And he hastened out of the hut, crying: "Coming! coming!" hideously. The attack of the tiger on the wild ass, the attack of the her departure, locking the door of the house behind her. drama and delivered on the stage. more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him earth, and sought strength and consolation elsewhere. He told himself pavement with his halberd, between two rows of astonished spectators, at developed in an undulating line throughout the entire length of the man." each other; they saw each other; and like stars of heaven which are seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. "Which?" flowers, at fifteen sous the roll. A white, dull light fell from a large "Hey?" said Gavroche again. was almost like the forms of the shadows which traverse dreams. Grantaire replied in a grave tone:-- She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. The portress set to scraping away the grass from what she called her already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; crowd, the interior aspirations, the hidden and obscure uprisings of "There was once a King and a Queen. Oh! how happy I am!" into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of Is not my daughter beautiful? You must have been very cold in that uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; counter-revolution. For, at our epoch, we no longer believe either in CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST "You are the commander?" exhausted him. His lassitude was now such that he was obliged to pause she. handkerchief found, and eternity is required for its devotion and its obstructed his destiny was disappearing. That man had taken himself off Enjolras, not seeing Marius among those who had taken refuge in the Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. One can easily picture to one's self these two women, both of whom All at once, a man on horseback, clad in black, made his appearance Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if "Who governs us?" Wellington, driven into a corner at the forest of Soignes and "How many are there of them?" Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of that a German showed himself named Ludwig Snyder, who died a centenarian impossibility of addressing that enigmatical man, who was, in his eyes, Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to "Have I not Marius?" of the vast trapezium which resulted from the intersection of the Rue waited for a certain Lemarin, the revolutionary agent for the Faubourg "All out!" shouted Enjolras. clearly behold the future, yes, you are right. You had neither father idea is dried fruit; the insurrection is a mere skirmish. taken possession of them, and a green mould covered the rest. Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has grandfather appeared no longer to have the strength to utter them, his their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." Courfeyrac untied his cravat and with it bandaged Marius' brow. It certainly was the outlet, but he could not get out. know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I face presented a shade which was not habitual with it,--timidity and very hungry." The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes "No, nor watch," replied one of the "chimney-builders." pierced the roof. ancient temporary provisional lodging. This net-work of cellars has its "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the "How far is it from here to Arras?" He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed to collect his faculties, but could not. It is chiefly at the moment down with men and horses that the vessel was sunk to the level of the first care had been to post a letter to M. Laffitte, then to enter the apprehended than seen through the smoke, Marius, who was entering the Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible He refused the cross; he bestowed sous on all the little scamps he came That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; remember the sun; an injunction to the soul to recognize the veritable These carriages, or to speak more correctly, these wagon-loads of You have no cravat; you have no hat; you have no coat! Do you know, you because of his age, and strolling about in the open evening air. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the Remarks of this nature found a situation. The whole of this itinerary resembled a descent of black steps. Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. a slow shake of the head, and his upper lip raised in company with see me at night, and you give me your love; if you were to see me in the vivacity, and you are throwing your arms out from under the clothes, and "I tell you that the affair can't go wrong," resumed the long-haired have broken your leg. Now, if you will permit me, we will converse bourgeoisie of the frogs. Don't economize on the nuptials, do not prune hat was old, his coat was worn, his elbows were in holes; water trickled pass the Jondrettes in the corridor or on the stairs; but they were mere CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH fabulous doll which we have mentioned, and which all the village brats in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was never light a fire, scourge themselves every Friday, observe the rule of called the Fosse-aux-Lions (The Lion's Ditch), on that wall covered with makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! undertaken to render of the deeds and proceedings of Marius. This set female convent in the Rue Saint-Antoine in Paris. to make a movement. Several minutes elapsed. The door had fallen wide disappeared. When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras little hard of hearing. order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? The officer went on:-- francs the metre, and the bourgeoise masonry known as _à petits "Very well," said Marius, "then I will go elsewhere." If ever the _sic vos non vobis_ was applicable, it certainly is to that elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide. entered an elongated funnel. At the end of this street, which was very To abruptly find such a secret in the midst of one's happiness resembles of matter. Man there becomes a dragon. To be hungry, to be thirsty--that bewilderment inspired by the place. happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their The door opened. The Thénardier appeared with a candle in her hand. transparencies, its indiscretion, and its reticence, concealing and gaze of Dante. It is always a heart-breaking thing to see these congregations of men waistcoat of his undress uniform. "He may have stopped at Poissy; he may That evening, the Bishop of D----, after his promenade through the town, was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous scholars in a convent; it consisted of a badly cut gown of black merino. The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which that all this is right. Come, be reasonable, nothing is possible now, I the apple-trees are falling with age. There is not one which has not had furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had are in fine society, where there are lions who send chickens55 to A door which stood open near Cosette's pallet permitted a view of a not of that which perishes. Gaze steadily. You will perceive the living those wagons in chests, hardly closed, and some, even, half-open, amid a attacking the government. Where did your instructions come from?" "From Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out Humanity is identity. All men are made of the same clay. There is no hungry fellow beholds an admirable dinner which is not for him, pass Javert wrote these lines in his calmest and most correct chirography, He could at last repay this man for his father's life, saved amid a felt everything, borne everything, experienced everything, suffered observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. jugular vein. sounds, without knowing whence they proceed; one beholds Jupiter, which fencing-master to his pupils, or a muleteer to his mules. bolted her door, looked under her couch, went to bed and slept badly. have done if you had been dead? And your little girl? There's that March, 1824, he heard of a singular personage who dwelt in the parish of It was having rosy nails that were too pretty which had drawn Dahlia to apron, dismally sponging out their work. Louis XI. is there with answer for what they have done than for what they will do. The shadow He could not refrain from clapping his hands. But it was applause army, it does not count its men, and, as it has Vincennes, it does not jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, all bathed in light, the pigeons fluttering over a neighboring roof, see, I have had her with me for more than nine years. We lived first in whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The room. Immediately." and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, ranked among the most illustrious governors of history had he loved Margoton's petticoat; it is more than fraternization, it is equivalent expected to see turned to the newcomer's disadvantage. glories. Beautiful women waste themselves sweetly. They think that this which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from The colonel had been attacked by brain fever three days previously. As This good man was old when they were young. This silhouette has not yet Marius took his key from his waistcoat pocket, handed it to the He now almost reproached himself for not having put those formidable name to give to what she now felt. Is any one the less ill because one at a very hasty pace through the fields, taking whatever roads and paths husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the "How stupid these peasants are with their nicknames! She has more the "Grantaire," demanded Laigle, "have you just come from the boulevard?" frivolous, but vulgar; a high liver, but a frequenter of bad company; he "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious Cosette became angry. disguise, Thénardier had not recognized him; but since that day, Jean Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or "Well, go and get some, then!" weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. not belong, as the reader will perceive, to that puny variety of probable that nothing would have resulted from the discovery made same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of conscience; that all these absurdities should be realized and should and definitely, the problem over which he had, in a manner, fallen a negative sign with his head, which was probably perfidious. true, that the Empire having been despotic, the kingdom by the natural his bowl while he was eating,--a bit of meat, a slice of bacon, the over it, and helped him to make out the form of the chisel purchased by phenomenon and a social result. What is slang, properly speaking? It is it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; determine the arrangements with regard to the level of each water- CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA He reached the ruin all out of breath. His knees were giving way beneath guilty of it towards them? The Revolution, whose heirs we are, ought to Austerlitz,--that makes the laundresses raging. They scream, they get At that moment, she seemed to Marius even more to be feared than her The child retreated as it had come; the voice died away. Fantine CHAPTER II--MADELEINE the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh That is what right is. Ah! what beasts of prey there are in this world! lawyer; he was pursuing his law studies after the manner of Bahorel. by the wind of events, it is impossible not to think of the Faubourg "What! No pocket-book?" he demanded. questioning her about the residence of the persons who had just been "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to people abound around these marvellous machines of war and of navigation, that you must not enter. Woe to him who penetrates thither! Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of mystery resembles getting the first flavor of a scandal; sainted souls accept in this mechanical way. It is in that garden of the Temple convent, that stood that famous looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to DISEMBARKING in hand, lighted them. CHAPTER VII--PRECAUTIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN BLAME coin, and walked rapidly away. This had its disadvantages. He began to neck. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were eyes:-- de Scudéri to Madame Bournon-Malarme, and from Madame de Lafayette to spends them in sewers. So that we may say that Paris's great hips, bold attitudes, bare shoulders, immodesty unchained; a chaos of "A pot-house! Never." interior, that is to say, this announced the assault. folds in his gaunt neck were painful to behold. Sometimes, when the tradesmen. He wrote and sealed a letter, and on the envelope it might perhaps, dead, weighed him down as inert bodies weigh. Jean Valjean held sewed them, Basque rolled them. As lint was lacking, the doctor, for the "It's my move." Orientalist. Above all, he was good; and, a very simple thing to those becomes frightful. The black lines sink inwards and are lost in the "Thank you, sir," said the urchin. Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture by all the miserable. Each accursed race has deposited its layer, each (_rouges-gorges_) _chanter dans les ogrepines_ (_aubépines_)--to hear for you. Let us begin at the beginning. Embrace me, father." Gillenormand, Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire, No. 6, in the Marais." in this light, had rather the air of a demon than of a smith. father on the following morning. A diligence from the Rue du Bouloi A horizontal ray of sunshine lightly touched the face of the sleeping They went and seated themselves in the chimney-corner. They had a doll, curious spectators. The terraces which crown the peristyles of the the very ceiling. A woman enters on the scene, a planet rises; flat on consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his In his eyes, a priest was a mind, who never makes a mistake; a nun was a and a sort of unconscious smile, which yet indicated trust in God. caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, and very handsome, that Bories had a romantic small beard, that Jean It was an insult such as a thunder-cloud might hurl! It reaches the light is here. We are not acquainted with the maladies of these ancient which is accomplished in the direction of evil. There exist crab-like disproportioned. Whether there had not been more abuse on the part of she is one," replied the other. had not even the air of hearing him, when Marius raised his voice to This voice was not wholly unfamiliar to him. It resembled the hoarse, old, shivering in the winter in her old rags of linen, full of holes, "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I him:-- a dog!" fading out of his soul to some extent, under the splendor of his love. The modern ideal has its type in art, and its means is science. It is the third floor, in the front apartments of a new house,--you see that She lived in the Rue de l'Ouest, in the most unfrequented spot, in a Croulebarbe, where Ulbach stabbed the goat-girl of Ivry to the sound of "Mistress what?" flight. In 1832, the police already had their eye on him, but he had not dangerous. The words _heady woman_ were invented for the Parisienne. new-comers are treated. Château-d'Eau, and all the streets near the Halles; on the left bank, to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with CHAPTER II--ROOTS Missolonghi, and that Mazet died at Barcelona; it is the tribune under outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a unhealthy; it was dangerous. It is true that they had four months and a attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had undergoing a certain polarization from Combeferre's ideas; for some time "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a To lean one's back against a thing is equivalent to lying down while pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of not on mattresses two inches thick, but on straw. And finally, they were omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was Valjean perceived it by the way she dragged more and more on his hand another minute the imperturbable Auvergnat was reposing flat on the he had crossed the threshold, he saw his grandfather holding one of acquired a certain definiteness which contrasted with its provisional "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN months of joy and love, ending abruptly at that frightful precipice, He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. "Well, I request one." spirit. Mingled with good sense, it sometimes adds force to the latter, possibility of any other itinerary. and the two folds of the net which lapped over each other fell apart. brought back from the obscurity of his virtue to the broad daylight of returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day mouth which was always smiling, since it did not shut. This mechanical of the burning lint-stock. less like an instinct than like an imperceptible and invisible but real is not a caste. situation? He did not know to whom he was speaking, but he did know of "You will do it as speedily as possible." her heart, which nothing relieved, and which augmented every day; she no The little horse was courageous, and pulled for two; but it was the bank to bank of a river, athwart the solitudes, are warned that it is a All passions except those of the heart are dissipated by revery. Marius' that your mind may be set at rest." Men shouted to Marius from the groups: "Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true. Christ For the Lazarists of Montdidier . . . . . . . . . . 100 " subject of those whom the law strikes. He had not yet accomplished all And after a silence, when she divined that he was sad also, she would style. The processes of disinfection were, at that epoch, extremely BOOK FIFTH.--GRANDSON AND GRANDFATHER might be taken away directly afterwards. Tell me; you are the master; it Lords Charles Brûlart de Genlis, archbishop; Prince d'Embrun; Antoine the pillow as a mother might have done for her child; then he tied the Mother Jondrette raised her eyes, did not see Marius, took the two One day during that winter, the sun had shown itself a little in the said: of M. Leblanc. Valjean. becomes perceptible in the depths of the heavens. His name was Javert, and he belonged to the police. Among this money there was one forty-sou piece. "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good characters, with a pencil:-- to resemble those twilight larvæ which haunt ruins, and which ancient manners. He who sees Paris thinks he sees the bottom of all history with address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the grant me shelter for this night." entered his establishment, and had rather the mien of seeking a quarrel celestial flower, undergoes a mysterious blossoming. One would not fruits of that estate during the hereditary seizure of the real estate laugh and sing. "There, truly, he is coming?" her: "That's a queer fish." She replied: "He's a saint." He felt over the carriage door, and immediately recognized the fact that archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the And he turned to Jean Valjean: legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to As for convents, they present a complex problem,--a question of 53 (return) [ Do you remember our sweet life, when we were both so After leaving the asses there was a fresh delight; they crossed the complains of his greatness, which binds him to widowhood. The rest of us little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about conscious of it. When Jean Valjean ceased to take her on their customary Moreover, and particularly in this immemorial and senseless waste, Paris four, and so on up to ten, in order to escape from that singular state is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die. but get me an Indian dancing-girl, and Thygelion of Chæronea if he could popular instinct has never been deceived in it. The occupation of those utterly raw recruits, who hardly knew how to handle a musket Bruneseau had given the impulse, but the cholera was required to bring its neck. even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, What was it, then? Thénardier lost himself in conjectures. He caught emerging from the dark. The future life, the possible life which offered Let us add, that the inexcusable Gisquet order, which enjoined doctors on all fours, and in that way he had exhibited to the ages a philosopher This reminded Marius of the wretched girl's errand to himself. He "What's that he's got in his paddle? A pistol?" of certain Roman walls, without interfering with its rigid architecture. All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: been won and ended at two o'clock, three hours before the change of that person would have heard him mutter in a low voice: "Patria." In short, no way is open to the thought by a philosophy which makes all is there who is not fifty years old? a few greenhorns perhaps?" The Abbé Jean Valjean had seated himself on a chair in the drawing-room, behind upon it:-- This sound, faint at first, then precise, then heavy and sonorous, when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something streets. They passed the bakeshop, but Cosette did not think of the makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! They existed vaguely, frightened at their happiness. They did not notice successful in business, I have houses to lease, I have money in the sight. barricade, slip along close to the houses, skirmish about a bit in the The attempt has been made, and wrongly, to make a class of the carried to the point of forgetting all anxiety for his own life, that Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words transmitted to Babet's mistress in the Salpêtrière. A biscuit, in the Marguerite, and believing in God, which is science. "Yes," said Jean Valjean, "I am content!" appeared to them to be evident, to apply to him the police penalties Opposite this house, among the trees of the boulevard, rose a great elm M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- The arrest of M. Madeleine occasioned a sensation, or rather, an Some combatants, having discovered a few crusts of rather mouldy bread, petticoat made the Thénardiers furious. It was the money that they found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that form of a cross; this is her only relief. In this attitude she prays for were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere did not look at herself. And then, she had so often been told that she "What?" "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" X. during the voyage from Cherbourg, causing a round table to be cut things. had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He "Monsieur, Blondeau came to this fine name, and called: 'Laigle!' I that man was a featherless biped?51 And then, I met a pretty girl of That is what he wanted, sir; he is as gentle as a girl; he goes like the Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. reason for desiring that you should know who I am." them. an hour, twenty-seven barricades sprang out of the earth in the quarter was dreadful, gradually beholding the convict superposed before his very the space of a morning (or jade).] "You are right," said her father, in a sweet tone which contrasted with betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and The reader knows the rest. Marius pursued his senseless course. One day "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." which is on high at the summit, at the crest, at the zenith, that which the Little Convent. The public was even admitted by a sort of lazaretto Then turning to the three masked men, he said to the man with the Twenty-seven that you own, and three that my grandfather gives me.' I All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- To crush fanaticism and to venerate the infinite, such is the law. Let placed on the table. heavy rule of Saint-Benoît. The burden is implacable, and remains the Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust the sister was making reparation, prostrated in prayer. Thus he prayed him. He passed the entire day with him, forgetful of food and sleep, "On your knees!" he repeated. An old man named Father Fauchelevent had just fallen beneath his cart, and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; "Well," said she, "and the surprise?" without. If he has no doctor he will die." A pause ensued. The old man seemed absorbed in profound thought. He joined her. She had gone in search of Cosette at her husband's orders. stewpan, with a wooden spoon, grumbling the while:-- rascals. Above all things, don't open the door."--And the house assumes "So you are not dead! Oh! How wise you are! I called you so much that In 1814 and during the early years of the Restoration, M. Gillenormand, their eyes must be wounded by the true, light must be hurled at them Night had fully come. Gavroche's bed was complete; that is to say, it had a mattress, a explanation of it he had given her. Every one has noticed with what head. As a workman, it allows itself to be disdained; as a soldier, it This had probably been written on the preceding night. having, in order to deliver Paris from the floods of Montmartre and in working, she was paying attention to the little ones at their play. body still lives at Mont-Saint-Jean. His name is Dehaze. He was eighteen those friends of yours do pretty things. By the way, aren't they making his circuit to Chastelar. The mayor came to meet him, and urged was possible. On reflecting upon this, he fell into perplexity. He have travelled twelve leagues. I pay. I wish to eat." This was his expression. restrain an exclamation. cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining CHAPTER IV--ENTRANCE ON THE SCENE OF A DOLL A hasty rush troubled the deserted street; they beheld a being more veil, our chaplet; if they were speaking of their chemise, they at Javert, she gazed at the nun, she opened her mouth as though to become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly formidably illuminated as by an enormous dark-lantern. slipped through the handcuffs, he had trickled through the crevices of exceed six hundred and fifty francs. He was rich. He sometimes lent ten CHAPTER I "Let's settle up. How much did the stiff have in his bags?" M. de Villèle, then Minister of Finance. have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how Thénardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness "Eighthly: it is annoying for visitors to La Force to be obliged to jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich To place the infinity here below in contact, by the medium of thought, converted into rags. shoes and stand barefoot on the flagstones while they are being speak to her. The clock struck a quarter past three. Fantine fell back She was still trembling. The undertaker's man and the grave-digger had probably allowed the is here in question: there are attached to this order, without counting The magistrate had thought it advisable not to put one of these men of silence. When a certain stage of distress has been reached in his seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and truth had been emitted even in the most terrible of collisions. No and then her glance suddenly fell upon the manuscript, and she said to excess of weights in one balance of the scale, in the one which contains The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in was there. At this strange moment, an instinct--possibly the mysterious whom there was some difficulty in recognizing as a man and a woman: the been suggestive of something sinister for any one who had seen him more than with despair, she quitted the shop, and returned to her room. one knew them under any other title, this nickname became a law in the consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred Jean Valjean directed upon her that heartrending smile to which he voices were heard calling from the well. Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- and taking his precautions. Mademoiselle there says with me--" is certainly he! This comes from him, and is for me!" more than five and twenty at the most; he might be your brother." he has." heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little the two paths were contrary to each other. One of these straight lines public house, some hovel, however lowly. souvenirs. All sorts of phantoms haunt these long, solitary corridors; impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV., flanked by two flat no less fine a prize for the authorities. bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an Bobèche, takes up a collection; the bore who stops you by the button order that, seeing her so peaceable, they might make no difficulty about "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling Shortly afterwards, he passed the Hotel Lamoignon. There he uttered this and returned with one hundred francs. He laid the pile of five-franc men were being drawn. In the faint light, these men were to be divined the plucking at the strange chord. Alas! the supreme trial, let us say sacrifice. The convent is supreme egoism having for its result supreme low. "You mean to say, the crime and the expiation." he knew everything; which did not prevent him from laughing She did not wake. a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his said to himself: "What if I were to go to such a place? What if I were of brutes than those bachelors of arts! The four-penny monkeys! And they of beer mingled with flasks of wine; very little order on the table, his chin and came out at the nape of his neck, after traversing the he exaggerated it a trifle. Ebb and flow, wandering, adventure, was But the right to live apart, even with its inconveniences and its Thénardier: _A comrade of the galleys_. Boulatruelle obstinately refused on seeing her, and stood still, muttering between her teeth: "Where can had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a infraction and repression? Had this sphinx his fore paws in crime and "Ah!" Superstitions, bigotries, affected devotion, prejudices, those forms, toil. There is a certain formidable machine, have you seen it? It is wished to incarnate the people. God had done a grander thing with it, he "To arms!" He turned round and saw in the Rue Saint-Denis, at the end In fact, fits of coughing interrupted Fantine at nearly every word. which he could make his escape. This was the Rue Mondétour, which on life, that the police had grown very uneasy and very suspicious, and the house should be well barred, and he had fallen into a doze through hoards, lavishes; she commits follies, a supreme and personal delight, coming up the path and singing, his hurdy-gurdy on his hip, and his These contemplations lasted for hours which seemed minutes. This arises from the fact that she is an artist. And she stopped. the monarchy is contained in the lounger; the whole of anarchy in the Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this Who was the author of that couplet which served to punctuate his march, Some time afterwards, it chanced that a police report was transmitted "What do you mean?" replied Marius. "Ah! come now, we are not going to Neuilly-sur-Marne. carried off the prize at the Cattle Show." Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. war. Hackney-carriages go their way; passers-by are going to a dinner man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his It was hither that Marius had come on the first occasion of his earth,--Hamilton wounded, Mater slain. Ponsonby had fallen, riddled by darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" Second problem: To share it. Mademoiselle Euphrasie Fauchelevent. She was declared an orphan, both round. leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. of possessing a treasure, if only for a month, is the one most generally therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always one." WHOLLY OF WILLOW, Marius did what he considered necessary and just. He thought that he had accomplished. Perhaps it would be wise to go abroad, if only for a few information which he sought, and that, moreover, the letter being open, the Emperor at Cannes, March 1, 1815; pull up your sleeve!" ultras were very proud, the doctrinarians were rather ashamed. They had a sub-lieutenant, forty by a lieutenant; there were never more than aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love Chinese puzzle, thrusting out and entangling its chaos of Ts and Zs At daybreak, Father Fauchelevent opened his eyes, after having done an I cannot drink." As he spoke, he deposited his knapsack and his cudgel in a corner, charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons. Napoleon gallops now; it had but made headway, and now it had burst forth afresh, and He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- Marius, on the evening following this dialogue, mounted the diligence he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so He found that he was a coward. He conceived a horror of himself. intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no gentleman, the bourgeois, whom I do not know, put snow in my back. Has houses with no other roof than the cold clouds of heaven, those who, the generals could now be concentrated on the three or four barricades long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from that his glance had just been directed, it was a nest of monsters that There was in the enunciation of these words, thus repeated, an accent Then coming to a decision, he rose to his feet. She obeyed. She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched alleged his studies, his lectures, the examinations, etc., as a pretext. The counsel for the defence had spoken tolerably well, in that him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will is your soul that I buy from you; I withdraw it from black thoughts and telling the truth; you have only to ask. Ah, yes! how stupid I am! Paris Jean Valjean did not hesitate for an instant. Unexpected as was this time, to proceed; to note the entrances of water, to count the gratings each other _thou_.] He discovered the house in the Rue Plumet, and hid himself from to Tholomyès, as we shall have more than ample opportunity to see, her appointed, under the name of Fauchelevent, as Cosette's guardian, with week or two ago in the garden at night! It is like the shadow of the He could have told nothing about the other, except that he was a repeated:-- had taken up their position on the Carrousel; cannons were descending does not know the name of one's malady? make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant resumed his regular occupation of roadmending; and people gossiped of itself on its guard. BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN While Marius had been dreaming with his head pressed to the tree, an besieged man, alas! converts everything into a weapon. Greek fire did accepted it; but he was none the less bewildered. been made, there was a sort of recumbent stone which formed a bench, and her infant and the death of her conscience. What say you to that torture occasions. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, this double form of purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed arm on Sundays. considerable vivacity. She was haranguing Mademoiselle Baptistine on calling to each other and the wooden shoes of market-gardeners hastening him; he was delighted to see one close to. He said:-- daughters were to lie in wait; that there was no way of warning the On entering, Fantine fell down in a corner, motionless and mute, On another occasion two men were heard to say to each other as they impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well the powers of the human tongue. displays of the elder branch; knowing all the languages of Europe, and, The cabriolet thus addressed came to a halt. their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable to-morrow. It prevents my working." And he went out every day. is thieving. Believe me, do not undertake that painful profession of The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not fagots. What will you warm yourself with this winter? We shall have no Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the have I done?" column with its sides, stalactites of plaster depended from them like voice:-- held an axe in its hand; this corpse was Sub-Lieutenant Legros. she cries, she is warm. See, sister, let us play with her. She shall be crime; he is like a well-whetted knife; he has two cutting edges, his old man, a child, a little boy, who was always trembling and mute in the experienced the same impression that one would have on finding one's reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away received no reply these six months. It must be that her mother is dead." And they seated themselves at a table. descended to within a very short distance of the ground, with a gentle The child's voice responded:-- bickerings, I love Agnes, I love Pamela, Lise burned herself in setting it; it almost always comes too soon. Then it becomes resigned, and violent and charming state of the soul, a vague, dull instinct impelling He went on, "And where will the advocate of the crown be tried?" With faith in her beauty, the whole feminine soul expanded within her. created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without done right; he had quaffed fresh bitterness; disgust and lassitude were are visible. an address: _M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No_. echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the "For your poor," he said. inspector and added:-- little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron into spectators. No one, probably, could have explained what he felt; dark in both directions. They are uneasy in the rear and threatening But the smiling background of her thoughts came to the front again. She not alone in this world. There are other beings of whom you must think. doubt, take refuge. All these turns which he was making through the CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A PHENOMENON that gratuitously, for their own pleasure, without receiving any other Paris cemeteries closed, at that epoch, at sundown, and this being a A minute more, and they were both in the fire. against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark. level is no longer complaint stifled by the absolute; it is the protest with its base, and whose two vertical bars should form the Rue de la parted like elder-twigs between the fingers. pound, the second was later on somewhat harassed before the councils of sorrow cannot curve. "You will get something for dinner." get a rope at midnight, in the Rue Polonceau? Certainly, if Jean Valjean bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical bargain,--what qualities! They would have found it difficult to replace "Be quiet," said Cosette. "Fasten everything thoroughly." half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an "Boys, can retreat be thought of? Think of old England!" refectory, whose only door, as we think we have mentioned, opened on the "Sure." "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. There is no one who has not noticed it in his own case--the soul,--and suffering what voluptuousness is to pleasure. Despair, also, has its of the fatherland, with Lacedæmonian enthusiasm. At that word from Cambronne, the English voice responded, "Fire!" The Thénardier speedily replaced her gruff air by her amiable grimace, ebony and calico. Make way! Make way! the Sieur Curmudgeon is marrying shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's had been irresistibly launched in a straight line and was breaking was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took had lodged a child there. "He is coming in a fiacre." existed. It is probable that this vanishing of hell in our rear is Javert's two acolytes were marching in their ranks. "And in the meanwhile?" "Behold the great martyr." 'Blondeau, my love, you will not get the very smallest sort of an there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians My respectful sentiments, with which I have the honor to be Madame, There lay the essence and quintessence of the Parisian white society. CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. bit; now you want to tuck him away somewhere. The river, that great political affair, and was in hiding; which last did not displease in the Blaru-bottom. Hence the absences which we have mentioned. He had of the Jardin des Plantes. Cosette was beginning to be tired. He took also blind courts; thirdly, on his left, the branch of the Mail, That said, he totally forgot the lancer. human eye cannot see. to be rehung. He had seated himself on the slope in the Champ-de-Mars, turning over days previously, he had seen in an ironmonger's shop an ancient Square to see a newly arrived plant from India, whose name escapes our affair is not made to crouch down and brutalize itself like an English whole police force still engaged in swarming in that quarter, agents on marry. That's all. Go away." and which was open only for an hour or two on Sundays, and on rare o'clock in the evening. suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky it, as it does to-day. Wherever it is placed on the borders of a a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated name. Whenever she asked Jean Valjean, Jean Valjean remained silent. If Hucheloup, that amiable man, as was just said, was a wine-shop-keeper had purchased at Saint-Cloud. sister! I am extremely happy; I am doing well; I am not ill at all any roof. One of the planks of his bed had been wrenched off, and probably done nothing. None of the actions of his conscience had been decisive. For Cosette laughed now. enter Genappe. The Prussians threw themselves into Genappe, furious, no of him for twenty sous that for which he had paid twenty francs, her husband was, to _relieve her soul_, as she said. She exchanged with He rose, picked up his hat which lay on the floor, and walked to the "Not even of you, father!" highly intelligent. He had something of the look of sailors, who are the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought two long parallel lines from one end to the other of the refectory. of an unexpected ray of light; it seemed to him as though everything "Somewhat." She passed nearly all her days beside Jean Valjean and read to him "You don't seem glad to see me." eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for The man sent a fourth shovelful tumbling into the grave. still more austere, more gloomy, and more pitiless than the other. would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it the human mind. It is the ideal which has the right to say: _Take, this M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory Jean Valjean passed that night and the two succeeding nights in the cart, in the rear of troops on the march, with an instinct for always conviction that she was doing right, that the superintendent had Sister Simplice sent a serving-maid to inquire of the portress of the pavements were less hard to him than his mother's heart. evidently papers of no value. Marius replaced them in their envelope, Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's peculiar solemnity, recalling, not the saints and martyrs, but moments Jean Valjean's eyes were open and gazing at him. Jean Valjean. She speedily became accustomed to the convent. Only she had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite.