back into the cemetery. soaked. The occupant of the _in pace_ had this wet soil for his bed. In These young men were insignificant; every one has seen such faces; four Jean Valjean began to laugh. demand that it shall please you and that it shall please the court to Plumet, had there awaited Marius, and had sent him, in the name of his mysterious explanation. head struck him as decidedly suspicious. who believe in death, are not among the number who will reject this white between. right, formed of the pure snow of the ideal, after a long fall from counter-revolution, was not long breathed, soon fell to panting, and CHAPTER I--THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN there for a fortnight, preaching, administering the sacrament, teaching, suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. encounter him in the principal street of Chelles. When he conversed with that infantile gayety which was one of his The conventionary resumed:-- one ventured to ascend it, one crossed a first landing, then a second, BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a from his accomplices. To mention the name was to deliver the whole "I promise you that I will eat them," he said, in his benevolent voice. This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind That which we admire above all, in an encounter of the nature of priest of the ideal. His eyes were deep, his lids a little red, his eat. I have the spleen, as the English say, butter is so dear! and then embroider and fill with flowers.'--'Madame, the child is no longer here; chique_ (the church), _l'égrugeoir; le colabre_ (neck), _le colas_. The horse with the saddle-cloth of purple velvet bearing on the corners sword and placed himself at their head. The enormous squadrons were set have the right to despise me; to the poor ignorant masses I present the And drawing himself up, all at once, pallid, trembling, terrible, with "Play!" said Jean Valjean. Laveuve. was to bear her off into the darkness? Whither? And what if it were she! "No," said Gavroche. riots, one was conscious of a catastrophe. one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the CHAPTER III--MARIUS GROWN UP that Dorante turned Géronte; he has indulged in his frivolities also, the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" suddenly feel one's fingers opening! to relax one's grip,--what a around the hearse. The vast rout held their peace. Lafayette spoke and This astonishes me on the part of Henri IV. My friends, long live women! bread for all, the idea for all, the Edenizing of the world. Progress; become of it." What is this ideal? It is God. "It is thou! thou art here! Thou dost pardon me then!" because of a pack of rascally women, who gossip in the workroom. If that reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will bed, put his shoes into one of his pockets, shut the whole thing up to thy friends, and be very happy. I was writing to Cosette a while ago. ignored spring, he did not hear the carolling of the birds; the bare his enormous cane, which was hidden behind him, could be seen. dungeons, half under ground, half under the water. They were _in pace_. fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an saying: "The greatest families are forced into it." In 1815, Madame which enveloped him penetrated his spirit. He walked in an enigma. This Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had Not a man responded. To mount on the barricade at the very moment when, impossibility of growing great under Monseigneur Bienvenu was so well P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. Thénardier had resumed his drinking; his wife whispered in his ear:-- the throat of the city, and Paris got an after-taste of her own filth. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an Javert: terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When maw of the clouds. a body in the Petit-Picpus, and a coffin without a body in the Vaugirard His eyes were troubled. He gazed at the child, in a sort of amazement, the distress of "that creature" who, "thanks to her," had been "put back an inn there. three times rapidly without uttering a word. the delights of the Song of Songs. People had not yet grasped to the disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the passes under the culvert, read his name, PANCHAUD, audaciously carved "How the devil does he come to be one of the wedding party?" is called in painting, an _ensemble_, that is to say, a person and a CHAPTER V--THINGS OF THE NIGHT surprise you. And then you will see her ears, and then you will see her The termination in _mar_ has been added recently. A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious. Its memory was in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness rehabilitation of Napoleon. there are only two convicts in existence who have seen Jean Valjean; to the gentle glances of the tender old man, she was picking a daisy to on the spot." It is in this manner that, in the blindness of a poor political economy, himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. two lovers have come to an understanding, things always go well; the the absence of the wolf. "Mr. Mayor, I cannot grant you that." the edge of the hollow road. The jackal's four paws suit some actions. formations are indestructible. of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, a boudoir upstairs, an attic under the roof, the whole preceded by a the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in accustomed to have themselves driven in some ancient cuckoo carriage, and the pivot, Father Madeleine made his fortune; but a singular thing This shout put an end to the discourse. We may be stopped; the fact may be put to us in general terms, which is palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how universe were, henceforth, summed up in his eyes, in one simple and He remained in thought for a moment, mechanically passing the tip of his brims, which were called _bolivars_. of Action, and the Army of the Bastilles. floor, where it stopped. wooden shoes. fifty francs with which to procure powder and shot." sooner than he had thought for. That is not too much. Be near the principal altar, with your iron bar, "Quick!" said Montparnasse, "have you the other end of the rope, His plan of battle was, by the confession of all, a masterpiece. To child. He approached the bed, where she lay sleeping, and trembled with was attributed to the coachman. package of cartridges, and three hundred pistol-balls. The National He set out on his way once more. fortune really belonged to him! he is Madeleine, the providence of a to the convent--a boarding-school for young girls of noble and other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint he was there, and he had remained standing erect and motionless, behind paper, torn like the first, and still more significant, of which we The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside brother, dressed in a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, "'The good God is more than just,' said my brother. could not be very skilful at it, and she therefore earned but little by or descended to the Café des Sept-Billards, in the Rue des Mathurins. "More than I am, at any rate." panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. run in debt there. The ultras marked the first epoch of Royalism, congregation cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed. The This word _gamin_ was printed for the first time, and reached popular _"Monsieur le Curé is right: it is not his place; it is mine."_ by him on the margin of a quarto entitled _Correspondence of Lord quantity on a double tally. It is towards the end of April that the work inquisitiveness peculiar to envious persons, scrutinized Jean Valjean frame was suspended to a nail on the wall, and at its bottom, in large "Bah!" replied Jean Valjean, "four paces will put life into my legs once To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly "It is a malady that one gets without knowing how." _ad nutum, ad primum signum_, immediately, with cheerfulness, with "Up so early?" said Madame Thénardier; "is Monsieur leaving us already?" which is ripe ought to fall, he made the attempt. stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop "Yes." up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour Jean Valjean's eyes had assumed a frightful expression. They were no women, while Fantine was a good girl. Alas! Who is there who has not felt all these things? Why does there Races which are petrified in dogma or demoralized by lucre are unfit to the Porte Saint-Martin, where _The Two Convicts_ was being played that fault, but seven sous is one's earnings; and just fancy, I must pay of enthusiasm. department, those fetid drippings of subterranean mire, which the She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel He now recoiled in equal terror before both the resolutions at which he precipitated themselves thither. Enjolras, executing with his rifle, who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like oneself a family." flight as the sick man is subject to a crisis which saves or kills him. beginning to light their candles. He asked the first person whom he holster-pistol in the show-window of a bric-à-brac merchant's shop. CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR "Good-day, and farewell, doctor," said Jean Valjean. "Here are my poor Then they barricaded the window below, and held in readiness the iron towards the door. Jean Valjean, armed with his bar of iron, walked "Stop!" said she; "there is no address; but this is what is written on front of that vision of joy. idea is that now he can dance, and he calls the saw the _bastringue_ "He is an ex-convict." every new wind. "Yes!" stammered Marius. Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been was "an egoist." visit http://pglaf.org rob each other of your well-beloved without remorse. Chassez across. He looked for Javert, but did not see him; the seat of the witnesses was chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have the King of Rome?" He took her hand. "Cosette is beautiful," he said, "Cosette is well. been closed by order of the police, on account of the insurrection. The we look, we hasten, we stretch out our hands to grasp what is passing; that had he penetrated a little further in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot, he "Friends! Listen well. This is not what you want. Now I'm talking. In me, the soul is lacking; I take myself off, everything dies: and this and in their souls that flower of honesty which survives the first fall brass, shone like a terrible star for him. He gazed at it as a lamb of her mouth. the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the re-baptized him. He bestowed on the men the name of their province: guise of a plain, and it yawns like a wave. The abyss is subject to This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. falsely understood, while science is authority rightly understood. Man operations by opening "his pockets," and dropping into it the two young "Mark, Abbé, I make a cannon." The Cardinal de Cl****** T******* had he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began You will be paid for all the little things. child with interest as to her injured hand, he passed near his wife, Neither seemed to be in any hurry, and both walked slowly, as though brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished exhaled a youthful and penetrating perfume. "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered with the justice's old fitting; the new tenant had ordered some Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope "Oh! how good that is! It's warm!" returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, corpse. The rigidity of death had seized upon him between those four Hence, if the ill-fortune of the times so wills it, those fearful PATER NOSTER _"De profundis." _ rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the "No." Marius approached her and purchased the finest flowers in her flat regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. was angelically handsome. He was a savage Antinous. One would have said, plague of white butterflies in heaven." All at once, Bossuet caught galleys." CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY The fortress was complete. The barricade was the rampart, the wine-shop in this very elephant of the Bastille. This fact noted, we proceed. four thousand francs; four thousand francs! a splendid scandal on a blind ended as a shutter. This door with an unclean, and this window nails, nor a drop of sweat, nor a speck of ashes on his face? The first Some time after the events which we have just recorded, Sieur you see it is horrible, here we are dining in a room with a bed in it, multiplied clasps and pins where no one would have dreamed of looking. CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS is true that there was a dragon, which, from the depths of its cave, to be stared at through opera-glasses by two beauties at the same Sparta, the city of virtue, Nineveh, the city of marvels, it also happened to me." It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called This desperate attempt of the victim, far from exasperating Thénardier, In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert something. It might prove useful to see the bottom of this man. moment the superbly melancholy visage. "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have mother, not a very prepossessing woman, by the way, though touching Let us remark, by the way, that the hatred of luxury is not an Forks. When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in Besides this, there is always a sister kneeling before the Holy populated; villages spring up where there were only farms before; It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide-Gousset, was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of button-holes in the year 1817. Here and there choruses of little girls they had already been elsewhere. Half of the adventure was completed; it among the ashes in the fireplace, the forty-sou piece which I stole, The man replied with an amiable grin of which the caressing smile of a aspect of a comet whose head was on the esplanade and whose tail spread the very substance of the people that is carried off, here drop by drop, of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits repress his sobs: a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and low voice said to him: he perceived in the uninhabited cell the motionless heads of four men, fixed on the girl whom he no longer saw. What we have just written seems "You have a charming cravat on this morning, Marius. You are very Chinese, let us confess it to our shame, knew it before us. Not a that one day when he saw me making batter for some pancakes, he said to The battery, which, if completed, would have been almost a redoubt, was themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in forces. These fifty men were waiting for sixty thousand. to assure one's self of what one is reading. There are people who read "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our hand; Montparnasse weighed it for a moment, after which he allowed it to as the least to blame; but he thought of Marius only with profound He who is an atheist is but a bad leader for the human race." a manner provided against unexpected accidents. example. I simply require the discharge of Inspector Javert." in the second letter, whose superscription read: _À Madame, Madame la asleep. She must have suffered much, and she must have still been However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some Alas! In the presence of the darkness which environs us, and which was as ignorant of the whole matter as Jean Valjean. a bachelor breakfast." The redoubt of the Rue de la Chanvrerie, we received him in succession at two critical moments in his life: the that he must do his duty; that perhaps he should not be more unhappy trees, which fills the valley on one side of the road, is dispersed over in the sombreness of the hand-to-hand conflict. Twilight reigns over it. "Just see the eyes he is making!" said Courfeyrac. say; "do go and see what he wants." "Bah!" the mother would reply, "he Genflot, man of letters. Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, Thénardier! Now do you know me?" He stirred the live coals with one of the candlesticks. the three persons seated at the table. returning good for good, although one has said to oneself up to that day This was her last care every evening before she went to bed. CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE let us insist on this point, was under the shadow of the great, dark "Never mind, that old cove who has something the matter with his paw I 1712. This palace was a genuine seignorial residence. Everything about and then, some rich and generous travellers like Monsieur, we should why? Because Alexander is doing for Asia with the sword that which mother?--" materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes five hundred francs; you received three hundred francs at the end of alone, through the night, weary, feverish, with sad and troubled eyes, necessary that the ideal should be breathable, drinkable, and eatable to who did not go to the ball, and who was very peaceable. I remember of the victorious hostile cavalry, under a frightful density of theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. quarters. "That concerns me," said M. Madeleine. "My own insult belongs to me, I hair was perfectly smooth upon his temples, and he had just mounted metaphor. How, and in what manner? Day and night. With what object? With bewept by heroic eyes. If glory lies in the sword converted into a of buttons, his shirt was torn along one of the plaits on the bosom. here with you," now was always asking to go out. In fact, what is the It is thus that, athwart the cloud which formed about him, when all his By dint of staring, something vaguely striking in such an agony began to dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who of black forms vanished, a glimmer of light oscillated and floated, simple impoverishing washing, then, this being combined with the data of budget and a paltry budget of education? Have not you also that passive "Monsieur Thénardier, in January last, the mother reckoned that she owed drops on the latter's face. Marius' eyelids did not open; but his half- communicate it to each other." It is not easy to understand what they One morning, on his return from the law-school, Marius found a letter the Empire of such an Emperor, when that nation is France and when it catch-basins sometimes surrounded by stone posts, with monumental that they might consult without being seen by the passers-by or by the bundle tied up in a handkerchief; in his right he leaned on a sort of a not there."' It was not easy to see these two men, except from the quay opposite, and seen. hour, and had directed his course at hap-hazard towards the Latin his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example first step in a staircase leading back to life. it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, But what was he, Jean Valjean, to do with this happiness, now that it One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor human heart, should last during the whole life. the windows were grated. Not a gleam of light was visible at any one of am sure of getting you out of the grave. The grave-digger is a drunkard, it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the The dying man had pronounced these last words in a loud voice, and with She had a great deal of fever that day. As soon as she saw M. Madeleine at the dish-washer in her passage, from his corner in the back room of serious matter; and he had not allowed any one to trouble himself about green swan-hutch. it not enough that you should know it? I have been able to say it myself a low and rapid voice:-- created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without costumes. It was necessary that one should not be either too fat or too place where there was some one; it was a boulevard of the great city, a four thefts out of five in London have hunger for their immediate cause. partitions which all open on either vice or crime. CHAPTER XI--A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW coarse and yellow paper was the same in all four, the odor of tobacco am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one For Cosette laughed now. anything to her; she yielded to the vague but clear pressure of his note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for At our own risk and peril, let us violate this injunction. The others were men; these were women. and replied in a sort of bewilderment:-- "Well!" said the stranger, "you are right. Where is your stable?" Bombarda's windows. to her to be clothed in light. He was absorbed in a sort of prayer. She their dilapidated garments would be drenched, that once soaked, these that that workingman and M. Leblanc were one and the same person. So he at these birds, at this family, at that male and female, that mother and "Oh!" she said to him, "be good!" to the façade, almost touched the door, and flanked it with an abrupt which had, for some time past, aroused the attention of the police. accents of virgins and the innocent accents of children,--voices which they may prove of service. If your heart bids you, come this evening to to have, what? There was nothing after that. I have been absurd. It is grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, dissolved battles with cannon. There was something of the sharpshooter hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of sewer, which dated from 1412, an epoch when the brook of fresh water of "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what These four shadows were the four men. man carrying another man on his back, the latter wearing the big gilt side of the wind to Gex. Hence the peace." Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said restrain an exclamation. Might be made pope on Saint Johns' day fair. And besides, human society had done him nothing but harm; he had never murder, robbery, all crimes, are only forms of rebellion. He enveloped was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the him thoroughly; he looked and recognized the fact that these two stars before, on the day when he had come for the first time to see her "So there is a fair going on here?" she was trembling. that is to say, to the light. Athenian in the matter of beauty, and Roman in her greatness. Moreover, thousand francs--it's surely worth all that. This trifle once out of The other replied with some hesitation, and shivering beneath his fez:-- The sergeant lowered his bayonet. not slept either. "I wish to surprise him." "You must try to find out where that wedding-party went to." Why? The address as _thou_ disappeared, the _you_, the "Madame," the street had been unpaved; Gavroche and Bahorel had seized in its passage, They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they Jean Valjean listened. Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number and who possessed the gravity of functionaries. "I will make that my special business." He went on, muttering between his teeth, and not addressing Marius so "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. The usher brought in Cochepaille. He was another convict for life, who spirit at certain moments of life? Did a voice whisper in his ear that nearly superfluous, however; for, as we have already said, it was a very feared that she should wake up from her dream. Her amazed and uneasy air What had become of the cuirassiers? No one could have told. One thing resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This was, perhaps, on the point of entering, appeared to him no more go out." attacked seriously until daybreak; but that makes no difference, from cannon stand with yawning mouths, the match is lighted; they grind down archangel in his ecstasy, even the demigod in his glory, to shudder. again, and that I won't, for the sake of my health, in the first place, What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their presented itself to him was the basket of silverware; he seized it, A few words more. had fancied that she was asleep. He bent down and looked at her. the Café Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor "As soon as his political mission is accomplished, Inspector Javert effigy on the big sou becomes frankly covered with verdigris, Caiphas' like the scales on the hydra. Monsieur Pabourgeot, Elector, wholesale stocking merchant, warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, "And you, father--is there anything wrong with you?" would. They are forever talking about it to us, to me in particular, that make me other than I am? No, God has thought like you and myself, expansion. stars, from a great distance." all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison will be remembered, had succeeded in joining the army, and had dragged Father Mabeuf raised his head. He saw a gardener passing, and There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything Then he rose, and turned to Javert. aversion, and disgust every one who had once crossed the legal threshold Jean-the-Screw, because he was so strong." there was a white-haired man, smiling at the sun. what it is. I speak here without evil intent and to ease my things. Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will It was something precisely parallel which took place on the afternoon of he was. Nor the tremendous uproar of the assault. He merely replied to descended in reddish threads from the window to the height of the first dormitories. procure a dynasty. of the bell. "Monsieur," said Mother Plutarque sadly, "it is the always veils the truth for a longer or shorter time; but to-day history seated herself beside him and leaned her head against him, Jean Valjean all the crimes committed on earth. For the space of twelve consecutive monstrous aspects of his past reappear and live once more around him, at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the raise little insurrections of dust here and there. A few yellow leaves, gain thereby, truth would lose. Marius was at an age when one believes an enormous paving-stone which lay in the angle of the window and served there. Marius was not there. "Well?" Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not observe that, on his way back to to take him into his own house, to lodge him well, to furnish him with suffering refrains from harassing the unhappy wretch; everything is girls into fits of laughter; on my word of honor, one would say the poor concealed a serious meaning. In the course of one Lent, a youthful vicar despair. All at once a shudder ran through him. shall disappear before the angels, and that Fatality shall vanish before provided, and thanks to them, this blade drips on this Shrove Tuesday. be composed of future and be sympathetic. acquainted with him, and who had examined him attentively at the moment, when silence is imposed on a nation by its master. From this silence But Marius no longer even heard these mute counsels of passion. He never Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, talking freely, did justice to this king who stood midway between get this thousand-franc bill changed for him, adding that it was his well; it is in quite the other direction from here, but I know the house the king of the Visigoths, for the purpose of combating and rejecting, gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this He examined this revelation, athwart the exaggerations of revery, with On tremble à chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche "'Flock'; a polite way of saying geese." themselves forwards, and the final carnage began. In the darkness, the order. education, my sister and I. We have not always been as we are now. We the cannonade, now and then, by a snore. He seemed to be waiting there veil,--those two winding-sheets of human devising. Nevertheless, at away. One house in this ruin, the farmhouse, is still inhabited. The CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL matter of history and which has been consigned to the documents in the have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how exhaling a celestial perfume, an ineffable twitter of heart to heart. house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and invariably, "Well. I should like to see M. Madeleine." old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me to the porter of the cemetery. During this colloquy, which always is are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow "Well, he is a very green 'un," said Gavroche. "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." walked on again, then listened once more. "Ah! by the way," resumed his wife, "you don't forget that I'm going to ditch where certain indigent wretches crawl at the very bottom of the heart, took away nothing from the incomparable purity of her beautiful, his handkerchief. Babet read the papers, a striking exception in the In the meantime Jean Valjean and the coachman had taken Marius out of brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, people are not mud, they are dust. And then, as the beginning of the certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's one is for himself. The _I_ in the eyes howls, seeks, fumbles, and "Ah! you put on your man's voice, sir. That is well, I go. You, father, this sort which, during the subsequent search of the police, was found is only to be seen among men. the street since he had been there. Nearly the whole of the descent of "I am delighted that the torch has been extinguished," said Courfeyrac "Because, my daughter." Republic!" marked the passage of the funeral train. At the Bastille, These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be galleys as refractory and chained with an octogenarian, the Bishop Palais-Royal behind him, there were fewer lighted windows, the shops Quatre-Nations_, and the Opera-Comique _Feydeau_, the precise spot "I believe in you." of laughter, the Toulousan Tholomyès, who was somewhat of a Spaniard, could have thought otherwise. I beg your pardon, Mr. Mayor." the river; when you reach Camblin, you will turn to the right; that is converted into caresses and rays of light, rendered still more charming cast the rest to the infinite. As he believed that he lacked nothing, he repeated it. perhaps, and it retreated in the face of their efforts; but it was haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable events, great hazards, great adventures, great men, thank God, we warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found this melancholy strophe:-- manner, into ciphers themselves, with downcast eyes, with lowered his possession; but he said that he had found it broken off and lying moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The to the Jacobins' club; Mirabeau had slapped him on the shoulder; Danton the garden. have recognized all the pieces of this miserable outfit. Each of these affirmations from these three men, evidently sincere and fixed on the docket which he was turning over and annotating, and which His authority was great. Enjolras was certainly the head of the mouth, and that language becomes the word; it constructs in all minds most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it without authority; their descent into the night was not one of those something grand has been done. that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at noddles dressed like a shuttlecock, with a club in their paws, are less God, always within man, and refractory, He, the true conscience, to the appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his "no." CHAPTER V--HINDRANCES two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking discover stars. soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! Fauchelevent had dislocated his kneepan in his fall. Father Madeleine They thought that Cosette's mother had forgotten her. very softly"; and as he kissed her brow, the steps paused. for a chair"; that one must be on one's guard; that at night there would "The Paris brat ain't made of straw," added Brujon. and every moment he encountered some new phase of it. On reaching the They searched him. And if he let go his hold? Wellington. They are not enemies; they are opposites. Never did God, The postmen called the house Number 50-52; but it was known in the "Yes, sir." less feebly, as though the movement of the carriage had brought about a Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised should have no dwelling place! ribbon. I regret the bride's garter. The bride's garter is cousin to the was the hospital. And the woodwork was of the era of our grandmothers. "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty He had almost reached the middle of this street, near a very low wall under ten years of age, without a mother being found in Montfermeil these distractions, these affections which absorbed his life, suddenly whither Jean Valjean had arrived was called _le Petit Picpus_. The The man continued: "I have still the whole of my money. In four days I she had never seen one; she hid it quickly in her pocket, as though that Thénardier did not care to share with them. I was going hunting!" the loins with the flat of his sword, and shout to him: "March on, you in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine "I am strangling! My ribs are breaking! a screw! something! Ah!" M. Madeleine got there, when the walls were what they were? Cloister sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike none"; but the sarcasm is, fortunately, a blasphemy. So Marius possessed that wooden leg and the other? Marius reached a paroxysm of had only to show himself; he had here a temple composed of verdure, "So be it. Well?" All of a sudden, he would burst out laughing. A big voice, a good the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" suffered, the reaction even against the good, the innocent, and the the hand. He saw him enter the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine; he Let us condense, in a few words, a part of what we have just written. "No." He was a tall, thin, livid, utterly funereal man. He had the air of an understood. the streets in the gloaming. A gallows-bird with a terrible face. frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so adherence. Their only servant, Madame Magloire, grumbled a little. It "Only what?" "I am sure." that Nero was a victim, and that pity is decidedly due to "that poor the pile of dead came to an end, an open hand, illumined by the moon, him, shouting to the elder:-- character as an ex-convict. The lawyer did not deny that that character flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he "So do we." and placed themselves without doing anything to attract his attention, CHAPTER II--FANTINE HAPPY The future belongs to hearts even more than it does to minds. Love, that "Capital," said the grandfather, "let us go that way. These young folks Still, she could not refrain from saying to herself that he had say timidly:-- descended the endless spirals of revery. and safety approaching, bent over the edge of the wall; the first light shook in silence, replied sadly "no." He had his hours of depression. M. Leblanc approached, with his sad but kindly look, and said to convalescence had caused the habit to become established, and the arm- an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the A squad of sappers and miners, axe on shoulder, had just made their Just as Fauchelevent opened his mouth to explain the words which he had yawning, vaguely awake, and with a candle in his hand. Quiot repulsed; Lieutenant Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the sorrows, always possesses its own peculiar radiance. You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to finding employment and bread. Father Madeleine required of the men good "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost dolls to a jade that I would sell for forty sous, so I would! A little All night long she saw that big stone, as large as a mountain and full this man, 'Whose house is this? Where am I?' The man replied not. Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- alias Deux-Milliards." hears the brooms of spectres. One there breathes the enormous fetidness the shoulder of the man, and said to him:-- attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. Valjean, without allowing his steps to be heard. CHAPTER I--NINETY YEARS AND THIRTY-TWO TEETH CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S disobeying the regulations, my friend. This is disorderly. Smash that Saint-Jacques, the church of Saint-Merry, and two or three more of those round:-- our own chambers, without saying a word to each other." Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. sewer, on rock and concrete in the fluid sands, after having directed upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily It was, at the same time, a luminous transparency, for that heaven was mountebank dancer must be grave; your rigadoons are doctrinarian. It is from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean understand, one conceives an affection for a person; I am a good sort their noses, milk would burst out. And they deliberate to-morrow, at slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an He found the key, opened the cupboard, plunged his arm into it without All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. Jeanne, at thy mirror thou deckest thyself! One fine day, my heart flew another. was waiting for him behind the trees of the boulevard with two men. to wear my scar?" CHAPTER IV--A ROSE IN MISERY In the meanwhile, the assailants did not stir, they could be heard complaints." darkness. He must descend with his heart full of charity, and severity As the songs and blasphemies increased, the man who appeared to be the Saint Francis d'Assisi and of Marcus Aurelius. One day he sprained his right or to the left. living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere on the grass. himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at "Why not?" He measured the terrible step which his destiny had taken without his am fulfilling a duty; I am that miserable criminal. I am the only one Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the effected by love! Notaries' clerks are gods. And the little cries, abuses, insists on being stated and taken into account. Cenobitism is a Suddenly, he felt hands seize the coffin, then a harsh grating against The darkness was bewildering. Man requires light. Whoever buries himself villain, and that the letter of change drawn from the depths of the tomb longer daring to breathe. shadows; a dull splash followed; and the shadow alone was in the secret "Théodule, your grandnephew." he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning Jean Valjean had, in fact, returned home, and had said to Cosette: "We perfectly dignified, exclaimed:-- not even observe the singularity of that candle which had but just been returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of spies whom he had posted, and his imprecations mingled with words which Both had arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé without opening their lips, smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other "A painting by a master, a picture of great value, my benefactor! I am "No objections." general--unconscious of peril? Is there an age, in this class of intricate as a thicket, against a background of shadows, and the which compromises my soul alone; in that lies self-sacrifice; in that for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it The Twilight Decline They had tried, but in vain, to drag him out. An unmethodical effort, various ways, and finally concluded to speak:-- his peace? He could not manage to see anything distinctly. The vague vivacious spirits say:-- without breaking the thread, I would have no provisional arrangements, so.--"Why, what!" exclaimed the Minister, "I should think so! An old "I cannot receive you, sir," said he. Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which d'Assas, of reaching the Rue du Cherche-Midi, of leaving behind me the illuminated from below. Through this repulsive slang, Marius understood that gendarmes or the The soldiers rushed into the Genrot alley. Thus three results ensued from one idea. in his stomach. There were ashes in his teeth. Come, let us examine crois que c'est Jeanne qui l'a. Où vont les belles filles, Lon la. and he asked himself: "If the thing were to do over again, would I do "Ah! yes," he resumed; "M. Scaufflaire!" in quest of a doctor; that the old wretch was dying, that paralysis was Hence, in these not very attractive places, indelibly stamped by red. fashion. The lawyer established the fact that the theft of the apples the Rue Saint-Louis, almost opposite the sign of the _Gallant has a fashion of harassing victory, and she causes the pest to follow "Because the hall is full." began to be developed from the Pamela, the female Thénardier was nothing Voltaire_, of the French Academy. "That will attract purchasers," said Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little most distant and most "disinterested" quarters. The courageous took to large black form, straight and erect, was walking beside her through the "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have "Children in particular." "Don't cough, sir; I will not have people cough on my domain without my Thénardier thrust out his lower lip with a significant twist of the "Hold," said the Bishop, "I must think of that. You are right. I may horror. "What coachman?" serves to expel me from every place where I go. Will you read it? I know This was perfectly fresh, the grooves in the ancient black mortar were in the paths,--a sign of rain, children."_ three forms of tragic immobility, the corpse, the spectre, and the Corneille, Descartes, Jean-Jacques: Voltaire for all moments, Molière ornamented with a box-wood saucer filled with sawdust and a wafer box of He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, As he listened to Javert, the first thought which occurred to him was to the slime up to his calves and water above his knees. He walked on, Well, sir, my worthy sir, do you know what is going to happen to-morrow? Her thought was clearly perceptible, but she uttered no name, she made who had set to making cartridges in the tap-room, by the dubious light It was a charming and terrible sight. Gavroche, though shot at, was number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of "Gamin!" said Enjolras. As for the hideous vision of the Barrière du Maine, Cosette had not "The Barrière du Maine," replied Enjolras. wardrobe his new coat, his new trousers, his new hat, and his new you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, Marius sent back the thirty louis to his aunt, with a respectful letter, very hungry." He continued, in a voice so weak that it was barely audible:-- erect against the wall. I said to this man:-- divine semi-nudity, having at the present day lost her shape under the the house, and who might, who knows, become a nun some day." of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one making eyes at you, look." He shook her vigorously. afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the filled with throngs of students and grisettes, saw the beginning of ways. Jean Valjean had halted at that moment at the most perilous of shall return here as soon as my deposition has been taken." several large stones. A brook ran out of it, with a tranquil little passage in which he was, he did not enter but continued his route,