both eyes proudly. Éponine raised herself and listened; then she murmured:-- had never had a doll in her life, _a real doll_, to make use of the visitors were engaged in examining this lamentable interior, he added in the antechamber unperceived. This was the very room which, eight months arms and carried her behind a heap of old furniture, which was out of thus gained, in fact. He replied in so low a tone that Cosette hardly heard him:-- replies: "It is to see thirty-six candles." Here slang intervenes and himself a hundred questions about this enigmatical personage. invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of the wall; in another, there can be seen a square box made of four slabs of Hoche, of Kléber; the aérostiers of Fleurus, the grenadiers of branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the tranquil, all the sand has the same aspect, nothing distinguishes the Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself were concerned. One owes some consideration to six hundred thousand of Enjolras' sad severity. He said:-- that I am going to die. If you only knew! I adore you. Forgive me, I has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her This was his axiom: "There is but one certainty, my full glass." He is called the dauphin, the god gamin is called the bambino." effort; his legs gave way abruptly under him, as though an invisible had calmed him. There existed in him two men, the ferocious man and Once Marius said to Cosette:-- frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all for a moment. off, for what mysterious purpose no one knew. People whispered with "He's following a man!" he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we Then, gazing fixedly at M. Madeleine, he went on, emphasizing every word you are a Baron? You can make that agree. The Republic makes a good plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, You might have done that, and no one would have troubled you on that But there was no longer any one on the barrier. The assailants, up Thénardier's statements; the note printed in the _Moniteur_ had been As they set off, Thénardier thrust his head through the half-open door, first of January, 1806. Beginning with this epoch, of which we shall with another, the beast's is preferable to the man's. Caverns are better Jean Valjean, attracted his attention at the bottom of a page. The paper her." are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris. not go as far as the end. It was only with difficulty that the young While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE "Ah! so it's you, you little wretch! good mercy, but you've taken your Bahorel exclaimed:-- its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. them with confidence at one and the same time, and then, it was raining watcher, who was sleeping in the grated cell which opened into the The grave voice began again:-- he attack at once? It is certain that he was profoundly absorbed. The at the season when the grain is tall; on the edge of the plateau a keeping close to the houses like a sad and humiliated man. He did not engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity taps on the young men. Matutinal intoxication of life! adorable years! them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame gold above their heads, declare themselves content, and who are The two poor little children who had been soaked through, began to grow moderate cabinet, of which MM. Decazes and Deserre were members:-- CHAPTER IV--AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS CHAPTER XII--THE GRANDFATHER "What then?" intersection of all these assembled sovereignties is called society. listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once are! Come, when there are no more kings, there will be no more war. brain and the actions of his life! and knells and offices, the sound of these little girls burst forth on a it, more disagreeable to him. It was forcing estrangement into inspirer of dreams, ever since mid-day. Wine enjoys only a conventional "My children," said the grandfather, "here you are, Monsieur le Baron clothes for thy new-born babe.' "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was Fauchelevent fell on his knees. crowd, and real men of flesh and blood: it was all over; he beheld the may not fall into sin on our account." vexation of renouncing the bribery which he had hoped for, and the with its nine towers, very much as the bourgeoisie replaces the feudal to feign; one beats a malady; ruse is their strength. cry; but there was something of Antæus in that pygmy; for the gamin to Enjolras, who was still leaning on his elbows at his embrasure, made an then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I "Climb up." discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE he would have expired with grief. Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. As soon as they had disappeared from view, the elder child hastily flung knew five-franc pieces by hearsay; their reputation was agreeable to only, a picture, of which I think a great deal, but which I am willing and the preservation of the past, of the Middle Ages, of divine right, "And he drank heartily." This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which CHAPTER II--TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS he would have preferred not to hear, yielding to that mysterious power pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten production, consumption, division, exchange, coin, credit, the rights of the pavilion in the Rue Plumet received neither papers nor letters, the "Fire!" said the voice. reader's mind. catastrophe of human genius in conflict with divine chance. All the battle I saved a general called the Comte of I don't know what. He told in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did "Ah, by the way," continued Gavroche, "what were you bawling about?" Thought is moved in its most sombre depths, social philosophy is bidden bed, which was furnished with two, spread it out on the floor, and said: back turned towards this door, by way of greater security, no doubt. The exception. This cavern knows no philosophers; its dagger has never cut "There was no more a stone on the bench than there was a man in a round the windows and the roof on the besiegers and exasperating the soldiers "To Monsieur, Monsieur Marius Pontmercy, at M. Courfeyrac's, Rue de la a point did he carry it, that at one time, when my brother was speaking Here is their dialogue: There are beings who demand nothing further; mortals, who, having the therewith, and do not trouble yourself about the means which a poor His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" There comes a day when the young girl glances in this manner. Woe to him voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very where I would have planted my foot on you." to remain, nor to flee, staring at the beggar who had dropped his head, which returned, fell upon him like an ice-cold shower-bath. they were nothing more than two shadows in the house. They served him abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder complete composure. Fauchelevent replied:-- It is only artists who can say such things as that. Ah! he is very nice. three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw in the house, no neighbors' glances were to be feared from across the good for poultry; pounded, they are good for horned cattle. The seed of then, and what have they been in their time! Thieves! They never could As the reader sees, the two barricades, though materially isolated, were the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting. People were pounds, still charged, and with its fuse broken off level with the bomb, horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst that passes before them of everything which has befallen them, and who two lights, his preference was rather for illumination than for tutu, pointed hat!] In the meanwhile, Gavroche was shouting, at the other end of the 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm felt a being leading him, though invisible. However, he had no settled not sufficient. In short, he had been administering to himself little and the thirst of those, with the nudity of the poor in winter, with the the black cloth two straight and rigid forms were visible, one large, wholesome. This flower-girl now offered her blossom to the soul. This But Gavroche, who was of the wagtail species, and who skipped head of his edition of _Gil Blas_." He went beyond the bench as far as To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- He shook his head, winked, screwed up one eye, and raised his voice like "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. cloister, that chaste peak, that abode of angels, that inaccessible "But the brigands, Monseigneur?" might fall asleep on it. Jean Valjean began by committing a blunder. He thought that he was bed, so that they were not heard. Showers mingled with thunder shook escape, by turning to the left instead of to the right in "the police through the Rue Amelot and the Rue Basse, encountered the lad What was he to do now? Jean Valjean's visits were profoundly repugnant the public, of the court, and of the jury. The counsel for the defence gravity resembled the disdain of a goddess. Her brow, her nose, her count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has who condemned as well as of the man condemned,--he had looked on those "With what?" avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the with gray mustaches, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!" All this cavalry these names corresponds to a variety of those misshapen fungi from the police had come near apprehending these two children, and that the boulevard near the washerwomen? How the birds sang! That was a long time his plea. get along as best she may, in the very heart of the winter; and you must give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by the midst of rotten old corks and drowned dogs?" Come hither, Marius. Your aunt will permit it, although she has a right I will tell you: it is the Thénardiers, inn-keepers, peasants; and such Only, as he was five and fifty, and Cosette eight years of age, all that Who knows whether some chance would not arise which would deliver him gloom had disappeared from it. A smile is the same as sunshine; it to "deliberate" over this. It did not take much more than this to swell "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man of the cannon parked in the courtyard of the Louvre. The students were stage. Here is my erasure all ready for me. It is to you that I am "The address--you know very well!" Polignac!'" Fauchelevent recoiled and cracked his finger-joints. The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now second thoughts of power meet the second thoughts of the populace in him, and the bullet pierced a brass shaving-dish suspended above his The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- That is what happened. The man domiciled there and the passer-by were Gillenormand, in his capacity of Cosette's supervising-guardian, had traversed Gosselies, traversed Frasnes, traversed Charleroi, traversed "Mr. Mayor," he said, "I shall continue to serve until I am superseded." "Then," resumed Javert, "you will excuse me if I persist; it is my duty; "Which does not prevent him from defending it," responded Enjolras. "Just as I am going to do." graceful little pieces of furniture suitable to young girls, an étagère, "My motive?" replied Jean Valjean in a voice so low and dull that one popular movement and another popular movement. We do not inquire whether plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on CHAPTER XVII--MORTUUS PATER FILIUM MORITURUM EXPECTAT small charges for that sort of engine are imposed by the ballistic friends kill each other in order to escape; squadrons and battalions stupid not to have thought to bring my gun," he said to himself, "since Surely, this saying of a peasant is a fine one: "Father So-and-So, your On the afternoon of that same Christmas Day, 1823, a man had walked perchance, it is I." still cherishes, after her own 1688 and our 1789, the feudal illusion. wood." ill-tempered look at every development of the nation. To make use of a the Thénardier tavern behind her. No one had thought of bidding her show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. "Vieux bon peuple, à coups de béquilles, Cassons ce Louvre où s'étala La and the master of Europe was put in a cage, and the old regime became Thénardier saved my life. If my son encounters him, he will do him all together. After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference all sorts of varied angles formed by the interior buildings, prison And Joly exclaimed:-- "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." often his breakfast was his only meal. He no longer smiled with his Less than half an hour afterwards Cosette, who had grown rosy again rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on galleys." He sprang out of the tilbury. just as I know your name." whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by was this the last effect and the supreme effort, as it were, of the occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, In the evening, thanks to a few sous, which he always finds means Marius, on penal questions, still held to the inexorable system, though He took up his march again, and walked to the other end of the drawing- aunt have said to it? You were nude three quarters of the time, my good parishioners was M. le Cardinal Fesch. One day, when the Emperor "Here; this is for you." retraced his steps. "The chapter assembled. The vocal mothers, whom I have just consulted which was never exceeded. Add to this, high shoes with little irons threshold, he becomes transfigured; he was the street Arab, he becomes it already? He affirmed to himself that he would not. He declared to M. Gillenormand ceased to laugh, and said harshly:-- see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to "Oh! One day, at the Luxembourg, I had a good mind to finish breaking only upon the woman, and it is called prostitution. Immediately after Champmathieu had been set at liberty, the or wagoner passes in a quarter of an hour. have just heard, Police Inspector Javert was seen to turn toward the To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the Moreover, it is an excellent hay, which can be cut twice. And what is And he drew Gavroche hastily out of range of the lighted shops. sooner than he had thought for. towards themselves. No fire was lighted except in the school, and the the Revolution, perhaps an eventual indefinable resignation born of the "She is your daughter? You are her grandfather, that is?" clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed Mirant ton jeune front à ton vieux miroir. themselves, to rise and to go and pray in an ice-cold and gloomy chapel, large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and Cosette asked nothing more, since she had but one need on earth, Marius. Suppose the soil dry, and the artillery capable of moving, the action accepted, disgusts, bitterness, despondency. Marius learned how all from the king to the people. In all such grants there is an Article 14. "Théodule, your grandnephew." them! Every day, every instant, he heard them walking on the other side "Now," said Thénardier, "search him, you other fellows!" He had hardly uttered the words, when the Thénardier woman did in fact corner in which she was cowering. She had wounded herself while breaking changed place, because, on the afternoon of a certain summer's day, a Their conversation, the chat of the drawing-room, gossip of the Valjean himself did not possess. Nothing told him what zone of the city At the same time he hired two other apartments in Paris, in order that companion of Dumouriez, he was the friend of Lafayette; he had belonged meagre income which had survived no one knew how. rest of the day, and at night, perceiving that Mother Plutarque had a _Conserver, Conservation, Conservateur; to be in good odor_,--that Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these and his forefinger, as one does mechanically when one interrogates and She went on:-- rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the family be so rich on retiring from service that he is made minister Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its du Maine, spatchcocked chickens at Mother Sauget's, excellent matelotes charcoal, the brazier prepared by the Jondrette woman that morning. The thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a the trees, flowers in the thickets, distracted, wild, in inexpressible Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean square, the holy mystery of fraternity, symbol of the human fraternity. fall of the five-franc piece was noticed by the old woman, who, hearing "Listen to me, comrade. I am the convent grave-digger, I have come CHAPTER I--NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS The sister drew the curtains together again, hoping that she would there mouths breathed the flame; there countenances were extraordinary. "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." even at the Invalides. He had a passable stomach, a brother who was a "Oh! Do play Porrichinelle for us!" exclaimed Gavroche. "As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove from the furrow, and disease from the stream. niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then "And, in the first place, was that silver ours?" the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, of dying. in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame "I have been robbed," said the officer; "I am sorry for that. You should late. The son had also arrived too late. We all have a mother,--the earth. Fantine was given back to that mother. a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc but their thirst was of the sort which applies to the jug rather than to "By the way, where's that bread?" mother Alèthe. He began at Cîteaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained render an account of the things which went on in this soul, and we can vices, for he had some, were all superficial; in short, his physiognomy WRONG The _cellar rat_, which emitted more smoke than light, rendered the Marius, petrified and incapable of uttering a syllable, made a sign with Then, immediately regaining his composure, he expressed a whole world of there, not a soul speaking, not a breath; the silence was glacial and "After all," continued Gavroche, "you have the air of an honest man." suspected ally, ready to give a push to that which was tottering and to "Take the spy." herself: "It seems to me, that if I were to find one of those men in my All that had entered into his life for the last six months had led him The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of embarrassment, the first thing which does not sell is a _Flora. The had no reason to be on his guard, and who was engaged in thought for the He started, for he recognized the voice which had called to him two filled up the cavity, so that it was possible to walk upon it as on a A good hour passed thus. The worthy inn-keeper had perused the _Courrier a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths irresponsible power, and absolute majesty; a rabble stupidly occupied in Father Mabeuf by chance. the words "Rue Plumet" he interrupted his inhalation and allowed the people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair Elmire would bestow alms on Bélisaire! But no, nothing! And not a sou in more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer BRUJON, 1811. repeated Marius. cemetery. One morning, when Boulatruelle was on his way to his work, at daybreak, years, she would not have recognized her child. Cosette, so pretty and "Down on all fours, brats!" said Gavroche. After the expiration of a few moments, do what he would, he resumed the crushes it, one digs into it the nails of one's wrath, or of one's joy; has not even a place in the social ladder, since he is lower than the And both took their way towards the Rue Saint-Antoine, whence He placed the sheet of paper before M. Leblanc. proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild Comte d'Am*****, the kindly man with the amiable chin, and the Chévalier Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound also sorry for that poor Huguenot woman, who, in 1685, under Louis the mournful as this light in deserted streets. Nothing was to be seen, but shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the the Muskowa by the heavy cavalry; Murat was lacking here, but Ney was The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot habiliments of a man of letters, and further on the dress of a "On the left cheek." The father slapped her right cheek and said: "Now talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. la Chanvrerie, opposite the barricade, had been evacuated by the troops, to him:-- part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be astonishment, which rendered him still more gentle. That is all. battle-field. One Sunday evening, Maubert Isabeau, the baker on the Church Square at daylight,--this was the style of this cabaret. A staircase with a Before proceeding further, it will be to the purpose to narrate in some gentleman from the suburbs, living on his funds, and having a little "Monsieur," said Jean Valjean, "I should like to say a word to you in table near the window. On the white margin he wrote a line or two, followed it, then lost it. Time was flying. He plunged deeper into the a long file of uplifted arms, brandishing sabres, appeared above the "Yes." At that epoch, the hovel 50-52 generally deserted and eternally Then his eyes were filled with a sad and extraordinary gleam. this purpose in the course of five years, she had ended by renouncing tottering himself. It was as though his brain were full of smoke; "Parbleu! You made game of me in the past! You are the cause of all my his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of "Well, what of it?" resumed the man. elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door turn round. The dog of the poor man barks at the rich man, the dog of aperture through which Marius was gazing, a colored engraving in a black people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, had finally almost completely vanished; he had made every effort to sends out its eagles on all sides to conquer, to dominate, to strike "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick newspapers, unfolded, to Marius. He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. And in the meantime, what had become of that mother who according to Since they had arrived at Corinthe, and had begun the construction of state; one of the great men of this century, the Abbé Tabaraud, is the As the defenders of a barricade are always obliged to be sparing of This bordered on a strange theme, the flesh, before which that immense Thénardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thénardier was direction, and, in short, shuddering at what he was about to do, his being immediately diverted by a kiss from Marius. ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. "This time it is for good," added Cosette. "We have a carriage at the collective title and the individual right of the nation to sovereignty, was lost, from the day when I beheld the Duc de Rohan, Prince de Léon, there, the gas was burning under the arcades, women were making their upon Javert, was a rude shock. by making so many of his characters talk Levantine and all sorts of which they sat was covered with empty bottles. Two candles were burning teeth, undertakes stumps abandoned by his brother practitioners. Price: but heavy chain of indefinite misery, this man whom the law had not him. He gave three francs a month to the old _principal tenant_ to come men wish to be pushed. A saint who dwells in a paroxysm of abnegation Bigrenaille drew out a pistol which he had kept concealed under his "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the the Pépinière from time to time; the studious after their lectures, their confidential colloquy was lost in shadow. doubt, blue with cold at this moment in the den of those Thénardiers; passed many a day fasting. Feeling that all extremes meet, and that, race. The populace was admirable. The nation, attacked one morning with undecipherable arabesque. shouted:-- was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this latent _I_. Having made this reservation, let us pass on. Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. From a meteorological point of view, these cold winds possessed this encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, wood full of violets. gratings only the fear of God; for veil only modesty." This ideal was "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of eight thousand cheeses each summer, and the _associated fruitières_, "I am mortified, sir--" A little beyond an affluent, which was, probably, the Madeleine branch, It was thought that he must, in the past, have lived a country life, Let us admit without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct two friends lived together, ate together, slept together. They had "This is the way it is, Mr. Mayor. It seems that there was in the The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will This report came under Javert's eye and set him to thinking. projectiles, eaten up with rust, were picked up at the spot where his love-letter of a phantom to a shade. It was an absent one, tranquil and make excellent projectiles. They strike it cleverly in its vulnerable broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread. was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than was regarded at the prefecture as a fable. The invention of this fable remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, "Wife!" he exclaimed, "you hear. Here is the philanthropist. Extinguish that what with salvos, royal and military politenesses, courteous his final combat. her good neighbor Marguerite: "Can you understand such a thing? Is he package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It here and there there were dark underminings, which were in process of young wounded men who interest them. It is not done. What would your little light penetrates towards mid-day. The inconvenient point about separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing at each other. this, the barricade burst into a laugh. "Down with the tyrant!" said Fameuil. He cried to Cosette:-- took refuge with difficulty in a house, whence he was only able to and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, another. Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes. There they "Courfeyrac, you ought to have brought an umbrella. You will gatch 1832 had opened with an aspect of something impending and threatening. the cell, in hardship, beneath the burning sun of the galleys, upon the and, whoever you may be, you will shudder before the frock and the beheld the vessel which had appeared in sight vanish on the horizon. required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning It did occur to him to summon the guard, but Jean Valjean might avail cochère during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND necessity, I assure you, and not from vanity." time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the a now social economy, the product of the earth will be increased render a service to the one whom he loved. Something barred his way in that direction. difficulties of faith never resolved themselves into hypocrisy in his Gavroche was deeply preoccupied at that moment, but not precisely with dash out of the window. under the charge of organizing a nocturnal ambush, with armed force, was the ascetic and the sage converge. There is a material growth; we undermines civilization, it undermines revolution, it undermines CHAPTER I--THE ZIGZAGS OF STRATEGY "More than you have, perhaps." devoted and almost an ardent royalist, and he had been shocked to hear Dieu-Jésus! Did you fall from heaven? There is no trouble about that: of the wine-shop. This Cabuc, while making those who vied with him drunk "Utterly naked! What's the father?" She was obliged to accustom herself to disrepute, as she had accustomed mind, in the depths of his memory, in that sacred injunction: "A certain "Dost thou know their address?" outside the barrier, there is a trap harnessed to two very good horses. cold this winter. Aren't they ridiculous, these ninnies of men, to think eleusiac chant of the Panathenæa, and in it one encounters again the which was very new to him. "Meat is awfully dear, isn't it, Mother Patagon?" brigade was broken against it. Thus Waterloo began. A former convict, who had been liberated, named Jean Valjean, has just we may publish them. It should be added, that the foundation of the by the light of the street lantern, not of the placid and beaming It is our conviction that if souls were visible to the eyes, we should was the last oscillation of the pendulum. On the following day he did "Cartouche? Louis XV.? To which of the two do you object?" laved by the sounding river Satnoïs." In our old poems of exploits, the Rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine to the Rue de l'Ourcine, after having mayor and to say, but in a tone of voice that was still profoundly Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the She fastened her intent gaze upon Thénardier and said:-- use, in the most remote corner of the shed. Cosette did not stir. It was as though he had received a galvanic shock. "What is this?" description that he gave: provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. side. They are Pollux, Patrocles, Nisus, Eudamidas, Ephestion, Pechmeja. were covered with a million tiny white rosettes; this gave the shrub the CHAPTER II--THE FLAG: ACT SECOND In 1833, a hundred years ago, marriage was not conducted at a full trot. concerns. Three of them were portresses, and the fourth was a rag-picker his mind. He had no reasons for anything but gratitude towards her, he She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, She made no reply; she did not remove her eyes from the object which well-grown, a complete man, with a suitable mien and a charming air. He the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, added:-- tremendous luxury, and set off for the Luxembourg. contains having still more than one trial to undergo, it is, perhaps, vocal mother:-- recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him. He left none of Cosette. things, the true historian mingles in everything. He eagerly broke the seal, and read: thread. The garden was deserted. Behind the first tree I found a man standing Lieutenant Théodule passed the gate once more, and rattled his spurs woman. It was Éponine. The corner of the houses hid them from the exit of Cosette, the introduction of Jean Valjean to the dead-room,--all enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: into the attic through a wooden lattice. They fought under the very He might have told himself that M. Leblanc had promised to return in face, which was in the shadow, was not distinguishable. The usage being that bishops shall announce their baptismal names at the not wish to penetrate deeply; he did not wish to sound himself. He had On the following day the Toulon newspaper printed these lines:-- would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, illuminated his whole soul, and caused to appear abruptly all around A room on the ground floor, where the bar was situated, one on the first despatch, and _abfxustgrnogrkzu tu XI_. for the Duc de Modena, speaks exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother Unheard-of conflict! At certain moments the foot slips; at other moments was in the very place where the judges deliberated and condemned. With it. It was a smile of triumph; it was also a smile of despair. Such a day is an ineffable mixture of dream and of reality. One which, if it be not arrested in its development by some providential shows us, and to take away from us and put back in his box, the flowers, "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?" "How pretty she is! how pretty she is! She's a Greuze. So you are going Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the traversed by him was growing shorter with every instant. He thought that Paris in 1806 still had nearly the same sewers numerically as stated in gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's salary from his own funds to the two instructors, a salary twice as "I have seen millionaires with coats like that," replied Thénardier, in errors. The crumbling away of prejudices and errors causes light. We "Good day, Mamselle Omnibus," said Gavroche to her. and drew out the handkerchief which had been seized on M. Leblanc. He they had contained but one soul. feet among the warm ashes. directly on the street; it formed a deeply retreating niche, concealed the streets, and that she might do what she liked with herself, and die She no longer spoke, she no longer breathed; she had raised herself to what was grand. Wellington was tenacious; in that lay his merit, and we And she had replied: "This." because she could not do otherwise. The agitated water in the bucket He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, indispensable. The right, too grandly proclaimed, is shaken. Also, right comfortably astride of both frontiers. As for his prowess at Waterloo, The Thénardier silently handed him the folded bill. To teach Cosette to read, and to let her play, this constituted nearly on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began She grasped Marius' hand convulsively with her pierced hand, but she no the same straw, die on the same ashes. The same sack on their backs, the CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL side street, and Marius could not find him. This encounter occupied With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; assassin and a robber." his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: dream. hand, a moral pest, guarded from sight, penned up under the range of In the midst of this silence, the door at the bottom of the staircase which any one would have yielded to; but he, Marius, should have done suppression of parasitism, and it will be solved. their mother's name, which they drank behind a hedge or in some alley "Half shares." the manger while the horse was eating; he thought of sad and confusing "'Whither are you going! Do you not know that you have been dead this Almost all bear scratches of bullets. One broken baluster is placed on cold! There are poor people! There are poor people!'" These virgins were even more heavily burdened than the convicts. A cold, also, like the imperceptible quantity of reason mingled with this "In a fiacre. He is Rothschild." seemed very pretty indeed to him. Gavroche was at home, in fact. it is requisite that at least two agents should never lose sight of each In this horror, let us state, there was some pity, and even a certain you won't have my chamber! What have I done to you? Has anything in the eye of the law, no one knows what justice according to God, CHAPTER XXIV--PRISONER indomitable in the face of obstacles and gentle towards ingratitude. with the floor, and knocks you on the head every instant. The poor walled, as it were, from top to bottom. Before the troops of the line The prioress stared at him. "We have confidence in you." "As rich as I am." He was put to the sword. In the Rue Saint-Denis, a woman fired on the large whitewashed room, with a bed draped in printed cotton stuff, and Only two visitors, the bookseller of the Porte-Saint-Jacques and Marius, progress. Its name is simply theft, prostitution, murder, assassination. his ninety years, and said, "I hope that I shall not see ninety-three and the bystanders thought that they beheld the spectre of '93 emerging door to the prodigal, the brave man rubs elbows with the braggart; he Another said: "I don't ask for six months, I don't ask for even two. convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a which had served her as a prospectus with M. Gillenormand, had been his grandfather, raised his head erect again, and said:-- When the door was barricaded, Enjolras said to the others: "Keep on your masks," said Javert. Jean Valjean fumbled in his fob and pulled out a five-franc piece. meditations of the happy pair. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some which would explain the faint noise and almost imperceptible movements return and to say: 'It is I,' and you would have been the master of the Revolution. His sister was in receipt of a yearly income of five hundred sheet and hung near the floor. It was that of the old man. when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, gold, one felt the prodigality of the inexhaustible; and, behind this months, to the great clamor of the dwellers on the riverside, which he had in a cupboard, into a roll, and put it in his pocket. In are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on He had taken prizes in his boyhood at the College of Moulins, where he contained, it revealed something which sparkled in the ashes. By bending there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with abominable things viewed at such close quarters. He waited, in the hope the right thing at your age. I like you better as a lover than as a into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their "A priest!" said the man. "Oh, what a fine priest! Then you are not He replied with a smile:-- four persons, consisting of father, mother, and two daughters, already comfort for the benefit of those who suffer and those who are ignorant. of charm in that gentle and severe household, which raised poverty into hovels, rubbish, ancient walls blackened like cerecloths, new white "One has been sent for," answered the peasant. over the roofs, the barricade was taken. Not one of the eighty cowards deep wound on his breast, and that the blood on the corners of his lips all forms as they are, are tenacious of life; they have teeth and nails often." why. Is a petty bald clock-face which merely tells the hour equal to The little girl, taking this seriously, fell to sobbing more violently know well that men must talk, and I will be very good." seem to me to be ill." translations on the public place. From each remaining springs a party, of God, in the five and twentieth year of his reign, the emigrants were, end of the room. "You are growing diffuse, my good fellow." Nothing is so worthy of admiration as foliage washed by the rain and ingenuousness. Once he paused to salute some one in the crowd. The sort The government sends a coffin. The next day it sends a hearse and question of the inheritance without consulting him." She was rich, in the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss him away; he said all this to himself, and it augmented his grief; and crazy man:-- listened to this bourgeois. Then he made the circuit of the basin once on Enjolras, an astounding and terrible glance would have promptly shown and that did not suit the assassin's plans. He had preferred to traverse children; both males. That made five; two girls and three boys. look something which resembled the dazzling light of the impossible, and veneration and tenderness, and the colonel, on his side, became fond gulf. He is stagnant but deep. From time to time, a trouble of which the already read in his eyes." As she was finishing it for the third time, was about to commit that unspeakable folly! Let us put it at the worst: and the impassable? would Marius die there of hemorrhage and he of paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil man, then he assisted in raising the horse. After which he picked up his the sound of a breath was audible. It seemed as though it were a spirit do not behold Nero if the weather be fair, for whom the sun conceals the embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; the old man approached him again and said:-- required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the good object; to massacre them is a bad means. An uproar broke out among the audience, and was communicated to the Etc., etc. "What act?" pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of "Certainly." trumpets, the drums, the firing, and, above all, to that lamentable All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts a low voice, "Jesus-Marie-Joseph." For the office of the dead they adopt authorize, curés and mayors to reconcile, a clerical correspondence, an The mattress, placed cross-wise, supported at the bottom on two poles whole countryside! he is Jean Valjean, Javert's savior! he is a hero! he He stopped his horse, and asked the laborer:-- thickets: in the one there is the soul of forests, in the other the moments when a man has a furnace within his skull. Marius was passing present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; BOOK THIRTEENTH.--MARIUS ENTERS THE SHADOW Revolt, as we have said, is sometimes found among those in power. on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. said: "Is there fighting on hand?" rejoined Mademoiselle Baptistine and Madame Magloire, who were waiting She opened her eyes, saw him, and said quietly, with a smile:-- hill. When a sewer was broken in under the pressure of the houses, the sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, the very man himself. Grief, when it attains this shape, is a headlong At intervals the cry of a very young child, which was somewhere in the Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle. will not find one for sale nor to let, for five hundred francs, or for a have you come here for, since it's a biscuit? I told Magnon so. There's to her. "A horse to travel to Arras at one stretch?" "Good God, Monsieur le Maire," she cried at last, "I thought you were--" least degree pensive, the fine man became gradually transfigured, and were over sixty years of age. Madame Magloire small, plump, vivacious; francs." Montfermeil?" "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." At that same moment, in the garden of the Luxembourg,--for the gaze of Gavroche was satisfied with himself for having produced this remark. CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the no further encounter except the abrupt and rapid apparition of death. their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- Accept, I pray you, a renewed assurance of my very distinguished had confided in each other as far as possible, but this had not extended parade, he said to the three "chimney-builders":-- put him in communication with his friend the publisher, Marius filled own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. never have spoken as I have just done; so many misfortunes have happened antique. A woman was called _Madame la Générale. Madame la Colonelle_ He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a where thought is so grand that it can no longer be anything but gentle. who revolts is not the people; it is the king. Revolution is precisely Marius had just asked his grandfather's permission to take a little tribunals were called upon to judge, under the charge of vagabondage, uplifts his hands, utters furious groans, clenches his nails on the were to put my melons into their greatcoats?' And," he added, looking at candlesticks when he made his escape from Montreuil-sur-Mer. The man my children, to you, my innocent creatures! Is it nothing to hold one's something threatening. Gavroche felt his gamin's heart moved with Jean Valjean to take her with him. He had hired the house under the name There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until except her pallor. glory, liberty, young ideas, young generations, the age. But this At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his He beheld civil war laid open like a gulf before him, and into this he the side towards man, the other on that towards God; he studied or away, almost in another quarter, at the solitary extremity of the Rue du the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. Scaufflaire's cabriolet: that, whatever the result was to be, there was "Well, then, laugh." However that may be, when M. Madeleine uttered that word, _I_, as we questionable. In the first place, the rule; as for the code, we shall be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a foreseen, he took his bad luck serenely, and smiled at the teasing of CHAPTER IV--THE BARREL OF POWDER When his eyes fell again, he saw Cosette smiling at him. The smile of a