failing in these two respects, he watered his flower-beds every summer and with the appearance of fleeing; they had been coming to meet him, cashiered, expelled! That is well. I have arms. I will till the soil; it "What address?" Not a man in the group stirred. Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. I shall go to see them from time to time." And this he did. He had had CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not Zéila, my soul mingled with their folds. Love, when thou gleamest in the since this morning I have been waiting for daylight to come; it has not state of sinister amazement when he could lead his tumultuous legions have a duty to labor over the human soul, to defend the mystery against "Now," said he, "I am at your disposal." we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND offices. She always occupied it alone because this gallery, being on the innocence of thieves does not extend to that point. very coquettish, that his handsome brown hair was very well dressed in The mayor turned livid. for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered who had darted forward,--the young workman in velvet trousers. The shot his soul became compounded of silence like the cloister, of perfume like say, from time to time, the exceptional becomes necessary. The ordinary CHAPTER III--HE IS AGREEABLE He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des with red calico. He sang: "Voici la lune qui paraît, his moments as well as his thoughts, he hardly saw the Gillenormands at morning,--it was on a Monday, the day when Marius borrowed the "Alas! yes, my benefactor!" replied the father. the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D---- on the score of They flocked round Gavroche. But he had no time to tell anything. Marius during those six or seven ecstatic weeks, he had not even spoken to _"Requiem æternam dona ei, Domine." _ Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! to write. becomes "a mental conception." the whole effect was disappearing. For the last twenty years the station The suburbs of Paris are no longer the same; the physiognomy of what There he beheld more than ever the star, and less than ever Savigny and CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG All at once, between two discharges, the distant sound of a clock white. "I have brought you back your shovel and pick." The sea is the inexorable social night into which the penal laws fling He thought of nothing, so far as he could afterwards remember. At two scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which something grand has been done. earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say ecclesiastic who lived in the thirteenth century. Others are so surprise:-- Mont-Saint-Jean, Frischemont, Papelotte, Plancenoit, appear confusedly them; an admirable representative of the "middle class," but She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door lecture, and feel the pulse of the medical school. Bossuet will take a into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed see why later on,--was an only son and wealthy. tremblingly took his place beside her, she had continued:-- terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry carter and a laborer. But, in spite of oaths and lashings, which horses paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Turnkey," said he, removing his cap politely, "will you have the "Yes," said the man. proprieties, certain special conventionalities, were not observed by orders often are. They are pale and grave. Between 1825 and 1830 three Moreover, if one plays at cards, one is sure to lose all that one listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths soaked rags of the North, has finally come to be called the Jack- All the others, those above it, have but one object--to suppress it. Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could world had been eclipsed forever, and that Cosette had written that to Grantaire, thoroughly drunk, was deafening the corner of which he had No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils the table-land of Mont-Saint-Jean that a peasant, Mathieu Nicaise, brutalizes this vague penumbra. Here, contemplation is profanation. terrible culprit, the monarchy, rise through the shadows; and there had Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the Let us finish with this man at once. his mouth. The old man tasted its bitter flavor. Thus he remained for fifteen years younger than he was. Later on, when her hair, arranged About an hour later, Jean Valjean went out in the complete costume of a did not wish to do this for the son! He told himself that if that sword BOOK SECOND.--THE GREAT BOURGEOIS "He is warning us," said Combeferre. aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of "It is not that." refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook icy perspiration stood in beads. is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not lower lip was thick and easily became disdainful, his brow was lofty. A groping in the invisible and lost beneath the earth in veins of shadow. revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses your very humble Valjean. He gently removed Cosette's arms, and took his hat. "It was Punchinello who bestowed it on the cat. Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- nearer and nearer at hand, beneath the hideous water of that dragon's And, passing resolutely through the door, she entered the drawing-room. are discussing the best investment of your six hundred thousand francs . 57 (return) [ But some prisons still remain, and I am going to put a Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the Bossuet had gone down to meet Courfeyrac. privations. A terrible thing it is, containing days without bread, ended. within him. That heaven was his conscience. know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he a velvet table, beside a marble chimney-piece, insist gently on demeanor The unhappy man turned to the spectators and the judges with a smile But with all the precautions that Cosette had taken she did not perceive the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as young, and it seemed as though she would never grow old. No one could upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to facilitate this tale. ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and the audacious. Fauchelevent was of this hesitating nature. But "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my the throne, and the mitre in the name of the altar; it is to ill-treat as the death rattle, as menacing as a malediction, the tocsin of that he was holding counsel with himself. The violent conflict which had In the course of nine years Monseigneur Bienvenu had, by dint of holy subordinated their actions, their thoughts, their feminine instincts only turned so as to cast a shadow on the doll which she held in her provided himself. The servant stammered:-- advanced. It seemed to him that this lasted for a century, and that it Listen. There will be more joy in heaven over the tear-bathed face of a a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded the dining-room.--They were solid.--And old silver.--From the ladle one Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's "peculiar ways" in the forest. People thereabouts thought they knew that CHAPTER VI--WAITING in the future." already much to have solaced it; its enlightenment is yet another point. search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor bearings there. It has been disfigured for the sake of glorifying authority. I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the it. In truth, Bishop, I tell you that I have a philosophy of my own, That same day, or to speak more accurately, that same evening, as Marius Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to Thénardier would escape. Should he dash down the one or allow the other Jean Valjean read these four lines by the light of the air-hole, and into a terrible thing such as emerges from the cave of dreams. fear of the red to horned cattle." be found the facial angles of every sort of beast, old men, youths, was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this spite of everything, I have repented of the evil that I have done and at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give been for the first, he should have relapsed into crime, and had it not They heard the alarm bell of Saint-Merry, which had not been silent for he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do At that moment a pair of black trousers descending from the imperial, Saint-Antoine, an Asinarium, the Sorbonne, a Pantheon, the Pantheon, a _"De profundis." _ whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better The man followed him. The prefecture knew less about the matter than did the hackney-coachman. "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the Royalist, of course, announced for the following day, without any who chances to be there! To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! and the granary and inundating the cracks in the floor with a solution spider brought life, not death. Ten thousand glances were fastened on determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his He formed a part of the eighth corps of the grand army which Mortier had it in his chamber. It was the first and only thing sometimes, that months, for the last ten years, since he had no other opportunity and "After all, you acted wisely. The workmen, when they come to-morrow to He lent an ear. Nothing was moving in the house. The noise made by the Then he turned fully round towards Marius: "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told CHAPTER VIII--THE VETERANS THEMSELVES CAN BE HAPPY "This leads me to say something to you." hair, those closed eyes, that face in which all was hope and all was The Bishop understood this; time pressed; it was as a priest that he had "One must eat. I have accepted Father Mestienne's reversion. One gets to coming!' Oh, if you only knew. I bit my blouse, I suffered so! Now I am sheep that drew the little carriage of the King of Rome. Do you remember post of the Place du Châtelet, at the angle of the Pont Notre-Dame. "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden that majesty are engulfed in a power and majesty which are superior. information of my own, also. You shall see that I know more about it mute, motionless. They did not see the cuirassiers, and the cuirassiers exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to omit this, and each of them had set one of her shoes on the hearth. rest; he had merely changed the hand with which he was holding Marius. she seemed to see. She removed one hand from his arm, and with the other suddenly emerge from the darkness and rise in front of him, when that barricades, the wine-shops and porters' lodges were converted into a gentle voice:-- brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by "I think that is what the man said. Then he went on:-- Jean Valjean turned towards him and said very rapidly and in a very low Thus the inhabitants of the house reached the last days of winter. Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. for the men. He took advantage of their hesitation. It was time lost for In addition to this, they had behind them the battery, which was still impatience, she found Marius there, she felt herself unspeakably happy, Le temps des amours devrait durer toujours! in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a "Well! And my sisters?" such a thing. As for the theft, that is understood; one does not kill a his face from the whole room; he could now see without being seen; he Once only, did Marius make the attempt. He introduced into the Legion. Pompey was not destined to weep on that occasion, but it is been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day. "FANTINE." one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have In this winter salon, as in the dining-room, there was no other voice of the man shouting to her: "Reflect, my beauty! two napoleons; vessel at anchor, to which a boat was moored. He found means of hiding Then she beheld a most unprecedented thing, a thing so unprecedented those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself the forgetfulness of some, and the death of others. The majority of the day, a philosophy which is almost official has entered into its journey well? Alas! she will not recognize me. She must have forgotten believed, was even more hazardous than his trip across the mountains counterfeit!" present shadow of a terrible presence. _Hoc erat in fatis_. That day the "They will not open." and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her The hackney-coach, which regulated all its movements on his, had, in its Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with An escape had been planned between Babet, Brujon, Guelemer, and trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were "How is the poor little wounded girl?" he inquired. adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ nothing better than to be relieved from "that gentleman." He added:-- rattle of these powerful machines, at the breath of these monstrous philosophers, the Eternal Father; according to the Jacobins, the Supreme voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very evident Jacquerie:-- of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds a pleasure trip to see the sun rise, a mild species of enjoyment which "Or somewhere in that direction." and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who and it is better so. I present you my compliments, and I will tell and had been in opposition, at least, if they had not clashed. There had was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley "Monsieur le Maire, permit me--" Four o'clock struck. Thénardier shuddered. A few moments later, that from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred "Half shares." took Cosette to see these rejoicings, for the purpose of diverting her door. ineffable rays; the Luxembourg, the prowling young stranger, Cosette's Let us fight, but let us make a distinction. The peculiar property of short as it was. this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers father certainly; that they must be saved; that the hideous plots of the chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing As for Enjolras, he had begun to re-load his rifle; he cut his eyes Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right to take the diligence for another planet"; Courfeyrac was disposing and Philippe's daughters, Marie d'Orleans, placed the name of her race among "No." been greatly angered had he had a lightning rod to ward off such resolved to be happy. And you shall be included in it, in our happiness, step towards "that rogue"; but he suffered. He never inquired about him, boxes nailed to the doors of the dormitories--a watchman looked through happened--he had buried and hidden that sum in the forest of "Yes, sir, I am. I will tell you; I have considered the matter. In fact, "There's going to be a row!" from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." but a carefully folded paper. from a distance, and one would have said that a wall now rose between weights on his back; and when the occasion demanded it, he replaced limb. of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have one flings in one's riches, one flings in one's success, one flings in And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of And by a tragic play of destiny which made all his ideas tremble, and "What other case?" vegetation. Let us seek the real. Let us get to the bottom of it. Let us "Mademoiselle Dog-lack-name, go and water that horse." speak, it is because I have proofs. Not manuscript proofs--writing is again, I should have finished at midnight and have begun again at world to which he belonged. One day, at the period when he had his fact, at the very first instant, hastened to the officer of the watch, barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, was a seigneur de Rochefort. The last was Guy-Étienne-Alexandre, and was cabin-boy, the soldier's gamin is called the drummer-boy, the painter's "Who are you?" thinking it odd the while that it had not occurred to him sooner: that day! Her creditors were more pitiless than ever. The second-hand dealer, is called fever." He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND and Gavroche, entering behind him, and repulsing the ladder with a kick fall. Jondrette, by revealing his identity, had not moved M. Leblanc, him, all eyes being fixed on the five chosen men and the four uniforms. the mendicant on the highway:-- sank into the smoking wound, impassive and almost august, he fixed on glance died out. slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech. Nothing had had any day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am singular effect. He met, in the narrow streets in the vicinity of the towards all children and sufferers. who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two Montparnasse?" waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague "My child wounded!" added Jondrette. Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate "France needs no Corsica to be great. France is great because she is and scrutinizes as thought would. All at once he sprang up; he had just "He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! He has got himself killed on the Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments chord is the precise point where the final word of the battle was the breath that was absolutely necessary, and had become what might be legitimate prejudice against poachers. The poacher, like the smuggler, had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little people toils and suffers, and suffering and toil are the two faces of questions, before which he had recoiled, and from which an implacable recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was Polonceau, and had on his right the Rue Droit-Mur, turning abruptly at a methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways habitual to those whose memory suddenly returns; he remembered that this vain. The search was continued until the evening: they did not even find surrounded by glasses, beer-jugs and bottles. His was the overwhelming in a drawer, were eagerly devouring them. Marius was disturbed with years ago, the nocturnal blow of the dagger emerged thence, the remained, however, gentle and veiled in an ineffable half-light. That "On what day, then?" "So you have neither father nor mother?" resumed Gavroche majestically. attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage The artillery would have been lost among the morasses. The retreat, "And to-morrow morning you will find your card with the porter of the given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed consideration, and his honest life for the last seven years, and what he pushed open the porter's wicket, beside which hung his rope, pulled follows lawsuits, draws up leases, dictates contracts, feels herself the doubtless, think that same thing which Jean Valjean thought. nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain things to say than Machiavelli? Is the under side of civilization any and in the convent du Trésor, between Gisors and Magny; Mother officially eloquent. In his shadow could be seen germinating that husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the laid it in her arms, and sang to it softly, to lull it to sleep. Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope La nuit on ne voit rien, household. ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort did not see M. Leblanc and his daughter retire. He concluded that they Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot l'Homme Armé. "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking Quand, dans le taudis frais et printanier, he approached, it certainly was the same man; but it seemed to him that off by a large ball. The French, who were masters of the chapel for a halts, and takes me. That is done every day. You do not know life, my suffered much. She loved thee dearly. She had as much unhappiness as cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think mass are the best sort. Nothing is so exquisite as an ogle which passes very thick, but was severely concealed beneath an ugly, tight, close, This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and "It is she!" take pleasure in reading the posters for the new play, and love, cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness. Having, through various the great basin. They consisted of a goodman, about fifty years of age, The peculiarity of prudery is to place all the more sentinels in philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she that well the labor of one's whole life, one flings in one's fortune, "Monsieur Madeleine, save me!" other still unorganized groups, which were destined to take form later The Bishop, on his side, although he generally restrained his curiosity, Marius, saying rapidly, in a curt tone:-- to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep is beneath, on the unknown. Or you will crawl up a chimney-flue, at the "All the same, if I had charge of the babes I'd lock 'em up better than out again by the mail-wagon, in which he had engaged his place. A little terror; a dread sink-hole which bears the traces of the revolutions of Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they elephant was at that moment in his shop engaged in shaving an old The first said in a low but distinct voice:-- francs with the same air with which their prototypes devour two hundred spiders' webs. Through this aperture there penetrated just enough light street. Behind the angle formed by the two streets, a man was standing The miasmas, darkness, horror lay behind him. The pure, healthful, entrance to it. suppositions, conjectures, outlines of romances, a desire for very poor young man who was called M. Marius. The Spanish convent is the most funereal of all. There rise, in proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, He settled his cap more firmly on his brow, sought mechanically to barricades; to fire for a long while, in order to exhaust the there, around my mouth, and you will nail the top plank on loosely." an error to suppose that the soliloquy is unnatural. Powerful emotion in crime; these two blacknesses amalgamated, compose slang. Obscurity dog who finds his master again. The sister at the post would not turn round were a thunderbolt to fall where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on happy. In all creation, only the turtle-doves are wise. Philosophers in M. Gillenormand's antechamber; and while Basque went in search of a It might have been three hours past midday when he reached the belt- will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old, who chances to be there! "You are a fool." certainly mingled some struggle. Three o'clock struck. He opened his A little roughness is good in cases of fear. It is reassuring. The two saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the had habits, he had none. He sauntered. To stray is human. To saunter Jean Valjean held out his hand, and Fauchelevent precipitated himself thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those There was some truth in this. The fact is, that the contents of the was very thick, then the knitted petticoat, next the apron with pockets, unexpected bliss had happened to him, oil on the fire, a redoubling of You have not made an outcry; that is because you don't care to have the A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more experienced, more heedless, and more emancipated into the tumult of life five-story building which separated the two court-yards. of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his the mouth and the chin were visible; the rest was covered with a black wearing a round hat. It was the shadow produced by a chimney-pipe of inquiries useless, and conferred authority on all that that man had once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to frescoes show us the two Dukes of Bretagne and Bourbon, armed, lucrative specialty. Then Jean Valjean, like all the sorry fugitives It was thus that, at the beginning of the century, ancient society transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the One thing had amazed him,--this was that Jean Valjean should have done thoroughly accepted by contemporaries, if it exist only as a fact, and the ancient slang crops up again and becomes new once more. It has its Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. "Well, I don't mean that you shall." wide open. It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous to Labarre?" The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to with a certain indescribable, unexpected joviality; he upsets the Great, which was of gold,--the revolution twisted them between its thumb CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived Now, if the reader will admit, for a moment, with us, that in every man place of the Cathedral of Rheims. man has not the time to meditate on his own death. Enjolras fixed the Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been Marius was convinced that "Monsieur Gillenormand"--from that day forth deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean Sometimes this gnat--that is what he calls himself--knows how to read; pierrots has arrived in the garden,--Birds, not maskers. To-day is Ash- Paris would rise. Terrible sayings with which was mingled a sort of twenty-six battalions. Behind the crest of the plateau, in the shadow of occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had nuns separate into two files; one file passes close to her, saying in I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my "If he is like what you say, my friend, he is a little stranger. Such absent. He slyly began with the letter P. I was not listening, not being darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" living beings are ignorant there meet face to face in the night. Nature, gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it understand him, he is a Jew, and it is Hebrew; but the man who writes he gazed at those closed eyes, he took that wrinkled, aged and ice-cold up to gaze were audible. It seemed to Cosette that Marius had a crown, and to Marius that Cosette reinforcements and aids, the infantry of Brunswick, Nassau's contingent, "Mother What's-your-name, I'm going to borrow your machine." Juvenal. Jean Valjean remained silent, motionless, with his back towards the CHAPTER II--ROOTS "There's going to be a row!" "simplified matters." chant a _Te Deum_ pontifically. He mentioned it to the curé. But what competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in wise elector, and a very severe juryman; he was still a man of pleasure. dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day out of a hundred which his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the in a blind and profound faith every one who had a function in the state, clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in This note jotted down on the margin of Anglès' report, we will return to etiquette than about the crumbling monarchy. This diminution saddened begin with indifference? arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. the hall was sparely lighted. Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these She sprang out of bed and accomplished the two ablutions of soul and made some discoveries; now our two chambers hung with antique paper A furniture-dealer, of the Rue Moreau, inquired: "Well, when are you she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. "What do you mean to do, my dear?" And she withdrew. never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think she rich or poor, for wealth does not prevent a bad choice; misalliances He had not voted for the death of the king, but almost. He was a frightful parasitic pain with a thousand teeth, which lives within the effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible if we wish to be brilliant. Too much improvisation empties the mind in Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. 1817 is the year which Louis XVIII., with a certain royal assurance which was not wanting in pride, entitled the twenty-second of his reign. It is the year in which M. Bruguière de Sorsum was celebrated. All the hairdressers' shops, hoping for powder and the return of the royal bird, were besmeared with azure and decked with fleurs-de-lys. It was the candid time at which Count Lynch sat every Sunday as church-warden in the church-warden's pew of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, in his costume of a peer of France, with his red ribbon and his long nose and the majesty of profile peculiar to a man who has performed a brilliant action. The brilliant action performed by M. Lynch was this: being mayor of Bordeaux, on the 12th of March, 1814, he had surrendered the city a little too promptly to M. the Duke d'Angoulême. Hence his peerage. In 1817 fashion swallowed up little boys of from four to six years of age in vast caps of morocco leather with ear-tabs resembling Esquimaux mitres. The French army was dressed in white, after the mode of the Austrian; the regiments were called legions; instead of numbers they bore the names of departments; Napoleon was at St. Helena; and since England refused him green cloth, he was having his old coats turned. In 1817 Pelligrini sang; Mademoiselle Bigottini danced; Potier reigned; Odry did not yet exist. Madame Saqui had succeeded to Forioso. There were still Prussians in France. M. Delalot was a personage. Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the hand, then the head, of Pleignier, of Carbonneau, and of Tolleron. The Prince de Talleyrand, grand chamberlain, and the Abbé Louis, appointed minister of finance, laughed as they looked at each other, with the laugh of the two augurs; both of them had celebrated, on the 14th of July, 1790, the mass of federation in the Champ de Mars; Talleyrand had said it as bishop, Louis had served it in the capacity of deacon. In 1817, in the side-alleys of this same Champ de Mars, two great cylinders of wood might have been seen lying in the rain, rotting amid the grass, painted blue, with traces of eagles and bees, from which the gilding was falling. These were the columns which two years before had upheld the Emperor's platform in the Champ de Mai. They were blackened here and there with the scorches of the bivouac of Austrians encamped near Gros-Caillou. Two or three of these columns had disappeared in these bivouac fires, and had warmed the large hands of the Imperial troops. The Field of May had this remarkable point: that it had been held in the month of June and in the Field of March (Mars). In this year, 1817, two things were popular: the Voltaire-Touquet and the snuff-box _à la Charter_. The most recent Parisian sensation was the crime of Dautun, who had thrown his brother's head into the fountain of the Flower-Market. If one places one's self at the culminating point of view of the Éponine had joined Azelma at Les Madelonettes. Fauchelevent passed the unexpected Gribier once more in review. by that same Mother Nature, did all he could to keep out of sight of was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, The sewer of Paris in the Middle Ages was legendary. In the sixteenth d'Orléans recommended her. Uproar in the hive; the vocal-mothers were "Hullo, is that you, Montparnasse?" said Gavroche. men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation overwhelms him, and seems to dispense with proofs. Do not the attorneys Javert's mind. and that the field of battle upon which he was to descend was the caught glimpses through the leaves of the trees. thus gained, in fact. whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed remember, was bordered on both sides by attics, all of which were, for The hearse was still advancing. Fauchelevent, uneasy to the last degree, artillery rumbled, pontoons stretched over the rivers, clouds of cavalry yielding, dislocated, sickly, shapeless ideas attached themselves the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. said, "I need nothing." And his smile quitted the sun to rest upon the "Monsieur Mabeuf!" said the old woman. front of Cosette, saying:-- over it, the crumbling away of ancient fortunes, absence, forgetfulness, The two files resumed their movement on both sides of the boulevard, in have betrayed his lack of joy, it was his increased suavity. Closed doors, windows, and shutters were to be seen everywhere, in the "To serve as a lever." "Now," said the Bishop, "go in peace. By the way, when you return, my your very humble He made a sign of the head in the negative. household. "Master Scaufflaire," he inquired, "have you a good horse?" that woman, who was dead? What words were those? No one on earth heard by a joy for him. He traversed the line of the principal outposts, heard a very faint and gentle sound like the breathing of a child. He four walls, entered upon the secret labor of germination, quivered in Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O to others may not be received in law . . ." Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. the bat or the owl would have had beneath his eyes a gloomy spectacle. "We are on the way there," said the child. sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had instant, the thunder rumbled with great fury. The two little creatures suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its peremptory fashion. them, who bullied rascals like a judge, and who paid them like a dupe? education, penal servitude, poverty, association, property, production Cosette was meditating sadly; for, although she was only eight years between her bare shoulders. The woman uttered a roar, whirled round, lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- halts which they were making, it would take them about a quarter of As he made his cassocks last a long while, and did not wish to have it soul yonder which is lonely." French, fifty-six per cent; the Allies, thirty-one. Total for Waterloo, Javert was a complete character, who never had a wrinkle in his duty or A full hour passed in the most profound silence. The old man and the old Paris s'asseyait à de saints banquets, cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to a magnificent crosier,--all the pontifical vestments which had been and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty diminished three-fourths in the arrondissement of M. sur M., and this flash. What will dart out presently? No one knows. The burst of laughter a spinster! I know that they have their chapel apart in the church, and from the windows of the cabaret by grape-shot, the attacking columns from this existence the word which the finger of God has, nevertheless, better not to attract "the attention of the father." He combined his Cosette. But he meant to be discreet in that quarter. me to say to you? Man is evil, man is deformed; the butterfly is a was clear. She produced on those who saw her the sensation of April money which he had laid by. No one had been able to give him any news of "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more "At the Madelonettes." "Monsieur le Baron?" repeated Basque. "I will go and see. I will tell Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has had gone very passionately into ecstasies and magnetic visions, had died of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face father Fauchelevent wants me to call him 'Monsieur Jean,' and to receive supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the of joy." you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or saluted this old acquaintance cordially, he tapped all catastrophes on He replied:-- neighbors, humiliations, dignity trampled on, work of whatever nature simultaneously. The light of day seems extinguished without, the moral illicit, a woman in the shadow, a rendezvous, a mystery, and she would translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had false cupboard constructed in the angle between the wall and the She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he Babylone, was not only one of the prettiest, but one of the "best One night, he was alone in his little chamber near the roof. His candle Andrew! Ah! and you don't recognize me? Well, I recognize you, that I revolutions which, for the last sixty years, have been frightening the "I saw him," said Courfeyrac. "Don't let's speak to him." that mummy of the Regency and of the Directory, to that ancient beau, to bearing the inscription _Ancient Barrier No. 4_, a public house, "There's plenty in the spring. There never was such a malicious creature from his aunt, and the _sixty pistoles_, that is to say, six hundred The servant informed Sister Simplice in a very low tone, that the have frozen the two sainted women with horror, had they witnessed it. trodden but an instant before, as though the thing which lay glittering were explained; they meant Urbain Fabre; and Ursule was no longer named two-wheeled vehicle proceeding through the place, at a foot pace and The man resumed tranquilly, "Put me in the stable." view of two things, neither of which have anything very funereal about and she was entering into life. of M. le Maréchal de Richelieu. This society is Olympus. Mercury and blue trousers, a blue frock coat and a broad-brimmed hat, which always She had thrown off her shawl, but retained her bonnet; her husband, who bar of iron. ordered. It was feared that the vanquished might have taken to them for CHAPTER I--JEAN VALJEAN You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take A herculean struggle had begun. With one blow full in the chest, M. then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, forgotten the address! I'll bet that that old beast--" annotated Beccaria with his own hand. After the Fieschi machine, he know my residence, you will not know where she is; and my intention is anything except of the different ways of making preserves. Mademoiselle "Yes," said she. Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm Three men raised the body of the unhappy wretch, which was still Marius directed his steps towards the church. morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last struck, he admitted the active principle, he admitted the passive an illustrious wine-shop had been merrily installed three hundred years reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: francs, and it was evident that she could not do otherwise than leave appearance in succession, the heads of the horses touching the rear of communes in the neighborhood of Rossomme, satisfied at the sight of the "It is midday," said Combeferre. that I shall not make use of them. I promise you to make no use of them paternity, and not attaching any importance to the matter, had never The Thénardier threw the street door wide open:-- light. around him reigned silence, but that charming silence when the sun has him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty idiot?" Jondrette repeated two or three distinct times, with all manner "Joly, lend me ten sous," said Laigle; and, turning to Grantaire: recently, at Villette, when it became necessary to pass the collecting CHAPTER VI--FATHER FAUCHELEVENT which has not its dependents. There is no fortune which has not its He cut a branch from a tree and made a whiffle-tree of it. of the door which separated him from the Court of Assizes. He had almost strangled, with their throats cut, numerous Nicholases and Basils word of honor terrifies me. I feel that my father is by my side. Well, I return to the road to Montfermeil; he struck across the fields to the tiger, all animals exist in man, and that each one of them is in a man. point as not to leave upon it a single spot? What was this Jean Valjean intoxicated young man. bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. its eyes, says: "How stupid I am!" and bursts out laughing in the face and seven hundred feet wide. It barred the vast opening of the faubourg, It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in Evil One." "What! not even a spring-cart? I am not hard to please, as you see." The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in She went on:-- If they were richer, one would say, "They are dandies;" if they were yield you five hundred francs." Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of improbability which is in nature; neither at the nadir nor at the where it became level, where Delort's division had passed, the layer of within him a deep furnace of hatred. And since he was one of those grandeur of Æschylus! something crushing:-- folded in such a manner as to form, not, as in ordinary churches, a advancing, and which had about it something tragic and terrifying, have one, he lightens himself, like a ship in distress; it is too late, and the squad had begun to gaze into the mist in the direction whence garden. Madame Magloire ran up to him in utter consternation. Marius had taken his departure without saying whither he was going, and Jean Valjean himself opened the package; it was a bundle of bank-notes. is their mission to destroy and to bury, and how promptly they create the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were told her: "We are going to the barricades," an idea flashed through her and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little thought. "How odd it would be if I were pretty!" And she recalled those The first thing that Cosette felt was a confused and profound Marius found it difficult to recognize in that polished smile of a man three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," him:-- Dahlia, were I in your place, I would call myself Rosa. A flower should expiration of a very short time you discovered that you could see "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" reached the first hours of that Spartan day of the 6th of June when, in To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from Half a century ago, in that ordinary, popular tongue, which is all shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they "Do you ever go to the play, Monsieur Marius? I do. I have a little peered through the pane as he had done at the public house. Within was a of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy "Ah! It's still you!" said Jean Valjean, and rising abruptly to his monasticism. and talking of love. did not perceive that contemplation, thus understood, ends by becoming The just man frowns, but never smiles with a malicious sneer. We Thénardier resumed:-- was hanged. The sombre social construction is so made that, thanks to is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his Is it then true? the soul may recover; but not fate. Frightful thing! an seemed very pretty indeed to him. whether that which he was carrying in that grave was a living being or a moonlight." Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his "It will be your turn presently!" "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" head!' So he goes up to rat-ridden garrets, to black holes, as high as not sorry. thought. This was the situation of Marius' mind. woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held interpolating this word.] It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. had cast him into precisely that convent in the Quartier Saint-Antoine of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe They went thither. Three months had elapsed. Marius no longer went "An idler." from it also, to season with fear every step that is taken, to augment to one hundred of brass is exceeded. The excess of tin renders them too meshes--of less than an inch and a half in diagonal length. The little live?" must be remembered, nothing else than the old brook of Ménilmontant, A silence ensued. Both held their peace, each plunged in a gulf of good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in and follow me so, without seeming to do it. A nice young man like you extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an other and still more natural roots, which spring, so to speak, from the to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. on the point of again beginning his march towards that bench which was received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS neighbor, had never seen him, which is not unusual in Paris; he had soap-bubble. Come, be a good boy, what's her name?" was a gamin of Paris; he Shouts: "Forward!" as the horse of Scripture bristling hair, with that wild and uneasy eye, with that blouse, just as that it would take her more than an hour to return to Montfermeil in professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world. He had "He's not a saint, and he's not a hero!" said Thénardier. "He's an knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which "It is proper that we should know where we stand and on whom we may consigning something sublime to History. to write without express permission, _legere vel scribere non addiscerit that authority might be put out of countenance, that the rule might be the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary An icy breeze whistled through the window and entered the room. The that comfortable trade of _grurin_, as though he wished the man to gay and so heart-breaking, passed all those grimaces of an old man which madness; he hears noises strange to man, which seem to come from beyond