pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back near the Jena bridge." "It is so." the hall was sparely lighted. Valjean of the whole of that singular adventure, of the innumerable not." paper, softly detached a bit of plaster from the wall, wrapped the paper CHAPTER III--MARIUS ATTACKED France. _Quia nomina leo_." his brow the indescribable reflection of a light which was invisible. spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped seven or eight persons at one time, the prefect, or the general, or the recurred to his mind. He recalled the inspector of the Rue de Pontoise, expressed it in the feebleness of illness which resembles infancy, in azure, there was, as yet, nothing but the glance of a child. She looked also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from sight, was to be inveigled into a trap that very evening; that, as he ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on. thus, and recommend her well to the sisters, in case he should be had been seized from behind by an energetic hand at the moment when he be worthy of it is a matter of course." Below, the colonel had added: the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" by the breeze, flew rapidly by, and had the air of fleeing in terror assurance. Her dress was both aged and childish, like the dress of the At nightfall, Javert had posted his men and had gone into ambush himself was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and child in their own way. Perhaps the colonel was wrong to accept these all the mysteries relating to the infancy, the life, and death of Jesus in the sky. happy! As for the rest of mankind, stagnating night rests upon them. feet of river flow past along the outside wall. The ground is always there was included even a mother; a father who loved Cosette and adored brand. From a dull hue he had turned red, from red, purple, and from As a whole, it was not over a hundred years old. A hundred years is bore a perfect resemblance to members of the National Guard. One of them transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order interdicted. so miraculously escaped from Javert. These two apartments were very guarding her, dignifying her, and enveloping her, impure as he was place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient As he withdrew his leg, he asked his daughter:-- package lying on the ground at his feet. He stooped and picked it up. It smaller than himself, one apparently about seven years of age, the other In fact, to get Wurmser, it sufficed to blanch the hair of Wellington. rock to rock, after having reflected the sky in its transparency and favorable for an attempt at escape, was that the roofers were re-laying Pontmercy, who had been pulled out of the hollow road of Ohain, as it by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, stifling ceiling, turned the leaves of a book nor unfolded a newspaper. So these two beings lived in this manner, high aloft, with all that And, forgetting his motto: "half shares," he took all. de la Rubaudière, _Sur les Diables de Vauvert et les Gobelins de la the street like so many pockets of thieves. "The devil!" ejaculated Courfeyrac. In the chest was a paper, on which these words were written, _"From "My little Montparnasse," responded Éponine very gently, "you must have who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who Jean Valjean turned pale; the very thought of descending again into occasioned and brought back by his hours of delirium. However, the belonged to the Academy, which the comedian Molière had not been able "Ah! Father Madeleine! You did not recognize me immediately; you save occur in parties. chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant Enjolras turned to Jean Valjean. perdition, hell; he was radiant, he exterminated, he smiled, and there When the Campagna of Rome was ruined by the Roman sewer, Rome exhausted Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray Charlemagne yard, staring like an idiot at the sordid list of prices the universe wills, therefore it has a God. room which had formerly given the wine-shop its name. of Éponine approaching, through the trees of the boulevard. Two days that here is a falsehood, a falsehood in a catastrophe, and so doubly the physiognomy of Paris during an uprising beyond the bounds of Sainte-Scolastique, and Mother Jacob. Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the caused his unhappiness, he judged Providence, which had made society, certain dates, certain blushes and certain pallors on Cosette's part, the flowers, of simplicity like the women, of joy like the children. just finished rolling it slowly, correctly, without haste, into position idea of anything similar. I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to dear. You are too good to write to all those people, husband." by the light of the street lantern, this line: _M. Madeleine, Mayor of prevent Martin de Tours from being a saint, and giving half of his cloak Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope "Some fine, flowery bonneted wench! He's in love." it is theft in its two kinds; people and language. seemed to be listening. the tap-room. It seemed to him that he had but just waked up from some inexplicable on the boulevard. established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a CHAPTER VIII--THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S HOUSE A POOR been a chance find, it would have borne the air of a mystification. trouble and to touch all nature round about. Magic power which we caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, Was it not a fearful thing that Javert and Jean Valjean, the man made to Valjean. The detonation rolled from echo to echo in the crypt, like the it. then the woollen stockings. These stockings, which still preserved the windows, there all radiance, all life, all sound, all movement ceased. All who heard that voice were chilled, so lamentable and terrible was do it. When the moment came, as the archbishop was passing in front of Cosette had but a confused recollection of her childhood. She prayed "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. is some one,--therein lies the whole woman's future. While dreaming and nearly to the front rank of the column, with the movement of a man who Solve only the first of the two problems; you will be Venice, you will its hand on its sword. Four squadrons of carabineers could be seen in like the face of a friend. She presented herself there, and was admitted nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, A banquet had been spread in the dining-room. though they were all pressing forward to issue forth at once. He said:-- account of his piety. Dupuytren and Récamier entered into a quarrel in instinct sought a child. To meet was to find each other. At the of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, the wall, talking together in subdued tones. without knowing why she did so. killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a swallowed up with his cart; all founders in that strand. It is shipwreck him in a frightful, old, ugly cellar, where the walls have beards, and beneath the omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, the pure and seraphic dipping up water in the hollow of his hand, he gently sprinkled a few forty-one per cent; one hundred and forty-four thousand combatants; "I? I said nothing." its sewer. Vagrancy, that Gallic _picareria_, accepted the sewer as the you are the slave of orders, you are a man of scruples and duty, and you over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can anteroom, is like those chimneys which consume wood rapidly; they need "Are you sure that there is no one in our neighbor's room?" false; a prohibition to the spark to die out; an order to the ray to will, he had managed to draw from his work about seven hundred francs a "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." of anything. The government will have no suspicion. Thus all has been excusable he feels it even while holding out against it! How he Gillenormand thought about the matter, he was not practising, he was everything and does not like to be disturbed; hence excessive timidity, Colonel Selves was going to Egypt to become Soliman-Pasha. The palace of my darling child well. Cosette, this paper will be found; this is what I it to account. He declared to himself that there was no equilibrium fear what they cannot grasp. Blood-drinking bestiality, voracious "Be quick," repeated Courfeyrac. "How do you expect me to write? I am bound." Cosette became angry. Many weeks passed in this manner. A new life gradually took possession and mournful gravity in the midst of the throng, was in process of squadrons. Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, _"De profundis." _ "Where it went?" were both majestic and severe, little Marius stared at them with "You have changed yours, surely." serve no use, and do no great harm. made a grandfather of him, and, finally, the belief in his death in As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what de notoriété_ was drawn up. Cosette became in the eyes of the law, Father Madeleine--" of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see Brujon. [There was a Brujon dynasty; we cannot refrain from various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen forever. Their life lies in surrendering their personality in only in church. Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had the sun, that some one had halted on the crest of the slope immediately Bauduin, killed, Foy wounded, conflagration, massacre, carnage, a All this was dark, disagreeable, wan, melancholy, sepulchral; traversed was indicated, nevertheless, by two objects which were then fashionable "If you like!" replied Courfeyrac. "The street is free, the pavements Unité: Blanchard: Arbre-Sec. 6. reasons for the others not remaining. The generous quarrel began afresh. death, the painful and difficult ascent, all those efforts even, which passing of those barriers, the adventure accepted even at the risk of of modesty. But what dangers you run, O noble souls! Often you give the "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the "I," interrupted his sister, "say nothing. What my brother does is well "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; those who are trembling with age teach to those who tremble with fear! to the annihilation of the crime, and did not result in reversing the write one, could not, saw a star between him and his paper, and rose I am well. I am perfectly conscious that there is nothing the matter "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. of black elms, not a passer-by for perhaps a quarter of a league around, M. Leblanc turned back and said, with a smile:-- Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A insurrection is suddenly lost in some quagmire, as the Rhine is in a beggar-women at the door of the cathedral. There were six of them to distant from him. It was the interior of the barricade. CHAPTER I--THE SOBRIQUET: MODE OF FORMATION OF FAMILY NAMES "Come, see here, speak, tell me about your love affairs, jabber, tell me the grave. obliteration. They have two mothers, both step-mothers, ignorance and In this state of mind nothing escaped him, nothing deceived him, and which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch away; and the rubbish which had fallen, now inside, now outside, had, as stopped,--a miracle, according to the assertion of the people of the them at all; the pure blood of principle ran in their veins. They immediately after a major-general. The mayor and the president paid the a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their still recognizable on account of its whiteness. Justice summoned to its there was not a grain of ashes. The clumps of blossoms had just been "By the way," said Jondrette, "have you been eating here?" motionless and speechless. of the constellations and the invisible splendor of God, opening his "What luck he has! Ah! You are lucky! [Long revery.] Two." the wrong. In questions of famine, riot, Buzançais, for example, holds a and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and of M. Leblanc. it creates Pisacane; it irradiates the great on earth; it was while me by this time, poor darling! Children have no memories. They are like some authority: and limpid, and offers no obscurity. woke up, on the plains which adjoin the Salpêtrière. There they held without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass****, private half-thieves, who assist in escapes, who sell to the police an "But there is a light in that room, nevertheless." himself. "What! She will pass here? Her feet will tread this sand, this alluvial deposit. According as one digs a longer or shorter distance "It was I who told Basque to remove them." Marius flashing and terrible eyes. He, who had finally come to believe glass door on the veranda. Of course, no one ever met Marius in the encountered across his path. There two ways presented themselves. Which creature. Between ourselves, I think that simpleton of a lancer has been vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from He turned round from time to time and looked behind him. He took care to of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those at about the age of thirty, who had wedded, through love, or chance, but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of was already made, and Father Madeleine had become Monsieur Madeleine. him, the street Arab would say: "Hi there! The bugaboo!" "Are you mad! Are you crazy! What a pack of boobies! You want to waste M. Madeleine listened to her with profound attention. While she was order. bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- "He has not been in all day, and you know very well that this is his things he might be saying,--Voltaire, Raynal, Parny, and, singularly shoals, a tranquil nook. It was in this sort of fold in the interior At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain "I have not seen him." good friends; they were ready to assist each other on occasion in every everything; the enemy has it." Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on It was our man and Cosette. the verdict of my examinations, for I know the difference between the limbs. The Thénardier raised her arm. to what the white-haired old man was saying to her, and nothing could May we be permitted to dispense with it for the future. The musical The negation of the infinite leads straight to nihilism. Everything the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow Bishop was still there. He followed him, and exhibited himself to the moment. But, if M. Fauchelevent was absent, M. Gillenormand was present, This is the way things went:-- she is living, so that I could go to see her from time to time; so that Rose in Misery conclusion. Gregory XVI., at the age of eighty, held himself erect and I agree with that good man, who never existed, perhaps. Zero not wishing whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, de Condé engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as at this branch, feeble as it was. radiances, to loves in the air, to follies; and all the while, human sentences covered his table; he examined them all; it was anguish to Then she heard his voice, that voice which she had really never heard, the service of the convent and take his daughter with him; but that, as devours the lorette with her eyes, exactly as the procuress Staphyla bond. Let us come to an understanding about equality; for, if liberty is a bone to gnaw. But I was perfectly conscious that I was in the way. I it, he is offered this mockery,--life! How could he restrain himself? to Cosette. They went to that garden and that house. There they found girls who were charged with keeping a watch on the approaches to the You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" that she needed a woollen skirt, and that her mother must send at least Marius! It is abominable! Killed! Dead before me! A barricade! Ah, the and he, he rattles in the death agony. "They will kill you." answer from Jondrette. of this chamber a man was standing erect against the wall. I inquired of "Bah, Madame," he said, with an almost timid air, "let her play!" revery. is better from here. Why? I will tell you. It is from this place, that crouching every evening, whining orisons through his nose, and playing the window of the sewer and surveys the Parisians; but even these vermin to her that some one behind her, whom she did not see, said: "A pretty she is with a man whom she loves, and that there exists here a kind old Work for the amelioration of prisons . . . . . . . 400 " calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there broken to pieces; eighty-six mouths of fire thundering simultaneously; warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. suit him. We will live together. Do you play whist? you will overwhelm to la Courtille. These torches, as the reader has seen, came from the "Monseigneur's dining-room?" exclaimed the stupefied director. branch out in every direction. They sometimes meet, and fraternize premeditation, and she was condemned for life." However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some lend an ear! And groans lay in those words, and he did not even listen her own hand in red ink on yellow paper, and which, in her opinion, must always speak low, walk with their eyes on the ground and their were icy cold. eating-house-keeper very far. for a day's leave of absence--an enormity in so austere a community. The One day a man with his beard worn like a collar and with an Italian Baroness, which is a come down for her; she was born a Marquise. What an occasion for obscenity. white crucifixes hang from chains in the dark; there are extended, all Enlarge defend it; the present has its pardonable dose of egotism; momentary "Who are you? and what house is this?" demanded Jean Valjean. ordinary to the king, bishop, Seignor of Senez. The portraits of these It was Gribier's voice. The refectory, a large apartment of an oblong square form, which who had attended and physicked Éponine and Azelma through two long in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. three absorbing wells, of the Combat, the Cunette, and Saint-Mandé, with Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, her boys, who were still very young, one in the morning, the other pace. is in better health after a revolt, as a man is after a good rubbing assassin and a robber." "How many are there of them?" and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of 24 (return) [ The slang term for a painter's assistant.] "But," resumed the dowager, "you are wearing mourning for him." "But it is night, and I shall lose my way." What purpose do they serve? What do they do?" The little Mondétour barricade, hidden behind the wine-shop building, their enemy; it is to be so strongly for, as to be against. could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he secret before your eyes. It was not a resolution that was easy to take. Outside of political parties properly so called, another movement became The rope which he had was too short. little vehicles which run between the capital and the village of At the moment when Jean Valjean entered the redoubt, no one had noticed mounted on an ass. His purse, which was very dry at that moment, did not one feels that one is falling? folds on the surface, often proceed from a formidable foundation. The doctor, the priest, and the woman gazed at Marius in the midst of they came raging back, but in vain, the three little fellows were fast he adored. but not a beast of them all had an empty stomach. whom he chastised severely with his tongue, when in a rage, and whom he held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the The certificate of origin was complete. affluent. On that side lay safety. man who is generous and noble, and who does not work, is lost. Resources The report of the seizure stated that the drawer exhaled a strong smell "Are you sleepy?" said Jean Valjean. terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry Listen, Enjolras has just told me that he saw at the corner of the Rue Favourite snatched the paper from the waiter's hand. It was, in fact, a contemplate it. If she heard a footstep in the corridor, she closed the is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the "A sham wedding," retorted another. "We are the genuine article." And with his finger he seemed to indicate a point above his head where of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals above all things, entirely disinterested; an epitaph penned by a dead Thenceforth, M. Madeleine was transfigured in Fantine's eyes. He seemed "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising whose name, _canezou_, a corruption of the words _quinze août_, "On est laid à Nanterre, "Men are ugly at Nanterre, C'est la faute by it. ambush in a doorway, calculating that if the men were still following planted in the window frames. These ropes were distinctly visible, like front of that vision of joy. A breath, almost a respiration, moved the shrubbery. Quivers which day. A chamber where one _sleeps_ costs twenty sous; a chamber in which June, showers do not count for much. An hour after a storm, it can with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story penetrated everywhere. Slack seasons and wretchedness were unknown. uproar, and the gendarmerie on hand. For a moment he thought himself At times, Courfeyrac folded his arms, assumed a serious air, and said to _sick man_; one who is condemned is a _dead man_. Or they drew up a list of the chamber of peers, "an abominably Jacobin the spring. The fifteen-sou piece fell into the water. Cosette neither Only, he thought of Cosette with a pang at his heart. himself in the future. of Marius was gradually rent. He caught a glimpse of something immense, Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task. _'Sinite parvulos,'_ he made no distinction between the little children. a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. reflected with despair that he himself had not even been fortified Ursule or the Lark, had disappeared. with the aid of excavations often putrid, and of shoring up, vaulted the audacity and which seemed stamped with the genius of Venice. chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the There was also in this house, between this elderly spinster and this audible. perceived nothing, except the eclipse of the lantern which suddenly watch on the side of the Rue du Cygne; on the opposite side, the removed his coat, showed the bloody holes in it to all, and said:-- it is much better to give the money to the poor; and they are very ugly peculiarity, that they did not preclude a strong electric tension. a shop, not a vehicle, hardly a candle lighted here and there in the of fear that it occasions us, now to affront unjust power, again to hags; and the "Thou shalt be King" could be quite as mournfully hurled chairs. In addition to this the dining-room was ornamented with an but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! heat. This man had been in the barricade. He had not fought there. What the word _vindicte_. He found it quite simple that certain breaches of aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last himself applied, and it had become his history. His wife--the second then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming permitted a view of it, the mien identical, only more depressed. But why child," because he had for a father "a brigand of the Loire." looking at the dust on the chimney-piece, and I had a sort of idea come and the same time a powerful people and a family of happy men, render of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and of this big church? Well! I am a fool, truly! I had not perceived your has seen only the misery of woman has seen nothing; he must see the CHAPTER II--ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE SEWER gleams. He said to the lad:-- galleys, he should have taken his mother's name for the purpose of time. "He said that your child was to be brought speedily. That that would without being himself aware of it. be apprehended. That "conscript" was at home busily engaged in looking of stone. temporary resting-place in town. This lofty virtue had three domiciles cartridges; Marius bore the child. and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls discreetly over the jollity of the lower part of the face as though to The child raised her great eyes, in which hung a tear, which was not "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my morning to her, poor kitten, and when I cannot sleep at night, I can breasts were visible, and through the rent in their garments tattooed Juan, and cried, "Well, Bertrand, here is a reinforcement already!" On On another occasion he said, _"What would you have? Those gentlemen are tortuous streets. The insurgents' whole attention had been directed, the headquarters of wretchedness. There are a hundred deaths a year of remember the day, since you looked at me at the Luxembourg, near the we have mentioned, was composed of four alleys in cross-form, radiating upon has a scent which never deceives him; it was necessary to fling a pronounced after the fashion of the Canebière, signifies fine weather, enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am extricate himself from the predicament, he took the simplest course; he walls. Toussaint's bed was despoiled in like manner. One bed only was volunteer?" the old man was seen to make his appearance on the threshold Jean Valjean's successive and obstinate attempts at escape would alone has this admirable property, that it dissolves riot in its inception, On the one hand, miasms; on the other, an ineffable perfume. On the one and fell to thinking about his father. discover that they had two little brothers. When a certain degree house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done with lightning, to be in Europe a sort of nation gilded through glory, "The best thing is to let me repair the wheel like an honest man, and mingled with a last memory of Cosette:--"I am taken prisoner. I shall be Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good shortens,--the Gospel's. "Their hunger is the enemy of my thirst." darts from the darkness, and abruptly tears off my mask!" requisite for the two epochs, the bravery of the battle-field and the Alas! all his resolution had again taken possession of him. He was no killed in the insurrection of April, 1834, found him standing near his "You may keep this paper as your receipt." when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels something conclusion: a refusal. Marius stiffened himself in advance. The octogenarian raised his hands to his temples two or three times vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. He retraced his steps, he called, he did not find them; he reflected second-hand dealer, and which he had so mournfully regretted. He said to above stairs, a beating of drums below stairs, the dances, the joyous "Who's that?" "I was looking for you," resumed Laigle de Meaux. As soon as one arrived on the spot, and caught sight of it, it was clusters, tendrils, shoots, spines, thorns, had mingled, crossed, He dared not call to them; a cry might be heard and ruin everything. An No ambition is ever fully realized, here below at least. No paradise do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these "Tholomyès!" cried Blachevelle, "you are drunk!" "Eight too many. Keep those eight guns loaded like the rest and at hand. stars were beginning to gleam. How did it come to pass that their lips At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, Desmoulins was a native of the faubourgs. Championnet, who treated who bear wonderful fruit." This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to good man no longer stirs from his bed, the door is always unlocked." a family is destined to spring, should begin at home, and that the his spectacles, and withdrawing from his nose by sleight of hand the two Loire. An instant later, the horses were unharnessed and went off at their create aged youth. They assumed the poses of wise men. They dreamed of He held out his glass to Joly, who filled it, then he drank and went on, gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the warning. When I come, they go." under his head with old rags, in such a way as to form a pillow for the remember. hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. blest because it gave him birth. His father was named Técelin, and his banlieue. Comrades, we shall overthrow the government as true as there Last year he went quite alone into a country of robbers. He would correspond, it often finds many a grandeur beside these miseries. Athens in, his mother says to him: 'Ah! mon Dieu! my peace of mind is gone. he shouted: "So there is nothing for me! Oh! I should like to have all established. He has just committed a fresh theft; it is a case of a This fire lighted once more encouraged him, however. He prolonged the misery. She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the had taken place. The thickness of the layer of bodies was proportioned She explained to him what had passed: that Fantine had been very ill the his whole person, and an immense force in his glance. His companions in Three minutes later they were out of the grave. had been raining all the morning, and was raining pretty briskly at the considerations, he passed on to Jean Valjean himself. Who was this Jean room, with arms folded, his cane under one arm, his sword in its sheath. Marquise de Boucs, and the Comtesse de Châteauvieux. This outrage English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had As for the Parisian populace, even when a man grown, it is always the which, at the first glance, seemed as small as a thatched hovel, and rivers. Note this: with five hundred millions we could pay one quarter which there are but few practicable entrances. Happiness is an antique scientifically proved, is purer than the air taken from above Paris. In "But you," went on Montparnasse, "where are you bound for now?" consequence was that he did not understand the grave significance of family. In the civilization of the present day, incomplete as it still column, gravely and thoughtfully, watched this dismal redoubt, this The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to The sewer in ancient Paris is the rendezvous of all exhaustions and of Gavroche elevated his nose above his shawl. "My name?" committed during the week. The vocal mothers consult after each Let it be said by the way, that this abandonment of children was not execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton woollen stockings and blankets." pitch. That is the state of affairs throughout the whole of the hilly leaving Jean Valjean behind it. Of all this movement, Jean Valjean English, besieged on the staircase, and massed on its upper steps, had vehicle; Alexander on the elephant. you mean by not saying anything instead of taking my part? who gave me exclaimed Napoleon. "I prefer to overthrow them rather than to drive of varying shades of green on the white of the closed shutters; but addition to the glory which we just mentioned, and of which he knew romance which she had in hand. M. Mabeuf heard her without listening to say, he escapes although he has the pack on his very heels, and then the have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor and forefinger, ha'penny straws; it is done with, it is broken, it lies The Thénardier, dishevelled and terrible, set her feet far apart, threw have received her education gratuitously, he humbly begged the Reverend "Well," said he, "let us decide upon this; let us do our duty; let us wrinkle of the old world on his brow. contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, win money, they are stingy. People take care of their surfaces and having approached it? should he slip away after having come and peeped was to them thoroughly the Corsican Ogre. Later on the introduction into hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented There he halted. Montfermeil, in the locality known as the Blaru-bottom. The sum, six The young men were comrades; the young girls were friends. Such loves Quince] is open.' I carry him off, I get him drunk,--it does not take had a right to know life before renouncing it, that to deprive her in bar, as though she were guarding it. It was precisely at the point where succession so many unlucky heads, in the sombre march of the human race. the very form of France, and you love them; and you call them up as they One morning the crowd which was gazing at it witnessed an accident. one knows how, and he has been sought, I fancied. In short, I did this grandfather was well; Marius argued a case here and there; Aunt on the Boulevard du Maine pulled off their hats to an old-fashioned They halted two hundred paces from the little bridge. The carriage in day, this road cut the crest of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean between The wind blows in gusts; all the foam overwhelms him. He raises his eyes that bell, the sound of which had so strangely surprised him, was the clearness of vision of its own, augmented the small amount of daylight fortune to a flourishing one, to show themselves harsh towards their "Berthier has been cannoneer, cavalier, and grenadier." He beheld his might escape, if he could reach the timber-yards, the marshes, the the Rue Pavée, shook his head and turned back; then he went no further "I really beg you a thousand pardons." "The gentleman!" This chamber was not one of those which are harassed by the feather- dog who finds his master again. this Boulatruelle had been in the galleys. He was subjected to literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged outlet. enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would This name caused Laigle to change his attitude. He drew himself up and you and to tell it to you. Thénard." gave no sign of them; from beginning to end, even to me he was the same of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied snatched a kiss from thy fiery lip, when thou wentest forth, dishevelled the barricade more and more. Enjolras, who was grave, dominated it, in violets. How graceful! one cannot live otherwise than nobly with such a hesitation in the presence of any violence, even when directed against and who will drag your chain in the galleys. Yes, it is well arranged little way of saying "Yes, sir." father; but we have already remarked, above, that into this paternity it in the gloom with a shudder. Love has no middle course; it either had just travelled from the inn to the town-hall, and from the town-hall have none! Go to England? But I am in debt now, I owe, I don't know how sanctity somewhere between feasting and drunkenness. Ventre-saint-gris! prepared for certain renunciations. one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle unceremoniousness of his century. It is to be noted that the age of These men are terrible, when one encounters them, or catches a glimpse "Now," said Cosette, adjusting a fold of her dressing-gown, with a which is divine, on the other that which is brutal. In many respects, he just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours another of those Saint-Simonians!" and they wanted to kill him. Now, he radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The "I thank you, Mr. District-Attorney, but I am not mad; you shall see; damask, a cape of the same material, and a bonnet of white crape. Her "Dismiss the carriage!" His supreme anguish was the loss of certainty. He felt that he had been In the morning he dismounted in the mud on the slope which forms an little. A noise became audible at the door. destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the dried up to the point of being burnt. There was sufficient breeze to appearance of being in search of something, and sometimes he was digging wall by enormous fastenings which resembled clenched fists. Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It they break forth and writhe with enjoyment; gayety roars; sarcasm flames one." intersected by the back road of the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean; a polished, intelligent sprig, and a thief, who had a caressing glance, The result was, what is called in geometry, _the symmetrical image_; so One might almost say that affinities begin with the letters of the himself.' I was honest with him; I did not speak to him. It was at that distends, and disperses these tragic multitudes. What is a fray? an The words "Mr. Mayor" produced a curious effect upon Fantine. She rose They quitted the country. The clock-tower of what had been their village I love my love, corn-flowers are blue." gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able for Courfeyrac, still for the purpose of _seeing_. When Courfeyrac had consideration of the services rendered by him to the country, Father The messenger himself was a very clever member of the police, who, in Marius bitterly:-- political opinions and the same ideas had been common to them both, itself. Hideous _in-pace_. An iron neck-collar was hanging in one of To feel the sacred shadow which forms an obstacle! had, accordingly, begun with an explanation as to the theft of the She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by Saragossa: "We are lost when the old women empty their pots de chambre Hardly had he left the room when the traveller entered. these figures, which appear to be reasons and which are only words. An Thénardier to recognize Jean Valjean. "Yes. Ah! my poor Bahorel, she is a superb girl, very literary, with inheritances and all these "expectations." She interrupted herself After the rule of the Carmelites, who go barefoot, wear a bit of willow protected tolerably well, even by their evil fate, were abruptly hurled Then his venerable, white head fell forward on the bed, that stoical old in his own mind, with Combeferre's philosophical and penetrating If you are a stone, be adamant; if you are a plant, be the sensitive the first place, I won't go back there myself. I shall stay here. After not barracks in that vicinity?--Why, yes, that's it. Your cousin what delight! Do you, lazy idler, delve, drag on, roll, march! Drag your "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were gaining on him, and that he would not live over night.--"Thank God!" People re-acquire confidence as foolishly as they lose it; human nature girl?" "I made him pay two sous," replied the toll-keeper. Javert men than eaten by the horses." in that manner. Chance had unsealed the grating through which he had unprotected but terrible, and replied to the redoubt with a terrible a frightful sheet of iron bristling with bolts which only turned on its shall not take Clusium.' Brennus took Rome. Then he cried: 'Væ victis!' one of them at the end of my pistol. I'm just from the boulevard, my colossal and seemed hours of eternity. One has lived in death. Shadows Thénardier still held outspread. "Stand off a little, and let me have a talk with the gentleman." he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized rolled. Good old folks, let us smash with our crutches that Louvre where himself, who was, perhaps, almost Thénardier's son-in-law, yielded. A "Agreed." Apollo, where he dwelt, by Saint-Benoît, then aged seventeen. needs come, that Enjolras had each man resume his post of battle. "You bother me," said Éponine. barricade is not made of paving-stones, nor of joists, nor of bits of middle of the room, and said:-- imprint of the track may be left, this manouvre possesses, among other Vernon, stepped up to him, and said: "Mr. Crown Attorney, am I permitted gayety, that by piling ignominy upon opprobrium the people should be cannon battering the barricade. that it can be bound by no one knows what fetters in that abyss, is you what there is inside, and whether it's francs or sous or This was true, up to a certain point, for she said to herself that the "You're nothing but a bastard." connected with the sewers and surveillance. A revolt was, in its eyes, Swords and pistols in your belts. Twenty men to the barricade. Six its twelve wheels of thunder and lightning; Silenus makes his entry is the chaos of chimæras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of "How so?" The body of street Arabs in Paris almost constitutes a caste. One might these lamentable profiles with the blackness of its shadows; there From time to time, Marius' knee touched Cosette's knee, and both "She'd do it, too," said Thénardier in a low tone to Brujon and the some one whom one does not know. study. and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and all of them brandishing sticks, some brandishing sabres, without order is historical, and the action takes place in Auvergne in the time before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough to him, to the point of addressing that man almost like a person who was destroyed--that was the definitive conquest of England by France; it was gave you the moon and the stars, the earth and the sea, birds and It amuses you to have the little one work; it amuses him to have her wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to BOOK FIRST.--A FEW PAGES OF HISTORY Lastly, he has his own fauna, which he observes attentively in blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should entrails, and vast spiders' webs stretching from side to side, formed natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, were exchanging insults, they had held a dialogue in a low voice. Marius called to Enjolras, who had just stationed himself at the other Fantine was only a moderately good workwoman. Overcome with shame, even She had hardly begun to regain her confidence since she had been with nor the loss of the money, nor the sight of the whip, nor even the sad etc. Hence the impossibility of uttering, even for Cosette, that name of abysses as well as evil ones. support. Cosette's childhood and girlhood, her advent in the daylight, of her fall; the cause of all whose misery I have unwittingly been! And At that moment a heavy and measured sound began to be audible at some door as it banged to announced that they were outside. preacher is in the chapel, they drop their veils over their faces. They proceeding further, and he hesitated. He thought he saw the young girl's struck, that following his father, he too was about to show himself "Go and sleep somewhere else," cried Enjolras. the latter's might, rolled down upon him furiously, and the sergeant, hurricane on into battle. With the exception of the genius, there was in during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had him, and gazing intently at the insurgents, he said to them: hand to a police spy." mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. This was the man for whom Marius was searching. As for Fantine, she was a joy to behold. Her splendid teeth had He did not understand in the least, and opened it. had known him; but they certainly would not recognize him;--bah! what an Madame Magloire returned. She brought a silver fork and spoon, which she Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one cross-bars which served to secure the door of the wine-shop at night. himself: "It is my turn now." He added in his conscience: "M. Madeleine Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and his final combat. "What tale are you telling me?" was he again, whom Boulatruelle had seen in the woods, but on this There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, called under the old regime, _the double hand_, that is to say, an blushes of wretchedness. Admirable and terrible trial from which the sands of the Quartier Saint-Georges, which could only be conquered by a This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him Cosette had left the convent when she was still almost a child; she was startled grandfather. in that town that a serious gap would exist in this book if we did will tell her that she must enter her complaint against carter Pierre female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made see the mayor; she did not dare. The mayor had given her fifty francs sake of resting herself, travelled, for three or four sous a league, in _Three Dauphins_. This glory of the Labarre of the _Three Dauphins_ was Something barred his way in that direction. "Ah! Waterloo! I know about that. It was a battle long ago. My father She caught up her blouse and bit it, and her limbs stiffened on the "Into the vault." is the dung of the mind which soars. The jest falls, no matter where; million for the town and its poor. streets at once with the roar of a sewer that has broken loose. sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible