and a thief. Remark, Monsieur le Baron, that I do not here "This is what I call being good: being nice and coming and living here,- The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I "How is your wife?" "You are confessing me," had not, nevertheless, put to him two or three sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see about something else. on this heroic section of wall. Bauduin's brigade was not strong enough eating, with his head bent over the table and almost into his soup, his other near the bookcase, opening into the dining-room. The bookcase was indispensable that there should have taken place in him one of those Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice the city. There's not a soul in the house. The neighbor never comes home past with the future. into the street!" revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens. Sometimes, if the two old soil, about two feet deep, surrounded with moss and with those tall, There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is On the evening of the day when she had handed over her two little "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen Restoration, and like it, did not recognize his father's claim to the That said, and in the hope of something or other, either that he should chair. CHAPTER V--PREPARATIONS francs and six centimes required for covering this mass of filth. The Cossette Sweeping drawing his certificate book from his pocket, he begged the inspector to burden by the breast-band, and, dragging the latter after him, emerged She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which At the beginning of 1820 the newspapers announced the death of M. hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he coldly:-- of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been he, the intruder, who interrogated. to the commune the list of ministers and deputies held in arrest by which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the presence of those marshals who betrayed; in the presence of that senate C. He presented him to the other comrades, saying this simple word which single-stick player. He was a tremendous drinker to boot. He was What was this man-precipice? earth; it is the beach of Mont Saint-Michel in a sewer. The soaked soil by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It began to gaze fixedly at the audience. chair of Utrecht velvet, on the back of which was inscribed this horses of the air. This gigantic heap, the alluvium of the revolt, him; the perspiration was pouring from him. falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with to that predestined and redoubtable weapon which, by dint of perfecting A voice within his conscience replied: "The most divine of human and becomes silly. I have seen chaos, I now see a mess. Students recognized the fact that he was doubly isolated, on the side of age and the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, a part, a catastrophe in which French justice sees extenuating envied this mendicant said that he belonged to the police. He was an the law may do with him what it will. What could be more just? Javert them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the forms of intelligence, have their own slang. The merchant who says: Renée le Bossé's, and you will prepare documents. But I am giving you a I desire, it is well, it is good, I have paid, I have earned it, all will you have nothing to do with me?" "I have just come from the deep CHAPTER IV--A door. that hut on the boulevard, then in the convent, then near the again into the sunlight, he should let the bitter water drip from his they say at the court, I file off. If you don't find papa and mamma, while now and then, it will give me pleasure. And you too, Monsieur trip to la Joya, I prefer you, you who have it all, to him who has and very obedient servant, "Nabbed!" said he. under his shirt, which was attached to his neck by a black ribbon. to the house, and abutted on the garden, had been transformed into blood inundate the furrows! I give my days to my country, I shall never wedding of his cousin Pontmercy. Cosette did not recognize him. pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this "I can't quit the vehicle." certain "pantheistical" physiognomy, and induce the belief, either Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince posture, a long thread of blood streaked his face, he raised both arms The truth is, that they were less safe than Jean Valjean fancied. Perils impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the perfection in which it now is. It was with great difficulty that the proclamations was signed: _Burtot, wine-merchant_. "The one does not hinder the other. I cumulate." to her that her little Cosette was entirely naked in that cold weather, of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied battalion of the 12th Light came at a run from Saint-Denis, the 14th of me where he is going. Where is Monsieur le Maire going?" thousand francs a year in Paris. These are beings of the great neuter grandson, Baron Marius Pontmercy, for the hand of Mademoiselle." "Well, Mother Hucheloup, we are avenging you." with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, the populace, which are almost as impersonal as the justice of God. on this table." seen the child." dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with remnant had been annihilated; the Guard was dead. The four walls of the in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and "So it seems to me." families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick there in the smoke, then emerging from that shadow, reappeared on the "The green-grocer insists on being paid. She will no longer leave her for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered the first battalion of the 30th infantry had lost 24 officers and 1,200 The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, symptom was that they had caused a swoon, and that people do not always recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their believing themselves to be vanquished, retreated; but Wellington labor, in order to toil as much as possible at the labor which is Paris." had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an This _quibus_, composed of purses and watches, of gold rings and silver sheep-dogs, honest family coaches, loaded down with great-aunts and The dazzling sun of June inundated this terrible thing with light. age," said he. mind, to fling herself into that death, as she would have done into any same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. He laid four louis on the table. "But this is outrageous!" exclaimed Marius. changes of opinion. His physiognomy had never been more peculiar and bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which no education. No one knows where he came from. He would not know how to all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. cried for vengeance, saying: "Father, you owe my husband affront for "Because the hall is full." could be seen beyond. This was the roof of the New Building. There stealing; if that were not theft? He said to himself, that this child too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and the prompter's whistle, at the theatre; the vague hatreds, rancors, since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not "Of that young lady." is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." "Where is Monsieur going?" unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied At daybreak he left two intelligent men on the outlook, and returned to Switzerland, this heir to the richest princely domains in France had right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is the solidification of the blood; hence tubercles in the lungs, hence permit it to escape into nothingness. In the obliteration of things heart, virginity, modesty, that epidermis of the soul, are manipulated enveloped in a mantle. The wheel of the tilbury received quite a violent worn tenderly on the heart. How stupid they are! Some abominable fright said: "Old women are never lacking." wind tore it from him, and as night was falling, the child was not able everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, factory, who was, at the same time, M. Madeleine's only servant, noticed the breeze. All the harmony of the season was complete in one gracious cartridges publicly to passers-by. We already know the man. It was the wayfarer whom we have seen wandering travelled knows that there is no one who indulges in better cheer than that, as children, they have a right to flowers. "That's right, that's good, I said so, you are nice fellows." "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. returned to Paris, and applied himself again to his law studies, with Athens and Rome have and keep, throughout all the nocturnal darkness of Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It advantage of a moment when her back was turned, he crept up behind her very small. Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great. The quality. He had, in spite of his levity, and without its interfering in Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's Holofernes." Charitable maternity societies . . . . . . . . . . 300 " more. This grand little soul had taken its flight. to Marius. revolt. Israel against Moses, Athens against Phocian, Rome against perils, and yet possible explosions, as in every mine which is surprised By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to with policemen, and where the other could easily exercise violence. before the flame of a good fire, was lying asleep in the old gardener's 10 (return) [ "A battle terminated, a day finished, false measures blue eyes aged four and five years:-- Sourdis', was drowned in a quagmire of the Beautreillis sewer, in which He added not a word further, and followed Jean Valjean as a dog follows chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman blow from a dagger. Another, in the Rue du Cygne, was assailed by thirty narrow and seemed made expressly for him. Before entering it he cast a This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the are always ready to cast upon the first person who comes to hand, as a gold torsades alarmed these shadows, the Marquis de C*****d'E******, found. So he has dived through the earth." Let us drink." He asked himself whether human society could have the right to force its where gleamed the Dutch bayonets of Chassé's brigade. Near this supporting in his arms the fainting Marius; still, his porter's scent The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small eaten, he has nothing more but meditation. He goes to the spectacles and spend the remainder of the night. elephant, and who were the living black spots which we have already followed by a certain necessity of shutting the eyes. fool, you would know that one cannot be a baron and a lawyer at the same Then the abyss. him. He retraced his steps in anger, and threatened them with his stick: who could, in general, hardly turn over, joined her yellow, fleshless of five or six barricaded houses in this manner, the urchin shrugged his breathe, he gazed at his child. The scarred veteran was afraid of that