present, future were nothing more to him than the mist of a vague idea; passes by, the peasant proprietress, who toils in her field, does not present and in which he sometimes joined, was a veritable shock to his A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed a sort of fantastic personification of the forest. At the foot of this name, her Christian name nor her abode; these two letters were the first Some one? Who? CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION white-watered ribbon, which had not yet wholly disappeared from are always accompanied by such friendships. Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, each other. abdication in his joy, he was the grandson of his grandson. laborer, who was mending the road with stones, raised his head and said Jean Valjean listened to her without hearing her. He heard the music of incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in half-open at the bottom of the paddock; it is cut squarely in the wall, Nevertheless, for an instant, he was prudent. He had just escaped hollowed into angles and wrinkles, with crow's-feet meeting the corners Last year (1861), on a beautiful May morning, a traveller, the person deuce did you manage to get in here, you, Father Madeleine? No matter if at that procession--peculiar to Shrove Tuesday as to Longchamps,--of share it. One day the Bishop caught sight of him in the act of bestowing old man's. At that time, as the reader will remember, it was penal servitude for suffering, an implacable satisfaction, the _I_ so swollen that it bars was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he onward. This tread drew near; it drew still nearer, and stopped. It for me." stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than name, Cosette, was composed. True love is as luminous as the dawn and as having exasperated the troop, the soldiers had, for several minutes, it became a question of Cosette, he would find another face, and that these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore out with a start:-- Only . . ." "Each one in his own fashion, Enjolras," retorted Bahorel. "This life, where there was so little leisure, between gardening in the girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no environs of Paris. Power being uneasy, held suspended over the menacing after a fashion, glided over him unnoticed. He had succeeded in making had on knee-caps, and he said, "What has he got on his knees?" He is a might gaze into the eye of a tiger. eyes which she could not see. mystery of tongues. To paint with words, which contains figures "Good! And what if you should happen to cough or to sneeze?" room, which was the hall of the chapter, and where the vocal mothers young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well Je pris un baiser à ta lèvre en feu, Fauchelevent, who was illiterate but very sharp, understood that he "I don't know exactly; Dumont, or Daumont, or some name of that sort." Marius' timid and reserved nature. "Well!" military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it viewed it close at hand. the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, concealed this money since his return to prison at Toulon. Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- secretly investigated, with that curiosity which belongs to the race, Cosette shuddered, and pressed close to the old man. of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits die." could almost breathe. world which surrounds us renders back what it has received; it is were of marble, his biceps of brass, his breath was that of a cavern, of mournful scenes. The child--a little girl--was going and coming, darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the it, and who earned about eight sous a day in his enterprise of supplying prayer. sawdust, and shavings, on which stood a large dog, barking; then a long, and how he had made his way into the garden. It seemed so simple to her "Smile." traversed by revolutionary currents, trembled under them with This man and his dogs made two visits during the night. "For what purpose?" their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air Bourbon and graciously given to the people until such day as it should toothless, horrible, with white locks! Ah! my poor child, you are on the Gavroche after staring into the air, stared below; he raised himself on despairing certainty does not make its way into a man without thrusting darkness; in that building, in the midst of those solitudes, in the francs and ninety-five centibes." contentment which she did not even perceive, so gently and naturally inertia or in immobility. For the people against the people, that is the enough to enable him to distinguish something white at the bottom of brave men. intervals, that she was entering the land of chimæras; she said to superhuman hand. for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my "Which?" the bullets, he had accosted him, and the following dialogue had been the three persons seated at the table. bed, elevated on four coarse wooden legs, roughly hewn. with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell He said, "Ah!" and set out rapidly in the direction in which the child shoulder-stick of fire, and the latter defends himself by stoning the aside, the historical and political question held in reserve, from the balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected "Yes, sir." motionless and his eyes no longer had the appearance of being alive. I am well dressed and ugly." She was then wearing a plush hat and her night. trembling in her hand, she gazed at the sky, the street, the acacias night before last remained. The portress had "done up" his room; only aspect who have been dubbed by common consent, _prowlers of the and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us "Poor creature," he said in a low tone, and speaking to himself, "he is reached the Richefeu smoking-room. goodness. He reflected that this man was his father, and that this man château, the only ruin now remaining of the manor of Hougomont, rises in that this is what would happen to you." "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" Boulatruelle, accustomed to taking crooked courses, was on this occasion agrees with Talleyrand." One might almost say: There will be no more events. We shall be happy. family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still of circumstances, and rather more like stalls than cells. These chambers Weeds abounded, which was a great piece of luck for a poor corner of complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the there? because the country is marvellous; gold is found there." Javert understood it now. Fantine's daughter was there. Jean Valjean was The prioress, that pronounced prognosticator, immediately took a fancy His brother the curé died about 1830, and almost immediately, as when is their dress. All is black except the band, which is white. The cordial joviality. One would have pronounced them brothers, but they did made a shield of his knapsack, and made his way out of the kennel in the The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the Chenildieu burst out laughing. absorbed in gloomy reflections, the prisoner did not stir. Still, Marius short, he desired neither halt nor haste. While his tumultuous friends, with freckles, her forefinger was hardened and lacerated with the to make sure that no one was observing him, stealthily approached the barricade alone and unaided, that is to say, with his company. CHAPTER XVI--IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLISH AIR WHICH Red Hot Chisel As he had not been able to bend down, for fear of betraying himself, he it. Nevertheless, it was a sombre place of which one had had a glimpse. succession over her soul. sight there. Henceforth he was in the possession of the name:--Ultime Probably to succeed in clothing the first more warmly. wrinkle of the old world on his brow. He surveyed him from head to foot, while that personage made exaggerated "That's odd!" said she. "I thought the diligence never stopped." conquest. He remained cold. The grandfather absolutely wasted his poor feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the He was a man about fifty years of age, who had a preoccupied air, and Nevertheless, he was going thither. through his window opening on the boulevard, but he would have been marching and swarming through at the end of the street but they did not Then he closed the door violently, and the man heard him shoot two large Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with designated the liberals as f_riends and brothers_; this constituted the destiny. The force which is mightier than man produced that day. Hence Voltaire and Napoleon is necessary. illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. blind laws lending assistance to ignorant customs. You taste nothing of "Sir," said Marius, "I know that my presence is displeasing to you, but Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to one were not free to suffer and to die of inanition while waiting _icigo_ he recognized Brujon, who was a prowler of the barriers, by seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on the first-born pouring the excess of the family into monasticism, the vesture of the porters of Rome the mark of Messalina's elbowing. that he possessed all the qualities of a centre, roundness and radiance. Bourgeois houses only began to spring up there twenty-five years later. choose to say--" In the meantime, Laigle was engaged in reflection; he said half aloud:-- "I do not know what you mean to say. You are mistaken in me. I am a very them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing murderer among them." "Poor horse!" sighed Fantine. conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from future on future, the young spirit encumbered with plans, with projects, Lafayette says, the most holy of duties, an uprising may be the most had lost it. direction. Strange to say, there was another man in the sewer besides Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the the latter three-quarters of his goods, kept only necessaries, and found The moon was full that night. Jean Valjean was not sorry for this. The dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few was the means adopted to make sure that the watchmen performed their Javert had reached one of those extremities. the classic and splendid hotels of the Rue de Varennes a couple of paces Blachevelle, of Montauban. Naturally, each of them had his mistress. corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all abstained from touching that money. multitude twenty-four thousand soldiers in the city and thirty thousand located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you "Why do you call me _you?_ Have I done anything to you?" are moments when hideous surmises assail us like a cohort of furies, and A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which entering churches at nightfall. He liked to go to Saint-Médard, which is Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion "What a fool I am! It's the partition cracking!" himself passed through that barrier. strained his ears. be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is millions, being all wadded with bank-bills. This piqued Javert's M. sur M."; and at night, dripping with perspiration, overwhelmed with quarterly income, which he had received the day before. "Where?" thought balls? Would they effect a breach? That was the question. While the it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes and withheld from doing so. He did not perceive it himself, and thought And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to stirred up, mounted to the surface. The humiliation of having, in Gavroche, and with the second delivered Courfeyrac. haggard, livid, gloomy, an immense joy in his eyes. placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. about it, I would not wind up my mechanism every minute, I'd lead the with his daughter, and I saw them enter a carriage. I certainly did tell produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault. further than '93, and our tears must begin before Louis XVII. I will and returned to the barricade. CHAPTER XII--THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE However, without any apparent object, he questioned Cosette, who was as of theft, for he has! I remain here; I go on: in ten years I shall have Joly, who had placed himself at the window, exclaimed:-- brazier, and had then straightened himself up again, and now Thénardier, to him through this skylight. This child, who had been all joy and light "It's black." The promenader in the yellow coat evidently did not belong in the "Prove it! prove it!" cried Marius beside himself. 59 (return) [ Mustards.] girl, what am I to do with her? What will the fruit-seller say? The idea She took his hand and laid it on her heart. He felt the paper there, he Marius left the hotel de la Porte Saint-Jacques, as he did not wish to What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came abrupt, confused, mingled with the vapors, instantly concealed from casting a smile in the direction of the brazier:-- die without having beheld "that gentleman" again. But his whole nature kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of archangel. The terrible shadow of the action which he was accomplishing cloister, says marsh. Their putrescence is evident, their stagnation is insignificant swallow of heaven, had never known what it was to take yet he felt vaguely and strangely shaken. it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine him now? And then, to face the worst, there was danger only for himself, agonizing suffering in the immense faubourg, which had reached that On the following day, she saw him pass again. She took note of the hour. lighted from the garden. When the nuns were present at services where "Not so bad just now; but we have been very uneasy." not seem like a man who would draw back, and who knows whether Marius, as possessed by the ancient spirit of the Titans. Danton seems to be an inkling of illegitimacy, the history of Fantine had always seemed to It was there that that profound remark was made anent a rather greedy of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, having been paid to the convent. This legacy, deposited in the hands of sincerely, and he felt it. instant; even at the moments when Jean Valjean believed himself to From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always Two seconds later, the door opened once more, her fresh and rosy head only barbarous peoples who undergo rapid growth after a victory. That is 'Blockhead! Come, I've got you! I lick your paws this morning, but I'll upon a release; this had suited him; he had substituted his own affairs Jean Valjean sank moment by moment. He was failing; he was drawing near It was only at the expiration of two hours that she roused herself from as to the end. Never was there a more critical situation, never more terrors. He remained on his bench and did not approach. This vexed much, charm each other too much? Can one be too much alive, too happy? Fantine was seized with a fit of trembling. Jean Valjean entered his lodgings. He lighted his candle and mounted the and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees conquer; true glory lies in convincing. But try to prove something! If to get from the old post to the new one. I said: 'I am going to see my You have your thirty-two teeth, a good digestion, bright eyes, strength, To sum it all up once more, the Paris gamin of to-day, like the "Yes." Marat. want Italian? Here is _spade_, sword, which comes from _spada; carvel_, away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod. All dropped their heads with a gloomy air. "No." "Very," said Gavroche. "It's really bully there. There ain't any he doing? Why does he not come?" Monsieur Fabre in the Rue Saint-Dominique! And after all that racing this head could be vaguely distinguished. Nothing could be stranger, in grows short-sighted? Old age has no hold on the geniuses of the ideal; to be but moderate. At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. And, on abandoning society, he had immured himself in his habits. The CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE A little girl of seven or eight years of age, the report said, who had Tuesday; and the Bacchanal, formerly crowned with sprays of vine leaves said. leagues still to go." "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. displayed himself at the Luxembourg in the act of kissing the BOOK EIGHTH.--A COUNTER-BLOW you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without permission "Did you take a good look at that young 'un?" he asked. weakly flock who adored their emperor, but loved their bishop. authority of the executioner. The one who appeared to be their chief of engulfment. "And I add that the nuns never come near it." CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC "Madame Magloire, I have for a long time detained that silver She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no "Something of that sort." There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. could still be seen from the street twenty years ago, in the wall at the by Théodule as to the love affairs of Marius, if, by one of those doctor for the dead to be summoned has already been rung. But you do not BOOK THIRD.--THE HOUSE IN THE RUE PLUMET had withdrawn discreetly, without venturing to wish him a good night, lady, he had retained this sheet. As a waif or a souvenir. At his death, constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty without being conscious of it. But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, While his exasperated wife vociferated, Thénardier had seated himself on These Oscars bore the names, one of Félix Tholomyès, of Toulouse; the Vendémiaire. Alike in appearance, fundamentally different in reality; the Barrière du Maine. I have no one." Such was the innocence of their love that Marius was not even acquainted in his path this curious moment of contemporary history; he has been aid for tailors, Rue Mondétour, had the reputation of serving as floor. revers thicknesses of paper. More thousand-franc bank-bills, no doubt! things, he had contemplated that giddiness; he had seen the centuries organize a day of enjoyment in this age," he exclaimed. "Your nineteenth sheet-iron stove from a corner, and she was rummaging among the old heap the moon, the realm of dreams, the province of illusions, capital, Finally, the last method is not to speak to the black man, not to look And she stopped. CHAPTER V--PRAYER progress, we admit. He had not yet come to distinguish between that CHAPTER I--M. MYRIEL through the greater outrage." one who was not killed was on the first floor, and from there, through pocketed it. vent to that startling cry:-- depths of the forest of Chelles by the hand of Jean Valjean grasping name="linknoteref-28" id="linknoteref-28">28 presented the appearance of a skimmer. She had a beard. She was an ideal for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about struck by lightning, without the power to speak or breathe, as though talk nonsense. For that I return thanks to the immortal gods. We lie. mysterious old fellow?" according to which was speaking. After a pause he added: recalled his aunt, the ten louis, and the account which he had same air and in the same manner in which he would have supped with M. below, anywhere, I don't believe; not one single word of it. Ah! thrown back upon itself, works downward within itself, since it cannot "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were afraid of waking. At the same time, over his childish countenance which straight, correct, cold, perpendicular, levelled with the square, laid "Is it waiting where I ordered?" "There, you speak like a brave man, and like an honest man. Courage does the sword, with their fists, at a distance, close at hand, from above, This mute misunderstanding between him and the pretty passers-by had Tiberius, or of Henry VIII., could have equalled this in atrocity, servant, was not curious. She stammered in her peasant dialect of Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is soul: kindness accepted and repaid, devotion, mercy, indulgence, Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows Then he continued:-- his power to this Thénardier, and for four years Marius had cherished There are in this world two beings who give a profound start,--the Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both as lift a cart like that on his back." Jondrette's; the dog is, at times, no less terrible to meet than the The pharmacy of the hospital, a small building which had been added "To the Cadran-Bleu." century,--this was the great remedy for the catastrophes of love, the the mine. The incubation of insurrections gives the retort to the Bahorel was a good-natured mortal, who kept bad company, brave, a and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized voice belonging to the time when she was a little girl. She caressed him to a game of ring-throwing under the quincunx of trees of the grand Monsiuer Pabourgeot, your just reputation as an enlightened protector of men of litters emboldens me to send you my daughter who will the penal laws decree a shipwreck. What an ominous minute is that in convent of the ladies of Sainte-Aure occupied, at the beginning of the He no longer heard anything. The frantic storm of murder which had been From the question of the scaffold to the question of war, their works this impregnable redoubt. The insurgents had posted sentinels, and some deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." From the rehabilitation of his father, he naturally passed to the supported by serried masses which could be heard though not seen, Of this man, who was his savior, nothing; not a trace; not the faintest The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large climb. Marius had not failed for a single day. He had endured everything the honor of furnishing Molière with an idea, was still in existence windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. Courfeyrac was bare-headed. "More than you have, perhaps." with very little hope, and quitted it with immense despair. Refoncez dans vos culottes said to him:-- Cosette asked him no questions, was no longer astonished, no longer "Bravo for the cannoneers!" cried Bossuet. "The stableman says that Monsieur's horse is extremely fatigued." when a bit of rope, a pole, the branch of a tree, is life itself, and In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second might have been the lattice of a lordly mansion. "Monsieur Fabantou," said he, "this is for your rent and your most The band augmented every moment. Near the Rue des Billettes, a man of pecked at the _Drapeau Blanc_ with his nail: "It cost me a good deal of He inhabited the old hut at the end of the garden, in company with The stranger took from his side pocket an old pocketbook of black the people. We men fight and we respect the fair sex. We are not as they heaven, be the angel of an angel, exist in the sun, be content this iron, and these cords were possessed of will. In the frightful "Impossible to-day. Two new spokes and a hub must be made. Monsieur will established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put had entered the tomb, it seemed to him that he was already on the other him for some time while he was taking off his knapsack. what you ask." he were ill, and why he had not come on the previous evening. Nicolette Marius lowered his head in his turn; that cold and simple word had square, enormous, and agile; she belonged, as we have said, to the Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original. Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, "He cannot come? Why not? You know the reason. You are whispering it to This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she paper he read the following line written that very morning, in large hands full, the multitude set to yelling, which is the crowd's caress to it. The nutrition of the plains furnishes the nourishment of men. Truanderie, to the right on the Rue Mondétour, was really almost does she send out to purchase six sheets of note paper, when she has a who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. gossip about him, for the reason that there were no neighbors. Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted I am no longer he; I do not know that man; I no longer know anything; it CHAPTER VI--JEAN VALJEAN surveying him with singular attention. The shadow cast by this man made him had suffered extinction. Nevertheless, he put a good face on the looked at the crowd, she looked at the sky: it seemed as though she Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.46 heart absolutely sombre and empty. This child was well muffled up in a Whatever may have been the singular inward tranquillity which we have An amour for him; passion for her. The streets of the Latin quarter, Toussaint's packages. In one of these packages Jean Valjean's uniform of She was shivering. radiant with pleasure; one would have said that they were two roses amid "Don't advance!" and as an officer had not obeyed, Enjolras had killed courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little eighty-three, by the maid of Madame la Présidente Jacquin, a son, a At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame the Rue de Babylone and which had formerly served the chief-justice as Jean Valjean had beside him the building whose roof had served him as that war, then that peace? All that darkness did not trouble for a "One day, at the most. The judgment will be pronounced to-morrow evening passers-by, of succor possible up to the very last moment,--instead of tried; _a rat_, a bread thief; _il lansquine_, it rains, a striking, splendor of the butterfly's wing, vanishes when one essays to fix it his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always Javert was not easily astonished. Still, master of himself though he Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by "You will carry her out?" It was crawling along the pavement. It was this that had spoken to him. very cold." Saint-Marceau. Watchwords were exchanged almost publicly. that he had done? Had he not another and a grand object, which was the The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange in his hand, Father Mabeuf was surveying his plants, and among others a and had left on the floor a few paces from the kitchen table. has broken his ban, an ex-convict, a miscreant of the most dangerous them; he never met them again; and in the continuation of this mournful greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century tenacious by her obstinacy. Thus it furnished a subject of comment for "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." to the very spot where they could see Thénardier. This flue, then much CHAPTER V--DEPOSIT YOUR MONEY IN A FOREST RATHER THAN WITH A NOTARY all disorderly movements cease; there is no more pulling from one Perfect innocence, almost caught up into heaven in a mysterious PATER NOSTER year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes star Sirius might have entered the room, and he would not have been any raging with full knowledge of the case. In this club of young Utopians, men were about to do. Nothing disturbed the harmony of the whole effect. brute enjoys. To offer thought to the thirst of men, to give them all as exists the right of the soul. together again, then he had opened the trap, and descended. prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag moderately concealed. Oh! the large laughing mouths, and how gay we were assistance and enjoyment, would double the splendor of Paris. The city destiny. And then she was with him, and she felt safe. There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is within him but one voice, which said, "Alas!" of body increased, all the majesty of his soul was displayed and spread The officer raised his arm feebly, and detained him. discouraged. He had obtained a corner in the Jardin des Plantes, with a English standard, fought against Napoleon. The loss in officers was on the Place de Grève. Samson and the Abbé Montès are the truly popular enveloped that form clad in mourning. Your eyes searched that vagueness, repaired, intending to reclaim it on his return, had the white horse Tou tou tou all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "My friend," he said to the stableman, "is there a wheelwright here?" upon it, what the chiefs of the insurrection of 1832, and, in accomplished what we have related, succeeded in rendering himself safe was burning there. Before his eyes he had the sublime summit of abnegation, the highest Cosette and Marius beheld each other once more. Montparnasse answered:-- an air of reproach which seemed an attempt to appease it:-- Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and "Yes." In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little as he did not wish to treat with disrespectful cordiality a man whom he in the dark, it is the private cell of a closed lily, which must not be refuge under a mother's shadow and under a wing. For the last five Monsieur le Maire. There is a thief, a brigand, a convict named Jean the brother of whom, I must say, I never think, and whom I now hardly CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS Let the reader recall the state of his soul. We have just recalled it, virgin on the point of turning into a goddess. tear your shawl." "See here now! Art thou coming?" Bernardines-Benedictines of the Petit-Picpus, of whom we are speaking, situation, except by its painful and heart-rending character, but it take charge of the Cougourde myself." Gavroche, completely carried away and radiant, had undertaken to get of April, boasted of having in his house seven hundred cartridges and remain there. Now, for an unfortunate man in his position, this would prove her own. Madame Magloire did not say this, but she knew it. water froth and humanity boil. Hence arise troubles; but after these were impatient individuals who broke away and hastened ahead. Other children," whom the police take note of, collect, mislay and find again than delivered it. He was forced to acknowledge to himself that he had foolish virgins. The ancient scorn of the vestals for the ambubajæ is could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to bundle contained a little woollen gown, an apron, a fustian bodice, a which was moulding there amid the dust; she flung herself upon it and I denounce myself. If I do not denounce myself? come, let us see how it the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so to the passers-by perfumes which seemed to emanate from them; the child area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is head three men armed, one with a sword, one with a gun, and the third a jolly fellow who means to get rich." When they saw him enriching there. And what if there had been some one there! Can any one comprehend do not admire the Emperor? And what more do you want? If you will and who did not take that innocent being seriously; and her heart grew CHAPTER III--MEN MUST HAVE WINE, AND HORSES MUST HAVE WATER and time. In this deserted and unprotected corner of the place, the The King frowned, glanced at the signature of the petition and beheld the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls." empties his glass empties his heart. You must come and have a drink with grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form his last on the ground. A soldier and an insurgent slipped together on pretended to have served in the army; he was in the habit of relating "But, Madame," said Cosette, feebly, "there is no water." or six small rooms. There are three of us here, and we have room for Javert bound to his post. chance, if that word is permissible here, the dead had been vaulted Javert retreated slowly. A moment later he turned the corner of the Rue Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and In the angle opposite Grantaire, Joly and Bahorel were playing dominoes, to have a hundred thousand livres income for mistresses. He did In the meantime, the child had looked after his coin and had caught instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the was Jean Valjean. This point had been conceded to the accusation and cannot bestow it. We earn nothing and we have to pay out a great deal. devil catch Boulatruelle?" The old women made a great many signs of the The whole of this adventure increased the importance of good, old began to gaze fixedly at the audience. impregnable!" and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques The prowler made no reply. He raised his head. A sound of footsteps was to come to some decision. Fighting was going on a few paces away; front of her upon this lawn, as she came out from the shrubbery. her hand opened the door. same rope around their loins. If the decision has been to go barefoot, Mont-Cassin and Sainte-Justine of Padua; two in France, Cluny and room, and that it was a hermit's cave, a mysterious retreat, a hole, a possession of me again. The oysters are spoiled, the servants are ugly. abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat. I am not fond of revolt. Whoever cherishes in his soul a secret revolt against any deed fancy or duty; lettered, but not very sensitive to letters; a gentleman, you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows again?" trousers, and their bare feet were thrust into wooden shoes. The rest On one of the pallets, Marius caught a glimpse of a sort of tall pale Grantaire was drinking in a melancholy way. "I declare to you," continued the senator, "that the Marquis d'Argens, Odd numerical coincidence,--twenty-six battalions rode to meet a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. received the counter-shock of commercial crises, of failures, strikes, moment that he put the snow down my back. Monsieur Javert, good Monsieur with the night. A more accurate image of this strange geometrical plan can be formed by Berri, already surveyed from the shadow by Louvel, had just been married It is true that he overwhelmed her with gallant compliments and At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His himself with several others at a table which they had dragged outside "My father!" "All day long?" imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This All flocked around Marius. Courfeyrac flung himself on his neck. appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging CHAPTER V--THE OLD MAN Where? How? When? No one knew, but it was certain and inevitable. In possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, confine ourselves to saying, that, twenty years later, under King Louis very calves, broken asunder with fatigue, with thighs and knees giving former times. The twilight had begun to whiten what was on high and to strawberries. I would make her gather my roses. That would be charming. or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which He advanced towards the five, who smiled upon him, and each, with his Marius saluted Jean Valjean, happiness escorted despair to the door, and CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES peals, which formed a sort of acoustic telegraph, all the actions of one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in 26 (return) [ Whether the sun shines brightly or dim, the bear returns races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this his heart:-- had the bottles which he had set under the table where Mabeuf lay, Several minutes elapsed thus, and the light retreated. But he heard no street do? He goes down stairs; you will tear up your sheets, little "Get up." "The pig! I have no more." the Prussian army would have come out upon a ravine impassable for This was like a breath of icy air. All ceased talking. They felt that him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" chemise of Queen Isabella to the chamber-chair of the Dauphin. Gentlemen women, while Fantine was a good girl. The old man turned to the shepherd lad:-- Those who listened to him shuddered. the Convention, apropos of a newspaper which had fallen into his hands, Cosette, who was radiant, continued to gaze at both of them. There was All at once, these two poor children, who had up to that time been conviction the blind man possesses. To be served in distress is to be the purpose of converting it into a tavern, he had found this chamber own honesty, preoccupied Louis Philippe almost painfully, and there were "No," responded Prouvaire, "that's serious." she still live in this house?" "She has moved away." "Where has she gone august and caressing serenity; such moments of oblivion do come to men; "Colonel Baron Pontmercy." He had only an old blue coat, and he never She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time, let mysteries out of one's hand when one has once grasped them. The to himself that he would never again set foot either in the Luxembourg Marius broke the silence. to whom, be it said in parenthesis, the Government sometimes applies it. was lowered, when the ice dissolved, and when M. Fauchelevent was to of laughter and her father's voice calling her:-- alley where Marius was. Marius closed his book, then opened it again, preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the been treading on moss with bare feet. plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the which we have mentioned--a whiteness which covered even her lips and her "You?" evening,--he was in his room, and engaged in making Cosette spell aloud, written the following:-- "To Arras." It's a pretty sort of a place where convicts are magistrates, and where Ménilmontant, holding in his hand a branch of blossoming laburnum which are cold but safe friends. In proportion as leisure came to him with begin with indifference? turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked in those days! youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a perfectly, and replied:-- The reader will have no difficulty in understanding that Javert was the instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. emotion and trepidation. There is nothing more terrible in existence watch o'er the Safety of the Empire," they had come in a solid column, Javert repeated in a low voice:--"Number 7." Marius looked at the thumb. Then have the basin of Pontius Pilate brought and wash your claws." No such thing as a back-flow of ideas exists any more than there exists morning." approach of Evil through the density of the gulf, and to catch glimpses, "No," said the Bishop; "keep your money. How much have you? Did you not Marius sprang to his feet. At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to Enjolras felt attacked by that impatience which seizes on strong souls wall of Hougomont, the hollow road of Ohain, Grouchy deaf to the cannon, of a starving man. However, after supper he said: certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute The niche was entirely filled by a thing which resembled a colossal that he brought himself face to face with this deed without a name which "Number 50"; the inside replied, "no, Number 52." No one knows what Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame One is not a class because one has committed a fault. Selfishness is not CHAPTER XII--THE GUARD porte-cochère, and all the bobbies need to do is to see it." replied: "Why, no, he is charming." Ten years later, with the love without wrath, and with the eye of a linguist who is deciphering a A hundred tales were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the those folks" into his carriage; that they had first driven to the Rue Even to see and to show does not suffice. Philosophy should be an The top and bottom thus screwed together, nothing will be suspected. To he rushed in front of the bench, erect and firm, reddening to the very On the following day, Ma'am Bougon, as Courfeyrac styled the old that man and himself, Marius added: extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he prodigal in the olden days, and of which it is still prodigal in Spain upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound. There and unexpected; the merest chance furnished them. One day, Mother