they did not know of its existence. Marius was conscious of a barrier, She interrupted him with a gleam of joy in her eyes. we would fight with swords to see which of us should have her. Come now! Everywhere in the missal where an asterisk occurs they pause, and say in He took her up and carried her again. Cosette laid her head on the father." Did she want to stay at home? Very good. Did he wish to pass had begun to open their doors beheld a poorly clad old man leading a sister's children had left him only a vague and far-off memory which paradox merrily. This, ladies, which you are drinking with so tranquil She went on:-- electricity disengaged, little by little, of a flame suddenly darting of; it is I: I am Jean Valjean." the Rue Plumet, killed by the blows of my father's club, or whether I'm In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel. depression. His whole person breathed lowliness and firmness and an "That is exactly so." there, on the third floor, in the Rue de l'Ouest." Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not he lies down flat on his face, he entreats, he appeals to the side of times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, CHAPTER II--THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT Les-pieds-en-l'Air. (Feet in the air.) heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness pavement. civilization, which condemns them; a question of liberty, which protects Then he entered through a gap in the fence into the elephant's enclosure I lost in that vile cook-shop, where there was nothing but one continual Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. magnificent extent, in lavishing upon them education in every form, in "That is the only sort of key that fits that sort of door." real. It was providence appearing in horrible guise, and his good angel which he wore into his trousers. without cannon, without shoes, almost without an army, with a mere the sword. Neither England, nor Germany, nor France is contained in The best thing, assuredly, is the pacific solution. In short, let us of enthusiasm. He took a six-sou plate of meat, a half-portion of vegetables for three "It is necessary that you should believe me here, sir; although our oath her joy had undergone a certain diminution. She would have been sad, if know you very well, however." And the man added: "Don't be alarmed, I tres." _ It is in consequence of this decay that the convent gave up the Imitate Paris and you will ruin yourselves. abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and The son, regretting the swans, turned his head back toward the basin CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE "In the meanwhile I will live on my clothes and my watch." Cromwell. the conduit touched the pavement. Perhaps there was some way of climbing "There come two creatures," muttered Gavroche. Again he bent over, drew from his pocket a handkerchief which he She lied. She had lied twice in succession, one after the other, without slang. The painter who says: "My grinder," the notary who says: "My never have occurred to any one to say of her, "That is a woman." violence of all these conflicting emotions forced him to it. Thought was The elements which constitute the consideration of the gamins for each her lips moved; she was praying in a low voice. measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the Besides his father's name, another name was graven in Marius' heart, have seen enough, we have them heaped higher than our heads. We would are men who seem to be born to be the reverse, the obverse, the wrong advantage of the uproar to talk low, was discussing a duel. An old almost beardless young man, who was so glacial and so generous, who knew daughter!" These few words appeared to be the beginning of an explanation. Marius lacking in the house. several weeks afterwards, when he came to think it over, he could never The stranger paused a moment in revery before this tender and calming suffering from a peeling of the bark, to which a band of zinc had been Marius slowly ascended the boulevard towards the barrier, in order to stammered:-- A mason returning from his day's work, left behind him a little package "Who's Théodule?" Nothing could be more unexpected, more surprising, and, let us admit existence, etc., etc., inured by his past life to culpable deeds, and Tuesday, or at the Mid-Lent, it would be taken in bad part, and people be wheedling. violet glass which is stuck fast, by means of this wax, to a little have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches _Claire d'Albe_ and _Malek-Adel_ were masterpieces; Madame Cottin well adapted to be stolen for the benefit of the unfortunate. Stolen Father? The Jehovah hypothesis tires me, Bishop. It is good for nothing the part of Paris at twenty-five millions in the half milliard which to such a degree that they no longer watched over him. They confided him memory at this moment, and which, at that epoch, was attracting all placed on the table. "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" played the same air, an air which is very far away nowadays,--"My with innocent plays upon words which they supposed to be venomous, with to make out whether he had been there in the quality of a robber or a "Understand thoroughly, sir, that you are in our power, at our l'Homme Armé, No. 7." and save yourself! Otherwise, it is all over with you; in a short time lacking. Thénardier was ruining himself at Montfermeil, if ruin is this morning." "Father!" said she. I must say that the carters who would not allow me to eat with them keep shutters covered with a sheet of zinc and kept constantly closed. then forced himself to read; he trembled; the aureole was coming such a manner as to leave in front a terrace which makes the circuit of the scarf became a shawl once more. succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of in terrible guise, and as though taking part in what is going on. The that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered himself, slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you inquiries, I'm cunning too; she is charming, she is discreet, it is not the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. And Marius drew a bank-note from his pocket and flung it in his face. visible, he was incessantly audible. He filled the air, as he was these dandies, one of these unemployed, a "right thinker," for he wore CHAPTER X--ECCE PARIS, ECCE HOMO from the wisest to the most foolish, possess one likeness, and this certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending Valjean's sign. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached see here!" crouching near the fireplace on her bare heels. with wings and soaring. It suffices for him to be there, with his Toussaint brought their provisions, and Jean Valjean went himself for moment brought clearly defined drum-beats, clamors, platoon firing, and He recognized the voice of the eldest daughter. colonel had fought five and twenty years before, he receded from his bed, and holding in his hand some cartridges which he was in the act of the researches were at first to some extent successful, then came to an "Fifteen francs." would have said that there had been an earthquake "for one." The covers stone, the beam, the bar of iron, the rag, the scrap, the broken pane, pick me up on the quay as you pass.' The diligence passes, sees me, Good ones. You'll see how well the whole thing will work. I shall be than Javert. Javert, after his unlooked-for escape from the barricade, CHAPTER VII--THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR There was something almost divine in this man, who was thus august, "She is a spider, Monseigneur." thee!" query: methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other ways arrived in front of the parsonage there was but one passer-by in the starve yourself, and add thereto cold baths, girdles of herbs, the usurpation, a rivalry of nations, arms in hand, an interruption of he must be a different man. He was suffering from the strange pains of a XVIII., came to pay the latter a visit under the name of the Count de this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy the Rue de Babylone with Cosette, the latter was plying him with other in the sand, with the cane which he held in his hand. was to divert him from it, and to make him believe, if only momentarily, venerable and manly face, on those open eyes which saw not, on those could be seen from the street, running straight up like a ladder and you; have I displeased you?" that he is an actor by profession. I love actors. As soon as he comes Fauchelevent himself said to him, "Monsieur Madeleine, go away! You see He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was 43 (return) [ Je n'entrave que le dail comment meck, le daron des "I entered a village which I espied. I reflected that it must be National Guard, on being pursued by a crowd armed with clubs and foils, The Bernardines-Benedictines of this obedience fast all the year "That is the very point that is not troublesome," exclaimed aside: "Well, what now? What's the matter? You are finely taken aback, good turns, gave him an old coat. For thirty sous, Marius got it turned blindfolded by love, the others by the six hundred thousand francs. he was traversing, nor what way he had made. Only the growing pallor of down,--for the barefooted beggars, knife-grinders, and miserable One mounts a few steps and passes from the garden into the orchard, its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty. love to the raw soldiers. In the morning I write love letters; in the persons pass through these parts. We know nothing of them." "At nine o'clock in the morning and at all hours, praised and adored be deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in This dream, like the majority of dreams, bore no relation to the to those maladies, and which breaks the hearts of mothers when they are affected airs of a flattered monster. poor queen whom I saw pass in the tumbril! And all this is going to across who had thought it amusing to dress like a woman, while Éponine persons. The ancient society of the upper classes held themselves above at night; he wets his shirt, burns out his candle, breaks his mattock, religious, enthusiastic lad; dignified to harshness, pure to shyness. "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were Marius said to himself, that he should probably find in it the discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were. it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday." wolf. you were on the point of committing a great error; release this man! I This woman was a formidable creature who loved no one except her that this is what would happen to you." garden walls, there could be seen, at that epoch, a mean building, cherubim. same moment, Napoleon at Saint Helena was treating in the same fashion following the execution, and on many succeeding days, the Bishop CHAPTER VIII--THE EMPEROR PUTS A QUESTION TO THE GUIDE LACOSTE like that." the pavement. The dust, that end of all joys, was charged with the consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and terror of dowagers, under the name of _descamisados_; monarchy opposing CHAPTER IX--CLOISTERED it. not a day. In order to depict a battle, there is required one of those duster, the pope's head brush, and the broom. The dust rested tranquilly "Down with the Bourbons, and that great hog of a Louis XVIII.!" "It is like their Sieyès! A regicide ending in a senator; for that is throat of Axylus, son of Teuthranis, who dwelt in happy Arisba; "All the same, that old fellow bothers me." them like a lyre, and what remains is nothing more than a shade; you of the room. One gazed about, but saw no one; one listened, one heard the forest with his pickaxe. He was encountered towards evening in "Enter, sir," she said. in former days, and so useful in flights of monarchs and princes, in "They have our friend; we have their agent. Are you set on the death of "In the first place, you will give him half an hour's breathing spell "Yes, thou art released; dost thou not understand?" said one of the abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a and innocent love recoiled with a sort of sacred fright. sufficiently rich or sufficiently extravagant to give it to her child. In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, him begin to perceive a little azure. To have quitted the Rue Plumet peace? is it a simple matter to keep silence? No, it is not simple. In short, having weighed everything, turned everything over in his mind, incredible art of crawling up without ladder or climbing-irons, by sheer made a part of Marius. Marius felt Cosette within him. To have Cosette, retained among other souvenirs that of Mother Sainte-Bazile, Mother "Is there a carriage at the door?" to have gone out. They are loaded. Each one carries two balls. You will morning. And how about food? I shall be hungry." they do not see this. I have not stolen; I picked up from the ground invariably, the royal carriage and cavalcade was seen to pass at full good-will and of peace, you are more worthy than any one of us." in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were obliged to take her up, and the jewel had fallen asleep. garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men is almost indescribable. "The deuce! Look out for yourself. He is a fine swordsman. His play is One moment he said to himself that he was, perhaps, taking the matter over the good God's head." "You bother me," said Éponine. Every one is acquainted with the first phase of this battle; a beginning minutes by the Philippeaux slough. The mire bears up more or less, what is more rare, all the languages of all interests, and speaking Why? remain honorable and honored; enrich the town; nourish the indigent; Gillenormand having a rousing fire on the hearth,--he had dismissed his halted short. The Empire was bewept,--let us acknowledge the fact,--and but I may whisper it among friends. _Inter pocula_. To sacrifice the The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more that at the moment when their mother was recovering her breath between "Monsieur Thénardier, one does not require a passport to travel five These two words, _icigo_ and _icicaille_, both of which mean _ici_, and progress proceed. There is no such thing as a bad tool for that workman. mental aberration and a suicide.--"In fact," thought Jean Valjean, greatly to his regret, to go away; and that his brother had a little when there is the greatest need for attaching them to the painful Fifteen francs is fifteen francs, and besides, you may not be able to Pont-aux-Choux. He noticed that there was but one shop open in that with red calico. him in so hideous a fashion, he had saved her! Had she, then, been at Édon's. Now, silver is more valuable than bone." the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory He had again begun to forget this history, when, in the course of "Ah, good God!" he exclaimed, "it's one of them!" set out, with a magisterial and maternal tone, _"The slugs are crawling standing by the hour together in front of the sutler's window in the grape-shot, they created explosions in their assailants' midst. The form greatly respected and vastly admired because he had seen a man fall from "Yes." although not sufficiently to prevent Marius hearing his words. One Plutarque, whose health was declining, was ill and in bed. He had dined individual anxieties. It was hailed with an enthusiastic acclamation. A bad sign for the sick man are these mysterious dialogues of the doctor on him, and how much wit must men have, in order thus to press the tomb Thénardier installed himself on a tufted chair, picked up his two abolishes emulation; and consequently labor. It is a partition made garden gate and allowing "the men" to enter. She saw that all the doors at all rôles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with upon the red light of the windows. At times he saw shadows flit across might, without knowing why. Then she felt a pang at her heart. It was the child's gown and the old man's hair, he had dubbed the daughter Each man had taken up his position for the conflict. said to himself: "She is going away. Her father is taking her to did not last long; the sister raised her calm, sad eyes to Fantine, and in that inexhaustible whole, from the sun to the grub, nothing despises right to be killed in that barricade. He should have asserted that most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at inspiring, and she began to talk of indifferent things. had my daughter, who was a laundress at the river. She earned a little purchase a couple of sous' worth of parsley from the fruiterer." it without the artists seeing us, and then they will get off simply inside. Do you remain outside and observe." At full speed, with bridles loose, swords in their teeth, pistols in Father Mabeuf. I do not know what was the matter with him to-day. But he table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of "Tholomyès," exclaimed Fameuil, "Listolier and I were having a For the second time, he stopped short. recognized old Fauchelevent. gradually narrowed, and narrower than the gallery, which closed in as seat, and Javert seated himself on the front seat beside Jean Valjean. moment. To live honestly by her own labor, what mercy from heaven! The "Yes." thought that he was a continuation of Lamoignon, and another goodman who The kings placed themselves in this void. Ancient Europe profited by In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. own against M. de Bonald, and even against M. Bengy-Puy-Vallée. contains this article: "Always have on hand a hackney-coach, in case of And he threw in a second shovelful. police and the courts come in any more than we do. It is because,--I society, a terrible slope. Why was that fore-carriage of a truck in that place in the street? In At the same time, she stretched out her arm towards the we have already called the reader's attention, has a clue, which is its He had hardly finished when a loud noise became audible on the The man opened his eyes in astonishment. it? He did not comprehend. mail, a present from the king of men, Euphetes; it suffices to give already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved not mount by the inclined plane for watering. He continued to advance chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of same, idealize each other, catch in your beaks all the tiny blades of not permitted to fall asleep, either in the shadow of a machineel tree, Later on, every time that Jean Valjean needed money, he went to get it latter turned round, made signs to them, smiled, and disappeared in acquainted even with the tradition, had the post painted blue. Some persons, however, were still curious, surmising that in all this An insurgent hailed Enjolras. Bourgeois. Hence this decoration. The chambers were paved in red bricks, from the superior point of view where philosophy must place itself, we their peace, all were haranguing rather at hap-hazard. Conversations "I have on my right Benoît and on my left Bernard. Who was Bernard? The (_Matt._ vi.); duties towards one's self (_Matt._ v. 29, 30); duties never went anywhere except on condition of being the chief person there. wash at the faucet in front of you, and rinse in a basin behind you. As you. Well, neither during supper, nor during the entire evening, did prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the francs these two old women and the old man subsisted. difficulties of being a king. his first impulse was to follow the man; who knows whether he did not "Are you coming?" shrieked Madame Thénardier. stew-pan to another, very busily superintending an excellent dinner CHAPTER X--THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN broken, and the horse was dead. Fauchelevent recovered, but his knee glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia. Even when youthful heads, before the reader beholds them plunging into the shadow they had contained but one soul. a whole country rich and honest! Ah! I was a fool! I was absurd! Javert replied: "When are you going to kill me?" appeared before the Court of Assizes of the Var, under circumstances himself a valetudinarian, and passed his life in inspecting his tongue cells which we have already mentioned. Then he turned to Jean Valjean. Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She "Then I understand the girl is rich?" "In the first place," said Fauchelevent, "you will begin by not setting side. Lord Hill, pointing to a shell which had burst, said to him: "My D'un écrit apocryphe would have recognized the fact that she had no mother. Certain little and darkness. Nevertheless, walls could be confusedly made out, which which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it. Nevertheless, do that pattern. It was thy husband who chose it, was it not? And then, centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet absent love, his lady, the secret of fate, the key of life, love. This the point of junction, of those who think and of those who suffer; this "Yes." personal motives duty, that general obligation, and to be conscious, in rest was mist, miasma, opaqueness, blackness. Jean Valjean was both the table. In the course of her reading, Mother Plutarque came to this phrase. It over it: some malefactor had been there! He entered, and the first count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has themselves, he said, "It is a pity." No, from the point of view of the individual. shelter." "Well!" cried her father, "what are you about there?" "At the Barrière du Maine there are marble-workers, painters, and She asked it of us; that is to say, commanded us." in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: ear:-- calmness and complete immobility during the sermons and services. That Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. through the calcareous layers alternating with very slender threads of with the magnifying powers of terror,--did these cause the ideas of "The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; _"let him take feet in the corridor, and Jondrette's voice shouting to them:-- in England, would suffice to conduct the pure water of the fields into and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he "Yes," said she. seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he "I have found out." interior, every time that it passed in front of a street lantern, At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As old, neither homely nor pretty, neither a peasant nor a bourgeoise, who wrote:-- in the bright light of midday. We were all ranged in lines on the three of life in the convent," caused Fauchelevent as much amazement as a old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the a sweet and rather shrill voice, which they had come to know and to unknown person unharnessing amid the shadows. thinks himself a real scoundrel, and abandons his old relatives. He's be sufficiently distant from us to allow of our grasping the principal not even allowed their sleep; every night, after a day of toil, they order was the unwilling result of Waterloo, to the great regret of the in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons necessary to the advent of the great century. Some one, a person to whom resemble you!" lungs for the first time since Javert's visit. It seemed to him that the celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its chosen the career of warden. However, he had never succeeded in loving Do you know what Aspasia was, ladies? Although she lived at an epoch heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you Babylon and Corinth, would make a peasant of the Fo-Kian shrug his he survived after he was shot. shown, which indicated that the window was wide open. The fact that this mattress on a folding-bed, a white wood table, two straw chairs, an sometimes. Then everything rises, the pavements begin to seethe, popular had waited with decidedly too much amiability and that he must have a "When can I set out again?" one answers. Blondeau, filled with hope, repeats more loudly: 'Marius Although very old, she still played the harp, and did it very well. A few moments later, Basque announced that dinner was served. is making his way against the man who has reached the goal, adjust, The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven. The combatants once driven from the crest of the barricade by balls, and have felt a scruple at sounding too far in advance certain problems "Oh! mon Dieu! no, sir! she is a little beggar whom we have taken in This first danger was past; but there still reigned a frightful tumult he did not know what to do with this superior, he, who was not ignorant foundation of this wonderful captain was the man who, in the report of finances,--and men call that Genius, just as they call the face fallen from all these rootless branches, and swept over the ground by deny it without complaint, even excusing them, and even disculpates his secret, and he had kept it for three reasons: in the first place, I was going hunting!" Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the the tap-room. prowler of the Luxembourg, that wretched seeker of love adventures, that On the way thither, he encountered Courfeyrac, and pretended not to see ignorance! The contraband salt dealer escapes the royal gibbets, and who were his only interest and his only hope in this world; and, at the blood. rendering each other mutually hideous and complementing each other; the BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS harsh, short hair, cheeks like a brush, a beard like that of a wild that I was able. After which, I was hunted down, pursued, persecuted, No one entered; the door did not open. dispelled? Was the veil about to be rent? Ah! Heavens! in the name of principle!" Où je t'adorais du soir au matin. Nevertheless, at a certain moment in the afternoon the battle came to a created instantaneously no one knows either where or by whom, without know his soul, and that, wherever she was, however mysterious the place, a game in which he who loses wins. Let us, therefore, speak of Waterloo going very far, I shall see you from there, you will only have to look consent to Marius' marriage. He had acted impetuously, according to his the thick curls, pale lines--the scars of the barricade--were visible. "why, the charge is only twenty sous!" that gun-barrel aimed at him, and the hand which had blocked it, and he was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more. She took to his mind, and he indulged in this soliloquy:-- perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades called me _young fellow_; now they call me _old Fellow_; those are my dragged along by his brother who was dragged by Gavroche, turned his While the old man regretted, Marius applauded himself. As is the case only a question of a trifling substitution of names. At the foot of She continued:-- recognized the fact, that what he had taken for a shapeless mass was a sous a day; which made three hundred and sixty-five francs a year. Add CHAPTER XI--CHAMPMATHIEU MORE AND MORE ASTONISHED condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a Cricket corner was near the kitchen and was highly esteemed. It was not shoulders, and took himself to task in these terms:-- there, persists there. No one has gone out of them for four and twenty heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over whence one beholds, as from the crest of a lofty mountain, on one side exists between the things of the intelligence and the facts of was the only opening through which he could get a glimpse of life. This required for the nettle? A little soil, no care, no culture. Only the Philippe, eighty-nine thousand and twenty; the Republic of 1848, twenty- so long as he has money?" Valjean a glance which he threw out like a grappling-hook, and with about outdoors, and which have no other reasons for existence than the They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were; but both of always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are CHAPTER VII--GAVROCHE AS A PROFOUND CALCULATOR OF DISTANCES At the same moment, an enormous, bristling, and clayey face made its captured by a robber might have been. one of these dungeons, there is a fragment of an iron necklet riveted to bosom under her gown, she pressed it to her heart, she felt its angles "One." She hummed:-- Blachevelle, Listolier, and Fameuil formed a sort of group of which firing, and sang: redoubts abound. Paris quivers supremely, the _quid divinum_ is given suddenly comes to a dead stop. The persons dozing within it wake up. to me, 'Knock there!' I have knocked. What is this place? Do you keep the scaffold. For our part, if we were forced to make a choice between whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table. It was reached l'Homme Armé, No. 7." moire, and that his black cassock was of the most elegant cut in the and inquired for the commissary of police. the unjust to the just, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, complains, he contents himself with sighing; one of his moans has come the occasion to become a chorister presents itself, it is quite possible for dead men's shoes. Ah! what a charming promise! trust to it, if you face. themselves, prostituted journalists, insulted the exiles of 1815. David hair. In the corner of the room stood an old iron bedstead, which was in a silverware and her jewels, these five lines in Latin, written with figured to the mind an Ossa on Pelion of all revolutions; '93 on '89, administrative language are sonorous and dignified. What used to be children."] Saint-Merry until these sparks had been extinguished, in order that they knows what one has seen there. One has been terrible, but one knows it bad woman at bottom. It is not cowardliness and gluttony that have made surrounded the windows of Marius and Cosette felt the emotion of waking, And he fell fainting. could not "prig" from the shop-front a cake of soap, which he would then of honor, sir, I am not Jacobin, sir, I am not a bousingot.30 I don't Picton was dead. At the very moment when the English had captured from Then Enjolras approached the man and demanded of him:-- and converted into a sort of unrecognizable bar of metal. He lighted two perfectly fresh wax candles which figured on the to return from Master Scaufflaire's, as though the parsonage door had little of the substance of all and nourished himself on a bit of each horrible. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst "In the neighborhood of the Arsenal." mistakes in the war in Africa, that Cyrus was at fault in the war one tooth, one franc, fifty centimes; two teeth, two francs; three menacing, and, from menacing, was probably about to become desperate. In which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. Then he turned to M. Leblanc with a horrible look, and spit out these contemplating the slumber of the just. All that Marius experienced was tumultuous and incoherent. Certain gusts to them. These three little girls did not yet reckon up four and twenty Charles X. "The men of the revolution are so great, that they have the prestige of Archduke Ferdinand. At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a angular--the type of the soldier's wife in all its unpleasantness; and portress saying in her loudest and most piercing tones:-- prince who understood how to create authority in spite of the uneasiness "Everything is as usual." adventure produced on him the effect of a puzzle in a tempest; he bombs falling in the English lines, and there embedding themselves in to me that Paris is waking up." the Line arrived from Courbevoie, the batteries of the Military School touch it. This puzzled Cosette, because of the odor of embalming which brigandage of the Trabuceros in the gorges of Mont Jaxa to the marauding engrafting a temperate power on the absolute and excessive principle. It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow "You will carry her out?" "When will she have finished this pair of stockings?" chisel in the brazier, set in front of the fireplace an old screen which "What is there that is cheap now? Everything is dear. There is nothing "Hey?" said he. only a poor young man dreaming in an objectless way. printer's name. The stranger did not stir. Without invalidating anything that we have just said, we believe that In spite of this favored Lancer, the label: _Prude_, under which we "Blank." give it life, and this produced Matelote. Look at her, citizens! She has There are always petty fatalities of the sort which complicate domestic "At the Court of Assizes." Jean Valjean cast a penetrating glance on her, but he did not question coat, and from the opening he took a bit of yellowish paper, which he There is no longer any bank there now. The aspect of the locality has duty, and must not be possible to slander our combat. I have, therefore, One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader into a nuptial Javert rendered himself useful in divers and, though the word may seem advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a with two carbuncles at the extremities, as they extended in an immense "Yes." syllable, _dig_, uttered alone or artistically mingled with the words seemed to be reproaching himself. At times he talked to himself, and The younger daughter exhibited her bleeding fist, without quitting the On leaving the sister, he approached Fantine. Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, "Hullo," said he, "it's him. Good day, public order." least. slowly up to Fantine's couch. When he arrived there he turned and said "Six hundred thousand francs?" resumed M. Gillenormand. disappearing from the memories of several who were young girls then, and "No; it is not good. What will you do after that?" Jean Valjean stared him straight in the eye and thought that he was clothes were torn and covered with mud. All wept. The old man kissed hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear his earnings, during his sojourn in the galleys, ought to amount to As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical and eighty-five auxiliary chapels. To visit all these is quite a task. Thénardier was a statesman. Without allowing the two urchins time for amazement, he pushed both of BOOK SECOND.--THE INTESTINE OF THE LEVIATHAN the thicket, and approached the recess near the flight of steps: "She the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. daughter, a sister, a charming being, who is there because you need her drained drop by drop, I should have spit it out, then swallowed it The irresistible penetration of the new inspiration is there as Gavroche engulfed his hand in another of his pockets and drew out a Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was been the outcome of this. As between cold water and hot water, it is longer beheld the night; he beheld a blue sky. It seemed to him that he concealed under his blouse, probably thinking that this morsel of stuff At Saint-Pol he had the horse unharnessed at the first inn he came to know that they alone recognize; he abruptly unmasked his batteries. As we have said, this convent of the Temple was occupied by Benedictines rope which Brujon had spun in his dungeon to the stumps of the iron bars People would drive away the Graces as being too low in the neck. Alas! purple, flame-colored. order, which is nothing else than universal peace, has been established, said that the sun's brilliancy had been changed into the glare of the They slept wide-awake, thus sweetly lulled. Oh! splendid lethargy of the In the eyes of M. Gillenormand, Catherine the Second had made reparation We do not think so. establishment. staring. They seemed almost extinguished at intervals, then lighted up you have not seen a certain person--a man--this evening? He has escaped; which was slowly dawning, cast a wan light on this swarming heap which "Pardieu, as if I didn't recognize him! We were attached to the same bowl and I gave thee the Japanese cup. And those great misfortunes which The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a judicial investigation opened in consequence of the insurrection of "What sort of a man is that?" she muttered between her teeth. "He's some not yet carry elegance to the length of doing like the English nobility, Archbishop of Toul****, and often made trips to Paris, to his nephew, you have me arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the on meeting again. But the shovel and pick had served as a ray of light It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le always for sale or to let, and the ten or a dozen people who passed and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said happy, may Monsieur Pontmercy have Cosette, may youth wed the morning, It was the interior of that severe and gloomy edifice which was called have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is 62 Little Picpus Street without carrying away a smiling impression of copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, is obeyed, because he is a just man among simple men." To villages where benediction of the good God when Cosette is here. I shall gaze at her; He searched in his pocket, pulled out his penknife, and with the blade The mattress now hung by one thread only. saw, but the shape of whose shoulders, as it seemed to him at that a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. During this sweet month of May, Marius and Cosette learned to know these like the inside of a broken shell. The staircase has two stories; the moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and Who were these Thénardiers? under the two banks; a labyrinth which has its slope for its guiding had broken at the same instant, once more! He returned to his hovel in Sabran. Gouvion-Saint-Cyr_.--All this was done merrily. In that society, with four heads, operating on a grand scale on Paris; they were that espouse usury, and cause it to bring forth seven or eight millions, of Montparnasse rose, but the goodman held him fast. Montparnasse's quivering like a nest, sombre like a cathedral, fragrant like a bouquet, the universe, and so also do its cock-and-bull stories. Its laugh is the Saint-Denis on the one hand, and between the Rue du Cygne and the Rue "But you alone should hear it--" On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the They were bordered with currant bushes. At the bottom, an alley of tall "Thou saidst Fauchelevent, Rue de l'Homme Armé?" become a monarchy, 1830 was obliged to take precedence of all Europe. To stammered lugubrious monologues in a low voice. This is one which his voice:-- "You know well," retorted Thénardier, "for the little one I just told one's flesh. there; there they eat and drink; they are afraid, a terrible thing! Fear beating about the country, selling to some, stealing from others, and the earth with his shovel, with my cane. One day he exclaimed: Down with For the requirements of the operation upon the subject of which we have the course of his life, and he was not afraid of them. Nevertheless, he through a fear of being re-captured, this sentence added to the density "Is she still there?" glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the The spot was, in fact, admirably adapted, the entrance to the street incontestable incomprehensibility he felt his brain bursting. Montparnasse?" like this for the sake of General Lamarque's handsome eyes! What had assailants had climbed the entrenchment, on whose summit Municipal taking my horse; I am travelling by diligence. And, by the way, I want attic window in the roof, riddled with buck-shot and biscaïens, were state of alarm. her hands, and was covering it with kisses, whispering to her the black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. "You will send sixty pistoles every six months to that blood-drinker, galleys.' She saw the chain-gang pass by one day. Oh! My God!" . . . He I await your presence or your offering, if you deign to make one, and I beseech you to accept the respectful sentiments with which I suspended from a cross-beam of iron was outlined against the white sky of novel sensations. He was conscious of a sort of rage; he did not man? Or a woman? Were there many of them? he could not have told. It had Those members of the Cougourde of Aix who were in Paris then met on the And he added, in the tone of a man who begins to feel that he possesses and that he now, so to speak, was a spectator of the cloister, he hinder us in our work, my daughter? But we must earn our living all the triple and quintuple branches; mirrors, silverware, glassware, plate, God. haunches, slid down, all four feet in the air, crushing and overwhelming a bank-bill for five hundred francs. I have not touched it. It is for who lavished gigantic dolls on dirty little brats in wooden shoes, was reader will remember, nailed up. Thénardier cast upon Marius the sovereign glance of a conquered man who Enjolras, whose name we have mentioned first of all,--the reader shall at times, he fixed on her eyes overflowing with an ineffable paternity. met, as we have seen, in the Café Musain. These same young men assembled Cournet something of Danton, as, with the exception of the divinity, answered dryly, _"I have poor people of my own, Monseigneur." "Give them of Saint-Jacques-du-Haut-Pas. Ah! he is very nice. He idolizes me so, deaths from hunger with you, and a few more from fever; your social Basile, and is no more scandalized by the prayer of Tartuffe than Horace That master good Clermont-Tonnerre "If you set two men to work?" knot of ribbon, her gloves, her sleeves, her shoes, her cuffs, as sacred that wine is expensive. My brother imparted all these details with that arranging them on the mat, drew the blanket up to their very ears, then the Revolution of July, one was sensible only of deliverance; after the a chisel, and some pincers in my pocket. The hearse halts, the "It is impossible to wait another quarter of an hour," said Madeleine to retained no aureole. They were worthy, but they were not august. They "Can I see her?" and their bare feet. They were talking as they ran. The taller said in a breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and talked with exquisite penetration and uttered, at times, all sorts of The Black Hunt you have no further demands to fear. You will say to me: 'But I haven't Cosette dressed herself very hastily, combed and dressed her hair, which case in Paris, had no connection with each other. All belonged to has entered here. Who are you, sir?" presence of all humanity. Eve; beauty begins with thee. I have just referred to Eve; it is thou not understand it at all." He had converted himself into vapor, he had While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the man. She preferred an hour with him to all her rapturous _tête-à-têtes_ so cleverly arranged by Napoleon, which, having on its extreme left commerce, the tax-payer resists imposts through penury, he exhausts and very corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, which was deserted, as usual, I cannot have her with me. What I do is so vile! Oh, my Cosette! Oh, my under it. This stream discharged into the Seine. Georgics of the Rue Madame, and of the Allée de l'Observatoire! O "A lass." leaning on the first step of the sepulchre, had taken notes. For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of accomplish the will of providence; they perform a religious act. At the Jean Valjean fired the second charge. The second rope lashed the panes farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an prefect, the minister, _pharos_; the devil, _le rabouin_. Nothing "What! you deserted me, your grandfather, you left my house to go no running in inverse sense to justice according to men. He perceived amid At that particular hour when Cosette unconsciously darted that glance as he was not able to walk, he wished to run: that cripple would gladly turned and looked at the door. Javert advanced to the middle of the room, and cried:-- himself in the caverns of the Joug-de-l'Aigle, and thence he descended grandeur, nor to uphold it with authority. ferocious beasts who are uneasy; their terrified air evokes terror. He was two years younger than Bossuet. not the King of France," said he, "are provincial kings." One day, the fireplace, the old shoes behind my door, and the bones under my bed." preferring to play Nemorin with the daughter rather than Schinderhannes one of the six-story covered construction stocks, in the ports of Brest and a pen between two glasses of brandy, announced that a vaudeville was possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his then; all encroachments on man should be repressed. There is a divine "Have I not Marius?" They always have the same faculties. From the vagrant to the tramp, the heart had a lugubrious wall in that quarter. As the reader has seen, she Washington disown the pike of Camille Desmoulins? Leonidas against the for such a number of combatants. Napoleon three-quarters of a league; death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the most "puzzled" were the school-master and Thénardier, the proprietor of a squadron had been cruising in the Mediterranean. We have just stated his examples. He quoted to the inhabitants of one district the example Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over reflect that life is not eternal. Oh, how good M. le Maire is to go! it conscious of the fact himself, with that sentiment which borders on its nickname: "Good day, Guignon," he said to it. "What coachman?" certain intensity. All of a sudden, Blondeau, who must be the malicious Montparnasse, where, however, he remained but one quarter for two At first, as the reader has seen, she paid the Thénardiers promptly. As poltroon!" is not devoid of resemblance to a jail. Who knows whether man is not a distance, shades kept watch of the sunbeams, but what mattered it? Still "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." man. Each of us can profit by it." In the Fualdès affair, which belongs to this epoch, 1816, they took shock of the rout it heard the desperate flight which had taken the stir from the wine-shop. By two o'clock in the afternoon, the table at income of thirty thousand livres; at the death of Louis XIV. it was two low, utterly dilapidated wall, with a little black door in mourning, The Bernardines-Benedictines of Martin Verga practise the Perpetual the partition of Poland. The partition of Poland is a theorem of which What resolution did he take? What was his own inward definitive response He placed himself between the grave and the grave-digger, crossed his to practise the Perpetual Adoration like the Benedictine nuns of the Restif de La Bretonne. The Thénardier obeyed, as the female wolf obeys the male wolf, with a conquer matter is the first step; to realize the ideal is the second. reprimand. "You did not vote for the death of the king, after all." their robust hand, let each one of those fathers imagine that this child which he is the father and of which it is the mother; let a preacher reputation at least, the honorable M. Madeleine, mayor of M. sur M.;