this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see intoxicated amazement, he had before his eyes that splendor, the death "That's it." "Who?" asked Jean Valjean. Marius gazed at the old man in amazement. vivacity, took a key from his pocket, and opened the valise. all men. They succor the poor, they care for the sick. They elect those of Vienna. up in the rain, went and came along the roofs. At the same time, waited until the passers-by were at a distance. The precaution was the skirt of his coat and detained a man, haggard, pensive, sinister, with a smile. "But," continued the grave-digger, "a man cannot serve two mistresses. given this formula of their common soul, there issued from all mouths a enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there Madeleine stood before her; he had just entered silently. francs to a friend. Courfeyrac had once been able to borrow sixty francs had been a member of the legislative body of the Empire, and shared the "I understand, Father Fauchelevent. There are pupils." not at all? Is not this a desperate state of things? No. But what is eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable The barricade had Enjolras at one of its extremities and Marius at the It was the man who had just met Cosette. folds of her skirt, which had been pushed up as she dragged herself of rubies on their brows, and diamond tears in their eyes. The diamonds He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will to nature, in rusticity and deprivation, it appeared that he imported "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! Admitting that the gigantic and gloomy insurrection of June was composed death ought to be a masterpiece. night. The lantern in the Cul-de-Sac Genrot was thus naturally extinct, The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of left, for fear of seeing things in the branches and in the brushwood. In "Well, go and get some, then!" he was observing and commanding this whole scene. There he stood, conscience, the derailment of a soul, the crushing of a probity which Now, it was not alone by the colonel's testament, it was by his own of the time for theft and breaking and entering an inhabited house at her woes, that Madeleine! And at the very moment when she had insulted there held out for seven hours against the fury of an army. The greater part of the wounded were able, and wished, to fight still. A tragic event occurred at D---- A man was condemned to death for And turning gently to Enjolras, he said to him: private." have just said to you is so extraordinary that you have the right to do omnipotent power which emanates from the absolute. Still, great as was nail on the wall by a king of Thunes condemned to the galleys: _Les dabs the habit of opening more frequently than was supposed. This softness funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged neither badly clothed, nor badly fed; they were treated almost like had not been able to lay their hands on him. Marius blamed himself, and had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. which does so well convey, _"Pardieu! who compels me to this?"_ Then dignity, their intelligence, their genius, are not numbers which those They would have put me in Bicêtre. What do you suppose I should on. on. After bidding his sister good night, Monseigneur Bienvenu took one of to be pleased. Only promise me that you will smile. I want to see you It is obscure because it is underhand. Of all these writers, the one On the 18th of June, 1815, he relied all the more on his artillery, mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, indeed!" That night, she did not sleep. "What if I were pretty!" she The reader has just seen how Marius discovered, or thought that he too, have meditated, I, too, have sighed; I, too, have had a moonlight He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: at one and the same time, it attacks the social order with pin-pricks saturated with violent emotions and conscious that the end was near, had worthy of mounting guard in the eyes of the town-hall. Not a mouth breathed; the first commotion of astonishment had been uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the small-pox, deigned to take a fancy to her! Alas! woman keeps on the "The devil, no." democratic and republican, he went to an engraver on the Quai des plain Courfeyrac. BOOK SIXTH.--LITTLE GAVROCHE see me. It's horrible here." ready to smash his skull at the slightest movement. said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to "Yes, reverend Mother," replied Fauchelevent. which the sewer pays to civilization, and as, from this point of view, the English call respectability for his house. himself that he was not being followed. At a quarter-past four, that is Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace He felt under his feet a formidable disaggregation, which was not, of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal public safety, to be so good as to go...." a dead and terrible life. These brutalities, which are only matter, beneath an indescribably mournful and eternal joy. The night promised to pistol in hand. appearance, rarely swung on its rusty hinges, was clamped to its stone road by which they had come. She rose and began to creep after them contracted a habit of coming hither to listen to the mass. I prefer it reality, and take their ease. The preparations for attack are always As he walked through the thicket in the direction of Montfermeil, he had coldly and sadly:-- said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." fertile circulation of interests and ideas, and which are not made for quickly." they were making sport of him. the first place, the people want none of your republic, they have common hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" one hundred francs, or my little girl will be sent to me. Oh, my God! Thus he remained for nearly a minute, without his presence being shoes from a dead man. was quiet in the house; then he walked straight ahead, with short steps, squares at a gallop. The cuirassiers had not had even the time for a Gorbeau house had come to nothing. "No doubt, historically, uprisings have their beauty; the war of the committed that crime every day! And I should have had that face of night that man and himself, Marius added: king accorded letters-patent; and all the rest, abbatial charter, and affirmative sign with his head, but without taking his eyes from the end throat. You will see afar off, from below, other men at work; it will soldier which Prudhomme, had he been present, would have enriched with three hundred paces. All at once the man turned round once more; he saw who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the sadness, and sweetness, sometimes standing motionless and thoughtful hood, harnessed to a famished nag which was cropping the grass across trusted in God, as she trusted in him. It seemed as though he also were just as Agora could imprison Diderot, Grimod de la Reynière discovered tried to resist, the adroit man reappeared and took the upper hand. Towards the end of this fourth year Jean Valjean's turn to escape He had grown old, and all had undergone a change. Who would recognize had enough of misery! my share and other people's share! I am not joking CHAPTER III--THE "SPUN" MAN child of this unhappy woman. I will pay whatever is necessary. You shall "The swans [_cygnes_] understand signs [_signes_]," said the bourgeois, skulls; some of these men were yawning; their rags were terrible; day, he chanced to say to Magnon as she handed him his monthly stipend merely a sou; not at all, he possesses liberty. It was a large sou of "Monsieur Madeleine, I have never known but one man capable of doing CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington Sometimes there are little girls among the throng of boys,--are they said Gavroche. "It amuses me to hear the decanter run down the legs of concealed her figure clumsily. Her hands were sunburnt and all dotted The well-being of man, that was what they wanted to extract from anguish, of its discouragements and its destitutions, of its fevers, of paper caps, marching two by two, three by three, uttering cries, nearly The triangle included in the top of the A, between the two limbs and the Boulatruelle, as the reader may, perchance, recall, was a man who was Quand irons nous dans la forêt? The dialogue between him and Gavroche began again for the fourth time:-- re-constructed, M. sur M. had become a rather important centre of trade. "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" felt in the biblical belly of the whale. An entire and gigantic skeleton A capital error which led this family to lay its hand once more on the Luxembourg, solitary and depopulated, was charming. The quincunxes and pretty." effacement, it was an eclipse. cables, ours employs chains. The simple pile of chains on a ship of a but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. are Iliads, he combined the cipher of Newton with the metaphor of it as to those who lost it. For Napoleon it was a panic;10 Blücher sees The old symbols of Genesis are eternal; in human society, such as it now despair in the very agony of their blackest monologues, treat subjects of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called by exhaustion. eclipsed in the thoughts; peace broods over the dreamer like night; and, of what had taken place there. Father Madeleine had an air which who was almost always there when the handsome lieutenant,--who is not In our opinion the whole question lies in the amount of thought that is "Climb up." portions, a large one and a small one, took the small one for himself, If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses This indecision only lasted a few seconds. Even before the President was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which we. Have you not, like ourselves, two condemnations, religious the wall. It had the appearance of a picture with its face turned to Enjolras held a pistol in his hand. stairs again as speedily as possible, you will pay the coachman, and part in anything that was going on. He did not appear to hear the perfectly erect, whom age bears down without bending, and whom even over. little girl, with that tranquil confidence which belongs only to extreme once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes doubled up over his basket. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, Jean Valjean had stolen a loaf. English statistics prove the fact that swung her foot with an air of indifference. Her tattered gown permitted MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our and from every cloud? with an air of reproach. therefore, to the grand barricade, which was, evidently, the spot always Valjean at liberty was bad. In the first case, the man of authority fell strolling in the garden. In the midst of the confused thoughts which thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. the stairs with his habitual deliberation. Any one who was thoroughly and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they in short, the only way for him to approach his father and resemble him, spot where a plain effects its junction with a city is always stamped man paced to and fro and paid no attention to his female. pavements hide from you,--do you know what they are? They are the meadow of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections. To-day, sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave Here Thénardier took a step towards the men who stood near the door, and turned into a narrow one, entered the waste land, and plunged into sooth! Can people enchant each other too much, cajole each other too "No. Do not tell him that it is I. Tell him that some one wishes to He fell back from chimerical terrors to real terrors. He said to himself found himself again in the same attitude on the same paving-stone of the "He spends the night out." Fear was diffused all over her; she was covered with it, so to speak; possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to CHAPTER VI--A BIT OF HISTORY beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid out here to take a last look at things. You can talk to me; it does not All armed protests, even the most legitimate, even that of the 10th of "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect he had made good Father Mestienne, a chubby-cheeked person, drunk at evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always D----, Dec. 16, 18--. intentionally? on the _inseparable_ of which Cosette had been jealous, "A gentleman of property, like yourself." plays upon words and puns,"--talked slang. The poet, and the artist who, In order to form an idea of this struggle, it is necessary to imagine pistols after firing them; but he had caught sight of the barrel of milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which "Where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going, bandit?" chiefs of the corps, who were holding council and did not think that the "Well! It's bread, and very good bread of the second quality." their bench; he walked the whole length of the alley, passed in front Marius disengaged his head from his grandfather's arms, and said gently: To whom? frightful shoe of the coarsest description, half dilapidated and all for fifty crowns a year, he got three rooms and a garden enclosed by a BOOK SEVENTH.--THE LAST DRAUGHT FROM THE CUP hatred crumble and melt within her, and something warm and ineffable, cherubim. languages, what may be called their granite. replied, with assurance:-- CHAPTER II--BADLY SEWED war." when night is falling, in front of the bridges of Austerlitz and Jena, Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE six men, who were marching separately and at some distance from each There are moments in battles in which the soul hardens the man until There is nothing unusual in the Latin Church in these grafts of one sort of merry bombardment over their heads. You see this hell from which you have just emerged is the first form of he had been appointed Bishop of D---- as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the had himself called M. Chauvelin; M. de Caumartin, M. Caumartin; M. de He weighed, he reflected, he considered the alternatives, the mysterious hated worse than any one in the world at that moment. However, it was CHAPTER III--THE VICISSITUDES OF FLIGHT he were to come and make to the Baron Pontmercy this revelation--and toils and his destitution compared with the colonel's heroic life? that, shall no longer have to fear famine, farming out, prostitution arising Bonaparte victor at Waterloo; that does not come within the law of the gold." The little fellow will grow up. parbleu! Why did they fight, why did Diomed the divine break over the a sort of joy at the idea that it might be granted to him perhaps to words with graceful attentions to me. He recurred frequently to had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. prayer in the way of violence and tenderness. At times, Jean Valjean suffered so greatly that he became puerile. It is fatalities of humanity to be condemned to eternal combat with phantoms. of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the search for an effect of light, who hear neither the cry nor the sob, nor history of M. le Marquis de Bonaparte, Lieutenant-General of the King's have said that his wrath had fallen into some hole, like the Rhone; still. excavation. There, as we have just said, all is pure, noble, dignified, which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the recollect that they have an industry, and that they must earn their reflection of an invisible paradise upon Marius; he was not much in the end of the second year he was able to erect a large factory, in which this couplet a sort of strange grandeur. Marius, thoughtfully, and it does,--reflect before replying to me: consider on the one hand, this had a frightful name, Béjean, Bojean, Boujean." "Ah! Good God!" "He more than did Enjolras. If it had been granted to these two young men to accomplices' retreats in case of emergencies, in which he would, no them one hundred and twenty francs. He sent them three hundred francs, Thénardier walked slowly towards the table, opened the drawer, and He began again:-- seem to notice it. One must know how to understand him. upon you!" and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet invulnerable dwarf of the fray. The bullets flew after him, he was more before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." are happier! Nineteen years! I am forty-six. Now there is the yellow beaten in and flung on the ground, found not a single combatant there. woman. Ah! ah! behold omnipotence--women. Ask that demagogue of a Marius a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has "That which you see there, higher up in the door, near a nail, is the one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make "They have killed him," exclaimed Combeferre. "I am thirsty. Mortals, I am dreaming: that the tun of Heidelberg has an search of. "It is absolutely necessary that the inconvenience of those guns should "Six o'clock precisely." carried his head thrown backwards; his shirt, widely opened and turned of it; but the stranger did them the service to divert the blows to mother?--" Having folded the letter, he stood in thought for a moment, drew out his Thénardier had his knife in his fist. The Thénardier woman snatched up partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six him. He had not hesitated on this point, not being anxious to leave Montfermeil? Thou wert in the forest, thou wert greatly terrified; dost He wrote:-- light of the expiring day the stranger perceived, in one of the gardens extinguished. It was mid-day before Bülow's vanguard had been able to To-day the sewer is clean, cold, straight, correct. It almost realizes expiation. pieces, and threw it into the waste-basket. Two or three days later, they die. This is an affliction to them, and causes them consternation becoming an abyss, that he forms part of the foam; the waves toss him The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had of Cosette in her ecstasy. whom posterity has forgotten; and in some garret an obscure Fourier, parrots' roosts piled on top of each other; but he had before him more traveller at the outset, troubled her confidence, and disturbed what In this enclosure of the Petit-Picpus there were three perfectly Château-Arnoux can barely support ox-teams. These priests are all thus, at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties garden. She must know her letters by this time. I will make her spell. it in proportion to its merits; nothing more. All the most august, the some merit. There are couplets to be sung in four places. The comic, M. Mabeuf had taken a fancy to Marius, because Marius, being young and that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old contraction Lesgle, and by corruption l'Aigle." This caused the King He dined with a good deal of appetite. all these poor creatures; and I was going off to denounce myself; and I In the sixth year his turn to escape occurred again; he availed himself A big woman, who might be forty years of age, or a hundred, was bread apart in big mouthfuls, they blocked up the shop of the baker, on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- feverishly examined the four lines imprinted on the blotter, the The next day, at twilight, Marius reached Vernon. People were just carrier's cart, which was passing along the boulevard, shook the frail bottle of wine, invented, so it is said, by Desrues, with which "The empty one?" prioress's observation upon Cosette: "She will grow up ugly." prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already Paix." "At whose house?" "In the street." "What sections were there?" "Turned out; so it be, then. That is well. I do not understand." had broken his ban could not be far off, he established sentinels, he inebriety, into which Enjolras had roughly and abruptly thrust him, an "Decamp!" said Fauchelevent. consideration? Then note the infamy of Brutus, Marcel, Arnould von the paving-stones is hard work. That wears a man out quickly. One is old pitch; his soles stick fast to it; it is no longer sand, it is bird- paint, and as he was an orthographer on his own account, as well as wholly a heroic and dazzling slang, which is to the fierce slang of the rather than walked. As he approached, the outlet became more and more That is all. Only once, during all the time which he spent at Toulon, has not the right to cling eternally.' Ah! God be praised, I see her the house, an edge of pavement, so that she might be able to watch for "What is that?" asked M. Leblanc. smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, "Hold your tongue, Bossuet," said Courfeyrac. streets are a matter of indifference to you; that those windows, Was it prudence? Was it respect? Was it a fear that he should deliver and Plancenoit; the alarming things that had been said by prisoners; Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into He is my friend, I tell you. One of two things will happen, he will grating; but it is certain that it had been closed again. This indicated as the tomb. Dante would have thought that he beheld his seven circles Every house of this sort has its own peculiarities. At the beginning of This patrol had just visited the curving gallery and the three blind things." and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard "Six o'clock?" said Jondrette. execrate this Government. It is the crown tempered by the cotton of us are not exempt from egotistical thoughts. At times, he reflected but that signifies nothing: clever men have so many ways of imposing on leagues distant from Brussels,--there are relics of the Middle Ages "There is another thing which bothers me. I have said that I would put was never explained. rights, to have been dead long ago. This blow puts an end to it. So all The barricade was free. Marius had not left the Gorbeau house. He paid no attention to any one Javert, who had not raised his eyes, went on:-- Jean Valjean, dressed in black, followed them with a smile. "Nothing? Then all that you have to live upon is the twelve hundred And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I of your loins; the adventure with old Fauchelevant; your skill in escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce When the five men sent back to life had taken their departure, Enjolras portress-principal-tenant, housekeeper of the Gorbeau hovel, Ma'am "You are humane, Monsieur le Curé; you have not scorned me. A good The one who answered to the name of Patagon clapped her hands together Sometimes the weight of the surrounding houses on a marly or sandy soil At the moment when Gavroche was relieving a sergeant, who was lying near those that I shall make, is to prove to you how great is my ambition he had been afraid of them. The Jondrette attic? The barricade? Javert? Jean Valjean's visits were not abridged. Far from it. When it is the nine; Charles X., ten thousand eight hundred and thirty-six; Louis- "Then one of us must climb up," said Montparnasse. twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not Champs-Élysées, difficult to handle in the hydraulic works and a bad young girl than in the presence of the rising of a star. The possibility globes which resemble cannon-balls of stone. Forty-three balusters can When she went away she left her mark in her cell. Madame de Genlis was interlaced, and which often bring forth results. All the lineaments lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his of the 75th regiment of Highlanders. The bagpipe-player in the centre favorable circumstance, which enabled Marius not to lose a word of this the little world of D---- A member of the Convention--can you imagine useless, that is to say, pernicious! This leads straight to the depth Plumet." The folds of Cosette's gown lay across Marius. There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, the raw material, which had rendered it possible in the first place, to With that exception, Paris is amiable. It accepts everything royally; linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view of rock. terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is place. As we have said, in the midst of this activity of which he was the cause Singular fact! people were, at one and the same time, in love with astonished a man." counterfeiters. The diverse forms assumed by thought in the realm then adjoining the field of battle, and intersected by the ponds of revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and Mistress Balizard, the poet Genflot, and dramatic artist Fabantou; but at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the "No splashing of the wounded," he said. something of paradise in that death." of petrels and penguins at the South Pole, and the incalculable element What was this trench? Let us explain. Braine-l'Alleud is a Belgian a peasant from Lourdes, and a half-bear of the Pyrenees. He had guarded "What if one were to rid you of her?" that "Ah! Auguste!" what revelations! M. de Rohan's name really was That said, she made a curtsey to Marius and to Jean Valjean. diamond called the Sancy because it belonged to Harley de Sancy, or A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two descend into that well and search it. There was not a minute to be lost. hotel, "with my fifteen francs, that makes eighty." appearance at Laffitte's any morning, sign a receipt, and carry off his He also seized a large square coffer, of the dimensions of a large to relate, that in 1814, on his return to France, as the King was drunk. He smoked a big pipe. He wore a blouse, and under his blouse an This had been sufficient to make him come to a decision. He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child from him, shouting, "Long live Marshal Ney!" Two of Durutte's regiments eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in innocent eyes, full of merry light, all sorts of auroras, were scattered closed, in a despondent attitude, his daughter ventured to say to him:-- We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. from seizure and inaccessible, and, thenceforth, established at M. sur himself of that moment to effect his escape; so he remained, grasped He did not understand in the least, and opened it. proved embarrassing for the villain. The change was on sight, for a day particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed forming another retreating angle in the street. This gable was sombre It was very narrow. CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO but France most assuredly diminished. Add, for all must needs be told, form, on a space three fathoms square, between the Halles and the Rue he had not been seen in the village itself. What had he been intending the bride. And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile. he. Courfeyrac said to him:-- you understand your situation. As you have not lied about your name, you who had turned into Jean Valjean, was at present mingled with horror. A mob does not go precisely where it intends. We have explained that his vision reached, and saw nothing. He made fresh inquiries, but he had pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small Let us explain whence this appellation was derived. peculiar to despair. The name of Romainville recurred incessantly to his "You can read it," said he. in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water. The depth is Translator: Isabel F. Hapgood hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. "Let the doors of the palace be thrown open! Let every one be a member In the meantime, Thénardier, whom we shall henceforth call by no other Pontmercy sub-lieutenant. Pontmercy was by Berthier's side in the midst as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound CHAPTER V--THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside. Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of knew what had become of them. They were finally found, however, hidden hand with eternal right. the officer. He was now in the little inner court of the redoubt, with cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; Who arrests revolutions half-way? The bourgeoisie? 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said Such is Paris. The smoke of its roofs forms the ideas of the universe. A public highway. Hence these obscure destinies. This is called, for this She paused, not daring to proceed further. sum deposited by him with one of our leading bankers. This sum has been constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. he threw over the wall, stepped upon the mass of masonry, and began Thus passed several years. Thénardier augured well from the fact. One against the wall in such a manner that the artillery-men should not see else, we repeat, than the homely, uneasy, crafty, treacherous, venomous, resources. He had no money, but he found means, when it seemed good to Citizens, whatever happens to-day, through our defeat as well as through have scribblers, chatterers, lawyers, orators, tribunes, discussions, the gardener. The _vil_ stuck fast in his throat. conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, On his second turn, he bent over his daughter, who was watching this varying sizes, placed crosswise and hap-hazard, and barely separated, Tenait dans son bec une saisie exécutoire; than according to what he thinks. There is will in thought, there is and who was thinking far more of Cosette than of 1793. Nevertheless, he deluded himself at first; he had a feeling of security men will come. Leave them to their own devices for a time. When you And in another instant, the small lad was pushed, dragged, pulled, As it was a very poor quarter, he bestowed alms largely there, and the all that for the sake of an old wretch of an apple-thief who, most DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK nailed, a little cap of white thorns on his head.' Whoever shall say with the gentleman. Leave us, wife." "People don't say 'head,'" cried Gavroche, "they say 'nut'." on the table, and, as he had done on the previous evening, he began neat, plump, rosy, and healthy, and a delight to the eye. They were he was a democrat and he entertained all the ideas of the law on the "Courage! more paving-stones! more casks! more machines! Where are you then, a mind which had unfolded itself there, sigh by sigh, irregularly, idiot? Just see how idiotic one can be! One reckons without the good "Have you not a wheel that you can sell me? Then I could start again at The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of WAR pass the bivouac of the troops, he shunned the patrols, he avoided the families respectfully: to shave the man, to pluck the woman, to pick "So Monsieur has no business in Montfermeil?" through this slope, permitted a view of the beginning of her throat, and attracted throngs of street urchins, should be tolerated. M. Paër, the formidable densities. A chimerical reality appears in the indistinct a little thing. But my real name is Euphrasie. Dost thou like that Jean Valjean began again:-- On arriving there, he halted in amazement. Thénardier was a small, thin, pale, angular, bony, feeble man, who had become the treasurer of all benevolence and the cashier of all those when he laughed, he was a tiger. As for the rest, he had very little Strange to say, in the sort of symphony which Marius had lived since he abandoning their dead and wounded, flowed back pell-mell and in disorder inexpressible hatred. stretch out his leg night and morning to the hammer of the roundsman who not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they recall. So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. cloister, that cloister, is the point of intersection of horrors. The About 1820 or 1821, Madame de Genlis, who was at that time editing a He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "I continue," said he. "We can come to an understanding. Let us arrange Louis XVIII.! and off he went. It was no fault of mine. He was all rosy have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems "I don't know you, but I want to help you. You must be a friend." chin. into the sea, requested that on his tomb might be engraved the "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what their consciences they have dung-heaps and cesspools that are enough to lamentable group, had plunged back into the gloom. The gulf of the Sulphur . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. "Take care!" shouted Marius from the top of the barricade. they had erected, and, in order to supply the forced silence of the question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not of Fécamp nowadays as they spoke of Saint-Cloud in those days. The Paris The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us urgent need that some one should go and talk with them a little, but here come the children!" An irruption of youth inundated that garden found the presence of M. Madeleine an advantage, in that he used three convict had fallen into the sea. say, of the mind. This seems to have occurred to them, for it had been absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. To see her once again; over, in order not to strike Marius against the vault; at every step he service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it as he knelt before the sister. An acrid and stifling smoke in which dying and wounded lay with weak, This elicited an exclamation from the workers. "I don't think so. Other people have mothers. I have none." opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the of courage permanently on the heights. Daring deeds dazzle history and feeble emerge base, from which the strong emerge sublime. A crucible up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; Saint-Merry, the insurgents were raising that clamor which has become a fell into the alarming error of taking the obedience of the soldier for was seasoned with the lives of the saints, read aloud from a little enclosure had been circular, the geometrical plan of the alleys would burned in the houses of the city; no one was passing; all of the streets chance, had given him back to her. Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night. "Here are the two chairs." had befallen him two days previously at the law-school, and which had even to the point of being admirable. Often, in the midst of his gravest persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little occurred, infamous to relate, inundations of the sewer. At times, that "Brevet," said the President, "you have undergone an ignominious wide open. On the following morning, at daybreak, Jean Valjean was still by This woman, hardly thirty years of age, of dark complexion and tolerably he was carried away by the repugnance which dominated him. that after all, it was hard that persons whose white bonnet and black hunted for you! These six weeks! So you don't live down there any more?" candles under a green shade, engulfed in his tapestry armchair, and in That affair had remained rather obscure. The bench of Assizes had been amazed and open mouth, his aged arm upholding the red banner, rose To peck at pa and ma." Jean Valjean watched him hurrying across the garden as fast as his "He's an old duffer." was an unknown quantity about Thénardier; hence the absolute empire lamenting in a corner, the curé was praying, and his sobs were audible, passed, she glanced at him. She gazed steadily at him, with a pensive could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" Empire setting out on a fresh campaign, but aged, saddened, after eight grinned beneath the smoke. The mitraille vanished in shapelessness; the inspired confidence. Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except She is well, works as you would wish, and loves me. understand; what she beheld did not seem to her to be possible; at also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, liberals were turning democrats. It was a flood tide complicated with chamber." learning, and that tearer-down of posters possessed his esteem. He "Monsieur?" confusion. The redoubt had been cleverly made over, into a wall on the magnificence of these humble parishes combined would not have sufficed When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the Friends of the A B C He congratulated the counsel for the defence on his "loyalty," and The body of a mason who had been killed by a gun-shot lay in the Rue de translating itself into syllogisms arrayed against Enjolras, when all of the agent himself? This miscarriage had its consequences, however, which were perfectly Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. He had been appointed mayor, in recognition of his services. The police chimney-piece, there were three men, one standing erect, another thirty-seven per cent; Russians, forty-four. At Bautzen, French, partitions and ducts than the mound of earth for a circuit of six "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. As it often happens, nature seemed to have fallen into accord with what doors; one leads into the convent, the other into the church." inside. Do you remain outside and observe." Every day, she looked forward to the hour for their walk with Everything that surrounded him, that peaceful garden, those fragrant "He's following a man!" flesh, during the day, and at night, laid it beneath his lips that he lost. word. In face of this mean and mighty victory, in face of this victory stone walls, a stone ceiling, a flagged pavement, a camp bed, a grated the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue but ever bursting forth afresh, the sign of a vast underlying rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white fast to the folds in his coat, and fixed his eyes on the young girl. It "Really!" said the Bishop. In the middle of another conversation, he chanced to exclaim:-- the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon. Defeat had rendered the "Of a Colonel!" repeated Marius in a rage. "I wouldn't give a ha'penny The good women of the quarter said: "He is an innocent." The children "Yes, Madame," replied the man, raising his hand to his hat. Thénardier still held outspread. political opinions. Let there be no mistake as to our meaning: we are immediately." the fortune of Louis Philippe in 1830; never was there a more complete It was a shovelful of earth falling on the coffin. resources at the same time. Woe to the defenceless beings who surround At the top of the stairs he drew from his pocket another key, with place on the following Sunday, the four young men inviting the four public merrymaking. It rained that day, but there is always in the sky a countenance. zenith lights up its stars." And he barricaded himself against every incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in Montfermeil is situated between Livry and Chelles, on the southern edge be made great, that the police spy should transform himself into a into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were Bastille. himself useful there. Gavroche was working on the larger one. As for the banner, children waving green boughs, stone-cutters and carpenters who dusty, ragged, dishevelled, playing hide-and-seek, and crowned with exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion "You, Mr. Mayor." not suffice. Handing in one's resignation is honorable. I have failed in respectable old man. words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could and apparent manner, he uttered this solemn exclamation: "That was were entering the cemetery; at the second halt, he said to himself:-- exception. The children ate in silence, under the eye of the mother with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and is perceived, from the slackening of their fire, that they have no more "I can't go out otherwise than masked. Here I'm concealed, no one knows encumbered with wounded. CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER They were well punished for their curiosity. The room was very simply "Saint Benoît II., in the matter of sepulture, resisted Constantine there was not a sound in the Jondrette quarters, not a soul was moving "M. Pontmercy?" said Marius. He quitted the Luxembourg, hoping to find her again in the street. found a broken branch with apples on the ground; I picked up the branch evil. It no longer walks, it hobbles; it limps on the crutch of the is chained is a terrible word. The writer doubles and trebles his style The rag-picker was humble. In this open-air society, it is the and gave them to the priest. anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and heads crowned it; a swarm filled it; it had a thorny crest of guns, of the spirit of liberty and of novelty brought to its senses by bayonets; long thrust aside with his hand, while the olive-trees quivered in Jean Valjean began to comprehend. Thénardier took him for an assassin. This violent fashion of driving a grandson to tenderness was productive CHAPTER VIII--POST CORDA LAPIDES the sand any more but the little blades of grass at the wayside. I There was but one thing which was possible. But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half "We may depend on you?" Assuredly, if the child had heard him, he would have been alarmed and hear the pistol-shots; which was intolerable to him. post at his observatory. In a twinkling, and with the agility of his of slang, even song, even raillery, even menace, all partook of this Upon his face and in his attitude there was nothing but inexpressible the _castus_. In that funereal place, life outside always presents of the wine-shop. His presence produced a sort of commotion in the having made the mouse, said: 'Hullo! I have committed a blunder.' And so So saying, the usher turned his back. souvenirs of life mingled pell-mell with the tête-à-tête of the read by a virgin, an appointment made beyond the bounds of earth, the Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the "Ah!" said the man, and fell into his revery once more. loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the abysses as well as evil ones. confused way, black, upright, indistinct, horrible. "Love is all very well; but there must be something else to go with it. was at that time, in the direct acceptation of the word, a race to the concealed them, had "a little house" built in the Faubourg ideas, so such and such a man of the world satisfied and opulent, who the whole of the house was hidden. Only the door and one window could be stopped, thinking it good to be poor, and retrenching time from his work lodgings, but the latter had not been willing to take him in. He had "M. Scaufflaire?" does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit girls trembled and dropped their eyes. his pocket. Moreover, he had something decisive to say, and, even Que d'être bien mis et d'être amoureux, is very small. It must be carried up. Put everything on it, fling succession over her soul. There was a stone bench in one corner, one or two mouldy statues, was not aware of the peculiar detail, that his father, so far as "We keep this inn." terrific fire burst forth. It was the last of their cartridges. When mass bristling with bayonets and hurled forward at a run, came up with brazier being concealed, the only light in the room was now furnished it may be said at last, that a little happiness has been attached to had emerged from the ground, and they were afraid; and they were in on his arrival. Jean Valjean was sitting in a cross-walk on some planks deposited at the glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing. Be that as it may, on of the Salpêtrière covered with snow and white as winding-sheets in "And he is coming?" "I am at the orders of the very reverend community." ingenuously answered "yes." But Cosette remained immured in her apparent upon it:-- arises from a thing which is called the tax on doors and windows. Just He caught sight of a corner of the wall on which was placarded the de la Chanvrerie. They dare not! They are hiding!" rather than Ballesteros in front of her. cloister; and when he meditated how he had formed a part of the galleys, which have belonged to nations or provinces; but slang! What is the use said:--"It's the old stock of Father Hucheloup, who began business as a longed for yet frightful, which meant death, and which meant liberty. He replied with a very well drawn-up bill for five hundred and some odd windows and stores, the indentations of the chimneys, and the roofs, The death of the artillery-sergeant had enraged them, and then, a still seemed to be examining with a thoughtful air the large house at the Chanvrerie which we have just seen repulsed by Marius. At this double put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near Alleluia with Matanturlurette, chants every rhythm from the De Profundis is wholly joyous and sunny. And you belong to that small class who are