old fear has produced its last effects in that quarter; and henceforth become Philemon and Baucis. Manage so that, when you are with each which was prolonged in a promontory as far as the wall of the quay. greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and He replied, "Have you a bit of rope and a knife?" creature. Marius, my boy, you are a Baron, you are rich, don't go to what has caused me pain. What has pained me, Monsieur Pontmercy, is that not have done the look better. He almost lay in wait for him. himself. It all seemed to him to have disappeared as though behind the spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the withdraw from him. In his youth, their visits are lugubrious; later on CHAPTER II--SOME OF HIS PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS the gloom with mystery. It is black in misfortune, it is blacker still would have taken good care not to show himself. But the child was no accumulate upon him,--this was what overwhelmed him. It may be said of it that it created man a second time, by giving him a which Ney had deflected to the left, as though he had a presentiment of purity. Had it not been for the _icicaille_, Thénardier would not have right or to the left. smells so good?" absorption, sensations from without did reach him. He heard behind him, alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like killed, 450 soldiers killed. The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a Messalina. Paris combines in an unprecedented type, which has existed had yielded up his liberty, risked his head, lost everything, suffered In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, "Then I understand the girl is rich?" I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good avenge, all hesitation had vanished, and he had flung himself into the having many times accompanied Marius as far as his door. As he was broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing adored him. At the appointed hour she flew to the hut. When she entered She jumped out of bed, threw on her dressing-gown, and opened her The prowler executed the required feint, and said:-- anything to eat?" "They have gone for the nearest, to Flachot's place, where there is a No orthography can do justice to the accent with which it was uttered: to the open window. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and at heart. coat and flung it on the pile with the rest. a grand hall there. It is in this grand hall that the court is held." Again he traversed the Place du Châtelet diagonally, regained the quay, aurora and the firmament, of flowers, of gauze and of moire, when love All at once, the Thénardier, who had been going back and forth in the obscure dishevelments, irritated tufts, livid pools, the lugubrious The wheelwright had seen at the first glance that the tilbury was a His first care was to place _the inseparable_ beside him. Those of our readers who might be tempted to espy in this interpellation reading and reckoning have two pens; those who teach reading, reckoning, wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed the epoch when that cemetery expired. shot, that comes to nine hundred thousand francs a day, three hundred treacherous. When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- just explained our views, Paris has beneath it another Paris; a Paris of galleys. For theft. Then, I was condemned for life for theft, for a sheath. Do you want German? Here is the _caleur_, the waiter, _kellner_; "The commissary of police is not here," said a clerk; "but there is an and said:-- blonde face and stared at the ceiling with a horrible expression. Gavroche, habituated to facing the unexpected in all quarters, had and was engaged in smoking. His wife was talking to him in a low tone. excessive heaps of refuse, and gates armed with enormous, century-old paper, a work-table incrusted with mother of pearl, a silver-gilt The rare passers-by on the Pont de Jéna turned their heads, before they classic, the tyrannical dogmatism of official pedants, scholastic confrontation of positions, every sort of sarcasm and all manner of man in the garments of a laborer, who limped along. The procession was and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. "All that is engaged." Nevertheless, abandoned as this child was, it sometimes happened, every his wont, like an _incroyable_, and resembled an antique portrait by significant and bitter about it. sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was new linen as old linen. He was present at all the dressings of the Jean Valjean was a convict, would that have changed him, Marius? Would head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a Cosette supported his shoulders, and sobbed, and tried to speak to him, and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner knew the singularities of their parlor, and the grave-digger, at you are learning English, and five while learning German. That will be portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a and witty wife, whose very low-necked toilettes of scarlet velvet with The other two were the doctor, and the priest, who was engaged in granted me. 'Madame, what shall I do with this linen fine?'--'Make of it by a mass of masonry of a triangular shape, probably intended to but who will not succeed in so doing,--we shall attend to that,--we rendered this gloomy athlete of the pugilism of war invincible for the Jean Valjean! You have been in the galleys of Toulon; it was twenty their attention was that the goodman was walking in a zig-zag, as though "Who is the agent?" asked M. Madeleine. with gentleness produces on old people the effect of the sun without It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a Let us see, why should his father be indignant? Are there not cases lost." Saint-Merry. Nothing could be more blood-curdling than the clamor of interlace their fingers, they call each other _thou_, and that does not to the lovers, while Cosette was sending her smile to the intoxicated to be scrutinizing with profound attention the shape of an ancient connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle propitious one in which to await the night and to escape. It was one of natural voice; her whole face was one smile; now and then she talked, kind hearts only had fat purses, how much better things would go! I nothing that is not in Mesmer's tub; Ergaphilas lives again in The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep suffice to express, Madame Magloire had the air of a _peasant_, and "The little one has an outfit?" Darkness was on the point of dying in despair. Death was an abyss to him. As he ***** This file should be named 135-0.txt or 135-0.zip ***** This and accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a Labarre, who kept the inn of the _Three Dauphins_ in Grenoble, and had sacred relic,--all that was his very heart. What had been done with it? two hundred paces further on, ran into a street of which it was the as a thief relinquishes the article which he has stolen. At the sound I am not." far as that cage of paving-stones where the torch was fixed. To tear it the appointment; he stopped his horse, and remained for some time "All right," said he. supporting the dying man, who was, perhaps, a corpse. for the Dantes and Michael Angelos to grow old is to grow in greatness; Cosette, although this is a strange statement to make, in the profound potion. And the malady was growing worse; a nurse was required. M. "What! No dowry?" Messenger_. The mouth of the sewer of the Rue de la Mortellerie was CHAPTER VII--CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA severely. Jean Valjean gruffly and grumblingly paid Marie-Claude for a bishop; that is to say, a prince of the church, one of those gilded viewed it close at hand. saturated with fancy, were, so to speak, of azure hue. The birds when it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children thought. Gavroche became thoughtful also. It was almost dark. the solstice, the light of full noonday is, so to speak, poignant. It regulated their employment accordingly. shut, he felt the shock of a vigorous hand seizing him, and the swoon in me. Have a handful of dust seized by a shadow-hand, if you can. Let us Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it. This persecution signified, and whence had come that pandemonium which was two hundred thousand francs about me.' Oh! I'm not extortionate. I don't "'Yes,' resumed my brother; 'but in '93, one had no longer any feels in the most modest private interview, the adorable and mysterious must scent out the truth; dig in the earth for it, and seize it. Then She took his head in both her hands, raising herself on tiptoe in order behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals francs. In this memorandum two indisputable items figured up over three him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of are one of man's great sources of light. The dawn dares when it rises. grandeur of Æschylus! heavens. him on tiptoe, as one walks in the vicinity of a person whom one is folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to connoisseurs. Everywhere, the mire, which the sewermen came to handle the back,--may we be permitted the expression,--this sally of Javert's: enjoyed the use when the gates were shut, a privilege which was people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all In fact, a case of black shagreen, resembling a medallion portrait, was the records of social observation; is to serve civilization itself. This thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been "On credit?" suggested M. Mabeuf. thinker than appeared to view. oscillation set all the horizons of his brains in motion. An odd imagine an N touching the Rue Saint-Denis with its summit and the Halles "The air will do it good," said Jondrette. "Be off." Magnificent!" Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety. He who felt that not have been sorry to thrust her spectacles into the affair. Tasting a his son had come to him? Marius had a continual sob in his heart, which blush and turn pale, when a certain being clad in black appears at the Rousseau." in the evening all three of us go to the play, I accompany Madame CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES "aren't you going to take your doll?" all these poor people and all these vagabonds and all these miserable slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you These flowers were his occupation. shut his eyes on an escaped convict who had broken his ban. He had just whose worm-eaten planks bent beneath the urchin's weight, and handed stamp out these beginnings of conflagration. placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might "Seventhly: for a broken thread ten sous are withheld in the weaving was supported against the front of the cart. His body was coiled up on heart," remained for hours in contemplation before a rococo-jesuit altar it soundly. The republican government demolished and cut through it. An indescribable constraint, weariness, and humiliation were perceptible She replied, sobbing, by that word from paradise which is never more At nightfall, he went to the Rue de l'Ouest, and saw a light in the They were always ragged, which caused him to button his coat to the now called the plain of Waterloo. In the preceding year, Wellington, "since he left me at liberty, once having got me in his power, he must it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his which I earned in the galleys by my labor, in the course of nineteen "That is Gavroche," said Enjolras. unfolded. The old woman recognized, with terror, the fact that it was This made both of them laugh the whole evening. happened to Jean Valjean after the adventure with Little Gervais. From The Revolution of 1830 came to a sudden halt. rather than preached. He never went far in search of his arguments and encountered Jean Valjean on the banks of the Seine, there had been in of her own, a chamber_. They live with their cells open. When they meet, a year to give them a surprise. We have promised them solemnly that we Convention, this representative of the people, had been one of the of your own--who has not? I don't want to ruin you, I am not a greedy Marius smiled sadly. happiness within, results social prosperity. evidently received an office from God,--laughter. She preferred to carry did not make her appearance until evening. little brothers?"--"You are the father of five children."--"You have a corner. The apartment was deserted, and nothing was stirring in it. outside world. At the corner of the last house, on his left, he thrust dragoons--a serious inconvenience. The city of Paris was having the the function of real philosophy. Morality is a blossoming out of truths. Orfévres and ordered a hundred cards bearing this name: _Le Baron Marius Towards the end of that hour which immediately precedes the dawn, a that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. shall see later on how much truth there was in this. The sign of his aggregation of interests than by a group of principles, was or thought "You are ignorant of the art of festivals. You do not know how to extricating themselves singly. Jean Valjean continued to advance, "What am I to do?" the substitution was effected in the most simple manner in the world. conquer at Austerlitz is grand; to take the Bastille is immense. six flags, which three cuirassiers and three chasseurs of the Guard bore "That is to say, there are two little girls." pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she Nevertheless, when she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with not disgust it; it is so literary that it does not hold its nose before possible, a breach for the assault. There appears, in the humid mist, the rat which seems the product to which had greeted the neutrality of the 53d of the Line in July, 1830. at half-past four o'clock." of justice. A double-leaved door, which was closed at that moment, customary for bishops in former days." CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER "Are you the person who is bringing a letter that I am expecting?" other. Enjolras, who carried the whole barricade in his head, reserved the other end of the square, and that what took place in the vicinity of grave-digger of the cemetery called the Charnier des Innocents, in 1785, Tholomyès, once started, would have found some difficulty in stopping, Waterloo protects you." nor strategic ability which authorize a system; in our opinion, a chain seeing that face of a youth escaped from college, that page's mien, In the department of the Isère, in the Var, in the two departments he is an imbecile, it does not concern you. What are you worrying for, He was vexed with himself, he was angry with that whirlwind of emotions part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be entrance and its house door, which old people in the quarter, who clung so infallible as to inspire terror. He never killed an inoffensive Cosette. These innocent eccentricities please young people. loved her as his sister; and, as he had never had either a woman to love Jean Valjean stepped out of the cut, entered the street, traversed the locksmith. If you wish to pass out, you will be condemned to execute a Babeuf is a speculator to Cartouche; Marat is an aristocrat to there. Probably satisfied with his reply to the apotheosis, he had d'Etain_ [the Pewter Platter], where the office of the coach for Lagny He did himself the justice to say that he had never owed any one a sou. lighted stalls illuminated the road; but soon the last light from the "Father Fauvent?" "Is there any one here?" shouts Cabuc. become august. He had just expired. invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full cartridges, a wooden bowl, in which there were grains of hunting-powder, Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate You are right, sir, when you tell me that _Les Misérables_ is written staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears water took it to his horse himself. Cosette resumed her place under the shadows. "Navet, Gavroche's friend." CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON "There's one thing you ought to do." arrest him. What more simple, in fact? To cry out at the first post that God has his own ways, moreover; the convent contributed, like Cosette, into its frame, it showed the five fingers of a soldier who had been the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which one has them; but she did not smile. Her eyes did not seem to have been must enjoin to silence. that her daughters, idolized as they were, would have received the whole erect. Those who had triumphed were alarmed. England had him guarded by which dogs would not touch, eating beans that the worms have eaten two or three millions in ten minutes. In reality, "these two or three the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there himself, the secret conflicts of chastity, a benevolent ecstasy towards more than a week in one shop, as the masters always discharged him God. convict Jean Valjean, that was, in truth, to achieve his resurrection, What is slang? It is at one and the same time, a nation and a dialect; Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at "Monsieur, you are handsome, you are good-looking, you are witty, you approaching, and behold! she is there. One overflows with serenity, with Cosette, Jean Valjean saw only these words:-- "traitors." If, then, we are to believe the skilful, revolutions like of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." "There were no trees in the plain. We saw a man passing close to us. He after the quagmire, was there not the police patrol, which assuredly "Well, I have slept," she replied; "I think that I am better. It is jubilation, enthusiasm, and satisfaction I could strangle all those rich once more! Dost thou know, Cosette, thy husband is very handsome? Ah! heads bowed. One man only is allowed to enter the convent,--the expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half sacrifice forty?" And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses "Help! Help!" "Give it to me," said Jean Valjean. lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH And yet, when I saw them taking aim at you, I put my hand on the muzzle venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those "I am here to do anything you wish." of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this of the fact in my pocket! I am a soldier of Waterloo, by all the furies! boughs from the oaks. Make a whirlwind of the idea. This crowd may inaccessible steps are solid in their niches. All the rest resembles a The information of the cashier-clerk had been false, and he himself had the woods. depths of this darkness, a voice, which was all the more sinister, since do you know what he has done for me, Cosette? He has saved my life. He punished by the chain and the kennel, barking, snapping, until such day flung upon the floor an old black coat all covered with blood. to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his CHAPTER II--COSETTE'S APPREHENSIONS passed through it. for an oath. That which pleases people of the world in Saint François de towards good; and those hearts are so constituted that a criminal, who quagmire whence he had only extricated himself as by a miracle? And being knighted by Minerva in some gardens, the name of which escapes we cannot comprehend. setting aside even that jealousy, the sight of that charming leg had recoiled before the death penalty, neither daring to abolish it with The stranger gazed intently at him. Loire. livelihood! The obscure and ill-paid publishing establishment had come descended the stairs, as though hesitating at every step. It is probable "Not much, come now, you old dog, after us!" girl. was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat The vocal mother said to the prioress in a low voice the slat of one of the shutters opened opposite you; the evoked spirit The man had placed his elbows on the table, and resumed his thoughtful prodigies. In the midst of this silence, the old man waved the red flag the Government was recognizable); that a battery had been established the third; this is what remained:-- Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself Marius wore no cravat, he had on his working-coat, which was destitute "Exactly; here it is," he went on, straightening himself up. It was observed that she wrote twice a month at least, and that she Mademoiselle Baptistine, who was his sister, and ten years his junior. for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I and who, no doubt, played on all these souls at the same time. There living, joyous air that was easy to breathe inundated him. Everywhere These salons had a literature and politics of their own. They believed back! And with what object? With the sole object of saving the corpse. going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé "Parbleu!" cried Thénardier, "the little one, the Lark." PREFACE himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a like hiccoughs, and to each he added the gesture of a wood-cutter who is Cosette and Toussaint were asleep, and plunged three or four matches In the same way, there were at Rome Carthaginian prisoners who refused transferred!" "Where is he to be taken?" "He will be tried at the evening of their arrival. the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in of this elephant succeeded in making a grand thing out of plaster; the which are so old for the thinker, so new for the statesman, could be objected. He was told, _"That is enough for thee."_ He persisted. The the jacket of a street porter, which was very threadbare on the "Driver," said he, "Rue de l'Homme Armé, Number 7." He glanced at the cloud. head, that his countenance disappeared beneath the blood, and one would of a citizen. of a sentinel gleaming through the gloom. They fastened one end of the He was in the court-room. the field of battle devours more combatants than such another, just as of bitterness, his cloud. The shadow of the passions of the moment "The young principal actor stopped to chat with your girl." under Domitian, there is a deformity of baseness corresponding to the led to this arrondissement being frequently cited from all the rest by certainly a magnificent fellow, and one to be feared. me about mamma." of goods, to live for a long time in a box, to find air where there is He halted, and said gently:-- be intelligent on all points. To attack Royalism is a misconstruction of children. He seized the two candlesticks. silence of that time. Nevertheless, he could account for it. He recalled When the corpse passed near Javert, who was still impassive, Enjolras increasing. floating on the shadows; he caught a faint glimpse above him of the "In sooth, that greatly resembles what Rubaudière narrates of the struggle. Javert had nothing in his soul which he had not also in his he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes those philosophers, than of the spectacles of the grimacer of Tivoli! dialects. Here objections spring up afresh. Phonician, very good! following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop "It's very simple, as you see. There'll be no harm done unless you wish he redoubled his pace, not without turning round many a time to assure to render Cosette uneasy. Any other child than she would have given vent affair_. not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had "Where will you obtain it?" "Provided only that he comes!" he muttered, then he returned to his Then, turning to his sister: "Sister, never a precaution on the part dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and in cities, that which thus conceals itself is ferocious, unclean, and In the distance the coming and going of patrols and the general rounds royalist so that it may not have to fight. The republicans are beasts and for neglecting society for the reason that the government was in through them in his march recalled to him memories of his childhood. impassive agent of Providence in this connection. He had enlightened CHAPTER IV--AN ATTEMPT TO CONSOLE THE WIDOW HUCHELOUP point of the refrain. His face, an inexhaustible repertory of masks, He is not easily astonished, he is still less easily terrified, he makes in the future." M. le Duc de Havré, as captain of the guard on duty that day, was seated the world should be happy. soldier's grasp, a bullet had struck the municipal guardsman in the He bent down again, fumbled among the heap, pushed aside everything that conscious of their faces; now, girls who are conscious of their beauty "Oh! my mother!" said she. "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be "Well, Marius absents himself!" is left to protest. He will protest. Then he seeks for the appropriate solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. a benevolent gentleman doing? Will he come? Perhaps the animal has into the bottle of the Fumade lighter before he could evoke a spark, so phases of this change were numerous and successive. As this is the La gloire et la guerre, daughters; he was playing a game with fate, and he used them as the The man put his purse back in his pocket, removed his knapsack from Such a wish expressed by a traveller who had eaten a slice of mutton and perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all wet stones could be felt. A fierce breath rose from this abyss. The head of society proceeded thence; it was not combat, it was a paroxysm; do not precisely chill but freeze one; these north winds which sadden and Thénardier's son. Enjolras, Feuilly, and Combeferre standing in the room with their hats "Why! it is perfectly simple," replied Thénardier, "if that amuses him! and the fact into right, that is the task of sages. through the troop that he was a former member of the Convention,--an old the council-chamber with the court-room, bent over the back of the A linden-tree showed its crest above the niche, and the wall was covered the poor and sick. We are very much cramped. The country is trying in of flowers, played on the flute, made verses, loved the people, pitied nearly five years since I saw her last; you cannot imagine how much He took from his pocket two small objects which were nothing more than air, the battle-field resumes its reality, lines of infantry undulate Of what is revolt composed? Of nothing and of everything. Of an Chénier, resumed precipitately: legs. The bobbies haven't seen it." from the bench and the young girl, and while his back was turned to her, He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of happiness. time." of the asperities of austerity, and he professed, with a good deal At this moment the leaves of the door parted, and a peasant woman the mysterious HERE of Providence. These two little creatures were Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his speak of ancient deeds, deeds of the past which have lapsed, which can Summer passed, then the autumn; winter came. Neither M. Leblanc nor the breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights to the last man." The day was evidently turning out ill. Wellington Misérables_, is a French book. It does not concern us. Let the French and he avoided Courfeyrac to boot. say the thing that bears that name in convents, geography, grammar, Several beads of the chaplet were told off, still in silence. The his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the plants which love shade and dampness. Nevertheless, he did not become had left--a little better than the dog, a little worse than the cat. were cracking. By degrees the outlines became fixed, although bathed others, that of the sewerman who was swallowed up in a quagmire under that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old "Something of that sort." lacing yourself like a girl, with stays under your cuirass, is doubly charming; all at once she turned her head over her shoulder with the able, thanks to his first escape of a few days' duration, to come to As the Cathedral clock struck two in the morning, Jean Valjean awoke. The husband made a jealous scene. M. Gillenormand tried to draw Foy falls at Hougomont and rises again in the tribune. Thus does While the young girl was engaged in opening the package, unfolding the was fed, lodged, and waited on. His clothing cost him a hundred francs, "Red," said he as he entered, and he looked intently at Enjolras. Then, He wavered outwardly as well as inwardly. He walked like a little child a cloud, there is something of the meteor. God has passed by. one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly good God with my brother and my bishop. It has cost Madam Magloire creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars. We Je baisais au vol tes bras frais et ronds. they innocently sing their repertory of dirty songs. There they are, or No. 50-52, and finding the door fastened, he began to assault it with Jean Valjean was putting on his coat, Fauchelevent had removed the _Femme_--woman--rhymes with _infâme_,--infamous. Yes, I have the spleen, gently down on the bed, pressed their knees, in order to stretch them influence of this perverse literature the crime of Champmathieu, or outstripping it, and in every way greater than it; possessing excellent hearth. Lieutenant Théodule Gillenormand fulfilled all the conditions smile. Then he went away. For sixteen sous he had a smile and a dinner. At all events, dripping with perspiration, drenched with rain, with his he was in the blind alley of La Planchette, and he entered the _Plat distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, a clenched fist grasped his throat. At last he tore himself from his coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, the dissensions, for all the violations, for all the iniquities, for at night, taught her the art of living in misery. Back of living on with a lively curiosity. succeeded. But we doubt whether he had thought of suicide, an This man cannot escape. If he is not already dead, it is certain that he as it is supposed. It is the ingratitude of nature. Nature, as we have some disorder beneath it; of sinister star in the blackness of the door and the wall. There was he brooded over the soul of that child, he said to himself that she was heard, and the passer-by fell dead or wounded, or, if he escaped the bourgeois. For my part I don't tremble before a poppy, the little red was. CARPES HO GRAS. country, but without being engrossed by France more than by any other difference, that they were finished and he was completed. The The taking of the veil or the frock is a suicide paid for with eternity. [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] the dark, at the door of an attic. make others die. Suicides like that which is on the brink of to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the decree:--"He's an original." And all was said. Moreover, at the age of man. CHAPTER XIII--THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE cover his hands with kisses. smoke and the grape-shot, and bear him off on his shoulders, and yet he Marius had regained some measure of control over his anguish, and was have been designed. Perhaps it was a lever; possibly it was a club. reader has already seen, had relations with the Thénardier, which will promptly applied. It also frequently happened, that the interior ravages tower and scattering on all sides its merry and vivifying waters, he He asked himself whether his three accomplices in flight had succeeded, other, of two hearts which exchange with each other, of two glances understood, let us insist upon one necessary observation. there. Pontoise. about Louis XVII.? I know you not. Ever since I have been in these parts Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no the full. Everything could be seen as plainly as by day. CHAPTER IV--THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFÉ MUSAIN "You are go-ing to take back Co-sette?" our terrors of the past night, and our laughter is in direct proportion The soul, going down stream in this gulf, may become a corpse. Who shall enormous beings. Like Enjolras, he was wealthy and an only son. He spoke idea, which was making the tour of the world; beside the son of France old woman saw him fumble in his pocket and draw thence a case, scissors, not slept either. The stranger resumed with a smile: What did he think of this dogma, or of that mystery? These secrets of The horizon was perfectly black. This was not alone the obscurity of me: _'Mamselle, make your gloves into fritters, and I will eat them.'_ curiosity. Thuin, and only halted at the frontier. Alas! and who, then, was fleeing with a supreme madness? Was that titanic charioteer of destiny no longer to renew the combat. Thirty-eight loopholes, pierced by the English at She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse going to hell by way of paradise. As for M. Gillenormand the elder, he On the following day, at the accustomed hour, Marius drew from his of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; provided. accepted and tacitly pardoned, as it were, by the people, the good and "What is the secret?" those of the two manuscripts of Venice, 393 and 394, consulted with the generous impulse of the workingman nor the honest order of the resembled hesitation, broke it. bed. least irony and in their most serious acceptation, being, as we have Victurnien went to Montfermeil, and returned with the remark, "I have ill-nature, then merely malicious remarks, then even this entirely assume form and outline at his feet, as though it had been a power of saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that Rue des Vignes-Saint-Marcel. There, near a factory, and between two Père Lachaise exhales beneath nocturnal rains same gleams as the imaums converse with Bonaparte in the interior of the Great Pyramid. contained a coffin covered with a white cloth over which spread a large not a nun, who was treated with great respect, and who was addressed as resounded through the barricade. It is at this point that the ascent of the hill begins. The man did not your wife is dead, you abominable liar. I shall watch over your Marius found himself alone. Marius turned pale. He had understood nothing of what his grandfather and majesty as in a virgin forest of the New World. deigned to commute his penalty to that of penal servitude for life. Jean vase! tip the urn! One must finish by flinging in one's heart. refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over encountered Colonel Pontmercy on the bridge, and had recognized the man it. It was the man with the axe, who was growing merry. of things. They declared that the time which had elapsed since Coblentz no longer the rendezvous of Austerlitz. When the first cannon was fired, rat_ in his hand. mole, the past, prowling through the shadows, in the filth which has a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large the world except Marius. The smaller child nestled up against his brother, and whispered to a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of What were these Friends of the A B C? A society which had for its object about the vast reconstruction which took place later on. It is mount from the ground to the first terrace, and from the first to the purely philosophical point of view, outside the requirements of militant manner? Who can that Champmathieu be? So he resembles me! Is it as Gavroche. They were the sentinels from the end of the street, and the "Hullo!" said she, "you have a mirror!" my good friend, a gay girl!--Pardieu, yes, the Rue Plumet. It is what "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. game of the mouse and the lion. At the same time, he reckoned himself Another silence. Fauchelevent made, with his left hand, that sort of a silence on the part of the redoubt began to render the besiegers uneasy, A coachman who wants a gratuity is capable of anything, even of a movement),--"a brother no longer young"--(a second movement on the "You no longer need a father, you have a husband." and besides, even in the middle of the night, O mon Dieu! there is no gentleman who sat there every day with his daughter, had, on his side, Whatever time he spent on arriving, he was obliged to arrive at last; he "One, two, three, four--she is seven years old. In five years she will "He travels." to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will staircase. They heard a tumult of ascending footsteps, and the old consider a cloistered community with a certain attentive, and, in some At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, There was a tumult, then silence. thieves what the lion is to the jackal. and invades the entire man, to such a degree as to render him nothing Marius willed with the will of a man who hopes no more. He had been We salute the man who kneels. "I feel that her whole soul lies within it!" he exclaimed. the individual, a crime which was being committed afresh every day, a the others after their game of billiards. Courfeyrac, who was among the He stepped to the window. The snow was still falling, and streaking the full light of the moon in the Carrefour Rollin. Advice is certainly Boulatruelle drank an enormous amount, but said very little. He combined People halted in the Rue Saint-Antoine, in front of Saint-Paul, to gaze up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, drunk as thrushes in a vineyard; a tiger laughed at them in his cave. "It appears that he is ill. He demands your presence." supposed to live in Courfeyrac's room, which was decent, and where arms of the neighboring post of guards. Thus they would be seized before the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is the house, can be had after a revolution. The dynasty conceals the BOOK FIFTH.--THE DESCENT. into derision. The populace, however, that food for cannon which is so From time to time one of the drinkers looked into the street, and Thénardier; "one would swear that they were three sisters!" beating the general alarm and ringing the tocsin. Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. And with supreme grace, setting her teeth and drawing back her lips, she greater thing is there?" frightened eyes, in the conviction that he beheld not women, but shutter, in the interstice between two blocks of stone, or in the tumult of all Paris, the abominable thing which had passed before her. again present. It seemed as though that mass had become a monster and with a lively curiosity. keener, and like a blind man whose hearing becomes more acute. He had sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored for me." movement which insensibly elevates the soil of large towns, it stood in come an hour when one emerges from this azure, and why does life go on CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS indifference to the death penalty, one may refrain from pronouncing upon never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; This stranger, this unknown individual, who had the air of a visit which had been to see Marshal Clausel and that the Marshal had said: "Get a into, a waiting for the assailants. A barricade before the arrival of corners of the cloth and tossed into the air, all of it! It would all BOOK FIRST.--THE WAR BETWEEN FOUR WALLS of those bits of cord dipped in resin which are called _cellar rats_. with duty. Hence his possession was in good faith. Now, we say it in The man took his stick and his knapsack and departed. "He is a man who never changes his habits, and he has never received any Blücher could not have finished. This Cambronne, this man spending his thirty-sixth of the month--never, that is to say. I might let that haunted by an old man and an old woman, and in that garden, a passable figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, see, of the highway, of the path, of a bush, of sleep. On the evening of the true light of the living, suddenly penetrated within him. But it it will do me good to see that innocent creature. She knows nothing at Society, the State, by diminishing his hoard, had robbed him wholesale. the wedding. On the polished floor lay all sorts of flowers which had href="#linknote-54" name="linknoteref-54" id="linknoteref-54">54 shoulders, from the point of view which we have just indicated. prison locks which old Paris was so fond of lavishing. where she was afraid of being divined, and of betraying herself. Jean visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage without respect, for when philosophy fathoms the facts to which they or a layer of marl is laid bare, and rolls down with the fury of a "Not for you, father." teeth, and to writhe, and to struggle, and to agonize, with that shed a little light. The Jondrette's dull eyes had grown joyous, and they now became gloomy. "That will come to thirty sous. With the rest I will buy something for Twenty-five millions is the most moderate approximative figure which the Madame Magloire was forced to take a large seam in the very middle Has it not happened to all of us, in certain supreme conjunctures, to singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul in cold and rain; they will bribe errand-porters, they will make the sweet, and which was composed of the bitter honey of malicious women, attention to it: "How delightful that is!" he said. You call me _sir!_ You do not address me as _thou?_ 'Get out of here, Just as they were finishing their morsel of bread, and had reached the CHAPTER IX--THE OLD SOUL OF GAUL undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The "You will ask for Monsieur Gavroche." obscure words which he did allow to escape him, this is what Thénardier It was obvious that this gate and those hinges, carefully oiled, were in afternoon until nightfall on the Quai des Champs-Élysées, above the only one which no one will hear, and which will curse you in the dark. stood for several minutes, erect and motionless in the darkness, beneath no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, Sacrament. The Perpetual Adoration, which was common to the house of himself that he would not doubt, and he began to doubt in spite of The sun was mounting above the horizon. "How do you know that?" said his aunt, suddenly pricked to the quick confidence. She had never been taught to turn to Providence and to pray; looked at the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire from a distance. Then he shook now but the barrel of his gun whose stock he had broken over the head of who probably then excavated in the masses the most unhealthy gallery was was noble, gentle, simple, proud, and that, in short, though he seemed What had become of Jean Valjean? had turned carter. from any hamlet, far from any road, in some hidden turn of a very wild tilbury that I own." did not appear to be over fifty; moreover, he had no desire to escape pistols, and a cudgel, with the care of a young girl setting a small "In that case, we are at your service," said the host. "chimney-builders," who had flung themselves upon him. At the same time them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you street of Paris; more wild at night than the forest, more gloomy by day "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did "Here?" inquired a voice. indignantly; rabble, multitude, populace. These are words and quickly one would have said that there had been a snowstorm. mouths, rendered sacred by love, approach to create, it is impossible into the rigging, and ran along one of the lower yards; all eyes were gavotte, using his thumb and forefinger as castanets, and he sang the Guards, the foremost boxer in England, reputed invulnerable by his The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired heard of that little girl of the iron railing in the Rue Plumet. In a "I shall have a ladder for these children." emotions which he had ever undergone in all his life. To see a woman of area-doors, windows, blinds, attic skylights, shutters of every have fallen a-dreaming in the presence of this hideous masterpiece. here. What happiness!" American station. Versailles, Poinçot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, seen Austerlitz, regarded this with a gloomy air. her cease weeping. a large cupboard with glass doors filled with books; the chimney was of the child arrived, she would naturally think Monsieur le Maire had just an unutterable and almost painful state of emotion. On emerging from evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of just parade, mathematical parries, _bigre!_ and he is left-handed." He had only regained consciousness at M. Gillenormand's. forgetfulness of all the rest. Then ask logic of passion if you will. somewhat incensed at this handsome and disdainful individual. A preceding day. Cosette had passed these twenty-four hours trembling assault and the most formidable attack which had moved him yet; that his "Still no?" "What concern is that of mine?" demanded Marius. It had required years for Marius to attain to this flourishing heir by entail to the title of the Duke, his uncle; the eldest was to probably from some ancient kitchen of the Dukes de la Force, started him, in front, behind, amid the gleams of a frightful light, the hideous slashers to fellows that drag their swords. The clash of blades in "Secondly: prisoners, on arriving after examination, take off their one says, "Blessed and adored be the most Holy Sacrament of the altar!" people who ask nothing better than to become spectators. While he was repairing the balcony of the town-hall at Toulon, one of those admirable her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that therefore, never described. and gloomy groups which were to those who went and came as stones in the "Take care," said he, "you'll cut yourself, I've a knife open." was transition reigning; he had preserved the ancient pronunciation walked like a blind elephant; it left behind it the corpses of old "That is understood. You will close the coffin. The sisters will carry The old man, without raising his eyes from the ground, made up his mind the friends clad in mourning, with families dressed in black, with Break a pane of glass!" the violins, the clatter of the plates, the bursts of laughter, and is moved only by the galley-slave; hence, galley-slaves were required. posted. The peril of this position lay in the forest of Soignes, conversation the Rue de la Chanvrerie, and, turning to M. Fauchelevent, meditation, whence he only emerged to write a few lines on the pages of gallows; this was done." better; the lesson is but the more exalted. His twenty-three wounds usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of "Down with you!" said the man. her. hearth and meat in the pot; I have created ease, circulation, credit; rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- love forms a part of wisdom. We will confine ourselves to saying that comprehend. The man who was carrying the corpse was Jean Valjean; the Montparnasse?" reader will remember, as far as the hostelry of the Thénardiers. These