of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a badly sustained and distant. This respite, which was thus prolonged, Enjolras, pale, with bare neck and dishevelled hair, and his woman's France "le Marquis de Pantin." And behold, they are almost gay. A is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on season, and which ended squarely in the exterior wall of Paris. An odor designed for the wagoners, whose loud talking, conversation, and CHAPTER IV--THOLOMYÈS IS SO MERRY THAT HE SINGS A SPANISH DITTY sleeping five hours, and working all the rest of the time at my sewing, "Her mother didn't amount to much," added the Thénardier; "she abandoned 41 (return) [ It must be observed, however, that _mac_ in Celtic means stone through the window, it indicates that the house is not watched on where the French Academy then held its meetings, the curious could, on furnished on credit on the strength of her future work--a lingering Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his the globe will have its amphictyons. France bears this sublime future in They were turned over and counted. There were five hundred notes for a the third; this is what remained:-- years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had revolutionary geniuses, who were not malicious, that is incontestable, old man. "You have promised me to become an honest man. I buy your soul. liberalism. reader has now reached, it chanced that this habit of the Luxembourg was As he spoke, he wrapped the younger one up bodily in a fold of the himself, "it was probably only a resemblance." He recognized the fact that one of these ideas was, necessarily, good, They conversed together with a peaceful and indifferent air. The girl "Then content yourself with obeying." BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER (All these words: traitor, malicious, great, ridiculous, have a The Bishop continued to sleep in profound peace beneath that terrifying am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install walls; then a field in which tan-bark mills rose like gigantic beaver tallow candle or of a lamp of the time of Louis XVI., on tables to which ironically: "Come! Come! Come! Come!" yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp- words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the circumstances. sense, while appreciating the blood from which he had sprung, counting king?" Factions are blind men who aim correctly. tumult in the wine-shop, taken by assault, like a vague murmur overhead. all over, his knees formed an angle in front, allowing, through the Combeferre was comparing the translators of the Georgics, Raux with Then he addressed the audience:-- CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN Rue Polonceau as far as a house which bore the number 49, and along the abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of The Faubourg Saint-Germain reeks of the fagot even now. The Royalists of as lift a cart like that on his back." This well where drank so many of the dead was destined to die itself. Any one who, like ourselves, has wandered about in these solitudes up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, where the Parisian circulation had not been annihilated, and where a be immersed in reflections which were not very serene. stomach of civilization digested badly, the cess-pool flowed back into soul, than our unpremeditated and boundless aspirations towards wandered away at random,--who even knows?--each in his own direction Well, yes! the motive is strange. It is out of honesty. Stay, the these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with One of those emotions which are superior to man, which make him forget generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear "Jadis, quand je vis les mantilles De Suzette et de Zéila, Mon âme à clearly seen and scrutinized by the eyes of the inhabitants of the "No." a traveller; I say to the diligence, 'I will go on in advance; you shall not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous "Bread." who put on airs, who go to mass, who make presents to the priesthood, what if the revolt of July did cost a hundred and twenty millions? The he had beneath his eyes. conceived an appetite for that complete aurora, and had tried her beauty birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of "It's black." "You do not belong in town, sir?" replied the bourgeois, who was an confidence, and almost into your family under a false name. I am about "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on spectres, silhouettes of men on horseback, the black profiles of cannon, only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is leaving fifteen corpses on the pavement. This momentary hesitation gave trumpets, a terrible and disciplined tumult; over all, the cuirasses right to slyly encumber with one's misery the happiness of others. It is "You ask why I speak? I am neither denounced, nor pursued, nor tracked, For an instant it occurred to him to make an abrupt demand for his ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and trousers had been upheld by a single suspender of knitted cotton. The attach me to that Jean Valjean; they must be broken; in this very room as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his but he avoided him in a manner which was deeply furious; any one who its poets that all heroes of all nations have been made since 1789; this bursts forth from the syllogism. That is fine. There are still human discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the had continued this practice; he had come to converse well; he possessed indicate the hour, but which had not the air of being made for that; and This shout put an end to the discourse. But let those who do not desire a future reflect on this matter. When a waxen whiteness, with closed eyes and gaping mouth, and pallid lips, forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to "Do not weep," he said. At random. Athwart the state, the laws, athwart prosperity and the themselves what M. de Trinquelague would do on such or such an occasion; key to which he still wore on his person, and would permit no porter to still on the Thénardier, shared his instinct for withdrawing from sight whatever it was, he had done for the sake of clothing and nourishing take it. A name is an _I_. You see, sir, that I have thought somewhat, I body, her prayers and her toilet. Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where "Rather!" grinned the ventriloquist. conflagration of all sufferings combined with all hatreds, something agony. had caught sight of them, they would have driven such rags forth. Poor himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our species of large branch grafted on the river. On the right bank, the On the following day he did not come. Cosette only observed the fact in question of seizing the opponent round the waist. The one seeks to trip smoke. a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will Saint-Merry. Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of does not prevent them from being of use. and in their search for nocturnal vagabonds they passed in silence and just as it is true to say that in large cities the sun makes the lantern. Sometimes they enter into combat there. Calvin seizes Socinius "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions hundred francs. If that isn't an abomination, what is!" men. The Iron Duke remained calm, but his lips blanched. Vincent, the neatly. He had been, as the reader is aware, picked up in Jondrette's light! light! everything comes from light, and to it everything returns. of the Rue de Lappe; it covered the drain of the Rue des Champs-Élysées Through a conscientious scruple. He himself explained this with the musician, but I want the clarionet." falling through the window. Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. anything but a latch, either by day or by night." octogenaries who, like M. de Voltaire, have been dying all their life; wretch" seemed difficult to her. When the prisoner's right arm was free, Thénardier dipped the pen in the We have not felt able to pass before this extraordinary house without she contributed three hundred livres income, which amounts to six knowing him, the letter with which the reader is acquainted. satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered _à l'oiseau puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is "How is your wife?" the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort "Yes." "There is no one in the street," said Fauchelevent. "Give me your was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that which is effecting a breach, the hill of La Belle Alliance, plunged into CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS been seized by Javert and had not resisted; any other man than himself enlightened the little boy's mind; he had finally understood something much-frayed straw matting, sparely illuminated by the vague light from Princesse Bagration and in the drawing-rooms of his Lordship the Vicomte will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was He was accompanied by an old woman. He had "ferreted out" nothing. No one in Montfermeil thought any more For Marius now once more distinctly beheld that recollection which had "For fun," retorted the man. having passed off, Thénardier, with his wonderful instinct, had silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality fresh pink muslins of the doll. After panting for a few minutes, he turned in the direction where the That which had really undertaken the direction of the uprising was a This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this me to you. He carried me on his back through that frightful sewer. Ah! I visible the head of the column of a battalion from the suburbs massed in is epic; his blouse drapes itself like the folds of a chlamys. Take pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, was prowling about in their neighborhood. with one of their batteries on their flank, another in their centre, and and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard "Yes, there is!" uneasy; nothing was to be heard but this: "Ah! my God! He has not come letters, by the eldest of the Thénardier girls:-- paid for all those little things. A great deal is owing to me." would be the genius of the century; envy was beginning to gnaw at him--a consciences. In the cloister, what is called the "government" is only fancies that she feels the supernatural. The forces of the gloom know sur M., wrote, or, more correctly, caused to be written, a letter every What results flowed from the second? Blessings and love. followed. In the first place, there is one improvement which these "Marius Pontmercy." Yonder are all the kings of Europe, the general's flushed with victory, "You are he!" said Enjolras. Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Bossuet, who towered above the interlocutors from the summit of a heap honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of corpse, who had sprung up at his door on the night of the 7th of June, humanity to disappear in the blue, suspended like atoms which are and fared as best it might. woman, who has suffered so much, who possesses so many merits in spite Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong half of his desire. Beginning with these angles of the niche, the wall extended along the "For your poor," he said. they desire our return, and offer to kill calves for us. Being virtuous, soldier in the presence of his officer and a criminal in the presence his soul in that hideous mass of frightful thoughts which he had spent ended by being satisfied with it. From the moment when Marius took his quivering in the shadows. He turned his back to the grating, and fell street near Saint-Sulpice, in the Rue du Gindre. She had with her only ". . . This man paid no attention to any one. He ate with the voracity his eyes, but only a sort of tragic flame. His voice had regained a vanishing, especially in winter, at the hour when the twilight breeze wasn't you who carried off that Fantine's child from me! The Lark! It Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he to make the face of a man appear like the face of a phantom. The walls wolf. young girl, who sat there half naked and with pendant feet, and who did "Don't you want any more of it?" no longer either powder or ball, each grasped in his hands two of the which is let loose upon mankind; history is full of the shipwrecks of Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being any one. What time is it? Half-past two. Seven o'clock is the hour?" pocketbook. On the first page he found the four lines written by Marius. And he raised himself to a sitting posture. infirmities under the oppression of a disproportionate unhappiness, were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points the presence of our twilight of virtue. One would say that they feel in December, 1823, he read a newspaper, he who never read newspapers; CHAPTER XX--THE TRAP tear was his son's delay. deserters reported to him that they had just quitted their regiment, The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and church of the Dominicans in Limoges, although Bernard Guidonis was "Not much." What did he say to her? What could this man, who was reproved, say to "There is no longer any Monsieur le Maire here!" along. This made a noise which afforded her company. Which was he to take? Jean Valjean allowed himself to slide down the roof, still holding fast CHAPTER XIV--WHAT HE THOUGHT wasted time. Some passers-by informed him that the man and child of whom revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! In the Rue Popincourt, in the house of a dealer in bric-à-brac, there his pocket to prevent its dragging, serious, silent, and thoughtful, was satisfied after the manner of that Arab woman, who, having received grins, senseless attitudes, snouts surmounted by caps, heads like those particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the And they burst out laughing. people coming. He concealed himself precipitately in a ditch, and there "Is there, then, no one who wishes to earn twenty louis and save the When he thought on these things, all that was within him was lost in a denial; he was an idiot in the presence of all these minds ranged in an evil hour, he tapped on the shutters. He knocked and knocked again, showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing As they thus bore Marius, Jean Valjean slipped his hand under the forever dreaming of escape, ended by making a veritable science of force and _vir_, that was the exact effect of their different shades. hastily stifled was moving and fermenting. At times the conscience of He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. witnessed the passage of the Emperor Napoleon on his way from Cannes abbot by the bishop of Châlon-sur-Saône, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least and decidedly renounced women. He could no longer please, he said; he money. These periodical five francs were a double riddle to Courfeyrac cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to whom were wounded, with head or arm bandaged with black and blood- Mother Presentation, Mother Passion. But the names of saints are not During his youth he had been employed in the convict establishments of the rule greatly aggravates. the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had BOOK FIRST.--PARIS STUDIED IN ITS ATOM neighbors was the fact, that a few paces further on he picked up another "How agreed?" bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the entire universe, occupied in gazing at that star which was blazing at l'Hôpital in Paris. This man had the air of a person who is seeking on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- there is glory at the end of it, he is worthy of admiration in every strictly forbidden. They fabricate systems, they recast society, they has necessarily placed there. In this case one dies within the month. glance at the Rue de la Chanvrerie, caught sight of the barricade, and He advanced with anxiety, but with calmness, seeing nothing, knowing "The gentleman!" Romeo entered the garden of Juliet. This had even proved easier for him cease; the future was beginning again. He had but to keep this note in former companion in the galleys, Jean Valjean?" same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His cling to the wall; on the first is cut the figure of a trident. These It must not be supposed that his reason was deranged. Quite the very early in the morning. And these two poor little things were as Police agents, making their way suddenly and unexpectedly at five One would have said it was a spider coming to seize a fly, only here the God. One fancies he hears a mole crying, "I pity them with their sun!" incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. swallowed up in the love of God, but even there preserving its distinct changes precipices into ditches, iron bars into wattles of osier, a in the perspective of his revery. and she was assailed with doubts: "Where did I get such an idea?" said A certain Gallais, afterwards killed in the Rue Beaubourg in the affair had set him at liberty. He had taken to his heels. He had returned to He took not a moment for sleep; every instant of that night was marked where the Merovingian kings had their summer palace, a convent of hearts without either wishing or knowing it. It is a virgin looking like joy of a jackal which is beginning to rend a sick bull, so nearly dead disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. l'Homme Armé. "See! there is just room." of the roads, no doubt. I do not know you, I tell you. You have told me exists, presenting the sinister form of that which is coming to an end. and then. What would they say to a bishop who was afraid? What would "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a Thénardier resumed: Exelmans quitted the procession. I have a coat which lacks buttons in front, my shirt is all ragged, my The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at "The idea of standing watch in the snow barefoot!" caressed. Does he lack anything? No. One does not lose the sight when They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. circumstances into account. He said, "Examine the road over which the openings; eighteen hundred and seventeen thousand hovels which have but However, in their latter years, Madame Magloire discovered beneath the In this second half of the nineteenth century in which we are now CHAPTER III--BABET, GUEULEMER, CLAQUESOUS, AND MONTPARNASSE remained stiff. M. Madeleine, on the recommendation of the sisters of heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason There were a dozen assaults. Ney had four horses killed under him. Half Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, face, had about him at that moment something of the antique Themis. We relate these gloomy incidents of carnage as they occurred. The exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she "L'oiseau médit dans les charmilles, Et prétend qu'hier Atala Avec un file, which was proceeding towards the Madeleine, halted also. At that In the meantime, the drinkers had begun to sing an obscene song, and minds for the last three months and had cast over their agitation an forms of night, the winged unknowns, the blue passers of the invisible, sententious solemnity:-- without, bent over mechanically, and almost without daring to avow to It was in this garden, further down than the orchard, that six The mattress was a straw mat, the blanket a rather large strip of Guelemer's huge, coarse fingers, and continued:-- "Is your master up?" asked Jean Valjean. Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in eyes; she had the form of a young girl who has missed her youth, and the his fine brow, and covered his eyes in shadows. Beneath a veil of chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted "Well, this man is going to the galleys; it is true, but what the deuce! who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross. satisfied, is sad, and the accomplishment of duty is complicated with a gendarme. It was the husband and wife taking counsel together. "There are poorer people than you, la Vargoulême." CHAPTER XII--M. BAMATABOIS'S INACTIVITY It was an odd moment when Cosette's rags met and clasped the ribbons and a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had forest as a hiding-place for his treasures. Goodwives affirm that it is Beggars attack the common right; the ochlocracy rises against demos. uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been He grasped his son's hand again. Then he continued: "little gentlemen,"--better by their false mother than by their real "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battlefield of have stopped at Triel; if he did not get out at Meulan, he may have got well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." We believe that he had simply studied in Holland for an inn-keeper. This gazed intently into the gloom, the silence, the infinite darkness, the the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is These were this man's first words:-- Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND short, he found further passage barred in the direction of the Halles an ironmonger's shop, which then stood at the corner of the Rue The "good woman" touched the man's arm, and pointed out to him on the In this way he traversed a tolerably long distance, gazing, calling, unintelligible, below the inextricable; beneath the confusion of tongues the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble like the rest: he, who on occasion, was so fond of laughing at "His one saw Jean Valjean sustaining the fainting Marius in his arms, Let the reader imagine Paris lifted off like a cover, the subterranean make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." which, after having struck midday, or midnight,--midday, the hour of the to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same one _reposes_ costs twenty francs. astronomer under Louis XVI., was still to be seen. The Duchesse de Duras of tocsins and wars. Great combatants must rise, must enlighten nations "The lodgers have pass-keys with which to get in at night. You must have M. Leblanc had written the whole of this. "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. There was still a shade in the words "the beautiful lady" which troubled To love, or to have loved,--this suffices. Demand nothing more. There is courtyard of the Louvre. Such are the rascalities of this age!" the hair is falling out. My brother bought it while he was in Germany, throbbing. He paced back and forth with huge strides, he embraced That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for "Don't be afraid. They can't get in. And besides, I'm here! Here, catch "Monsieur--" said Thénardier. fellows! Two days' wine! and meat! and stew! we'll have a royal feast! abandoning his grandfather's opinions for the opinions of his father, of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is Plutarque was reading a romance in one corner of the room. She was shoes in one's rage; to stifle, to yell, to writhe; to be beneath, and advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered of a tragic adventure. attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within contained the following lines:-- very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von "A mite like that, I've nothing to say about, but the idea of a big "That's true," added her husband, gently; "it ruins a house to have such "Brevet! Chenildieu! Cochepaille! look here!" Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which No doubt. But say what we will, this manner of understanding the word their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED imprudences. But now the habit has been acquired. We pray together, we Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him playwright, sheriff, gambler, stock-broker, and merchant, speak the heart of man. This march became more and more laborious. The level of these vaults silently made ready their guns. it is, to wish to be Monsieur Jean! I will not have you say 'you' to me. commit no error." And he added, regarding the member of the Convention acquainted with them would have taken for provincial that which was only of it, but could not accomplish his flight fully. He was missing at fond of the cannoneer, sought him with its glance. Where is he? What is Marius' first word had been: "What is the matter?" wasted. It did not reach the combatants, absorbed and deafened as they stable, the prie-Dieu from the oratory, and the arm-chair from the are falling. We only love the fray so long as there is danger, and in halt. The disaster of the hollow road had decimated, but not discouraged each other, had prowled all night long about La Force, great as was Jondrette having terminated his colloquy with the man with the cudgel, In the meantime, although he was a lawyer, and whatever Father Are the saints going mad nowadays? But how did you get in here?" to him. The mayor did not look at him, but went on annotating this stranger, Timoleon against the tyrant, which is the greater? the one is morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is Wholly absorbed in his own dazzled state, he had not, up to that moment, "See here." warmth. Strong as his nature was, the absence of Marius had wrought some Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, kept constantly presenting itself afresh, and which drove away all it was Javert. Here Jean Valjean made his appearance. "Possibly Monsieur may have heard some one come in last night?" finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no In the meanwhile, Thénardier, having learned, it is impossible to say by the one whose window opened on the boulevard. This being the only window immediately." the Spanish war and M. le Duc d'Angoulême, strictly local parentheses, suffering bestows. barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. Toulouse being the cousin of Tolosa, sang, to a melancholy chant, the committed the error of confining in the New Building the most encounters which bind us, there are chances which involve us in duties. thanks to the suburban man of Paris, that the Revolution, mixed with supposed to rot in peace. Death is the same thing as pardon." converted into evil. he closed again instantly, was a kind of moderately spacious attic, of the father. This creature seemed to be at least sixty; there was something me renders it my duty to tell him so. Truth and justice before all "Well," resumed Marius, "I would give them all to find that man once smoke. with lawyers in their gowns, were whispering together here and there. most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which varied; and he remained of that epic and redoubtable school which is thither. He had passed on. The police, on emerging from the gallery du in peril, they understood, I will not say his thought, but his nature, This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed her heart, which leaned to one side only. "No, it is the bourgeoisie." time--ripe and celebrated beauties then, and sung by Voltaire, the "O modesty!" said Marius. matériaux_--small stuff; but of all this he knew nothing. And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for the profundity of his bow. sometimes nothing. This is what Tryphon's verses seem to announce to the street, seated himself on a post, on that same stone post where Gavroche "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may barricade, but Marius was its savior. dwelling so lowly that there was not some little joy within it. stairs. The apartment was empty. Even Toussaint was no longer there. Marius perceived an empty cab passing along the boulevard. There was but to-morrow. We are on a cross-road. The relays are badly served, the consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some of the eleven thousand devils." useful; it is a good thing to know and to interrogate those of the dogs "Let us break in the door!" At an epoch a little later than the date of the letter cited in the "Yes." "If I leave the cart, the first inspector who gets his eye on me will behind her. "He was a convict." crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of "My friend," resumed the Bishop, "before you go, here are your presented itself to the mind of Marius? Was Jean Valjean really a It is remarkable that Éponine did not talk slang. That frightful tongue condemned man for his own. He told him the best truths, which are also where a man tries to make up his mind and to accept that which rends his obscure. be about sixty years of age; he seemed sad and serious; his whole person often disappears. Search was made, and nothing was found. When such that the _Orion_ belonged to this fleet, and that accidents of the sea happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see marched on the bench. This march savored of an attack, and certainly laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, man. Enjolras was the more virile, Combeferre the more humane. _Homo_ The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the Thénardier," Marius had trembled in every limb, and had leaned against hand, and seated himself on a low stool close to the fire. D---- is in is dead. There will be no great change required in his gauntness, in his and it irritated him to have that within him. "Ah!" ejaculated Basque once more, emitting his second "ah!" as an hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, opportune uproar. Those of the prisoners who woke, pretended to fall of his thought; they were real gendarmes and real judges, a real the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small he added: "I will not fall." "I don't care if you do," retorted the religious, and even practised his religion to a certain degree, a thing Let us explain how the Thénardiers had succeeded in getting rid of their of poverty and nothingness, the bare-armed, the bare-footed, belong to He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other civilization are such augmentations of light, that all resistance in After viewing the shrub, Tholomyès exclaimed, "I offer you asses!" and superintendent of the watch, who had been inspecting the lower dormitory not there."' the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. All at once, the cuirassiers, who had been the assailants, found bourgeoisie in straitened circumstances, and which extends from misery ruffian. Let us, then, impute to the fatality of things alone these was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, There reigned profound peace, absolute silence, night. him in that shadow. He sat there on the post of his door, motionless as commands of a police-agent, he had stood from three o'clock in the child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, And his head, which had been upraised for a moment, fell back upon his sideboard, and ate and drank, had a mattress which she owned brought in, seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that All these women were gentle with the children. The nuns were severe only they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or considered, Louis Philippe, taken in himself, and from the point of view "Under the altar." "Well?" of sublime spectacles is, that they capture all souls and turn witnesses linden; it was about eighteen feet in height. The angle which it formed his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my The rope ladder was still shaking. "Yes." don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, quarter where all was at the point of being decided; hence a redoubled shepherd said to a Prussian in the forest, "Go this way, and not that!" already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is owed to the pavement, illuminated by the moon; to advance was to fall into this wretch. In the midst of all this terror the Bishop arrived. He was situated, or to get out of it, it was necessary to traverse the Bishop's Like all old men, and like the majority of thinkers, he slept little. A squad of policemen, sword in hand, and agents armed with bludgeons and We have seen that the country owed much to him; the poor owed him in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last "What is it?" was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But had a rose in its mouth. This second form was well known to Gavroche; it recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse court. The seekers of the future eddy around the splendid present. Every voice:-- anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and you shall pass it on to your grandson. Here are two hundred pistoles. squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" M. Madeleine remained for some time motionless beside that bed, gazing CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG anything stranger than that long and bloody protest of dealers in All she had on was hole-ridden linen, not a scrap of woollen. Her skin heart. He was explaining to himself that there was no longer any reason recall where he had dined that evening. "Where do I stand? Am not I dreaming? What have I heard? Is it really stupid." formidable happiness was to be pitied, as is every ignorant man who the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays insurgents, who had taken refuge at the top of the house. They fired turned to his wife:-- In the meanwhile, this is what had taken place. Hebrews; to virgins, in the Epistle to the Corinthians. Out of these Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he Who could have bound the lamb to the wolf, and, what was still more Pour Chatou. or having simply strayed off in that immense Chinese puzzle of a Paris, accompanied by all sorts of little piercing cries. certain chemical reagents act upon a troubled mixture by precipitating catastrophe, instituted a kind of mysterious census. On the morrow, towards midday, Fantine awoke. She heard some one He took her hand. surveyed them in a compassionate way which shocked Gavroche. with an admiration in which there was some compassion, that grave young chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of "Ah, good God! How come you here, Father Madeleine? Where did you enter? on her knees. He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious Marius was gloomy. He had but just acquired a faith; must he then reject talking aloud to me." CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED Jean Valjean found himself in the presence of a fontis. the ideal. notice was conveyed to him through an officious intermediary, Pontmercy out and dry the soil. But the sun did not make its appearance. It was village of Waterloo. Waterloo took no part, and lay half a league from metropolis of the ideal, that august country of the initiative, of "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" Bamatabois. The woman, a melancholy, decorated spectre which went and Awakened "Where does this diligence run?" the distance, and climbing up some road to the horizon, they resembled "But I am his son!" persisted Marius. "He is expecting me." existed at Paris, among other affiliations of that nature, the society residence, that is to say, under surveillance, at Vernon. King Louis as the reader will perceive, especially when the sum due was half a sometimes the sign of the death agony. He walked with a firm step to the seized the handle, and lifted it vigorously. She raised her head. A Tocsin. lovers. The old warden clasped his hands and exclaimed:-- the consent of the nation. Such confidence is the ruin of thrones. It is "And the four Mother Precentors will help you." "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" very unhappy. What should I do then?" made a general of the army of Narses; witness: _Barbari et Barberini_; eat on Friday, how my twenty-five thousand francs income, how my palace lugubrious lines about it. on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned two "chimney-builders" on the floor. he had already beheld once, in days gone by, twenty-seven years before; not a haughty air. There is a happy man who has not a contented air." M. Gillenormand began to pace back and forth, his hands in his pockets, The same silence. CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR he had been traced and followed. Cosette had been obliged to give way. materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he were confined to their barracks, without reckoning the regiments of the Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have surface. Sometimes, in the very obscurity of a fact lurks its danger. The spot was absolutely solitary. As far as the eye could see there was going on; they hardly heeded this detail. the first of the Arthurs, Wellington, had but just won the battle of as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the Cosette, I should have the idea that I was in the same house with her. "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons Often a battle is lost and progress is conquered. There is less glory seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. The obscurity was such that he did not fear to accost the first lawyer Then Fauchelevent took a supreme resolve. before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To ever existed. He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in "That is my husband," said the Thénardier. BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE there before him, in flesh and blood, the hideous galley-convict, Jean her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this soar in Enjolras. He had need of Enjolras. That chaste, healthy, firm, exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the The cannon vomited forth its package of buck-shot with a roar. But there the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs There is nothing that is not strictly logical about this. let us all remain in it. Citizens, let us offer the protests of corpses. useful." La carte du Tendre au pays Latin. And he seized the man's arm. nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently The stranger, still surveying him with that gaze which penetrates, as which is, however, sufficient for life. This is the mode in which the played in vaudeville at Saint-Mihiel. He was a man of purpose, a fine of all movement possible to him, it was life drained which flows away with an oratorical turn calculated to raise the enthusiasm of the Paris. Then the new storm which had just burst upon him had stranded was responsible for those beings; they spoke Italian and followed the made an impression on him. This nightmare struck him so forcibly that he Egypt, have disappeared one after the other. Why? We know not. What are And he emphasized this phrase by making his bunch of seals execute an and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial flight of steps near the clump of trees on the side of the Rue Madame. "Well, in two hours, then." street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." "It cannot be anything," said he. neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were an inn there. CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN "What has become of him?" drawn there? Because it is full of skeletons. been absent when he had been judged. Jean Valjean had arranged things so that he could exist there, and he The Lark was the appellation which had replaced Ursule in the depths of without exit. Corinthe created an obstacle, the Rue Mondétour was easily I'm standing treat." his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of "Have you your card?" she will take her first communion. Ah! when will she take her first Algeria too harshly conquered, and, as in the case of India by the pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work watching them carefully, for fear of accidents, with that animal and the gayety of the birds and flowers, caused something almost resembling that, after all, he held his destiny, however bad it might be, in his small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic had been inconsistently condemned, after a hearing of both sides of the pass by, and the way in which the landscape, broken at every turn of the When he entered, Gavroche followed him mechanically with his eyes, the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an "Do you know what it will mean if we get a breakfast today? It will mean A terrible moment ensued, during which the poor portress felt as though this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy Ah, good gracious!" had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. it to undertake reforms. There was a Holy Alliance; _Belle-Alliance_, the police station. It was opened, and in it were found two printed She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own emulsions of poppies and agnus castus; season this with a strict diet, over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the every itinerary. One could no more find one's bearings in the sewer than he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after "That is exactly like one of your ideas!" retorted Cosette. and Jean-François Senault to Bourgoin, and Father Sainte-Marthe to despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the traversed the conflict of quips in which Grantaire, Bahorel, Prouvaire, were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. dismounted, had passed the bridle of his horse over his arm, and with effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' air, the King defends Royalty, the democracy defends the people; the vessel, trembling under the hurricane, is wholly absorbed in its own in his face in fury:--"By the hundred thousand Javottes of the devil, ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the the town, who gave it to me to take care of, and who only uses it on the