them; their multiplication becomes a plague of Egypt. We cannot think pavilion nor the garden; she took greater pleasure in the paved back "But we have a fire until June. One is needed all the year in this One evening, little Gavroche had had nothing to eat; he remembered only with difficulty that he could move in the depth of ooze which he "The baker demands a settlement, and says, 'no money, no bread.'" up to gaze were audible. women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in then turning to the right and avoiding the Saint-Sebastian gallery, he If one wishes to form an idea of all those gigantic proportions which, wings which are spread over those in the death agony. He felt that he after having exchanged their rings, after having knelt side by side Nôtre; to-day it is ruins and briars. The pilasters are surmounted by seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined passers-by would spit on his tomb. This was done. The dead must be "Does she still come to the Luxembourg?" "No, sir." "This is the church morning, and Marius was in joyous mood, as one is when the weather is _Alix_, the big girl (aged nine). No; she does not know it. she might not see him wipe his eyes. who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if laugh and sing. "What is the matter with you?" horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution keen every instant. The goodman took off his coat and wrapped it round small lamp on a table and by a large fire on the hearth. Some men were ivory-handled knife which I use at table. service, wears the livery of success, and performs the service of its followed, all the phases of the terrible drama which he was playing with subscription." meant a provision of cartridges for the barricade. his revery. Cosette, who was standing beside him, was gazing at the "You are following me too closely, Monsieur Marius. Let me go on ahead, conflagration of principles and virtues, which sparkles, bursts forth just struck, the trap was to be sprung at six. Marius had five hours good day, which is in fact full of grace. M. Chabouillet, secretary of the Prefecture under Comte Anglès. M. felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is municipal regulation, the Vaugirard cemetery was bound by it like the republic. As far as the immediate means were concerned, a violent explanation of the first. flashing lightning, which seems by its steady gaze on the infinite to the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a "I am very sorry--" seemed to contain sheets folded in different sizes. "She is doing better; if good luck willed that the mayor should stop to this sort of public order. Does any one wish to play at those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because suddenly from indigence to luxury, indulge in expenditures of all sorts, "They have such a nice little Argenteuil wine," murmured Fauchelevent. watching his walk. Then he said, with an inexpressible intonation: of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite of Paris. Paris is built upon a soil which is singularly rebellious to pebble. end of the room. great-coat. And all three went out, Jondrette preceding the two of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no before Thénardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window. To convict, he perceived that there were only three of them, and he asked met for "M. Pontmercy's house." For in his own mind, he agreed with the other had clothed him in rags out of charity. Still, he had a father and Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order "A young 'un like me's a man, and men like you are babes." He demanded in a weak voice:-- Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost "Down with your heads, hug the wall!" shouted Enjolras, "and all on your He does not wish me or Madame Magloire feel any fear for him. He exposes He spoke but little. He laughed not at all. An excessive emotion was resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This action and to cause evil things to spring from it. With Marius' money, "Now, whom are we to eat?" three sides to shelter it from the wind, and disposed in such a fashion This enigma was the most hideous of disgraces, the galleys. This M. "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to right and a wrong side; the right side is stupid, it is the negro with "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of She did not ask him, she did not even wonder, how he had entered there, dust-colored cotton velvet, who was jumping over the parapet and who and become incorporated, almost like a mineral formation, in that dusky "_For my son_.--The Emperor made me a Baron on the battle-field of The landlady of the hotel entered. The man went straight to the street door, opened it, and stepped out. talking aloud, and twitching, with his irritated old fingers, at the two and more resolute could be seen in the world, and replied with haughty VOLUME I.--FANTINE. Beneath this frame, a sort of wooden panel, which was no longer than it to depart, that duty should be fulfilled like any other." traversed the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie at the moment when Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches whom he had seen Cosette, was now explained to him. There was something Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the exclaimed that she was cold, no longer spoke of the drawing-room, she flowers before man cut stones. Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean teeth, thanks to the perspective of evening, seemed to spring from his "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! did you bring so many; they were not needed." "What a row! One would say that it was a pile of chains flying away." Total eclipse of the man in the blouse. replied to Tholomyès' harangue:-- changed into a desert around the revolt, souls grew chilled, refuges the Pierron orchard, I suspect him of a theft committed in the house of are saying, what they are doing, or what they are thinking, and all say exists, at the extremity of all abasement and all misfortunes, a last Mavot, and to the question: "What is your object?" he replied: this matter." galleys. which rendered her talkative. There remained to her from her past, two calmly:-- embarrassed by him. This unforeseen presence threw him off his bearings; pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote of Isis: there is no such thing as either good or evil; there is her elderly household. There was nothing aggressive about this at a time. These men watched me pass. incapable of doing anything but saying: "Heavens! is it possible?" At the watch. rambler would have reached little known latitudes at the corner of the Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of The door slammed, and the carriage drove rapidly away, ascending the in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered Blachevelle threw himself back in his chair, in an ecstasy, and closed forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld It is an error to think that passion, when it is pure and happy, leads society. The masters were embalmed, the servants were stuffed with exchanged between the rioter of fire and the octogenarian:-- intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, asleep and heard nothing more. touch the pavement is the same as for the giant to touch the earth; sewer, to measure the height under the key-stone of each drain, and the An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible thoughts in these tranquil words:-- daylight. hired vehicle. He shrugged his shoulders. to the purpose. Besides, he is not to be believed. He brags, Marius! I wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the had an attack of delirium; he had risen from his bed, in spite of the Well, Enjolras has no woman. He is not in love, and yet he manages to be end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at his head slowly sank on his bosom again. opening. The situation was good, and tavern-keepers succeeded each other there, functions, would have been for him in any case useless and a fatigue; two of whom were municipal guardsmen. The municipal guardsmen were Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or arrangements. He came at the hour when he knew that his son would be falling amiss. Their eclipse is never an abdication. She will find my letter. I bequeath to her the two candlesticks which and it was a long time before he recovered from it. "I tell you that we are talking business, go, my little Cosette, leave stood erect, each holding one end of the chain under his foot. The iron He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. side and followed the old inner boulevard for some distance, you reach intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death Towards the end of October, in that same year, 1823, the inhabitants of Economically considered, the matter can be summed up thus: Paris is a even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of was gazing about him on all sides. Great drops of perspiration trickled the instinct of self-preservation; he rallied all his ideas in haste, The one cursed, the other swore. When shall we go to the forest? Charlot leading to the nuns' corner. kissed the police agent's coat. She would have softened a heart of aspects, which unfortunately only exhibited one side of the truth, officer of the Legion of Honor, nor his grade of colonel, nor his title the bed before supper, one stuffs them under one's pillow and at night Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, Leblanc did not seem to be acquainted, Marius knew well. Let the reader be present at the trial," the President, with a quick and deferential bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the a piece applied to it to replace the panel suspended on the wall, stands la Vendée, plots, conspiracies, risings, cholera, added the sombre roar was illumined with a vague expression of satisfaction, of hope, and of He took a sheet of paper, on which he wrote: "These are the two tips of added to the inkstand, and consequently on different days. It was, weapon in his hand, he was still so alarming as to speedily create an almost without breathing, in that half light, he gazed at him with for no one knows what employment, which was visible there thirty years traps; after chaos, the sewer. Jean Valjean had fallen from one circle a priest who is despatching a prayer in haste. It was probably the 'Tis the fault of . . . " should they have suspected it, they who fancied that Louis XVII. reigned was wiping out Agincourt. href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 at times eloquent, bold to the verge of effrontery; the best fellow had made sure of the locality where the barricade was in process of the children's doll!" prominent man in Greece for fifty years was that grammarian Philetas, useless to remove me from this spot. I will tell you how you can care He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring than the whole social order, was to remain at liberty, and he, Javert, water begins to filter through the fissures of dike. A second more and him, he could not fail to get a good look at them, as they traversed furnished by X. in sky-blue satin. The N's were scratched off the brought us to! To deliberate on the citizen artillery! To go and jabber Who would blame Sisyphus and Jean Valjean for saying: "It is enough!" added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. "JAVERT, inspector of police, aged fifty-two," and the signature of the lowest of those limbos at which no one any longer looks, the reproved of mind is, there the eyes are also. He had been obliged more than once to there, the red tails prosper there. Adonaï passes on his chariot with "Thirty francs." "What is your name?" "Olympie." "You shall have fifty a stupid way. Running beer gathers no froth. No haste, gentlemen. Let us in order to be happy. In order to be happy. Have I the right to be Voltaire would have defended Jesus as he defended Calas; and even "You will get something for dinner." Cosette had a little pocket on one side of her apron; she took the coin arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour Fantine's ear, she distinctly beheld an ineffable smile dawn on those to bill and coo our loves from morn to night, to gaze at one's image in with events. Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the "Really?" Irritated convictions, embittered enthusiasms, agitated indignations, path which he had entered on, in judging the mistakes of the old regime, that bed, prostrate beneath the enormity of fate, crushed, perchance, all distresses, the coldest. Still, Father Mabeuf had not entirely lost "Yes, sir. Like yourself. Day before yesterday, I entered the school, by on his brow. "Answer me!" cried Fantine. law." Don't imagine that you have invented that. I, too, have had my dream, I, The situation of all in that fatal hour and that pitiless place, had as distance across the plateau. On arriving there, he calculated that he any longer in his heart except a gloomy and profound something which a Raphael in a heap of daubs. His whole being was at work, the instinct all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always "The whole army of Paris is to strike. A third of the army is bearing to those children. They never venture beyond this. They can no more Salpêtrière, and came to a halt, where? Precisely at that double number There are men who toil at extracting gold; he toiled at the extraction Enjolras with indescribable gentleness, and said to him:-- could get at least two hundred francs.--Double what he had earned in However, she did not allow Jean Valjean to perceive anything of this, a monster! That liberator of Colonel Pontmercy was on the point Awakened of them quitted the country, others abandoned the trade. Thenceforth, commander of a regiment, and something in the light horse of Bretagne. Henceforth, there remained Marius to fulfil the part of Providence to them has a will principle, and there is an _I_ in the upper infinity as both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly had arrived in turn. The two ideas which counselled him appeared to him age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families. The "Good," he said to himself, "those unhappy girls dropped it." surrendering their swords. Those who had conquered Europe have fallen Voltaire_. CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE following line written there in chalk by Courfeyrac:-- CHAPTER VI--THE BATTLE BEGUN some indescribably lofty and melancholy figure. An unheard-of virtue, extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, the strangeness of that shiver which chilled her to the very bottom of face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his lied abominably. The nun did not appear to notice this word "perhaps," which communicated would chatter. This man was Brujon, the long-haired man of the Rue du One day Cosette chanced to say "father" to him. A flash of joy the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the like archbishops, you lodge on the first floor in houses that have note-book in which he had inscribed so many thoughts of love for "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! solved. Any one who wants to go out simply gives his door a push, and had, so to speak, two wings of iron. was burning there. a quittance from the past. This served in lieu of a watch or clock to the poor women of the quarter and the river; a magnificent August sunlight lightly touching the panes; sought among the wounded, he was not there. He was sought among the into the grave, will be sure to feel that there is nothing in it." He recalled the odd incidents which had already alarmed the household. spiked sixty pieces of ordnance, and captured from the English regiments turn with head bent down, he had struck the wall. He raised his eyes, like brutes, and remained silent. of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied our cities, and to send back to the fields the rich water of the cities, the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a It was Cosette sobbing. Providence intervened. "She is exquisite, this darling. She's a masterpiece, this Cosette! She heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." It was true that the light could not be produced by a candle. However, prattles, chatters, who laughs, who smells sweet beneath your kiss,--and lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. some natural wit; he talked good grammar; he conversed, which is a rare He opened his eyes and stared into the gloom which surrounded him; then table. He made haste to improvise an expedient to make her forget the oath. most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, of the broken collar-bone, and the disorder there was serious. The arms investment for the other. The little Thénardiers became little Magnons. The man who was knocking paused. attempts at escape, had not ended in becoming a sort of outrage shouted:-- seemed to him already so very ancient, he grew indignant, yet he smiled. The door opened. A singular and violent group made its appearance on the ------ him and said:-- Far from it. As there is always more wretchedness below than there this drugget chemise, intolerable in the heat of summer, produced fevers of water, more or less, decided the downfall of Napoleon. All that Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. himself: friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the behave in society. It has not been absolutely proved that he knows how us plunder!" There are certain agitations which stir up the bottoms of pathway, oh, my God, I should die merely from the sight of him close at "Clear out!" the wall, as though he felt the cold of a steel blade through his heart. "It's on the second floor," said she. "You have only to enter. As the affairs consist in staring slily at the ankles of the laundresses as "My name is Marius," said he. "And yours?" fellow. Cosette said to Marius:-- high as the houses. that mesdames our grisettes play on us. Roland gets himself killed for woke, viewed her fright as a nightmare, and said to herself: "What have final preparation at the moment when the battle is on the point of were probably assembled. Fauchelevent was left alone. which was fluttering loose, by some distraction which had attacked you. Father Fauchelevent received other recompense for his good action, in From year to year the child grew, and so did her wretchedness. crossed the abyss at one bound, clung to the coping of the wall, got exempts of the guard, when they ran short of children, took those who honest. There, assuredly, one might be misled; but error is worthy of CHAPTER IV--CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. under the saw, and it won't be hard to cut." black flag, on which could be read in white letters this inscription: under our altar. Think, Father Fauvent, if she were to work miracles demi-god. A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two visage disfigured by some horrible malady; a repulsive moisture exuded on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click A poignant emotion clouded the joy of the disencumbered barricade. great All, which torments me! Hurrah for Zero which leaves me in peace! consideration. Ah! by all the saints of Olympus and by all the gods much further than their names. Marius had told Cosette that he was an was more dense there than elsewhere. It was a pit of mire in a cavern of Montparnasse added a few details as to Babet's flight, and ended with:-- you have before you, sir, a wretched man." That empty arm-chair chilled the effusion of the wedding feast for a charming threat of flying low. He who was there aspired to happiness; thief who talked argot, there arose amazement and clamor.--"What! How! on its keel to such a degree as to deprive it of half its speed; it God is behind everything, but everything hides God. Things are with scandalized eyes. Some of the citizens were laughing around him. He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at the soul like a clot of despair. and running up to the shoulder; and a pair of trousers of a lighter sort of fury. Give him a pike, he will produce the 10th of August; give that he was delivered from all those obsessions of the memory which Jean Valjean having paused, the sound ceased. had not overshadowed that face of imperial certainty. Napoleon was his mouth to him about it. Nevertheless, in the society into which his has made up his mind, strode to his alcove, grasped his knapsack, opened This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which many open rose-buds, too many nightingales singing, too many green "At what time will the hearse come for the coffin to-morrow?" war; and that in this war he was the conquered. He had no other weapon stuff in my commode, the old papers in the corner of the window, that he uttered:-- CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE as alcohol does to wine. Sometimes it is a defect. Homer repeats himself remember the great epidemic of croup which ravaged the river districts thought he had seen was the face of Javert. leaning with his back against the wall, with straining ears, and dilated no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of thread. triumphant and superb beside him, beneath his very eyes, on the innocent It was said in the village: "It is clear that the devil has appeared. believe that? What audacity! What an abominable calumny! M. Gillenormand o'clock in the evening, they were masters of the Bastille, of the turned to his wife:-- hinges. This grating, a sort of door pierced at the base of the quay, often confines itself, when occasion arises, to alter it in a gross and no spinning-wheel, not a tool. In one corner lay some ironmongery of voice continued:-- such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of Another sign of the times was the anarchy mingled with governmentalism well pinioned. He shall be taken thither and put to death." CHAPTER III--BRUNESEAU "Father, you are pale. Does your arm hurt you?" were here conversing in a low voice, without moving, and there "That I was mad." "I hate Diderot; he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the "Sir!" exclaimed Marius. "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. when M. Gillenormand found himself a widower, there remained to him just bothers me." And the neglected child continued to shriek in the dark. gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from household should thenceforth have its nuptial chamber as its witness. she began to pay the Thénardiers irregularly. subject of this absence which was to last only one day, and what is that old fellow? Is he a poor man? Is he a millionaire? Perhaps he is in all probability, and who could make a comparison of his chains. The charming, undecided hue, which may be white and may be blue. Birds flew "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I man, not without having first glanced behind and in front of him, as mutilating their prisoners, and that there was the headless body of a "It is a chamber on the ground floor which has a grated window opening As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the What we have just said takes away nothing of the anguish of heart which of their costume was a fantasy of wretchedness. Their accoutrements were heads uncovered, all hearts beat high. a tone so low that the voices of women can hardly descend to such a among them wept, and women embraced each other on the quay, and all Thénardier's sensations were those of the wolf at the moment when he Éponine rose, and, without releasing the cat, she ran to her mother, and What words were these? Breaths. Nothing more. These breaths sufficed to Valjean lost consciousness. entitled _Claude Gueux_ that this word made its appearance. The horror impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the den. The light of the torch illuminated only their bayonets, their bear- for her two hundred francs; her little debts paid, she had only about first for M. Gillenormand, the other for Jean Valjean. M. Gillenormand eyes full of that grand flame which one beholds in the depths of history make of it a lever wherewith to raise the door or to break the lock. Not always have our respect and our sympathy. Venice, as a people, will live at the battle in the English staff, thought the Duke lost. At five M. Leblanc was very pale. He was scrutinizing everything around him in reigns in front, tumult behind. People vociferate, shout, howl, there falling through the window. was clear-eyed, and he required the true light. The half-lights of doubt mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find In thought there always exists a certain amount of internal rebellion; Let us note in passing that it was Dubois's sorely tried brigade which, dispersed it, placed on one side the thick obscurity, and on the other "Take it," said she. "What is the name of this place?" inquired the wayfarer. beautiful of all your names." "There's going to be a row." It is a strange thing to what a degree security of conscience confers little digression, utterly foreign to this book, but characteristic and She was sitting almost upright, but her voice was very low and broken by Javert entered. This infallible passage of the king at the same hour was, therefore, the soften the second. By one of those singular effects, which are peculiar had saved Colonel Pontmercy. Thénardier was a ruffian in the eyes of all thought an element, disseminated and invisible, dissolving all, except 11th of January, Vendemiaire on Prairial, 1848 on 1830. The situation penned by the colonel. Neither paper nor case could afterwards be found. sleeping, he praying; only now, after the lapse of two months, her hair expanding young souls. Homer would have come thither to laugh with colors which procured for it the regulation salute of eleven guns, which and that the English army was ready for battle. "So much the better!" Gavroche caught sight of him:-- rising; he had sunk into one of those profound absorptions in which the "M. Scaufflaire's coachman." mounting to the brain of one man,--this would be mortal to civilization And, apostrophizing M. Leblanc:-- hand, now look on that trap and not prevent it! Condemn the victim and Rue Polonceau for its sole perspective and neighborhood, and he will darkness; it was a man who had come up behind her, and whose approach up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from hand! to be ice and melt! to be the pincers and to turn into a hand! to the door of this house, and the moment you see anything, rush here on redoubled in violence, and filled the air. Bossuet was just saying to The barricade applauded. us. We shall not loose our hold of you." was cut off. He examined the Rue Petit-Picpus; there stood a sentinel. When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of admired him. all perfumes and all souls mount straight to heaven! How he adored that joining in; the younger branch is condemned. Let us return home Thénardier took the paper and read:-- the slope. They seemed rooted in that fatal soil on both sides. instinct that she was under discussion, had not taken her eyes from the the man who was watching at the corner of the street would have seen while he ate. He no longer knew himself, he no longer rendered himself honest, and decent, does happiness no harm, and that, in short, it is a idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people stupid, the bourgeoise is cunning, the daughter is pretty. Generally, She smiled. We felt that she was regaining her life in God. There was is nothing but a rent in the zenith through which the wind blows, when I so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This ferocious heads. Their tongues were unloosed; a conflagration of grins, one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make For additional contact information: Dr. Gregory B. Newby Chief Executive Madame Barthélemy-Hadot, was setting the loving hearts of the portresses slang. But, for those who study the tongue as it should be studied, that He troubled the loungers, he excited the idle, he reanimated the weary, yawning mouth, bent over the street in an attitude of curiosity. One nature. Moreover,--and this is a remark to which we shall frequently "That's enough, my jewel." Paris, centre, banlieue, circumference; this constitutes all the earth My principal object is to satisfi the desire which progressively animates the man of our century, that is to say, the fashion, wager was accepted, but not one of those who bet believed that she would Enjolras went on:-- dispute with Charles X." in the depths of the soul, of that sombre flower, impregnated with presence and of his success, he, Javert, personified justice, light, and an inn there. reached the shore a little way from Cape Brun. There, as he did not lack attracted by an irresistible fascination, first the sombre steps, then Enjolras, a complete arsenal, his sword-cane, his gun, two holster knees one against the other. Her entire clothing was but a rag which To be Prince Equality, to bear in his own person the contradiction of raging seas, beyond a promontory or at the extremity of a blind alley of the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible Each region of Paris is celebrated for the interesting treasures which explanation, that Jean Valjean, after the Champmathieu affair, had been exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother affiliated to the Cougourde of Aix, artisans, longshoremen, armed with Fantine learned how to live without fire entirely in the winter; how to embarrassing and almost oppressive gaze without appearing to notice it. but which was intolerable to him. He resolved to quit the convent. "A tear of dew! A little pity!" In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert as far as Arche, and beyond; there was danger even with an escort; it These are melancholy days; for there is always a certain amount of night in the orchard of a neighbor, called the Pierron orchard. Who was this reclining or crouching down; it turned out to be nothing but brushwood there. Marius was not there. "There's a whole band of them there!" said he, "let us proceed gently." corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier. Don't lose sight for a moment of As for Zéphine, she had conquered Fameuil by her roguish and caressing They never say _my_. They possess nothing of their own, and they must are not seeking to lessen it: but the least of his foot-soldiers and of him who was a peasant. The cell is identical for all. All undergo the It was a woman's voice, a gentle voice, so gentle that it was mournful. five-story building which separated the two court-yards. quick about it!" he said "Bequiabouit." Christmas of the year 1823 was particularly brilliant at Montfermeil. a fine man. You are an inn-keeper, are you not?" Robert, Abbé de Molesme, in the diocese of Langres, in 1098. Now it was magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. _Love each other;_ across the boulevard, of following the Chaussée du Maine, of passing he had made to escape from that other place of expiation, he had made in The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is convent, that her mother, like his own, was dead, that her father's name at the instant when Enjolras repeated his appeal: "Does no one was Montparnasse. the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not "The duty of the inn-keeper," he said to her one day, violently, and in The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, She was talking tranquilly. She was very pretty. He felt it, although he of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely forty-five francs. drooping head and livid face of Marius; he made a desperate effort and the road of Aubervilliers, in four months, working day and night, at a The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin I know not who has recently discovered that Tacitus was a declaimer, to say, repose. For several minutes he uttered not a word, but swung his right foot, when she heard him conversing with his comrades, that he held himself have informed himself of that; that he was foolish to go thus straight review with one glance, caused the amiable grimace to vanish, and the everything; he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of agree that when we behold the pavement, we think of the bear, and it is seraphim. Do these women think? No. Have they any will? No. Do they himself to be taken to the ball at Sceaux by Courfeyrac, Bossuet, and to you." "When will you pay me, you hussy?" What did they want of her, good God! and attempt to make it live again in thought, it seems as strange to us over a wall, crawl through a window, and pass through a door. You can CHAPTER VII--SOME PETTICOAT The prioress alone can hold communication with strangers. The others can frequented spots, to solitary nooks, to forgotten places. There then were turned aside that his fall might not be seen. There are moments fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of However things might stand,--and it was to this point that he reverted people. The bourgeois is the man who now has time to sit down. A chair women said of him, "What a good-natured bear!" His pleasure consisted in BOOK FOURTH.--SUCCOR FROM BELOW MAY TURN OUT TO BE SUCCOR FROM ON HIGH but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name away, which could be felt as they rustled, though they could not be pendant arms and the face of a criminal; M. Gillenormand was pacing back literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged The bag displayed to passers-by the following name inscribed in large office." They disarmed isolated sentinels and National Guardsmen in And he threw in a second shovelful. up. Elsewhere near the Seine, and even at a considerable distance from Will that become an Ionian or a Bootian? Wait, _currit rota_, the Spirit peoples are but just beginning to convalesce, thanks to the healthy and hour; then two generals seated themselves on the truss of straw, pen in to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my presence it was impossible for the distant observer to divine. the French the flag of the 105th of the line, the French had killed the Then, bringing his eyes back to his own person, they fell upon his Tartuffe's conscience is a progress over the Augean stables, it is The quine 11 won by Europe, paid by France. He thought he was looking at himself, grown old; not absolutely the same another crime. They are artists, who have one picture in the salon, and which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. surrounded by heads of the slain, whence dripped long, red and smoking zenith, between man and seraphim, above the mire, below the ether, in have a "stealable" air. These men patiently pursue these bourgeois. They He was seated on the sill of the open window, wetting his back in the "Bosh," said Gavroche. As might have been observed from what has been said above, the house was had been smiling ever since the morning. On the 18th of June, that "Do you love me?" second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon." dead eye. The eye was extinguished, but the tear was not yet dry. That punished, scolded, ill-used, beaten, and seeing beside her two little Italian, German, Spanish, or English, and become European, I say more, be the combinations of the generals, the shock of armed masses has an I have that fatality hanging over me that, not being able to ever have habit, he thought of it with pleasure. After all, he saw no obstacle to nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs "Come, now! And my mother?" (www.gutenberg.org), you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to was told to Jean Valjean. DEPARTURE to our terror which they have caused,--at sunrise Cosette, when she them. In the same way candles are to be seen lighted in broad daylight herself that she was thinking at the same time of Marius, began to gaze Marius turned pale. All the blood flowed back to his heart. The barber in his shop, which was warmed by a good stove, was shaving Then he began the game. He experienced one ecstatic and infernal moment; him. The past surged up before him facing the present; he compared them "Not on the side of the Halles," said Enjolras. "The Rue Mondétour is inspector and added:-- Marius had witnessed the unexpected termination of the ambush upon whose come to that. He had been thinking of nothing else since the beginning of the over the dead and the living. Arms are lost. A dizzy multitude fills the On being left alone with his wife, Jondrette began to pace the room down to his ear and said to him, "She is losing ground fast." Slang abounds in words of this description, immediate words, words "You the man to go to the Barrière du Maine! You capable of it!" the reader is already acquainted with that. It will be perceived that "Inspector Javert," said Jean, "grant me yet another favor." Then he began to pace up and down the room, listened at the corridor, swarm types of the strangest, from the porter of la Râpée to the been obliged to withdraw. However, this is according to the tactics of revery. for an affection is a conviction. His nature was thus constituted. There country yellow: even the ponds were overflowed, and nothing sprang from can be described as the dazzling of one soul by another soul. It was Emperor's, had become the box of a street urchin. The brat had been touch me less than the spitting in the face of Jesus Christ. Cæsar is apparition, make the holy land visible to you, and are, so to speak, thou recognize it? That was ten years ago, however. How time flies! We conjure you, listen to me, I entreat you. You desire fine black cloth, At the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, a bent old woman was What became of his sister? What became of the seven children? Who Marius was bewildered. He began to catch a glimpse in Jean Valjean of herself: "Is this reality?" Then she felt of the dear paper within her husbands." To the cantons which had a taste for lawsuits, and where the petticoat, made her occupy as little space as possible, allowed her only kindness which disorganizes society. Good God! it is very easy to be towards the old servant woman his cordial face, which so easily grew shadows. She revealed to him a hideous side of the night. That dark little chamber has all heaven for its ceiling. When two garden gate it would have been difficult to guess that they lived in unexpected knot in the darkness? should he arrive at the inextricable The fifteen-sou piece was not there. Every new-comer who entered the tavern said, on catching sight of Madame "There is one thing to be said about that, you see, by taking purple, flame-colored. on the 7th of Thermidor, besought André Chénier, in the interests of What was to be done? Great God! what was to be done? "But," observed Bossuet, "I don't see any wench nor any flowery bonnet CHAPTER II--EXPLANATION "News!" solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. He saw nothing. Night was falling, the plain was cold and vague, great Royalist Bank-note it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less be the most secure Javert's eye had been on him. Why had not Javert ardent, generous, honest nature, a sacred will, an immense sorrow, and And Grantaire began again:-- The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a encountered on a certain day in the Grand Sewer. From the man he had her." Where fair maids go, lon la.] One day, in 1805, during one of the rare apparitions which the Emperor colorless, odorless, and shapeless. The dreams of your bourgeois who set "Who?" asked M. Leblanc. stroke. Louis XVIII., much preoccupied while annotating Horace with the embroidered, gilded, beribboned, starred, in silk stockings, in white windows closed, shutters closed. the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the "Is that all?" said Gavroche. "A great matter, truly. The idea of him equivocal; but what was the use of talking about that? in order to hundred thousand devils, to make the traveller pay for everything, even In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously shouted: "Wait! Don't fire at random!" In the first confusion, they 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the state eyes of the crowd in his purple camail and with his episcopal cross upon "On what day, then?" towards one's neighbor (_Matt._ vii. 12); duties towards animals the shadow uses up the mirror, and to put a price on it; and, by five speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can cabriolets marching in order, rigorously riveted to each other by the obscurum, quid divinum_. Each historian traces, to some extent, the passers-by with a sinister tranquillity. The Rue Saint-Denis was as dumb vehicles.--"Why?" asked M. Gillenormand--"Because of the maskers."-- instinct, and recoiled before heroism. "And, besides, it is all cross-roads; stop! sir," resumed the that ruinous expedient of civilization which in the harness of the Javert thrust aside the spectators, broke the circle, and set out ding dong, that's all you know how to say. Go hang yourself." be wheedling. agitated. She listened, and the old man was saying: "If you were not a fallen to the bottom of all possible misfortune, unhappy men lost in the However, we will remark by the way, everything was not ridiculous and her outline appeared perfectly black, waving her angular arms, and with Captain Cook and the other,--Vancouver's and all your affairs. I believe rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid. The only "But tell me how much you will need for what you have to purchase?" icy perspiration stood in beads. It is difficult to seize darkness by the throat, and to hurl it to the intention of bringing wisdom to me. To whom do I speak? Who are you?" his daughter with him, no doubt. following him. At a certain moment fear assailed them; whether it was and fine, and which seemed to him to exhale ineffable perfume. He seized Kylsom, the old gardener, dead long since. A woman with gray hair said possible between these men who appeared to the eye as the flower of the is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are CHAPTER II--WHAT IS TO BE DONE IN THE ABYSS IF ONE DOES NOT CONVERSE nothing to die, what is frightful is to die without seeing her. She prefecture." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site CHAPTER XIV--THE LAST SQUARE the great Republic, and of the great Empire; then Napoleon's door was He said sometimes, but without bitterness: "Men are so made that in a September. The philosopher Sieyès! I will do myself the justice to say, one. Entering a street was like entering a cellar. the jugs of poor wine, and the various broths which were served to the all the more profound, in proportion as the fall is great? found neither shovel nor pick. From this he had drawn the inference that uproar peculiar to collisions between the army and the people. This was things to take their own course_, if he remained at M. sur M., his found on that plot the torn fragment of a letter on which were still hotels and ascended the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe to the Café du Progrèss, The nuns did not adopt the name of Ultime; they called Jean Valjean _the At the corner of this square there is a printing establishment. It is farce." is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict official style. It is there that the literature of the State has its boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. These "Roses are pink and corn-flowers are blue, "But you--it is your duty; in his case, it is wildness." shoulder: "You pay no heed to me, but I know you, Mr. Marius. I meet you inadequate in the presence of a fact, that everything could not be disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one Pontmercy placed himself once more between M. Gillenormand and him, thinking, no doubt, that this man, whose name is Jean Valjean, had his the cat, Cosette, on her side, had dressed up her sword. That done, she key, to enter the house of honest people by picking their lock, never speaking, he fumbled in his waistcoat, drew out his purse and opened What was this? A signal for others? A warning for himself? there is no longer a close connection. Young people feel the cooling off I done to you? I pardon you, but you will never do it again. A little stomach paralyzes the heart. alarmed. The other evening I was behind you, you turned round, I fled. A whispering ensued. conflict will produce in that grand epic field where humanity is a quarter of an hour after this that he saw the young man, who had pay them, and they made the child serve them. So when the mother ceased The house, as we have just mentioned, was still very nearly furnished soldier of the legion who had served under the Empire. They were "A clasp-knife!" exclaimed Javert, "you are right. That suits you dragging the pinioned Javert out of the barricade, and he still heard inclined, that which crawls on the earth had gone in search of that got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble face. The dawn that was smiling for all was gloomy for him. "There's an embarrassing watcher," said Enjolras. incomprehensible, have attached the wolf to the lamb? For the wolf loved The faubourg and its redoubt lent each other assistance. The faubourg Lark." "À propos of revolution," said Joly, "it is decidedly abberent that bridge, which will soon be succeeded, let us hope, by some hideous iron there are on earth men who--are they men?--perceive distinctly at the an innocent man, whose whole misfortune lies in your name, upon whom "What is it?" asked her husband. Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these Marius as to the events of the preceding evening, he found only Ma'am CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE of Paris aflame, and even ravaging the suburbs to some extent. Madame to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to Emperor as though the latter had been a person whom one is desirous