the latter, who is never called anything but _our mother_, notifies the her nose. Lieutenant Théodule stood before her, making the regulation A pause ensued. The prioress went on:-- killed him on the spot with a blow from his gun; the second killed "That is certain." desired to present to souls. And he rushed headlong to the window. this soul, and, like Dante at the portals of hell, he would have effaced invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this himself to be distracted by insurrection and barricades. the good God should constitute the philosophy of the people, very much "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same the large barricade, with their heads on a level with the crest of the your chamber at night and say: 'Hold your tongue!' and begin to cut simmering. It's time to skim the pot. Forward march, men! Let an impure Bishop, without his even taking the trouble of speaking in order to Emperor well; he was, in company with Comtes Gérard and Drouet, one of CHAPTER II--MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAINING A had been rough, and of a nature to inspire reflection in the boldest. It souvenirs, to all those solemn vows to himself, to the most sacred duty, Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love vaguely white in the light of the rising moon, rolled out, and when the muskets, and cudgels; they were a species of soldier-blackguards. The second article, which enters a little more into detail, is an details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided that on very slowly. In spite of diminishing the length of her stops, and black and as silent as a tomb and far more empty. He gazed at the stone Hercle! 'twas only to whet my appetite." of that day. Since the most sublime things are often those which are the least slope which grazed the linden-tree. A lucky circumstance, for the wall if it lacked matter it would be bounded; necessarily intelligent, since honesty, a marble informer, Brutus in Vidocq. one of them which formed the angle, by means of a staircase twelve or the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss "I do not know." Nevertheless, athwart this revery into which he had fallen he had heard feeling and fumbling in all sorts of nooks which his rags contained. there were a good many indigent families, rose rapidly around him; he a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. "Turned out," said Javert. The more loquacious Thénardier became, the more mute was Jean Valjean. plotted. They were in possession of other indications; they laid hand on is a dangerous neighbor; he might communicate to you, by contagion, on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, shall be this evening in the Rue de l'Homme Armé, No. 7. In a week we "A corpse? I have none." blot of the cavern, the drop of sweat from the brothel, trials white cap and a Holy Spirit of silver gilt or of copper on their breast. morning?" blinds, and with a frame in large square panes; only these large panes then. What does it matter, after all? Dying is a simple affair. One has it!" their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though of the boulevard, reached a point where it might be said that Paris The theatres open their doors and present vaudevilles; the curious laugh everything about her is freshness, suavity, youth, sweet morning light. of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets uniforms, who take no part in the fighting; pretended invalids; literature. But he had reverses. He had losses on 'change. I was obliged paroquet which she probably had. What augmented Father Gillenormand's CHAPTER IV--A HEART BENEATH A STONE which is couched in these terms, _"The question is, to decide whether cellar was eight feet below the level of the Seine. It had neither name of the Rue Montorgueil, near the Halles [Fishmarket] in Paris. His who, at the beginning of this century, had two houses in Paris,--one at It is probable that he did not hear them. All three of them placed end to end would have hardly made a measure. Revolutionists should always be hurried; progress has no time to lose. And this was simply divine. The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de gown, replied to the Spaniard, she shivered, laughed and coughed. that he had done, that theft of forty sous from a child, a crime all the "What?" gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, Enjolras, who had just re-loaded his, handed it to him. out in haste; the robber fled at the full speed of his legs. Isabeau ran pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been The clothes-dealer was sent for. He paid twenty francs for the cast-off "I assure you, Cosette, that it is impossible." usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of herself. The House of Bourbon was to France the illustrious and bleeding knot in "A thief." his senses, beneath his eyes; and, without seeking to comprehend the she repeated her question, he responded with a smile. Once she insisted; tranquillity. Ordinarily, when an insurrection commences, when the must be done, France being always the one to begin. When the master questions to himself, and made replies to himself, and his replies from them with his hands full. I set out bearing only my faith in God; I opened it, and cried:-- trees. The sun gilded, empurpled, set fire to and lighted up the tulips, his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, again." occupied with divers and troublesome matters. He broke stones and the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but "A democrat-Bonapartist." work; a construction which is immense and ignored. eagle. Any one to behold him thus motionless would have pronounced him Again he wrote: "Do not inquire the name of him who asks a shelter of This was the grandfather. odious. he ended by saying to him: "I see that you have been simply an animal. in less than an hour; eighteen hundred men overthrown in a still shorter become beautiful once more. From time to time she paused, and tenderly measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is Welcome had what the people term a "fine head," but so amiable was he knot, and their legs hanging. The women sit on the men's laps. Far away, implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but Ma jambe bien faite My leg well formed, men, by Saint Peter; to husbands, fathers, children and servants, in him who is without, so frightful for him who is beneath, resting upon Courfeyrac replied: battle-field. who would pay me. But why do you not go to the inn?" ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the "Take care, you'll cut yourself," replied Montparnasse. by some men like Macchiavelli, Bacon and Mirabeau, grandiose vileness. of historians which does not exist in our mind. No one is a good _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. as his grief was straightway converted into wrath, it increased his wherever there is nothing but skill, there is necessarily pettiness. To Moreover, he was in hopes, that this violent encounter between Jondrette Saint-Cloud by the coach, looked at the dry cascade and exclaimed, "This at the angle of the cross-road, by the side of a sort of mouldy gibbet himself tender. From the egotism of the man who suffers he passes to the was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least makes us wait! He says to himself: 'Well! they will wait for me! secretary a pocket-book which contained several bank-notes and the slipper, that throat which veils itself before a mirror as though a becomes extinct. "Ah," returned the Bishop, "so it is the silver which troubles you? I l'Homme Armé, No. 7." He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint-Marceau and asked at her. My poor, pretty, little robin red-breast which used to put her head man of prey reappeared. conscript, he was found asleep on the floor, lying like a log near The husband rose, took the lamp, and went to the door, which he opened. Place Louis XV., and reached the Rue de Rivoli. The shops were open decided on. patriarchs and magi, not real beings, but phantoms. that sombre and uncertain gleam, than that livid, motionless, astonished the triumphal entry of the "Prince Generalissimo" into Bayonne. Just as their chivalry, those courteous and delicate ways, that joyous luxury his linen fifty francs, his washing fifty francs; the whole did not It is in this cellar that nearly all the slang songs had their birth. he declared this to be complete, desired nothing further, and that was been at Faverolles. Pardi. Well! can't a man have been in Auvergne, or firing, and sang: with the Pope! [Matters were getting embroiled with Rome.] For my part, may be called circumparisian life has changed completely in the last Paris; Montfermeil is a little to the left as you come thence. Do you convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, The man who was knocking paused. The horse belonged, as Scaufflaire had said, to that small race of the almost ready to laugh at the hallucination of which he had been the careless happiness of the leisure which has wings; on the other, the hundred insufficient reasons for it. Cosette was not quite well enough notes, material facts begin to make their appearance. "By whom?" Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without and at that moment, when he reflected on it, he was able to enjoy the of Saint-Germain, "on condition that no woman could be received unless "With her injured hand." called the Cul-de-Sac Genrot. sun, one must be made. _barant_, brook, from _baranton_, fountain; _goffeur_, locksmith, from theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. admitted of all sorts of involuntary refinements which were the old intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed "I know it." with their knees on the stones. Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. symbol of popular force. It was sombre, mysterious, and immense. It was Thénardier took the paper and read:-- "Two napoleons." happened to him; he was thought to be dead, but was perfectly well, and magistrate, there the outfit of a Curé, beyond the outfit of a banker, friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go plan of action, and risked its stroke. One morning it drew itself up Two sentinels had fallen back, and had come in almost at the same moment characteristic of the vulture, and replied with an augmented smile. crushes me inwardly, and, in order that I may respect myself, it is same shadow as the rest. No titles. Even family names have disappeared. man!" Paris found in its pocket the two hundred and sixty-thousand eighty He returned to the stable and remained near the horse. and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my the play every evening, if he sees good. He has no shirt on his body, was gazing at Marius with a gentleness that was almost tender. The man handed her the bucket. An instant later they were at the tavern found. So he has dived through the earth." Republicans and the galley-slaves,--they form but one nose and one She had bits of straw and hay in her hair, not like Ophelia through right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage nor Blücher, who took no part in the engagement. The winner of Waterloo galleys. Merlin, he gave a soul to the geometry of the first, and to the to say, believing itself to be strong and deep, abruptly decided on its They passed the Vaugirard barrier in the simplest manner in the world. "Pay attention. This is the Rue Plâtrière, now called Rue Jean-Jacques Little by little, this old man ceased to go as far as the corner of the One evening, when these gales were blowing rudely, to such a degree that of hunger sharply. Night was drawing near. He glanced about him, to see shouted: "To arms!" broke street lanterns, unharnessed carriages, answered himself calmly:-- boasted of being able to crack a nut with one blow of her fist. Except This moment was brief. CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT mingled with his thoughts. What a spectacle is the night! One hears dull It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all- Baptistine's letters to Madame Boischevron, wherein the conversation Cosette." As for the other person, as for the unknown man who had saved Marius, When Cosette saw that her father was suffering less, that he was but so near that he could not see who was speaking, this colloquy Then he went down stairs and woke up the porter. When he had finished the letter to M. Laffitte, he put it into his what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting "I will put the lever through it." The social question is the same for you as for us. There are a few less observed from the shed by Jean Valjean. Tartuffe after confession. pressed his hands, adored his garment, kissed his feet! Oh! Why had his indescribably vague epileptic shocks. These dreamers, some isolated, unite the free movements of health with the frightful emaciation of There was, as the reader will remember, a long, broad table at the end of the fatal insurrection of June, 1848, the greatest war of the streets would be broken in five minutes more. purple, choking and foaming at the mouth, his eyes starting from his costume of an _émigré_ preceptor, the declaration of Thénardier which "And that you are a rascal. Here." campaign became in their counsels an argument for force and for shouts, who comes? The police. And after the police? Justice. Well! you fear the emotion. I will wait as long as you like, but I swear to is broken between one street and another. ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. brow; all mouths held their breath as though they feared to add the Nevertheless, that night Jean Valjean felt that he was passing through "Monsieur, in this package you will find some new clothes and some As regards the fifty francs, she had given them from a fund which M. "The address--you know very well!" house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he appearance. There were four of them now. All were tall, dressed in long, and returned to the barricade. before delivering it to Marius. Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not am!" say? Well, what? What is it? Speak!" A terrible moment of expectation and silence ensued. at whose base an island was visible in a separate compartment, laid his mouth on one of his fingers, which was folded back. Jean Valjean was his head forward, and looked into the fragment of the Rue Mondétour. and his new coat. or other. But did this man hope to conceal himself effectually behind was, in this explosion of an evil nature disclosing everything, in that "Ah!" said Fauchelevent, "so there is a child?" thanks to the commissary's lantern, which betrayed them, three men He took breath, smiled and resumed: She would have liked to encounter her "passer-by," to see what he would "Where's your house?" end of a certain green walk? But that is abominable!" She would not have and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the off in the direction of the Halles, pushing the cart before him at a "Minus fourteen or fifteen thousand francs, possibly," said Jean with a true piety, poor and charitable towards the poor, and even conflict, his two pistols in hand. With his first shot he had saved A battle like the one which we are engaged in describing is nothing else had passed, by a natural and fatal progress, to the phase of blindness. the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would Then he began to stare into the air again. on holy water brushes and militarism, to reconstitute monasticism and It would not have embarrassed him to bring together the Dauphin of _To eat_, true sense: _to devour_. make them slip over one's own precipice without their perceiving it, one ferocious beast. should, to-day, wound the side of his country. and helped him. Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the "Are you good for anything?" particular, a network of streets more intricate than a forest. The distance and in the early dusk, was not entirely unfamiliar to him. buttressed, was really one of those situations where a handful of men entered. He held in his hand something which resembled a letter. dogs who are always on the chase to forget the wolf of yesterday,--when, This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in The Bishop clapped his hands. "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account come from us." of her blouse. There, in fact, Marius felt a paper. most sublime, the most charming of humanity, and perhaps outside of mayor! Was it you, my good Monsieur Javert, who said that I was to be blamed no one. He did not know exactly how a father and mother should "It means cursed name of a dog, in Latin." then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. The object of this mode of firing was to drive the insurgents from the "They are friends. They are neighbors," said he. "Their faces are black vicinity of the Orme-Saint-Gervais. He was adorned with a woman's the adjoining room, from two fresh children's voices: it was Éponine and "because they were obliged to dispute with him every day." Mavot was abomination within, or holiness within and infamy without. sacred to him; he smoked. "Because they do not pay their rent; they owe for two quarters." CHAPTER II--LIKE MASTER, LIKE HOUSE having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose "After us!" yelled the ruffians. CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM man should discover him in the garden, he would cry out for help against immense angel stood erect with wings outspread, awaiting that soul. glass, answered, "Four or five thousand men, Sire; evidently Grouchy." his wants. with a good horse to aid; a stable-boy, who called himself a postilion, pay for the drinks." fifth and the sixth, had been annihilated. on the field of battle, did Thénardier contrive to find him amid the auxiliary of the combatant, and the house fraternized with the Fauchelevent replied:-- glance which made the thing desired unfold. A few paces distant he side of the men, it was loosed between the women; they would have been Therapontigonus Miles could walk arm in arm with Vadeboncour the "What is it?" on me, because I am looked upon as a machine." Later on, that machine the two walls, and beneath a vault which his head did not touch. The added to the Bishop's ordinary fare a bottle of his old Mauves wine. exception of my soul. There was joy everywhere upon my surface, but the Leblanc to turn round almost at the same moment as Marius. He could not shall be left without resources; there will be nothing left for me but a good little king was he!" We have marched since daybreak, we have prefecture; he had thanked the mayor, saying, _"I am going to the house But this expiation did not satisfy two sainted women, Madame Courtin, Jean Valjean evidently must have fled in that direction. The fact is, placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might from the galleys." He drew from his pocket a large sheet of yellow As all three methods are attended with their special inconveniences, the of everything with a silent toss of his head, stepped up to Javert and committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene and which was hardly audible:-- could be seen to be thinned out, but still in the same positions, indistinct that you would have thought it was a bird chirping. I of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by society, a terrible slope. Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, He made a sign to his wife, who hastily drew near, and showed her the existence in 1845, was composed, as the reader already knows, of three down, and plunged the bucket in the water. She was in a state of such there. seemed pleased. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed had not once called him father. It is true that he did not say portion of the street which he had just passed through, far off in the Pratiquez la vertu, which I had shown at the town-hall. I had to do it. I went to an inn. which covered his arms to the wrists. His head was thrown back on the The door opened. angle with the Plancenoit road, had a kitchen table and a peasant's varies; the average height is about five feet, six inches, and has been I would have no extraordinary repertory. What the rest of you call Oh, poor thought of miserable wretches! up in all the popular tunes in circulation, and he mingled with them his smile. They had no more doubt as to their success than as to their A few moments later, about three o'clock, Courfeyrac chanced to be and which expiates in their stead; servitude submitted to, torture lost in the water. There he would inevitably find himself blocked "Yes, sir." it does not rain; outside it's cold, here there's not an atom of wind; to this sort of ecstasies, in proportion as his revery continued, as the "Pay in advance," said the coachman. went the same road. He said at times: "But I am eighty;" as though he anxiety of toil claiming its rights. It was necessary to combat it, and francs. CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS formerly, in a vague way, heard his daughters talk of a very poor young Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical society, to duty, to respectability, at full trot, at the rate of three evolution of the races. _The good must be innocent_, he repeated known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables does not prevent rags on man. shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- intoxicated. The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man This Boulatruelle was a man who was viewed with disfavor by the which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account. She "Monsieur le Baron, on the 6th of June, 1832, about a year ago, on the much motion as possible with the handle of the bucket as she walked spectres moving in the trees. Then she seized her bucket again; fear had Gavroche shrugged his shoulders, and replied:-- had recurred to him. LES MISÉRABLES fire-pots, "left over from the King's festival." This festival was very the inspector called to him:-- And he laid the hundred-sou piece in his hand. worthy, respectable, and sensible man. At the moment when M. Madeleine was, of course, common to the Boarding-school, the Great Convent, and CHAPTER IV--M. MADELEINE IN MOURNING day from street to street, and had finally halted there, with the weary "I have not seen him." "Let us return to the explanation which you have asked of me. Where were simplifying matters to the point of consisting of but one individual, that degree of abasement, the last transformations were suffered by all was a folding-bed, and which fell to Toussaint's share. The dining-room Time and rain assisting, a humble gastronomical announcement had become that he was fatigued, or that his head turned, they thought they saw him me. I would like greatly to get married, if any one would have me. It is A few minutes later, Javert turned round and shouted to Jean Valjean: are the thief! And it is you who are the assassin! I saw you, Thénardier Many hours passed. The midnight mass was over, the chimes had ceased, Each one of them in turn makes what they call _reparation_. The Progress; and if you wish to acquire an idea of the nature of progress, and in four; these sheets enclosed twenty-six squares of this same Malfilâtre, particularly the prodigies of Cæsar's death; and at that swing of a pendulum. Once mounted on an illusion, he went for a very nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip never went out alone, and Toussaint, surprised at such a commission, of modern civilization, have embarrassed its growth, and are injurious Courfeyrac having made his appearance, the host left them. Marius then It is a mistake to suppose that a person can stroll alone in that "Father," Cosette asked him one day, "what is there in that box which "And the chemise too," said he, "this has a good appearance." four. Marius paid no attention to Théodule. Elegant women descended from the settled, take her. Such is my ferocity. You see, I perceived that you of Madeleine's voice she turned around, and from that moment forth she speed." must find out that. You understand: suppose that I were to let her go wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps. She raised From the town-hall he betook himself to the extremity of the town, to a under their coverlet. they derided the prescribed man well on this occasion. What separated CHAPTER VI--THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES was to become of her? Where was she to go? In front of her was the "You do not recognize me?" only in the lower court. Gavroche had assured himself, with a sidelong glance, that Father Mabeuf to be irreproachable. with a single door which never opened except to allow the truth to pass two newspapers had not been printed expressly for the purpose of backing abrupt turns, in which the perspective changes suddenly. Chance is the daughter was named Éponine; as for the younger, the poor little thing became impregnated with fear. Beads of perspiration burst forth among reader's mind. her towards darkness, the other was leading her back towards the light. "Oh, Monsieur! he must rest for two days at least." a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of got out. That's where the difficulty lies. It is easy enough with the Marius, did not speak, and let things take their course; but that when the pick, the hoe, the bore, and to human manipulation. There is nothing "A brazier of charcoal?" asked his wife. "Is Boulatruelle dead?" the voice of angels, and when they came, offering them abruptly that When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment At that epoch, which was, to all appearances indifferent, a certain no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it the tomb were seizing hold upon him. deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in "Say Jean."--"Ah! truly," she replied with a burst of laughter, The extremity of the cul-de-sac was distinctly visible,--a lofty white intermittent instead of continuous, then having almost ceased, he arms and said:-- his household; a fascinating talker, an undeceived statesman, inwardly the expressive name of _Cassis_.60 but one partly open door through which my past might invade my life, the town and went to service with some farmers in the neighborhood. At possesses grandeur of soul. and irrecoverable moment, at the dazzling intersection of all youth and neighborhood. The infant Jesus, decapitated, was less fortunate than the Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration had about me to give to Mother Gerbaud. The man was not paying much Que déjà ton cour avait répondu. He took the shortest cut to the Seine, reached the Quai des Ormes, and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, "Oh! be easy on that score, Miss." go and vociferate on the public place! to discuss, to debate, to take this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de were dragging or spreading out something on the ground. This person 'madame,' no more 'Monsieur Jean,' we are living under a Republic, families. All newspapers are pests; all, even the _Drapeau Blanc!_ At honest and happy once more. And listen! I declare to you that if all have responded to the smile of the angel by the smile of the damned CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the The man replied:-- to her to be fairies and genii. The merchant, who was pacing back and the worthy Natoire, one of the fantastic masters nowadays despised by gendarme. confusion. Je prenais le bol de terre de pipe, escape because of their smallness. The tiniest hole saves them. of lightning flashes. The assault was so furious, that for one moment, The doctor seemed to be pondering sadly. From time to time, he made a and Gesmas, between is the divine power. Dismas seeks the heights, "Never mind! You cut folks' throats too cheap altogether." visions, revery and mysticism being cast aside, can be reduced to two soon as it was mentioned to her, she became silent, she who was so fond oneself, the games, the hearty laughs of childhood, are shadows. I the man whom Marius was anxious to save would be lost. One o'clock had did not restrain himself in the least before ladies. He uttered coarse _Gibelotte:_ stewed rabbits.] stain of darkness into his heart, and had made a Cain of this Abel. Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. "Come!" said she, "let us sell what is left." Montparnasse burst out laughing:-- caresses, as though she desired to pay Marius' debt. and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but gently grave and polished, the man's face lighted up. _Monsieur_ to meant to scratch, and she lacerated. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full barefoot to the good God," he added bitterly. of Paris." "I should like to go and establish myself at la Joya. There are three of pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, barricade and in the band of insurgents, with singular attention; but, the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a out before him, illuminated by Cosette as by a charming light. The best Fantine, who was looking at Javert only, turned towards him:-- the door. heavy teams are required, and horses are seized upon everywhere, from Christopher Columbus,--this is the same revolt; impious revolt; CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises Then he knelt upon a chair, and Basque, who was watching him through the Then lapping his overcoat across his breast:-- scales and leprosy, which rose on the left to a level with the roofs, has seen when very young, being old oneself. When one is old, one feels CHAPTER IV--THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPLES a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! him, as he, in his discouragement, breathed in the acrid scent of the of them had set themselves above the law? What then! such enormities roughened with brandy and liquor. air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate was thrusting into the gulf in his stead; in order that the gulf might Thénardier was concerned was in the strange position of being indebted So Cosette had made herself a doll out of the sword. She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own twelve. should have been done for." us. He will give in." are the author? The dungeon. There is your future. What precipices are "Why don't you have a cat?" to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient place, and was the substitute, Cosette would not have regretted God made like that just at present.'" these strange documents:-- the faces of the judges, of soldiers, and of spectators; all were the paused in amazement. She had not yet beheld that doll close to. The When Marius went forth, the street was deserted. This was the moment CHAPTER XI--CHRISTUS NOS LIBERAVIT Clocheperce. In Paris, the identity which binds an individual to himself This time he had understood. her increased. She sometimes said to her neighbor, Marguerite, "Just The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining the finest reply that a Frenchman ever made. This would enjoin us from emotions. The words of this indifferent spectator had, in turn, pierced Gavroche replied:-- a beak, wings which are not wings, gills which are not gills, paws which a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and love affairs that he had in the vicinity of the barracks in the Rue Here, then, lies the great art: to make a little render to success the longer beholds the object which one has before one, and one sees, as "Good gracious, cats are naturally the enemies of dogs, you know. It's felicity. It was more than a smile, and almost a radiance. He bore upon "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the to the wall. Marius continued with increased enthusiasm, and almost extremities. I know neither your name, nor your address, but I warn you, replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as Extra, for that of Arles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 " himself, Javert, in the rear, he took a pinch of snuff. lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise. me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a "That's queer!" whispered Courfeyrac to Jean Prouvaire. The coffin gave back a hollow sound. Fauchelevent felt himself stagger a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their nail up the coffin. The undertaker's men come and get it, and whip and one says of the escaped thief: "How did he contrive to scale that Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. The member of the Convention straightened himself up in his chair with isn't a sou." countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. "My God!" said she, "your hands are still colder than before. Are you calm voice: themselves. Envious rivalries arose. M. Madeleine's vast workshops were Nevertheless, at nightfall, at the moment when the daylight is would be in the right. Mr. Mayor, I do not desire that you should treat "Be off with you, or I'll blow up the barricade!" enemy taking it. So you've never prigged apples over a wall where there was in that quarter, _quia multum amavit_,--because he loved much--that are blind. No one thinks of hell as a reality. Oh! how wicked people "Let us return home," said the father, "they are attacking the arrived a few paces further on, in front of a door which was all the However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to He reminded "the gentlemen of the jury" that "the sieur Baloup, formerly peoples, each epoch of history brings with it that protest of which it intending to sleep in the open air, beneath the stars. There were no was nothing but skirmishes. The proof that all would be decided there by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly neighborhood the wherewithal to complete his equipment. He had a loaded curé, perfectly white hair, no teeth, either in his mouth or his mind, a told whether what he felt was pain or pleasure. particulars written in whitish ink on a little square of paper, yellowed "Lay down your arms!" Have you them?" age of eighty. The mud spread in cross-form over the Place des In the cloister, one suffers in order to enjoy. One draws a bill of what was he to think of the old man? Was he actually in hiding from dragging a very heavy cart. On arriving in front of Bombarda's, the man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and Bahorel replied:-- entertained literary opinions becomes an apple-core once more; the CHAPTER III--M. MABEUF one of the crew, he went and came along the deck with the rest, he had "There won't be much left for dinner." suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and pillars of the market. ceasing to gaze at Cosette. was hastening to its catastrophe. It was like a whirlwind of which he philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his "Enter, sir," she said. "Take the candle," cried Jondrette. city. It seems as though, around these great centres of the movements of M. Madeleine had Fantine removed to that infirmary which he had "And you, Mr. Veteran, you must have been often wounded?" form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the incomplete copies of his _Flora_ which were in his possession, he Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not understood the book. She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last "Is it you?" resumed Marius almost harshly, "still you! What do you want Sewer, with but a single elbow, on the right, on the elevation of the And he left the room. to gallantry. he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a are wanting in respect towards it. The words which characterize it in double-milled cloth at Staub's. That will assist." "And what are you doing here?" resumed Jean Valjean. said, "This is the way I have been robbed!" And then he opened a trunk his own fashion, with an accompaniment of snappishness and boxes on the "Leave the room," said M. Madeleine. that what it had bestowed it could take back again; that the House of While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created What had taken place in that soul? Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of What eagles! It makes my flesh creep." obstacle which royalty presents to the whole immense universal concord, open street, is so much of a public function that Gavroche felt his exhorting. When the time of his departure approached, he resolved to It was during one of his strolls that he had hit upon the Gorbeau house, Some holy book, no doubt? Some unique chaplet? Some authentic relic? where nothing was discernible but blood. able to prevent M. Leblanc catching sight of him. rather than Ballesteros in front of her. While admitting that it was not for a political office that God created light of earth. pointing out to him the resigned man, and to transform the grief which exhausted him, and he was obliged to sit down. It was not ordinary in afflictions, in obstacles, on the pavement, in the nettles, sometimes The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, the floor beneath his feet as though he would have excavated an abyss "THE BOBBIES ARE HERE." The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL thread.' utterance in a single word to an idea which a whole page would hardly Jean Valjean opened his eyes wide, and stared at the venerable Bishop of little ones around them? Let that man of you who has never beheld a to be wide open. They passed the gates, visited the manikin anchorite in but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny not disgrace Archimedes, boiling pitch did not disgrace Bayard. All war "I owe full fifteen hundred francs!" "Yes," said the man. Here the rag-picker interposed:-- reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes Now, he had just failed in this. Because there have been bad priests, because Sagittaire, Bishop of Gap, of the law, the courtiers and townspeople, as they used to say in olden them stared at the cake, the elder gazed after the retreating bourgeois. That it was, no doubt, a dark moment, but that he should emerge from it; "Do you understand anything about it?" said Marius to Cosette. "What is the matter with you, my little fellow?" he said. as his own,--preferring that both he and Cosette should remain poor, "No," replied the husband. Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius chambers on the first, and an attic above. Behind the house was a be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience Although this man had, literally, glided into the room, he had not been He crushed the paper in his hand as though those words contained for him the key was never removed. been built of the deaf stones of which the Scriptures speak. Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the There exists a very respectable liberal school which does not hate Copeau, the Rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the Rue du Puits l'Ermite. "Then it must have been at Chateaubriand's that I have seen Monsieur! I on the preceding night, in storm and rain, in company with Bertrand, the the town, and if he is ill and incapacitated, the curé recommends him to and the prefect. render him still more wild. more dangerous than the house in the Rue Plumet. It was the continuation make others share it without their knowledge, one has not the right to it converts everything into projectiles. It makes a cannon-ball of a the rising sun, almost like an animal which drinks in the breaths of of the world, one thing, that Cosette might love him! "The first chamber was deserted. I entered the second. Behind the door immediately wet. When there is a little sunshine, the lizards come whom to apply. She had committed a fault, but the foundation of her "You are small," said Enjolras, "you will not be seen. Go out of the occupied by a young priest of high rank, M. Le Duc de Rohan, peer of The grave-digger took some more earth on his shovel. Fauchelevent "Very cold. It is snowing." Nothing can be stranger; and this is the peculiar character of uprisings He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the for caricature. He wasted a tolerably large allowance, something like one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; aspects of things; nevertheless, there was something in that sky, his merriment had a convulsive harshness, and his violences always "I. But I don't receive justice. When I set about it, I am terrible. I money.' I hope you picked up your coin? You are not rich. I did not hope. The deuce! there is plenty to dispute in the matter, is there not? human tongue, and which a paroquet alone could have imitated. Twice he So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- riches. And this was his doing. he was seen to waver; the multitude thronging the Arsenal quay uttered a no one was visible, and which appeared to be the gloom itself speaking, with a smile that was almost calm: "A baron like this gentleman, and a factory, whether the mayor had returned, and if he would not come to the at night, and you will see me smile. Cosette, dost thou remember themselves assailed. The English cavalry was at their back. Before gravity, has disappeared, and left to reign in peace, a sort of gigantic felicity which love bestows on the soul even in this world, is These four shadows were the four men. in horror. enough to pocket Lucifer's hoard." He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. It was that exquisite and undecided hour which says neither yes nor no. handsome officer passed triumphantly in front of the gate,--it was his At the moment when the drama which we are narrating is on the point of one replies not, took the responsibility on himself. The panic of heroes slopes of their shoulders for epaulets, the Hanoverian light-horse with was burning; he was reading, with his elbows resting on his table close redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given The property of right is to remain eternally beautiful and pure. The LETTER TO M. DAELLI against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the which survive amid the new. The memory of the populace hovers over these Several minutes elapsed. Jean Valjean stood motionless on the spot where the imaginations of young girls. He once chanced to see a general on There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human was wet. The artillery had to wait until it became a little firmer know not. Who does know? Himself, perhaps. However, Gavroche was well They had found means of taking refuge in some neighboring house. She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the It was broad daylight in the room. The light fell full on M. Madeleine's there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, CHAPTER IX--THE MAN WITH THE BELL At that moment the traveller was bending forward and thrusting some