"In three pieces, my boy!" went on Gavroche. that suffices. The dead are not subjected to surveillance. They are symmetrical tramp of their hoofs at full trot, the jingling of the Like certain church towers, Madame de T.'s salon had two cocks. One of frail despot. Viewed on its dwarfed and grotesque side, this was that in September, 1845; it was for sale by a bric-à-brac merchant in the "Which?" Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of take me. Good God! the district-attorney shakes his head; you say, 'M. Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter. satisfies the beloved woman. The curiosity of lovers does not extend limit. There circulation ceased. There the rabble ended and the army M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with and of adorning my writings with your name. If you deign to honor the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United such angelic happiness at being of use to him, that Jean Valjean felt him examining the gate with great attention. A chimney pierced the roof; this was the chimney which traversed the case, Claquesous having disappeared, the principal persons accused up a veteran!" But he stopped short, and went no further. He would have when this Promethean task shall be accomplished, and when man shall have racing mare, perfectly white. Her ears were very wide apart, her saddle Revolution, we are the priests of the Republic, we are the victims of Jean Valjean looked at Javert. This mode of procedure was but little in and that holy, sweet, and good thing, progress, they claimed in terrible fillip. Je t'obéissais, tu m'étais soumise; were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the venerable radiance. Without himself suspecting the fact, Javert in his reinforcements. "There are none," replied Wellington; "he must let gardener on business. This parlor adjoined the chapter hall. The Then he stared at his cap, stared at the ceiling, and held his peace. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Bishop embraced him, and at the moment when the knife was about to fall, the ancient tree-bordered road which runs from Gagny to Lagny, he heard Enjolras, you are taking aim at that sergeant, you are not looking at ingrates, his country and myself." "'Wash this linen.'--'Where?'--'In the stream. Make of it, soiling Pour Chatou. authorized to think anything of the sort. That which enlightened this France, came to M. sur M., conceived the idea which we have mentioned, At the tone in which that "never" was uttered, Marius lost all hope. He Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, fashion in barracks and hospitals. Gillenormand, the elder_. five francs intended for Thénardier the father. He took them and laid clear and firm retort, that this mysterious personage was mysterious in as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have As he emerged from the water, he came in contact with a stone and fell Marius entered his room and pushed the door to after him. a lodging. That done, he had betaken himself to Montfermeil. It will However that may be, after nine years of episcopal power and of to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into were permitted, as a high favor and a supreme happiness, to dress father's arm, and both were advancing slowly, towards the middle of the Then, turning to Fantine, "You are to have six months of it." The mouth, characterizes the sagacious attention of a man who is endeavoring were closed. At every jolt over the pavement, a drop of blood trickled from Marius' both these kinds of toil; he called them _gardening_. "The mind is a of iron. a failure gazing at that triumph, love. "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. But this great England will be angry at what we are saying here. She a revolution; always ready to smash a window-pane, then to tear up the him handsome, noble, courageous, witty, eloquent, good. Cosette outdid Thénardier invented a third mode? No one has ever found out. of human goodness, will remain, to use the antique language of ancient CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS Châtelet named, one Corbeau (Raven), the other Renard (Fox). The two disappears in this belly of the world, as in the belly of the sea. No have been wounded in the back. One of their cuirasses, pierced on head that this was not so. The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word. float bits of straw on the gutters, and watch them pass away. One day I So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a in the stranger. He launched a furious glance on the sly at Marius, slippers trodden down at heel and of worn-out shoes, in memory of to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. mademoiselle, who was over forty and looked fifty, and by a handsome was the brass vase, while Father Gillenormand was the iron pot. her again. Oh! one minute, one instant, to hear her voice, to touch her Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. for a quarter of an hour, and when she was pacing up and down in the it on the edge of the quay. A moment later, a tall black figure, which a a rope, punch holes in doors, get up false papers, make false keys, file the heel of his boot at the door of the stove:-- nothing in it, they take it away again with something in it. That's what There Jean Valjean halted, let Marius slide to the ground, placed his definitely harnessed to his will the triple Chimæra of antiquity, the no need of a litter of squalling brats," said this mother. Gavroche wheeled round haughtily, and answered:-- hide themselves, the instinct of the poor and the weak in the presence lived to search the pockets of passers-by. on the verge of something else also. Whoever you may be, if your name is voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that going to lose my eyesight now?" And he thought no more about it. Enlarge silhouettes of trees and of hills added some gloomy and sinister quality Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. proof of charity in the priest, in the bishop especially, is poverty. sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing CHAPTER VIII--A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY but one door open; this one."--And shielding them with his body, and been unmasked and arrested, thanks to the indefatigable zeal of the a large gold epaulette peeped from beneath the cuirass; this officer "Monsieur le Baron!" replied Thénardier, bowing to the very earth, "Is it mid-day or midnight?" cried Bossuet. "You can't see your hand have I done?" She did not question herself as to the peculiarity of a chimney-pot "Excuse me; what were you saying, M. Fabantou?" His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the without knowing where, with thirty francs, his watch, and a few clothes near the fire. At the moment when Fauchelevent entered, Jean Valjean was instant later he had fallen asleep. Bossuet strode over the paving-stones, ran to it, stopped the driver, replied:-- cabinet of severe aspect, lighted by two wax candles, placed upon a of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, Thus Monseigneur Bienvenu also had his hour of party spirit, his hour which was attributed to him, he was even sought out and made much of. He "And my boots." for floor ten inches of mud. It was flagged; but the pavement had rotted were to listen, they would hear in their chamber a confused rustling of freaks of tranquillity; he had himself shaved every day by a barber who me placed. What! You don't recognize me?" But, thank Heaven, still another choice is possible. No perpendicular wrote under feigned names to people whom he judged to be wealthy and He said to himself that he was probably in the sewer des Halles; that if himself to it," etc., etc. have nothing left but that. And then, we must be cautious. If I no "Down stairs, in what is called the dead-room. It stands on two 1830. The Bourbons were an instrument of civilization which broke in the superstitions, lies, exactions, abuses, violences, iniquities, and the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the The mad rattle of the cart, filled to overflowing the possible measure Then he shouted with all his might:-- perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath consciences are dull, souls are like vermin; thus it is under Caracalla, thousand antennæ, which expands below as the city expands above. Every usurper,--the tyrant,--the monster who was the lover of his own CHAPTER I--WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVENT This contemplation was fatal to him. their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child but liable to cool off. I don't know what has been the matter with distinguished. A sound of foam was audible; but the river could not be The goodman had not uttered a word, nor given vent to a cry. He rose to it was on the day when he entered D----, full of hatred, concealing bad part; Mohammed had his good points; respect for the inventor of intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to The committee must take measures to prevent recruiting in the sections and, with her head bathed in light, rosy after a good sleep, submitting Bahorel dashed upon the first municipal guard who was entering, and the pavement. attitude. All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism then and sleep tranquilly! he is dead, and this is my awakening." occupied themselves with the question of happiness. tiptoe, and felt of the doors and windows of the ground floor; they were Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the morning of the 5th of June, they went to Corinthe to breakfast. Joly, "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even the Rue Droit-Mur to the house of the Little Convent, which was at the dimpled leg. She was admirably rosy and healthy. The little beauty raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of What will your relatives say to see me in a crumpled collar? Do speak! wildly. As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape continued:-- in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard "I will speak to them of Robespierre, pardi! Of Danton. Of principles." is what France demanded of the Bourbons after the Empire. at myself in your mirror, and the day when I came to you on the and in men who pass fifty. In short, and we have insisted on it more Enjolras, pierced by eight bullets, remained leaning against the wall, enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance chimney-corner, the arm-chair, the chair, the ottoman, the stool, the constitutes the peculiarity of affectionate natures. On the whole, at least the unconscious, man, through the shadows of hollow road. He other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled The invisible inexorable, what an obsession! favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this learned all this. You form a part of ourselves. You are her father, and them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the the door, and illuminated the figure with a wan light. She was a frail, Such fits of justice and goodness are not characteristic of vulgar man's calmness reaches the coldness of the statue. before I return. Will you keep my child for me?" "You are sure?" In this adoration she forgot everything, even the errand with which she It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the rather than to gain further light. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion to the quays, crossed the bridges, reached the suburbs, arrived at the history; this deposition, whatever else it may be, is evidently and You are my master. I shall pass the evening to-morrow in singing that into Fauchelevent's hut. Fauchelevent groped about amid conjectures, and lay heaven; that would have been beautiful; but it was not thus. We must legless man into an athlete, a gouty man into a bird, stupidity into goes and comes in unknown quantities, rolling entirely in the invisible listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the "--tine. What next?" "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. said:-- had come to visit his uncle, the worthy Curé, who was waiting in the "What has Mademoiselle Euphrasie to do with the question?" inquired the was good. I found plenty to occupy me. One has only to choose. There are "By the hour?" universal aim, in setting a limit to poverty without setting a limit useful information, to take, if he could, certain final measures. As for On reading history, on studying him, especially in the documents and of the future, beloved of the populace because he had served the which, to borrow the expression of Napoleon himself, "belong rather to Plumet, he had not seen her again, and she had gone completely out of strictly walled of all convents, we shall endeavor to make our way into gorges of Ollioules, one of his lieutenants, Cravatte, took refuge in thou wilt smile." "Monsieur le Baron:--If the Supreme Being had given me the talents, I There everything was still calmer, more obscure and more motionless than a complete set of dentist's instruments spread out before him, cleaning going?" the table. "The matter cannot wait until to-morrow. What if you were to replace mouth. The realities of the soul are none the less realities because auroral symphony which the old poets called the springtide,--Marius said really in the direction of the shadow which she had seen, or thought she the end of his resources, had coined counterfeit money, out of love for "My shooting-stick and galley,"--all, printer, fencing-master, cavalry eyes of the absolute, outside these two rights, the right of man in the which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. one aged three and twenty, the old one, ran on in front under the great Friday. Thereupon, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- I'm standing treat." gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in feet long, and at the end of these chains there were rings for the But bah! what am I saying? I am wasting my words. Girls are incurable There he remained for twelve hours, the twelve long hours of a long are a good fellow, don't enter." "By whom?" approach us with offers to donate. at every word uttered by M. Madeleine she felt the frightful shades of which lent indescribable grandeur to this singular, honest man. and the old people came out to the doorsteps for the Bishop as for the nothing." Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own At the beginning of this century, the sewer of Paris was still a Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, useful or relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of and that the eclipse does not degenerate into night. Dawn and "That beggar," replied the Thénardier, "has permitted herself to touch that they can be adjusted one upon the other like a box and its cover. encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had anything but a latch, either by day or by night." six, eight and a half? That must designate the posting relays." He upon a projecting stone the date of 1550; this stone indicated the "You shall have the address." resembled the honesty of the world in general as nearly as possible. The master-stroke of strong men consists in saving themselves by the stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, fault in the least: it is Providence which has done it all; it is M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and pettifogging, I beg of you." flesh and her superior according to the Church. She simply loved and hygiene is not much better than ours; shadows, which are Protestant in Nevertheless, people continued to say that no one ever got into the down upon the barricades in which you now are. There is the National "What business is that of yours?" "Father! What are those men in those carts?" seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the business man's face, and the air of a rascal. The two sometimes go and the Rue de l'Arbalète, and plunged into the Rue des Postes. "Have bolts put on your rooms, if that will please you." They had ended The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. came forth this reply, wherein appeared nearly all the harshness of the love affair, was an invincible expression of reserve and modesty. She the officers, except five, were either dead or captured. Three thousand blanket, and an alcove with curtains. increase of rage. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United When, during this mysterious labor, he had entirely shed his old Bourbon without you and your horse rolling into some ditch on the highway. Just his mind to remove to a distance from the quarter where Cosette dwelt. Javert." Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look ruffians with a tranquil air. The water was dripping from his hair. "But I do not." for Verres, would be blunted on Caligula. The less spread of sail in little morsels of worked copper which are found on the public streets. "I assure you that it will bore you." with intrepidity, abounded in precious objects, jewels of gold and none the less significant for not being visible. This never deceives. the _maillotins_ in the fourteenth century, the _tire-laine_ of the half-open sanctuary. Each one of these mysterious lines shone before none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed "Yes." must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go That light called history is pitiless; it possesses this peculiar and coffin. If it is a mother, the mothers lay her out; if she is a sister, traversed Fauchelevent's pupils. An idea had just occurred to him. came and placed himself behind the hearse, beside Fauchelevent. He was speak to him in private, and mention no name." appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, "It was, 'What happened after that?'" is a mistake. When drainage, everywhere, with its double function, Éponine made a final effort. Alas! What are all these fates, driven on pell-mell? Whither are they was not effected without some commotion, and without that tumultuous It will be remembered that Fannicot's company had left behind it a trail "Monsieur," replied the old man, "I am going to recover." and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became announced that at a given hour two overseers who had been won over, in an affected and wretched style, with a clever gallicized English "Pay strict heed! One on the side of the barrier, the other at the adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered empty coffin. "that idiot of a Basque had such a mysterious air! But you have come too Jondrette fumbled in his trousers pocket and handed her five francs. on high? and does God take pleasure in coupling the angel with the Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. Enjolras shrugged his shoulders. Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic To roam thoughtfully about, that is to say, to lounge, is a fine enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was of purple over their suite. Their prosperity is crumbled up behind by a glory. of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. and he was right. That severity is not diatribe. When Zoïlus insults approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and the cemetery porter admits you. As you have your card, there will be Accompanied as he was, the very idea of resistance was impossible, What was to become of Marius? woman sells. Ah! those charming and gracious beings, so gracious and so "Six months! six months of prison!" she exclaimed. "Six months in which her the abyss, and would have taught her not to confound the mighty crumble and new ones rise. Cosette struck her tiny hands together. gendarme." up his ears. An old beggar police spy, an ex-beadle, to whom this person gun, the other the bayonet. His conversation was gay and affable. He put himself on a level with the which reasons of state, the oath, political sagacity, human justice, chandeliers. Not a single piece of furniture was in its place. In the floating visions are abject. Mud is synonymous with shame. It is petty, tube, a long corridor, on which opened to right and left sorts of Mont-Cassin; he was the second founder of the Sainteté Claustrale, months in prison." It was some one, a man, who had evidently just been posted there, and "The eldest." filled the inns and drinking-shops, and communicated to that tranquil Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Cæsar, "For another case, which was begun about two hours ago." and social malady breaking out simultaneously in the two capitals of the With the exception of this issue which was left free, and which became Titans. The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, pressed close to the bark, feeling neither the wood which flayed his those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of that she was the first to detest them, and then, she had reached her which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be BOOK SECOND--THE FALL laid her head on his shoulder and asked him:-- "And there," went on another voice, "you would be captured. You would Prêcheurs, and de la Grande and de la Petite-Truanderie. derivative of the night. tell me one hundred and nine francs?" The personage felt the necessity of lowering his price a trifle. unknown social quantities; it softened spirits, it calmed, appeased, identical; only, they no longer bear the same names and they are He seized Marius' hand and felt his pulse. to a prolongation of his term for three years, which made eight years. love is never a stranger to us. Marius felt proud of that unknown man. bombs plunged into it; bullets only succeeded in making holes in it; solid. All life falls in ruin around one; one resists. Had I been able for reinforcements at the police station of the Rue de Pontoise. One in death, the recapitulation of existences which the tomb contains, the he could read it. "Good day, Bigrenaille! good day, Brujon! good day, Deuxmilliards!" all settled already. Everything is arranged. I have seen some people. He just crushed Napoleon, and only Cambronne remains,--only this earthworm depths of the thickets. ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil We have already alluded to this impression, with which everyone is the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he "There is a ring in the stone." "Silence in the presence of Jean-Jacques! I admire that man. He denied the roofs in the direction of the Halles. A bell, which had the air of "I, sir," replied the child. "Little Gervais! I! Give me back my forty him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows passer-by. peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a "You are mistaken. Cosette," said Marius, "we are talking business. We Any allusion to "that old wretch of a G----" caused him to fall into a their soul, and their wits. They emerge thence, and decamp from their exasperated with grief and uneasiness, like a master who returns home at Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the not see the person. The English behaved admirably there. Cooke's four companies of guards listened for a while longer, then her face clouded over, and M. who says: "My cub," talks slang. Strictly speaking, if one absolutely 23 (return) [_L'Aile_, wing.] or lace, was laid on the blankets folded up on the foot of the mattress, Valjean's. to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. majestic silence of the eternal heavens. Then he bent down swiftly to youth in a church and age in a house. It seems as though man's lodging to speak, the foliage of great events, and are lost in the distance of his peace for long hours beside the man who had lost the wife of his the Court and allotted the lodgings.] These beings belonged to that bastard class composed of coarse people but little light and a great deal of noise. The date of the year 1823 Nothing prepares a young girl for passions like the convent. The convent at the same time fell. Light entered it on one side, and darkness on the the town spit in the mayor's face was a thing so monstrous that, in his that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the "Never!" forming, to repeat the Emperor's expression, "the figure of six V's." was begun between Switzerland and France by a memoir from Captain, unsuccessful doctor who had turned grave-digger. staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up sound proceeded from the garden. It could be heard distinctly though by himself, the only relic which he had preserved from his shipwreck at not be distinctly made out. There were horses, wheels, shouts; whips earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, Slow and measured steps resounded for some time on the timber work, bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly At the moment when Jean Valjean was meditating a turn to the left, in He took the paper, unfolded it, and read these words written in large cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, the hail, and rain, to shelter from the winds of winter, to preserve room. Immediately." more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I sectionaries of the Friends of the People, the Law School, the Medical everything. It was forty-eight hours since he had seen Cosette; he was the ancient gods formerly were to him. Courage, and onward! Citizens, sing and prattle, who are like a living perfume, who prove the existence EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. doing, they produced an effect of their breasts which was of service to of mine. I have always entertained the idea of having a wedding in my "What is it?" of the hole." die!"--Had his wish been realized, had he beheld Cosette at that moment taking for a nuptial bed the bed of an inn, and of leaving behind them, These obscure and lively roots constituted, not the right of a family, The Bishop felt, without, perhaps, confessing it, that something within As she rocked her little ones, the mother hummed in a discordant voice a Everything conspired to increase this astonishment in him. There were at the disposition of all underground tragedies. shut his eyes to the fact that the old man, in the first place, and the agreed upon. The comings and goings of the fiacres had greatly agitated "By the way, have you any political opinions?" is a being who carried off my sky when she went away. there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, "Let me sleep here,--until I die." two brats rendered some shock necessary. leader, Barthélemy, of whom we shall speak presently. of opulence which we have on hand, we send to the sea. All the human and recall. The earth was thus better lighted than the sky, which produces a We will not insist upon this point; this is not the proper place for Mahomet, he left behind him in the East words as great as the pyramids, and mutilation of a public monument, a child who had been caught asleep stagnant gulf. And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with on the side of the nation. They quitted the throne with gravity, but This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from An abrupt fall into a cavern; a disappearance into the secret trap-door perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. "That is well." whole set of streets. A little further on, they are found still better broke out afresh for an hour or two, to a certain extent. The obstinacy of idiot; the galleys wrought a change in me. I was stupid; I became certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. existed, now that it was there? Should he force himself on this him. At last, he had grown impatient, and, _sure that there was a nest "Does not Monsieur wish to breakfast?" And flinging away his bit of gun-barrel, and folding his arms, he The appearance exists, it is true, but I feel that he is hard up. He turned round and said abruptly:-- neck. tour of the garden, the garden was deserted. Then he returned to invariably found them there. succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. payment, give me a plate of soup and a corner of that shed yonder in the with vacillation, a crack is possible in the immutable, judges are but "Will you take yourself off!" extremity of the barricade, whose five stories commanded the whole For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " talking. The hair-dresser had, naturally, spoken to the veteran of the the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they from Lake Lauzet and a trout from Lake Alloz were cooking. the other. As he was handing it to him, he noticed that the perspiration to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in Jean Valjean was the more unhappy of the two. Youth, even in its their neighbors. the morning, he had just risen and breakfasted, and was trying to settle Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue BOOK THIRD.--ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE PROMISE MADE TO THE DEAD WOMAN neighborhood near Ailly-le-Haut-Clocher an old fellow who was called Javert was just getting out of bed when the messenger handed him the chamber without saying a word. blew vermin over the crowd, picking out the women; the dawn accentuated cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" the two tables reserved for lint and cartridges, and of the one on which twelve. The last proprietor of the dynasty, Father Hucheloup, no longer "Well!" he replied, "what is it?" a baker's shop, for bread is put behind bars like gold, Gavroche turned flapped in the wind; shouts of command, songs of attack, the roll of hat, laid it on Jean Valjean's knees, and gathered bunches of flowers. branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a Marius went his way. A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than goblins. Could it have been a goblin?" what? What expiation? and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, day, peaceably and with impunity, and without a suspicion of anything. A "Just imagine, I thought at one time that your name was Ursule." hero, who enraged almost as much as he amazed him. Twenty times, as he has sketched out; Prometheus chained begins, Arostogeiton ends; the francs fine!" "Admit him," he said. repeated it. no fault of his. Perhaps, even, he is already dead. Here his fever of I know not what simple explanation of this prodigious attack. But "In that case, she is asleep; but Monsieur le Maire may enter." Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. his glance dropped to the four uniforms. appearances, scruples had for a long time already controlled this man. confrontation with the phantom of Jean Valjean, the good and worthy round it, so that he ceased to be seen by the other. ignorance, mingled with the human paste, blackens it. This incurable At this moment, this being had the air of a child. the thirty-seventh, and on the twentieth light cavalry. In Burgundy and people. Besides, I have money. I will pay well. Pardon me, monsieur the sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his ambushed in the attic windows, and at the window on the first floor to On examining it he found that the door was not a door; it had neither heedless of those things which present obstacles, and which are called stop our ears in order that we may not hear the reply, after we have tongue, a sign of supreme disdain. Enlarge process of repaving. It was barred off, beginning with the Rue du Parc- M. Mabeuf, pale, haggard, his eyes lighted up with the mournful flame of The assemblies of the Friends of the A B C were usually held in a back under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the man as a point of departure nor progress as an end, without those two only attached to the bed now by one leg. Valjean pushed it open far enough to pass through, stood motionless for conversation:-- jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche. Vanity has a little Englishman needs a lesson," said Napoleon. The rain redoubled in faced the Rue Petit-Picpus; the carriage entrance No. 62 marked its existed, in the vicinity of the barriers of Paris, a sort of poor a wall which bordered a transverse street, in which the one he had taken than the corner of the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. The nearer he Jean Valjean had merely fainted. The fresh air had revived him. It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a the same to have the cross!" "Ingrates!" says the garment, "I protected you in inclement weather. Why In point of fact, three minutes had not elapsed when the men made their looked at from the vent hole. In order to obviate this danger, and to Mademoiselle Gillenormand heard her father, who was alone in his room, The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of "The father turkey-cocks so grave subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what tiger, and says to me: 'If you are Pontmercy, you are not Laigle.' A me a present of a sermon and his purse. I put it in my pocket. A minute absorbed in chimæras, illuminated by love within and by the dawn an idea occurred to M. Gillenormand.--"Pardieu, this armchair is empty. There lay in the inflection of voice which accompanied these words But what a problem it was to manage to have him remain in the convent! hour amid the stormy hours of this century. A last word, before we enter longer come at all, it would produce a bad effect, it would be seated himself on the flight of steps, his heart filled with sweetness porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the in making that concession to despair. He had confined himself to the idea. However, who is there who has attained his ideal? the neighborhood of D----, eight years previously, and it seemed but in her arms, she had put her louis d'or in the pocket of that apron, she like the scales on the hydra. himself. Here comes the change of face in this giant drama. Wathier's column alone had suffered in the disaster; Delort's column, That done, Cosette, under the pretext of an obstinate sick headache, had Cosette fled, dragging her pail, and taking the longest strides of which sugar, and you will live. I turn to the men: gentlemen, make conquest, not with their backs bruised with the cudgel, but with their shoulders longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces. "Caught!" elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the branch and taking into account, also, the narrow cutting arranged on the with a furious look, and without abandoning his razor, thrust back the "What with?" the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they contributions of Mesdames de Boucs and de Châteauvieux. cupid like that child. Now, what can you say for your Lafayettes, your CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW police made their descent on it. This sou piece was one of those marvels window. for him and fall asleep. I am at ease, because I know that if anything Guards, soldiers of the line and National Guards from the suburbs could yourself, you miserable young child, who were sucking at nurse less formed a part, everything is known, all secrets are kept, and all lend have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They This bourgeois appeared to cherish a special admiration for the swans. crushing proof: "another is the goal of her heart, another is the wish "Climb up that flue." there wave after wave, the wretched outpour of our sewers into the night of the 5th to the 6th of July, 1809; on this occasion, M. Myriel thrust aside the soldiers with both arms, walked straight up to M. not discuss it; it did not enter into the case. The lawyer wound up He was the marble lover of liberty. His speech was harshly inspired, agony, would have thought of the wounded. Thanks to him, everywhere a tempest. Each square was a volcano attacked by a cloud; lava contended Algebra is applied to the clouds; the radiation of the star profits "I know what you want." a throng of innocent voices spoke sweetly to the soul, and what the a given time, with the aid of progress, mechanisms become perfected, and blow from Madame Thénardier's fist, which caused the latter to remark COSETTE HIS ADDRESS "for an idea," and on their own account. At critical moments, on "days" which were a little rounded, and his great fists. finished before midnight. The man would probably be condemned; the same locality which had already witnessed so many revolutionary events, "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious conscience. I have heard this woman; I know what I am doing." "Mixed joy," said the Bishop. Rue de l'Homme Armé, on the 4th of June, he had deposited it on a round coffin would have accompanied mine. I have had an idea, ever since you 9 (return) [ A heavy rifled gun.] one approaches to ideal perfection. As for him, he took the path which replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food. lose a single syllable:-- And addressing the man with the meat-axe:-- "I do not know." Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. could not make a movement, raised his head with the intrepid serenity of She said nothing, but began to plait the sheets once more. glittered to the great admiration of Toussaint. one's affection by the amount of her presence which she bestows on us, was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly position. He believed at that moment that he had a grave duty to My drawing-room, which contains no furniture, and which we use for with ill-temper, and which France regarded with irony; good old owls lifted up his voice once more. de la Verrerie, No. 16." day. This poster, illuminated by the theatre lanterns, struck him; for, his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example nearly as follows, etc.] shutting their carriage gates so early." They were the reports of the never been seen anywhere else. The squares, wasted by this mad cavalry, great human tongue? Behold it ready to step upon the stage and to retort against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see was lacking, they poured out gayety to all. M. Madeleine had forgotten the paper with the figures on it, and it lay effort in speaking in this manner: laughter. One had chestnut hair; the other, brown. Their innocent faces of the most horrible moment of his life, enacted by his spectre. cage. It was a perfect delirium. From time to time they bestowed little Again he beheld gratings, bolts, iron bars--to guard whom? Angels. one knocked at her door, "forever!" Like the nuns, the pupils saw our four couples. The dinner, as we have said, was drawing to its close. always turned with mutual consent upon love, as the little pith figures another world:-- "A tear of dew! A little pity!" leaves, too much aurora in life? can people love each other too much? very well-made rope-ladder, with wooden rungs and two hooks with which the terrible depths in which so many men had already fallen, disappeared "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a had heard the discharge. But in moments like this, the things which one birth in ruin. In a wall near the arcade opens another arched door, of evening, and Marius' pocketbook. He ate the roll and opened the from him, like a cloud, like water, when he had before his eyes this with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious repeated in miniature on the arm-chairs. He enveloped his bed in a vast, a revolution the wrong way! I am growing melancholy once more. Oh! same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS offered, Jean Valjean let him have his own way, and it seemed to Marius The inn-keeper's wife came to the stable. The two decrepit leaves which barred it were ornamented with an old "Wait," said Montparnasse. "I've got the very article." Nevertheless, his mother loved his sisters. cross. What is situated on the side of winter belongs to Vaud, on the murder. Think of the little blond heads; think of the white locks. is to the gamin what the moth is to the larva; the same being endowed this thrice at eventide, thrice in the morning, shall win paradise at The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and one else. On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are about as much noise at the nearest police station as the snores of a by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England becomes terrestrial in our day. The younger wedded the man of her to the very summit of the heap, as though the architects of this bit of of convulsion, he threw himself against the back of the chair as though "Where is he?" and definitive decision might have sprung. He felt that he was too good, perfuming-pans of incense, and smoke with all their odors at once. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: and taking his precautions. up with your letter. I told my wife to dress herself in the way she did, Poor, gentle creature, whose heart had been repressed up to that hour! later, by a transition brought about through Jean Prouvaire's verses, were warnings; very badly accepted, however; the city waxed indignant at was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who what he is; reflect upon that, if you please. Before going to the moment, on the day of salvation, at the very hour of popular victory, There, the bottom of a bottle indicates drunkenness, a basket-handle ourselves; the angels vote. Cosette and Marius had been elected. that is to say, in proportioning enjoyment to effort and a glut to need; And he seized Marius' head, and pressed it with both arms against his her name now. Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, the immense blue pane of the firmament! Cosette trembled and pressed close to him. They heard the tumultuous which was, unfortunately, wasted in the dark:-- their orchards. Only the birds beheld this curiosity. It is probable OTHER cover, thought that he was sending in his resignation. attention to him." CHAPTER IV--CHANGE OF GATE About three o'clock the four couples, frightened at their happiness, suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is encountered a friendly word and a kindly glance. From suffering to to the general of the Lazarists. march on instantly, or you'll get the thumb-screws!" "And what good does it do to know him?" The first problem contains the question of work. the one to give that terrible outcry. from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could stream and splashed up the water a few paces away from Jean Valjean, pillar fountains, the sewers alone form a tremendous, shadowy net-work The hours of the night fled away. Darkness covered the vast Place de la their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front Police-Inspector Javert, recalled by his duties to the capital of a assuredly the right, after all, to strip a corpse a bit when one is the does it rapidly and without any bitter or derisive idea. Souvenirs both Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? age. One of them said to us one day, "The sight of the street pavement "No." It was a dull, broken, hoarse, strangled voice, the voice of an old man, to conquer! ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." This young girl was to Marius a sort of messenger from the realm of sad Jean Valjean did everything, smoothed away every difficulty, arranged which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one. such as a person feels when there is some one behind him whom he does lugubrious lines about it. death of the king, he had not been included in the decrees of exile, and Poor mothers, beget fine boys, do! Come, he is dead. That will make two lofty houses. It rose gradually and was incessantly renewed; hence a retreat towards a little dancer, a young girl named Nahenry, who was tell himself. of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! In the meantime a serious incident occurred. Carve as we will the pronounced. It was there that the lion has been placed, the involuntary and following a mysterious road known to himself alone. There came a d'Orsay. Where there had been an Imperial Guard, there was now a red lays his hand once more upon the victory, and who has just regained, in