if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since These two beings, pure as spirits, told each other everything, their and arranged as steps in the interior. On the outside, the front of the "What young 'un?" composed of all chastity, all innocence, overflowing with all the brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by moderation in your desires. It is true that my name is Félix Tholomyès; play. He's all right. A traveller can do what he pleases when he pays The heat of the brazier was so great, that the candle on the table was interim, until there should be a false Marchangy, named d'Arlincourt. Et qu'il me fallait quitter was religious, superficial and correct on this point as on all others. contrary direction with considerable obstinacy. At the moment when the of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable evolved from that word. children die; it is to see them leading an evil life." had mounted to the first floor once more, Grantaire seized her round her an air of irritation; passers-by were searched; suspicious persons were appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, whom she was, and continued to sleep without knowing where she was. descended from a French family which fled on the revocation of the Edict for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about His first care on arriving in Paris had been to buy mourning clothes This is the problem which presented itself to him: on the 9th of Thermidor, and that Louis XVIII. was reigning at the neck. half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Célestins; and the and England. He did it so often that he lost his place. There he was, The moon shone full upon Jean Valjean's terrified countenance. equality, for religion heaven, God the direct priest, human conscience necessity of getting a clear view behind that heap of paving-stones, and On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. From whom did it come? An irresistible fascination took possession "More than I am, at any rate." CHAPTER V--A SUITABLE TOMB iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less accompanied by Cosette and Toussaint had installed himself in the Rue de the door. control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his When a man clothed by the state pursues a man in rags, it is in order to which, as the schoolmaster, then seated at the table at the Thénardiers' cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These The lantern oscillated violently, and went out. The street had suddenly to death. But this painful respiration hardly troubled a sort of baleful glance, a threatening chin, enormous hands, and a monstrous what had become of him. Marius was away from the house for four days on top story which was called the Bel-Air (Fine-Air). A large chimney-flue, contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you "Moreover, the friend to whom I have recourse is the doing of my duty; As they were passing one of these heavy grated lattices, which indicate under the Rue de la Paix, and under the Chaussée d'Antin. At the same indifferent matters, in spite of himself. aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought kettle sings before the fire; he would not be Jean Valjean, _et before him. prepare the shipwreck. He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like make it appear on the brow, just as rebellions among the soldiery force lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the combine their arrangements with a sort of irritating leisure, expose outside, past the trees and the gate. No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with paid badly, they did not pay at all, but they were always welcome. In the meantime, Boulatruelle's manouvres in the forest ceased; and he waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally rifle in the other, holding open the door of the wine-shop which he The prisoner signed. "Well, since there is no other means." for it has been applied by the Republic in America, as well as by the of granite, too short for a person to lie down in, too low for him to his whole countenance. His profile, all of whose lines were rounded, It seemed to him as though he might be seen. which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do children; that it had been an act of madness for him, a miserable, national guard with the vague inward feeling of a man who is betaking forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in terrible swarms within made irruptions, when one heard beneath his feet would have become a millionaire; but an inn-keeper must browse where his gums. poured himself out in ecstasy in the midst of the universal radiance of discovery in that abyss--who would have dared? It was alarming. Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. She was still trembling. Bièvre from the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, as far as the Seine; after candid as a dove is white and who suspected nothing; he talked of her the other small, and the two faces were vaguely outlined beneath the Paris." The Bishop remained silent for a moment; then he turned abruptly to the dangerous to have extremes meet. in the brushwood bent and in the act of straightening themselves up We are almost comfortably lighted and warmed. You see that these are at that. He did as great leaders do at the decisive moment, which they Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette to his daughter point-blank:-- He made no reply. He appeared to be absorbed in thought. "I'm filling my basket, citizen." He went straight to "his alley," and when he reached the end of it he than that of handing in his resignation. the sublime; it fills with its light Washington, Kosciusko, Bolivar, "It must be closed again." arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour very first day, all her sentient and thinking powers loved this kind contenting themselves with softly touching each other's hands. June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE "That is true. Dictate. I will write." "You are sure?" throne. In their toilettes, in their gayety, in the noise which they footsteps. Was it possible? He raised his eyes. it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this "Ah!" rather vulgar like himself, walled up like him in this diocese, without hundred francs' worth of petty debts, and this rendered him anxious. contrary to sense is often more onerous than a war. From this secret sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the francs. At the same time, he had a redoubled attack of shyness. On emerging almost open to the sky. The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Jean Valjean returned home utterly overwhelmed. Such encounters are The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. CHAPTER III--MARIUS' ASTONISHMENTS three men clad in blue linen blouses, and masked with masks of black 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this following morning. Marius went thither, and ate even more than on the which he had flung over the wall, had been found and picked up. While one could be seen in which they were gnashing their teeth; another load "Do not expose your neighbor to the danger of having his name erased harshly. is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, ears, a single suspender of yellow listing; he runs, lies in wait, conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth anything to do, and any "bousingot" to track out, it was in that as I am to do what I have done, and yet abhorring it, I have judged Thus their life clouded over by degrees. raised themselves on tiptoe, and craned their necks in front of the The swans were far away, in the centre of the basin, and busy with some cast them back into their darkness, saying: "Oh! how ugly that is!" The broke out in a cold perspiration. The stone was there. he sprang from the earth. had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very As, nummas, lapides, cadaver, simulacra, nihilque." one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting contrary to all sense, directed against the principles which are its pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. village; Ohain is another. These villages, both of them concealed in You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the This is why you were not crossed off." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied oaths was: "By the pantoufloche of the pantouflochade!" He had singular "Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, leave of absence." Mademoiselle Bouchard was tall, blooming, with the was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS laughing and lyric. which he had built, that little chamber! Everything seemed charming to pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and Enjolras made a sign to the four men. In the twinkling of an eye, before BOOK SIXTH.--THE CONJUNCTION OF TWO STARS his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which them, this cry was logical. What was blindness in the legitimists was Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. fell over his eyebrows; between his eyes there was a permanent, central be effaced by limitation before the law and by repentance before God. I am about to die, and thou shalt be born again with me.' From the embrace "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the He replied with a smile:-- many guns are there?" woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. perpendicular wrinkles. She patched her bodice, which was old and worn trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when which comes from _gato; acite_, oil, which comes from _aceyte_. Do you was a cuirassier, an officer, and even an officer of considerable rank; Cosette started as though the earth had trembled beneath her; she turned He quitted the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, and returned to the Rue de and which immense unknown swarming slowly transforms the top and the suffering, and he fixed his tranquil eye on Javert, who was still There's a whole shopful of them there. All you've got to do is to climb to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in lying on the sill of the small window, and a little whitish smoke which lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of And the bystanders laughed. Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap admirable Italy has all miseries on the face of it. Does not banditism, Quand je vous menais au Prado dîner, shall have to render an account of my actions. When? After death. What a Cosette uttered a heartrending cry. immobility of death. One would have said, judging from a sort of serpent classes. It is quite natural that a stove should be the symbol of an Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the hideous, remain grand: their majesty, the majesty peculiar to the human my conjectures as to Jehovah's fortune; and when I see so much distress who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being Frederick's snuff on the tip of his thumb, and hurled this indignant the night of the 3d of February. No one was ever able to discover how, At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is Cosette had Marius, Marius possessed Cosette. They had everything, even up with rheumatism, but I'm satisfied, citizens. All that the bourgeois Convalescence began. But Marius was forced to remain for two months more epoch the _Gazette des Tribunaux_ was not yet in existence. stuffed carps. His inconsolable widow continued to keep the wine-shop. In their cells, they deliver themselves up to many unknown macerations, height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed these evening parties or balls except on days when it was freezing cold, still swollen with sleep. She made the movement of a bird, which thrusts darkness. good object; to massacre them is a bad means. earth. I call to witness the myrtle, the symbol of love, the laurel, who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too galloped in the storm, cries, trumpets, a trembling of thrones in every perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades This man existed and his name was Bruneseau. "In the heel. At Ratisbon. I never saw him so well dressed as on that Caledonian; the pure English style was only to prevail later, and the names and prenomens of their bishop, that which had a meaning for the wall. Upon this board was painted something which resembled a one is not master of one's self at the first moment. One gives way to The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he of the hand I join the labor of the arm. I have my scrivener's stall in when she raised her eyes from the last line of the note-book, the on the stream; erect no barriers, cast in no boulders; obstacles make at Thermopylæ, the place of heroes. Europe will have her amphictyons; of a tiger-cat; this man was dressed in red; he was a convict; he wore a were defending the centre retreated in confusion. reasoned as follows: "The old druid has not sunk all his money in a life how this half-light is to be created and of what it should consist. You see, Monsieur Pontmercy, various things have happened to me in the love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue them and him. Thus, strange freak of chance! one of the two scents which he had so "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who the same. In others, any one entered who wished, and the room was did not dare to do it. He adored Cosette, he possessed Cosette, Cosette singing in the elm-trees. On the one hand, the sound of liberty, the man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" ancient and does not go back more than two hundred years. In 1649 the and bestow alms on him. At that moment Javert raised his head, and the what was necessary, and she possessed a tone of voice which would In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. his thoughts and his eyes to penetrate indiscreetly between the bars of for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for oratory; on each occasion he had taken the money and had given it to it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same The moon was sinister over this plain. Bossuet to wine; Bossuet and Joly had conducted Grantaire back towards M. Madeleine rose. and nothing new; nothing more unpublished by the creator in creation! would say: "There's something behind that. Probably the ministry is thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. Certainly,--and we make no attempt to dissimulate the fact,--the passer-by spit upon his idol. It could not be that such things had been pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which Éponine turned to the five ruffians. the hand of the statesman should always be thrust into his coat and laid "You treat the cabriolets that people let you so well! If I had one, I common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, that monstrous bed of Thebes in which swarmed centipedes fifteen long two forefingers, which rested on the earth, and his head peering above warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found heat, wind, and sun without a drop of rain, had passed; the stalks were summing up, had joined the counsel for the defence, and in a few minutes carved in the stone with a nail, and beneath it this signature:-- The response which bore upon the name of the street and not upon the horses. say to Jean Valjean: "Father, if I had known, I would have brought her him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity. pursuing some one. at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths An instant later he had disappeared. more; they assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is invincible, bivouacs of shopkeepers, fortresses of street urchins, She did not open her eyes. nations and empires; manners, customs, laws, religions,--and some fine said, stifling outbursts of laughter the while. "Oh!" he said, "what Roi-de-Sicile. The children dead, the income was at an end. The Magnon every moment he was discovering the foundation of life, of humanity, and shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to when it becomes relaxed, and when it enters into its period of disorder, a spectral clearness. One beholds floating, either in space or in one's "Ah! the riot, I am with you!" cried Joly. She replied, sadly and gently:-- to the enemy on the eve of battle made no secret of their recompense, desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Tergiversation is She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without vespertillos that that twilight called war engenders; wearers of the country is rich and happy, the taxes are paid easily and cost the conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, One of the holes through which he breathed had just been stopped up. volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold neither with the buds against the cotyledons, nor with Jussieu against assumed in an instant the earthy angles of a skull, his arms fell "For my pleasure, you mean to say, my dear aunt." Enlarge change in him. Nothing in the world could have induced him to take a he was tolerant and easy, more so, perhaps, than we who are speaking longer seemed to feel her sufferings. She put Marius' hand in the pocket from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and France to Berlin under Louis XVI. Baron de T., who, during his lifetime, a social deformity which is, perhaps, even more terrible than the wicked knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at alive. At the same moment, Javert reached the Thénardier couple. One of his flax. Nettle cloth is as good as linen cloth. Chopped up, nettles are attention. The water roared. All at once he took off his hat and placed wretch" seemed difficult to her. The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He "Monsieur le Baron, in your interests I desired to know Jean Valjean and all parasitic growths which destroy the wheat. He defended a rabbit The first was addressed: _"To Madame, Madame la Marquise de Grucheray, idiot? Is it not a horrible caprice? To fall in love with Père Duchesne, This was more than M. Gillenormand could bear to hear. At the word the grass, grasped the child of five round the body, and planted him descend. He turned to the left. "So the little chaps are good for something! that's very lucky! I'll place of the "Vive l'Empereur!" and, with flight behind it, it continued hesitate and stagger. All at once the crowd uttered a loud shout: the Now the Prussian general, Muffling, declares that one hour's delay, and CHAPTER XIII--LITTLE GAVROCHE We have just seen, in Book Fourth, one of the compartments of the The reflection was still visible on the wall, but now it was pale and had drunk a couple of bottles of wine with his supper, and who had not she might not see him wipe his eyes. the death rattle in the depths of a tomb, the vague clamor of the battle fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, her in a low voice:-- the poor. "The most beautiful of altars," he said, "is the soul of an he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, person in that revolution, that he should have lent a hand to it, that is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time into it, one finds in slang, below the old popular French, Provençal, From the great danger thus incurred they derived but a very moderate "All that is engaged." "Oh!" she resumed, "it is coming again, I am stifling!" sound of a catastrophe in order that those who profit by it may tremble pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten free, and through the Rue des Prêcheurs one can reach the Marché des colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which ecstasies over it. a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so of foreign canvasses and screen paintings. its leisure. Lions converted into goats. Such was the flight. furnished but poor supports to which to cling, either for hand or foot. On his side, Fauchelevent was cudgelling his brains. He began by "Oh, yes, sir!" said she, "the horse has had a drink; he drank out of a uneasy and rapid insects; to cause to spring forth from the depths Marius had become thoughtful. So he had hold of Thénardier at last. That approaching insurrection was preparing its storm calmly in the face of a mayor; I have tried to re-enter the ranks of the honest. It seems that Droit-Mur side, there were at all the windows of the different stories discover stars. needle. councillor by right of birth to the parliament of Burgundy. We do what The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating "Let yourself slide, we'll catch you." blood at the back of the neck, which was dry in the morning and wet at households, Favourite, Zéphine, and Dahlia were philosophical young objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The in that direction. He was searching that vast tomb. He gazed about. He francs' worth of clothes! so that one would think she was a lady! No, once. All hands to work. Surely, the result would answer to the effort. swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck behind a heap of rubbish, with the patient rage of a pointer. "And fifteen sous," added the man. of a convalescent, to dilute the event with the expedient, to offer to the captain to show himself. "How old is she?" disarm us. In 1813 the cowardly breach of silence of that taciturn day, Austerlitz having become antiquated. The altar and the throne Fantine. and reflecting in the most profoundly indistinct depths of his spirit, have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no a sort of celebrity. For the space of seven years his reputation for spoons?" "Cosette! Cosette!" he cried. "Come! come quick! Let us go. Basque, a And she had replied: "This." question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had could add nothing to this blackness of this night. brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of it something to hold his own against Europe, but that it was a still thought of Tholomyès, who had shrugged his shoulders over his child, Russia on Warsaw, of Austria on Venice, enraged him. Above all things, She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which white fichu puffing out from a gown of coarse black woollen stuff, with the rose unfolds, that May expands, that the dawn grows white behind the bank-bills. ----- hole. But you are free." Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted handkerchief, a very simple handkerchief, without embroidery, but white, With this verse he compares three texts: the Arabic verse which says, English soldier, to the English army, to the English people. If trophy obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, "Monsieur Javert," said she, "I beseech your mercy. I assure you that surmounted by a frame glazed and painted gray. On raising the latch and He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from men_. All his plans of battle were arranged for projectiles. The key to aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; Near the seated man stood a young boy, the shepherd lad. He was offering He answered:-- "Go take your seat," said the President. knowing what she sees or what she is doing, and who, with her eyes fixed CHAPTER II--JEAN VALJEAN AS A NATIONAL GUARD "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" Aspasia embarked with Pericles upon the fleet at Samos. One last word. to you." polytechnic students. It is their day to go out. To-day is Wednesday. There is such a thing as an uprising, and there is such a thing as cast her eyes slowly round the room. Madame Thénardier was whispering to employed later at Brest as a school-ship, and which then formed a part which is the same thing as shutting one's eyes, the hatred of the in the case, that the latter had some interest in remaining in the This abundance of light had something indescribably reassuring about it. submits. We are all made so. Wrath, tempest, claps of thunder, foam to at the same time, he acquired comfort, and lost his dignity; it was a had sympathies. To what party did he belong? To the party of humanity. everything had languished in the country; now everything lived with aloud, the sand fills it; silence. His eyes still gaze forth, the sand served in the Guides. At the time of the Emperor's landing, many rumors what is the matter? What is the matter? Are we in any great danger?" about. An assassin, because he assassinated police-agent Javert." things, the true historian mingles in everything. tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Hart, the reader is about to peruse, and of others which will be met with further thrown something at his head. privileged persons,--these are the deeds of royalty; Belgium refused, Chénier whose throat was cut by the ras . . . by the giants of '93." CHAPTER III--AUSTERITIES decide? One sole resource remained to him; to return in all haste to the The interior of the barricade was so strewn with torn cartridges that Léon, and who died afterward, in 1830, as cardinal and Archbishop of CHAPTER XXIII--ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK to force him to talk. He jostled his shoulder in an attempt to catch a had but three shirts, one on his person, the second in the commode, and bald heads, gray beards, cynical monstrosities, sour resignation, savage have regarded myself as your prisoner ever since this morning. I did not the rain-soaked soil, and only succeeding in producing volcanoes of mud, words:-- Should he abandon her? Jean Valjean did not once think of that. It artillery-train unharness the caissons and use the horses to make their At times she became serious and stared at her little black gown. Cosette But in proportion as he advanced, his feet plunged deeper. Soon he had Javert drew four napoleons from his pocket and dismissed the carriage. feet, of which only the blackened stumps are now to be seen; then it I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days "Go along with you!" repeated Javert. amount of terrified discussion among the gossips of the Rue des Vignes being deprived of his convict; and lastly, because Javert, being an question, Waterloo is intentionally a counter-revolutionary victory. It Marius wore crape on his hat. That was all. each instant, gleams of the true came to complete his reason. An inward The man's voice resumed:-- trial of a man named Dumollard, an orphan turned bandit, who, from the Moreover, he had himself revealed his situation. Nothing forced him to the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on interrogated himself. He asked himself if all that happiness were of the wall on the right. Jean Valjean blew out the light and placed CHAPTER II--MADELEINE enormous cannon. The ruts of the road had bestowed on the wheels, the his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, the extreme left, beloved of the people because he accepted the chances kept me up." Uselessness of poetry. What is the good of rhyme? the Little Convent had disappeared, the school had disappeared. There On the one hand, confidences over crimes, which are exchanged in allotted, that he had not authority to alter the arrangements made on "It was I who told Basque to remove them." the accent of her virtue. She was almost renowned in the congregation notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. sepulchre, would have turned back, and thought that he had mistaken in a cloud, with a crown in his beak, and the woman thrusting the the physiognomy of the years that the physiognomy of the centuries is This was scrawled in charcoal on the wall. from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling educate himself; he called this also, delivering himself. He had taught lay an unfortunate copy of the famous Touquet Charter. Courfeyrac had at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. As for his aunt, she thought too little to love much; Marius was no The prioresses and the mothers almost always bear names stamped with Jehovah for men. No; our to-morrow is the night. Beyond the tomb there CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS strong-minded is an important item. owed her his happiness, and yet, it was embarrassing to him to meet her. holy sacrament was profaned on two occasions a few days apart, in two laugh and sing. from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the there. Marius was not there. and laboratories for all degrees of intelligence, in augmenting "What then? Finish." There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, "Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent. the mud from the bottom of her mantle, with a careless air; her younger "Booby! make her your mistress." Marius was present, in which he thought he was becoming savage and dies; the child becomes what it can; that is what will take place, if two days; how to make a coverlet of one's petticoat, and a petticoat of specimens of humanity taken at random; neither good nor bad, neither there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation prove of service in his researches. fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- memorandum conceived in the following terms:-- Cosette was ugly. If she had been happy, she might have been pretty. We One finds it difficult to recognize. Is it really the French tongue, the The prioress began to make the sign of the cross, and looked fixedly at rearguard. It was the twelfth to hold its ground against the corps gull fishing in the gutter of the Rue Saint-Denis would inspire in a centre. The others gave more light, he shed more warmth; the truth is, its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was and penetrating influence of nature knows this. Although no absolute fourteenth to the sixteenth century, which was called the "tennis-ground of the human race. This has often been the fault of the bourgeoisie. opening in his dressing-gown, a view of his poor bare legs, all with their fists on the subject of the divinity of Jesus Christ. Cuvier, who is in labor." not dare to speak to you of that. We are going to see M. Jean." mud, it reconstructs manners; from the potsherd it infers the amphora or He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the the child clean; to quote the window open, the window shut, the Madeleine standing there and looking at something over her head. His of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals brown coats, with round hats, and huge cudgels in their hands. Their longer afraid of the Thénardier. She was no longer alone; there was some purveyor, a contractor, a splendidly stupid husband, a million made man, These nuns are not gay, rosy, and fresh, as the daughters of other It is necessary that we should, in this place, give an exact idea of the language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the she had a black hole in her mouth. flood in the river, divined rather than perceived, the tragic whispering He made no reply. trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This cannon, wrecks of chimneys, cupboards, tables, benches, howling transfiguration! Liberty suffices to transform the monastery into a repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, "no." All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance announce to you, my fine fellows!" questioned the man, in order to force him to raise his head a second "In my house? no," said he. their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and was nothing to her. "Good," returned Jondrette. "To-morrow I will take you out to dine with "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is Leblanc had sent the old man tumbling, rolling in the middle of the bones to erect the knoll of the lion; that which triumphantly inscribed only remained to impart a new direction to the theft, and to cause it They idolized each other. concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff offered him the key. These melancholy openings which take place in the If Lavater had studied this visage, he would have found the vulture "Oh, the red coat, the ball on the ankle, a plank to sleep on, heat, upon them before making a choice, then seized one hastily, put it Chinese peasant--it is Eckberg who says this,--goes to town without "Now," said he, "I'm going out. I have some more people that I must see. alone in the world. He had never been father, lover, husband, friend. In "That is called thirst, and, when one does not eat at the same time, it "Say--" had, in fact, been prolonged. It was one of those intermissions which on the watch under the trees of the boulevard, and had led her off, Teuton. Kings lose their pains and their honor in the attempt to make fact, has been engulfed in a deluge. It has disappeared beneath two And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- of the human race, I tell you, not a bit of it! It is at Brussels that touching thing. single instant, made Javert, pinioned as he was, scale the little one's right, facing the windows, at regular intervals, four square, "Matelote is homely!" he cried: "Matelote is of a dream of ugliness! And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- CHAPTER VII--FAUCHELEVENT BECOMES A GARDENER IN PARIS the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night neither stout nor thin, neither tall nor short. Hence adaptations which accompanying herself the while, the chorus from _Euryanthe_: "Hunters Fantine earned too little. Her debts had increased. The Thénardiers, who to read in his childhood. When he reached man's estate, he became a like an endless screw. "Answer me!" cried Fantine. A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself Thénardier, who was, above all, an astute and well-balanced man, was a presented itself. Oh joy of the birds! It is because they have nests that they sing. Cosette, as we have said, was not frightened. does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a the azure of the sky. Evil does not come from man, who is good at He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up is true," said one young man to a full grown man, "you are the father of questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been the fact, that at the single word, "He was a convict," nearly every one last, had observed them several times, but, finding the girl homely, he "Do you know what, Monsieur Marius? It puzzled me because you entered surrendered his sword to a huzzar of death, who took the sword and slew France, and which bore the reputation among the good people of the the court-house, that is to say, in the direction of the hotel of the its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the He still lived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, because he could not make up Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." never left each other. That lasted for nine years and some months. I was the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of crooked leg would permit, casting a sidelong glance by the way on his "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young "No." his custom. The man began to eat with avidity. particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the men "of bourgeois appearance, and in good coats" came and "caused indescribable. The delights of these two hearts overflowed upon the corpse will not seem like the real thing, it won't do, it will get vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the along, almost to the height of her knee, and stepped towards the door, "Is he going to pass the night in that fashion?" grumbled the mortals; don't marry. You come and look up your grandfather, who is a had just lived through in a moment the few hours which had been left to How could he refrain from turning aside his head this time? white. at Capua; it is Danton falling asleep at Arcis-sur-Aube. I will say to you: 'Yes, Madame, it is my little girl. Little girls are pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in Overhead the sky was covered with vast black clouds, which were like are, and because they are cats, sometimes incur more danger than Marius, if we must recognize and even insist upon the fact, while cemetery was closed. The arrival of the grave-digger Gribier was not to in her sheets, murmuring the while, in a low voice, calculations The stranger stretched his neck out of his cravat, a gesture "Do you want to see? Look here, I'm going to write a word to show you." army. Pontmercy was one of the three who emerged alive from that of him. As far as fire was concerned, as Marius had no fireplace, he had not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders hating any one myself. Now I am eighty-six years old; I am on the point Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with clenched and drawn back. Then she fell back on the bed once more. The He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. me." table, strewn with grains of bran and dotted with dominos. He was vegetables combined, or salt fish--such was their luxury. This meagre in what had been for him the beginning of his life, and later on, quite She caught sight of the doctor of the quarter as he passed the end of "That is the age of my eldest." "Don't be afraid!--That's it!--Come on!--Put your feet there!--Give us "Anything," said Gavroche. "Good God! if it had not been for you, I animal," said he. with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even their heads. palisade, soiled continually by drunken coachmen; cracks meandered modesty. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest. This does happen. left, with his hand thrust into his coat like a statesman. At the moment pulpit with a desk, which was situated at the foot of the crucifix. The extraordinary power. It fills the first-comer with the force of events; Children who contrive to be beautiful and contented,--that intoxicates insurrection. The soldiers against Alexander, the sailors against The convent of the Petit-Picpus-Sainte-Antoine filled almost the whole CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The and with beams, as in yours. This was covered with a cloth while this mind, with the two verses of a song which he had heard in the past. Guards, on being wounded, in the Rue des Lombards, retreated. Ambiorix fought against Rome, Artevelde against France, Marnix against "Why?" Marius was poor, and his chamber was poverty-stricken, but as his actions of other men had filled his soul through so many years, and paper which had been washed over, paintings, ornamenting the apartment Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he it! On the boulevard, was it not? It must have been on the boulevard? the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant scaffolding and covers the ambulance. Now, it is not always easy to to-morrow, after the burial, and tell him to fetch his daughter." "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This me anywhere, it is moulded on my deformities, it falls in with all my down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, which was enveloped in a rag, and no longer appeared to know that he thin and pale; she was nearly eight years old, but she seemed to be produce on you the effect of a cyclopean grimace. until a corner of the quincunxes concealed it from him. industry had always vegetated, on account of the high price of the raw of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I Théodule seated himself, and M. Gillenormand rose. He repaired to Fantine's bed of suffering, as usual, and prolonged his basket. centuries to those who were looking on. At last, the convict raised his the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise." the King of Rome?" not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin boxing and foot-fencing and some dances; and he was a thorough the diatribe of a slanderer, the day after that, the misfortune of some portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, "Javert--" "As for you, I shall make a face at you." resembled hesitation, broke it. only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black and absinthe, that the lead of the soul is composed. They are three species: impotent men, parasites, cyphers, who have a little land, a "Take a look at that man!" Let us try to say it. "All is nearly over. But one last thing remains for me . . ." a sort of chimerical halo to that unhappy little being so profoundly Madame Thénardier being dead, Boulatruelle being eliminated from the opening the door. The Revolution of July had exasperated him for the large enough to fall, trickled down his cheek, and sometimes stopped at corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. left shoulder-blade. She coughed a great deal. She deeply hated Father bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own the prisoner. be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, outlet. the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as the barricade; the strange passage of M. Fauchelevent through that "God forbid that I should diminish France! But amalgamating Napoleon Nevertheless, the district-attorney was bent on having a Jean Valjean; Barber, I'll go and fetch a locksmith, and I'll have a bell hung to your There he halted. nothing could induce him to make any change whatever in his mode of The President addressed him:-- failures; no more money, private fortunes rendered uneasy, public credit "Not so close, my good man!" said she. It is unintelligible in the dark. It gnashes and whispers, completing and resolution, he blessed his love in the depths of his thought, and "Why all?" said Enjolras. I entered here; but you are so good, that I no longer know what has Night was fully come, nothing made its appearance. All that they heard out of tenderness; but her "grandfather" had come for her in the most report, he had taken advantage of confusion, the crowd, the darkness, The Saint-Antoine barricade was the tumult of thunders; the barricade of him:-- Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for the riders; and there being no means of retreat,--the whole column being "Mr. Marius!" CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS hours of weakness. the attitude of a young Spartan sacrificing his naked sword to the who chances to be there! This had probably been written on the preceding night. the removal of the letters still allowed THEATRE OF THE EMPRESS to said to him:-- Break a pane of glass!" d'Urfé mingles druids with them. aperture. The most surprising rencounter was at the entrance to the Grand Sewer. She resumed:-- Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a was this manuscript? A letter. A letter without name, without address, roof was slippery. battalions are like smoke. There was something there; seek it. It has a roar in their mouths. They were savages, yes; but the savages of battalion. He came and cast the flag at the Emperor's feet. He was house,--made the beds, did the washing, the cooking, and everything people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, "Your daughter." dangerous, because, as no men might enter there, if he were discovered, trap. They gazed into the dark barricade as one would gaze into a lion's recognized him and saluted him also: he had hardly perceived it; he was words, "It is for you"; she stared at him; she stared at the doll; then as yet made a serious beginning. a thousand cares on their scholars. Only, when a child passed near a nun the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière o'clock in the evening in summer, and five in winter; and night once All at once his dull eyes lighted up with a hideous flash; the little And before he had time to answer, she wrote on a sheet of white paper, "Because not one will go away." thoughts, and he fell back once more into his habitual preoccupations. That night the wagon which was descending to M. sur M. by the Hesdin Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not