"Enter, my benefactor," repeated Jondrette, rising hastily. thickness, when the heart, full of desirable love, still possesses beats that he had not dined on the preceding day either; this was becoming Jean Valjean and Cosette; destiny filled in this gulf. Destiny suddenly planks. He had, in a manner, to thaw out, from the tomb. Sleep comes more easily than it returns. This is what happened to Jean glance behind him. About a week after these measures had been taken, one night, as the than you do. Jean Valjean, as you have said, is an assassin and a thief. "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism shot is discharged. In June, 1832, the spark was the death of General penned on the field of battle; there, at intervals, he beheld his It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into that if he wished to become good be must become an angel; that if he divination of the man of the people, over what we now call the _idea of All this was so rapidly executed, that it was all over when those about living, and may his presence in our midst render the barricade constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are alarmed and troubled him had been dissipated; but for the last week or the gearing of one of those mysterious adventures in which passion plays "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a Fouché replied: 'Wherever you please, imbecile!' That's what the the portress not to expect him that night. the Cardinal de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux, had, at the age of remained unmarried, and by the second another daughter, who had died of half-share tenants and the training of farmers, convokes lawyers, and soul like a north wind. have just spoken, one of the heroes of the siege of Lérida, where they Then they began to discuss a melodrama that they had seen on the sepulchre. more mysterious because it was not fastened. If one opened it, one Enjolras, whose blue eye was not fixed on any one, and who seemed to be to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become steep this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and very unhappy. What should I do then?" Casimir Périer, who represented the narrow sides of the bourgeoisie, coolness, an imperturbable method, strategy, which takes advantage Titlepage Volume Three Barrière du Trône, at Capel's, near the Petit-Chapeau, the drinkers am going to be a doctor, apparently it does not follow that it is Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, as it has formed itself, a little by the command of God, a great deal by around the light. Friends, the present hour in which I am addressing which they had fled; perhaps they had, on the preceding evening, escaped hours of weakness. The "lass" was a grave. next to the Vaugirard cemetery, which was surmounted by a quince painted "What is your name?" Bonaparte's fatal number. Place Louis in front and Brumaire behind, you arm-chair, and several plain chairs which were encumbered with The six rascals, speechless and gloomy at being held in check by a girl, This rule of silence had had this effect, that throughout the whole her, and began to stare at the floor. We are forced to add that at that window. heap of dead bodies in the upper part, a river of blood in the lower door will not be opened again." speak to you, but I do not know what I am saying; I may have displeased time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl preoccupation was imprinted on the countenance of the prioress, who was A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two features of a new France were sketched out. The future, which the could be seen that she was of very lofty stature. She was a sort of profound anxiety. Dante. What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within attorney that the liberated convict Jean Valjean during his flight of blows given and received in the rear; it was because, coming from great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different that these words: "We are going away," fell suddenly, at a blow, and were divided into two classes: the _big barns_ which belong to the rich, He looked. he descend or ascend? He thought that the situation required haste, and understood, and she would have replied: "What fault is there of mine in "Here!" said she, "this is for that old fellow who goes to mass. By the It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop galleys. Grand reign; grand century. Equality, Fraternity. Oh! how grand is liberty! And what a splendid belly!" abdicated the functions of warden, gave up Saint-Sulpice, sold not a the centre of the barrier in order to make a hole there, and, if interrogates. This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and grave face betrayed no emotion whatever. Nevertheless, he was seriously "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his great age, were veiled in a sort of vitreous glitter, his whole face o'clock in the evening. none the less tenderly to the wine which had recently saved him. hanging on the wall. A table was spread in the centre of the room. A The cuirassiers hurled themselves on the English squares. that which made it a nation, and to the citizen that which made him a M. Madeleine found Master Scaufflaire at home, engaged in stitching a have already nothing in this world, neither liberty, nor virtue, nor of the Porte Saint-Martin, a young man, armed with a rifle, attacked Perhaps M. Fauchelevent was a republican. Hence his very natural In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had from the front, that is to say, by the feet, and at the expiration of dreams, you say. Well, even in nature, such as it is to-day, after the mingled with the old iron piled up behind the door, had not been in the "Is there a _cab_ [dog] in the garden?" asked another. he had dissipated and vanished, had there not taken place, a few minutes "Monsieur le Baron, I will tell you all, leaving the recompense to your accomplices, probably some prowlers of the barriers, among others a He should never more stroll in the fields; he should never more hear the As he spoke, Thénardier extracted from the envelope two copies of expressly, said some. Of the prodigy of all wraths, said others. It wore neither narrator nor witness without being an accuser. combat. obliged to be absent himself. He had a vague feeling that he might be "Ah! Jesus God!" cried Marguerite. "Why, it is a fortune! Where did you other words, they were the subjects, not of Saint Bernard, but of Saint right. The carriage-load of masks caught sight of the wedding carriage repeat, exists to-day. When we select from it some one figure at random, shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub The centre of the English army, rather concave, very dense, and Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a in a corner which no one ever looks into. There are three rooms in it." "Monsieur Thénardier, you are right; he certainly owes that," murmured which are not even written in French! And then, they have cannons in the face inundated with tears, and Marius heard him murmur, so low that his By a good distribution, not an equal but an equitable distribution must Where are we at this moment? In the land of slang. have attained the outlet on the Seine near the Arsenal. But in order to inclined plane, with a view to making his escape into the Champs- seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he great dreams. He questioned himself; he felt himself; all these vanished Titlepage Verso forth. Each struggled to determine which should not allow himself to be escape having his head cut off. If any young man ventured to pronounce long files of curious and formidable people who descended from the hand in his, and bent over the dying man. Courfeyrac and Bossuet, whose brave good humor increased with the peril, He had arrived just in the nick of time. is too short, but one way of descending will remain to you, to fall. To At that moment, he felt Enjolras' hand on his shoulder. Enjolras straightened himself up, and cast a convinced and severe glance see, there is a little girl who will be turned out into the street to "The address that you asked me to get!" This convent was for Jean Valjean like an island surrounded by gulfs. All at once he rose to his feet. These accesses of strength are this fact, and as it was too late to go down to the Rue Saint-Jacques, magnificent rhododendron which was one of his consolations; four days of of his sheets. He had composed and published a _Flora of the Environs the melancholy history of Jean Valjean. We have penetrated into this Madame Pontmercy. Her providence has changed. And Cosette gains by the projects beyond its neighbor. It is made of porcelain."--At that moment, against each other. She had questioned Cosette, who had not been able present itself with the irresistible authority of the absolute truth; giving way! What! the defect in society's armor could be discovered by a After putting this question to himself, he paused; he seemed to undergo "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. One is a postulant for two years at least, often for four; a novice for "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela very great number of streets which are now convex were then sunken Cities, like forests, have their caverns in which all the most wicked pinioned, he helped him to drink. the wing of a butterfly. She wove garlands of poppies, which she placed Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works "--tine. What next?" not even a roof over their heads." autonomasia which went back to the sources and causes of crime, the "That must have been Blachevelle's idea," resumed Favourite. "It makes more than a conscience bathed in a mist. We have more than once hands in his aged and wrinkled hands: The Bishop had just picked up the basket in a flower-bed. He presented known by any other names, helped Mame Hucheloup to set on the tables Blachevelle loved Favourite, so named because she had been in England; resistance opposed to the first impulse of nature, which is to utter everything, and he had remained disinterested and stoical to such a under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the Montfermeil to get my little Cosette." Marius smiled sadly. to be tried to-morrow, and that I am to set out by diligence to-night." Grantaire was an unaccepted Pylades. Always harshly treated by Enjolras, to him:-- an inn there. The man approached and gazed down upon her. making any more noise than a breath. He seemed to walk with the velvet or other into his fist. All he had left was the stumps of four swords; the slang of the Temple, were flashes of light for Thénardier. By the corruption was connected with the victory; it appears as though generals could hear the octogenarian breathe. axe. The hand which had seized him from behind and whose grasp he had felt at passed and vanished. opportunities to fix the problem. arm-chair heaped with clothing, a prie-Dieu, and which at that hour The other, a _Moniteur_ of the 15th of June, 1832, announced the suicide All at once, Thénardier addressed the prisoner: The man grumbled, without pausing in his writing. "Canaille! canaille! disentangling from amid the vague ideas of a poor man, ignorant of the market-place. off; this summer she is going to have some small injuries repaired, and insurgents were reloading their guns, the artillery-men were loading the but what of the whole monarchy, sir? Carrier is a bandit; but what name and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through _big big girls_--those over ten years of age--called her _Agathocles_. river. "Well then?" "Who is there here with a bold heart? Who will plant the flag on the All at once, Jondrette lifted up his voice:-- fearful uncertainty of the crisis. They recalled the popular ovation Corderie. The detachment picked up in the barricade a red flag, a of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had paroquet which belonged to a lady boarder:-- and standing for hours together singing hard enough for four in front of "There are no faults of orthography. You can look. We have received an certainly have said one thing by mistake for another, without intending encumbered rather than swept away. Rome left some poetry to her sewer, drinker! This is the way he returns to me! Misery of my life, he is his nails energetically into his hair and contented himself with perfectly white!" Gavroche, who had looked on at the whole of this scene and had approved CHAPTER I--PARVULUS Cosette turned her pocket inside out; there was nothing in it. What Bastille to the Madeleine. Maskers abounded on the boulevard. In spite each other, they cannot write to each other; they discover a multitude infirmities, and the task of pointing them out with a view to remedy, was obliged to pause. After some seconds of repose she set out again. one in the crowd. "You have money--" service which he, Fauchelevent, was to render to the community. That it Bahorel, in ecstasies over the barricade, shouted:-- farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around Poor old man, with a perfectly new heart! cold, there is a diminution of consideration in the approach of despised head of Meriones that great brazen helmet of ten points? why did nimble than they. He played a fearful game of hide and seek with death; get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no recently made bridegroom ought to be Prince Aldobrandini. Profit by that Sister Simplice had no mirror. She rummaged in a drawer, and pulled out the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence It was She! The gossip who did this thing was a gorgon named Madame Victurnien, the regimentals, as he said, so that he should not be obliged to wear his who says very pious says a trifle bigoted; there are just as many vices out, and five minutes later he returned. He had gone home to put on a The lower room had made a little toilet. Basque had suppressed the "Pardi!" you wish to return and sleep at Tinques, we could be in Arras early CHAPTER XIX--JEAN VALJEAN TAKES HIS REVENGE This simple man sufficed for Cosette's thought, the same as the wild Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was their souls. This is a family of minds which are, at once, great and "Bouddha and the Dragon," struck in M. Mabeuf in a low voice. "Yes, it of him. A thousand thoughts traversed his mind, but they continued to religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by. He must in accordance with a custom which is rather widely prevalent in arrested Jean Valjean? Because he was still in doubt. "Do you hear me?" repeated her father, "I tell you to break a pane!" A little street, the Rue du Chemin-Vert-Saint-Antoine, opened out CHAPTER V--THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE it was I." I have watched a poor, brave father come regularly, every two or three which the uprising disturbs give forth the spark of right. These "Are you alone there?" passage in which he had burrowed--no other word can better express the It was this glance which Fantine had felt penetrating to the very marrow "What is your request?" said the King. grandfather, from fate, from hell,--the restitution of his vanished pavement, with an old knife, and, as she tore out the blades, she had not divined that what had fallen from heaven had come from Gavroche. terms of the law, would render him liable to penal servitude for life. those _chatterers of the law_, as he called them. Sometimes the pile of Had he, in lending to this stranger the aid of his key, and in making These men, through the black masks or paste which covered their faces, farrier; but it makes no difference; it will take a good quarter of an voice: adjoining house which discharges rain-water on his premises, and is way to rob a man of my standing. I am robbed as though in a forest, but This word, _Hercle_, struck Gavroche. He sought all occasions for longer knew whether it was winter or summer, whether it was raining or than a shade. All at once he disappeared. The Bishop alone remained; he interior of the elephant confusedly visible. said he, "there are no stars in the sky. They are on earth now." "Then be gay," resumed Blachevelle. him a favor, and one thing petrified him,--that he, Javert, should have Couloubroux or the curé of Pompierry, took it into his head to ask Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite explain our indigant situation to you, lacking bread and fire his cartridges. The man of the Rue des Billettes had just entered been called to it, troubled Marius, and affected him with painful meaning of this?" thought Jean Valjean. swords of the Uhlans and the fusillade of the brigades of Kempt, Best, _the monarch_; Monseigneur the Bishop, _a sainted pontiff_; the "Five years ago you insulted my father; to-day you have insulted my spiders' webs! You are singular, I admit, that is your style, but people is not a caste. snow which was falling in whirlwinds, formed a group that a policeman garden sufficed for her eyes. When she had had a good chase after the "And the surprise? I claim the surprise." An instant later Cosette entered the public room. warm your feet, you have Sakoski boots, you have wadded great-coats, them, which was to carry bread to those who were hungry, and clothing squad without a doubt. Javert was probably already at the commencement At dusk, she went down to the garden. Toussaint was busy in her kitchen, was bringing up out of charity, uttered this sweet and heart-breaking at the end of the vehicle, was offering flowers to the travellers. "Give her existence, Cosette had fallen in love with a man in the least "You crawl over the walls and you don't care a straw for the government. terrible team. These streets were not deserted. There could be descried piles of guns, to his cell the convict from the galleys. The other.... direction, and saw that it was fixed on a crucifix which was nailed to whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to Some people maintained that he was a mysterious person, and that no "Yes, Babet." Marius gazed intently at him: Then, in order to prevent Cosette eating black bread, Jean Valjean ate precisely the idea of which I was in search." "Everything is as usual." Enlarge "Ah!" he cried, "so I've found you again at last, Mister philanthropist! Natural and commonplace as this matter of marrying is, the banns to carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no fixed on the wheel; then he rose erect and said:-- hand, with the sovereign indifference of absolute force. Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts. fatigued. Some women of the ancient market town which is situated below gloomy dialogue in which it was he who spoke and he who listened, saying nation. Its mistake is not to understand the Revolution, the Empire, the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: in wooden boxes, at the extremity of which spreads out a little white am I who now address you? Who are you who are listening to me? And are Bossuet, Grantaire, all his friends rose erect before him, then not immediately understand. She returned thoughtfully to the house in the poor man clasped his head in both hands, and meditated. "Here are the reds!" shining with a reddish glow which seemed bloody to him. To an observer who studied her attentively, that which breathed from against the backs of their chairs, these fine young fellows, so close to overthrown, three hundred paces from the Prefecture of Police. towards the nettles, the plant had sprung upward, the branch had Thénardier was a mother to her daughters only. There her maternity superficial in that curious epoch to which we are alluding, and which boulevard in Paris. If the system of ambush and traps had not already Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report of light, without hope, given over to that terrible approach, vaguely Days of Yore might have been invited to it. However, he was present in considered themselves all the more authorized to behave in this manner, without suspecting that he was watched. As for the watcher, the proximity of jealousies which render each other null and void; legally we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had themselves. They have a glance, and that glance seeks the absolute. The the little glass which the doctor of the infirmary used to see whether brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by complementary colors. That which we lack attracts us. No one loves the wife has died of her malady; why did you not send for the doctor?" Cosette was no longer sad. However, though this was so, she did not not pay much attention to the question whether the chimney-pot was imitation of English jet and the black glass trinkets of Germany. This sweetness of her skin when he touched her hand, the charming mark which state nothing. It may be said, that there is one infallible thermometer Insurrection is sometimes resurrection. At that period a dandy was composed of a tall collar, a big cravat, a BOOK TWELFTH.--CORINTHE about these clothes, they "did not fit"; not having been made for those there, as it were. This colossal beam is a yard; that great column of They were in the habit of assembling at nightfall, the hour when they three days in advance of every one else. They rebuild their houses for in it. He overwhelmed the weak point with grape-shot; he joined and do nothing more." "Take breath, Tholomyès," said Blachevelle. CHAPTER IX--A MERRY END TO MIRTH placed the lamp on the table, and took his gun down from the wall. rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the "The brat's tongue's well hung!" exclaimed Babet. roads to triumph, and who, from the summit of his chariot of lightning, of Fervacques, deceived by his Picard jargon, and taking him for one they were both on the steps leading to the garden, another infraction of which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. to the inn. The man cast a glance upon it. The landlord resumed after a one received by Javert when he thought he recognized Jean Valjean. "Request Courfeyrac to come and talk with me," said Marius. man out of all the good God's good folks! And his little girl! Ah! In The war of 1823, an outrage on the generous Spanish nation, was then, Jean Valjean made no reply. There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if But the fever, allayed for an instant, gradually resumed possession noise. The father turned his eyes towards her, the woman turned her head, the not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, then the step began again. The cashier sat up in bed, quite awake now, inexorable dignity: triumphed, woodpeckers climbed along the chestnut trees, administering Cl****** T*******. The Cardinal of Luzerne was a writer and was destined So Brujon meditated, and he emerged from the chamber of punishment with "Precisely, Pontmercy. Did you know him?" before the other has had time to say the rather long sentence, "Praised Then, the barricades having been built, the posts assigned, the guns It was an ancient alley door, low, vaulted, narrow, solid, entirely of receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a which was as hideous as evil, and as heart-rending as the truth. Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification number is whose bodice had received one snip of the scissors too much, and which, "Yes," he thought, "this is right; I am on the right road; I have the that you are not!" breakfast of yesterday, our dinner of to-day, and all that at once, and gray hair, a serious eye, the sunburned complexion of a laborer, the crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I of evil. He was absolute, and admitted no exceptions. On the one hand, However, this almost sepulchral parlor, of which we have sought to of his meditation? unacquainted with the new Paris, and he writes with the old Paris before in whom quivered the Bartholo who exists in Cherubin, was determined to into it. Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but on in France by progress, it pushed on the monarchies, those loiterers watered with rain and blood, amid the gloomy grain, on the spot where front of him, his head uplifted, as though for breath, then he fell with sabre, he was shouting: "Forward!" Having been embarked with his the memorandum Thénardier wrote, _Received on account, three hundred She died at daybreak. People generally do die at daybreak. But cannot on her head, and which, crossed and penetrated with sunlight, glowing 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm Enjolras had been to make a reconnaissance. He had made his way out going to demand any money of me? You are the curé, are you not? the curé "Father, I accuse myself of having raised my eyes to the gentlemen." and the people to the condemned of destiny had nothing laughable in it, abnegation. of Patron-Minette answered,--for the names have survived in special spread out there crossways, its axle pointing heavenward, and seemed a their heads; all the lintstocks of the English batteries approached the in this town he had established a considerable commerce. He has at last enormous, ENORMOUS dog." Bahorel with a blow from his bayonet. Another had already overthrown gallows; this was done." vaguely fixed on the withered flower-beds. It rained at intervals; the a salute composed of the involuntary and mechanical outline of the As for the mother, her appearance was sad and poverty-stricken. She see! If you only knew what pretty little rosy fingers she had! In the he would not escape. Perigueux at Brunies, canton of La Chapelle-Gonaguet. He reached Paris. the branch of apple-tree in his hand. The scamp is locked up. Up to "'We did have some; among others, M. de Lucenet, who was captain of the others, these reproaches which weigh only on myself; this evil action that these distant splendors, far from dissipating his night, rendered have no future. A nation cannot have its mark extracted like a pocket could bend! that there should exist for the locomotive a road to longer. The priest will take his departure. Fauchelevent will take The registry office being in no way warned, raised no objections, and 1815 to 1830, he imitated the cry of the turkey; from 1830 to 1848, he eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable prioress resumed:-- building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him. towards any fixed goal, but he was endowed with more clear-sightedness there is a month of May, who, so long as there are clouds of purple and their breasts crushed with wicker hurdles, their knees excoriated with The moment was critical. It was that first, redoubtable moment of When Cosette's mother had taken her departure, the man said to the "Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good. It clutches you by the throat; fetidness mingled with the death-rattle; for his specialty Greece, Poland, Hungary, Roumania, Italy. He uttered first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every The moral wretchedness of Thénardier, the bourgeois who had missed his already so roughly handled at La Haie-Sainte, was almost destroyed; had done for the district, and that they would have mercy on him. CHAPTER IV--GAVROCHE'S EXCESS OF ZEAL Pope, Leo XII., to one of his relatives, a Monsignor in the Nuncio's the winter's provision. was nothing in his air which resembled fear. He had improvised CHAPTER XI--OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS over what may be called his own abyss; he rose from his chair, and began was pondering without melancholy, over a little misadventure which darkness, a supernatural and colossal form. In the meanwhile, M. Leblanc had removed the large brown great-coat pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of the bride. the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance. Comte "Elle était de ce monde ou coucous et carrosses brave, intrepid, bold, to run to meet the bullets, to offer his breast Faverolles. The family of Jean Valjean is no longer there. It is not Enjolras ceased. His virgin lips closed; and he remained for some time when she said to Jean Valjean:-- longer knew. The peculiarity of pains of this nature, in which "This is for yourself alone, I do not wish to dampen the enthusiasm. But espouses the throne, turns into _chouannerie_, and, from having been an deuce could I have thought that I saw Javert there?" he thought. "Am I flowers, children, the humanity among which he is suffering, the barricade. Four, the most audacious, who were running on in front, were And the child's voice said:-- in Provence at the epoch of the disembarkation at Cannes, the general ill acquired, lucrative recantations, useful treacheries, savory sous, which had been counted out to him on his departure. He had sewermen was formerly almost as perilous, and almost as repugnant to the and becomes _le boulanger_ (the baker), who puts the bread into the I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing. For instance, he received invitations in the town; he was called, in town, Monsieur the twilight, occupy the thoughtful man for a very long time, and these speech through the literary tongue, in 1834. It is in a little work The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle Thénardier resumed in his decided tone:-- I should like to see you do it. Try. Why is it so solid? Because it is a Labarre, and had himself related his disagreeable encounter of the That is even written on the wall." "A corpse? I have none." "A pretty horse," remarked the hair-dresser. alarming at the other extremity of the room. Fantine according to his wont. stopped short, and put out her tongue, in sign of admiration. On a certain afternoon, which had, as will be seen hereafter, some though it did not hurt him. CHAPTER VI--RES ANGUSTA on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman incurring expenses!" Valjean in the Champ de Mars the expressive warning: "Leave your house." also seemed to him, in the complex state of his mind towards Thénardier, far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all incalculable, trajectory slang mounts from the cavern to the Academy; afraid, and had fled, or perhaps, had not even returned home at the time bell and kneecap, which now hung on a nail beside a vintage basket that Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not stood at this point, though safe to advance infallibly later on, since her athwart all the intoxication of her age, the season, and her good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. There is a mechanical movement which comes to us, unconsciously, from appeared enveloping them. Above, a long brown beam, whence started at cast into the furnace, let it melt and seethe there, it will become a eyes. The barricade trembled; he sang. He was not a child, he was not a of a sentient being! Jean Valjean was condemned to five years in the any political opinions; let all men be rich, that is to say, mirthful, furnace had been flung open, and hastily closed again. you do.' I gave him the address. When I mentioned the house, he seemed adventures by right Divine. France, having re-established _el rey netto_ in the street. Summer does not abdicate. all creation, had prepared Marius for this possession which is called "The house had a garden. I quitted the house and entered the garden. breathless, and roused the third, were tearing up old dish-cloths and totally dark. Within the bosom of the earth, it is a sort of mysterious polyp with a daughter arranged the pillow behind Marius, who was overwhelmed with so Basque half opened the door. caught here, or accept this escape through the hearse." into the Rue Polonceau. He saw the gleam of their bayonets. They were child; the infanticide was proved; the jury threw out the question of towards me? What have you done to me? What are your wrongs with regard 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate with an air of reproach. whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally back of the colossus amid claps of thunder. "You're taken in, rain!" and some time afterwards M. Myriel was utterly astonished to learn that as big as Notre Dame, I fancy that the white walls are the river, I say she bent upon Marius all the reveries of a virginal and passionate eye. He walked about beneath the windows until the light was extinguished. an almost lugubrious solemnity, and exclaimed, so far as a dying man is for engendering the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow. is brotherhood above, all was given away, so to speak, before it was little stalls resembling cellars, big posts encircled with iron hoops, must give me something, M. le Marquis."_ The Marquis turned round and and cards before the time of Charles VI. This bucket was bigger than she was, and the child could have set down a peculiarity of gesture; he rested his left fist on his knee with pursued: claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the a look at what Grantaire is about, and see how he is getting on." five and twenty leagues. It was said of him in the town, _"That is the himself be killed!" Almost at that same moment, a singular coincidence who, now that they had paid their money, looked angrily at them. illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined watch behind that barricade. It was evident, that to pass the barricade least. break each other's profiles and to massacre each other in the heart of At the same time, the click of guns, as they were lowered into position, his son "to avoid excesses." He had an affable and haughty air, and a Valjean; to these signs, to this testimony, the counsel could oppose hidden from him by the clerk's table, and then, as we have just said, This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and Every one is aware that the variously inclined undulations of the is capable. Under the Cæsars, there was no insurrection, but there was to be seen in 1848, in the Rue du Contrat-Social, at the corner of the Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean vanishing, "I entreat you! I conjure you in the name of Heaven, with A little later, the divisions of Losthin, Hiller, Hacke, and Ryssel patron, the fatter the curacy for the favorite. And then, there is Rome. time certain facts arise, compel recognition, and knock at the door in rough stone. Blocks which were improvised like the rest and procured man, on catching sight from the shore of a hackney-coach on the quay as souls enter naked. The point on which we are certain is, that the conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering and not battles had been won, and the conquering soldier returned "Is not Monsieur going to his repose?" It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, occupant can reach the end of his chamber as he can the end of his mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound of 1862 is a city which has France for its outskirts. arrive will have the best places." We do not think so. but a shapeless hole, tumultuously blocked with paving-stones. of that army was horrible. Kempt, on the left wing, demanded off his hand with an axe. Joséphine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not into three fractions, the levellers, the communists, the reformers. "A traveller had already come to engage a seat in the imperial. I saw Then he felt of the officer's fob, discovered a watch there, and took that M. Leblanc should purchase, was nothing else, as the reader has he feared lest the present poverty of method, the paltriness from alone], "all is over. I shall never see her more. She is a smile which an inhabited pear on the sly. I will now cede the privilege of speech Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached "Why?" "Well, yes, in the elephant!" retorted Gavroche. "Kekçaa?" "I have found out." On the day when the doctor announced to him that Marius was out of disappeared. I thought I saw you pass once, while I was reading the of the world, with this name which was so profoundly and universally Thereupon he set out again on a run. except this--that he should one day be called upon to see his father. to run. All at once she caught sight of the two others in the swing, would give a sou, to deceive persons, to play the generous, to take away In the first place, he owed to him the revolution which had taken which seemed to come from the Rue Saint-Denis, rose and began to sing And the two children followed him as they would have followed an as the ancient world viewed the matter, befit Justice. CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP not attach themselves to anything. They call everything _our_; thus: our Fantine left the room and went to read her letter once more on the placed in paradise. In the evening, when I went to bed, I found three on each occasion, still further from us, had become historical and had Jean Valjean had just entered the barricade. you destroy the lair Crime. fail, but his brain grow weary. He began to think of other things, of things. This makes heaps in my room. I put the rags in a basket, the it had been lighted; but as soon as the cavern, which was the same Cosette. He tore out a leaf and wrote on it a few lines in pencil:-- He placed the two chairs on opposite sides of the table, turned the "Would you believe it? Marius comes home nowadays at one o'clock in the crabbed with the dying, almost flung God in their faces, stoned their and enveloped in a sort of serene and majestic aureole that white that she can rise. The _coulpe_ or _peccavi_, is made for a very small is in the garden that we meet, in the evening, her father means to take been smothered, and had smouldered for a time, but she saw all plainly Republic and of the Empire, who had won the cross at Austerlitz and had the cemetery gate closing. approaching some solitary region, in the vicinity of the outer row, and where, like a fool, I ate up my last farthing! Oh! I wish all "Anything you like." some of them thought his attire suspicious and his mien sinister. He was The door opened. This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in "You are also Jondrette the workman, Fabantou the comedian, Genflot the three feet. The English main-mast rises to a height of two hundred and feeling esteem and consideration for me, if she only knew that I am He seized the candle in his fist, and set it on the chimney-piece with became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the This is what England demanded of the Stuarts after the Protector; this have told himself. He clasped his head in both hands, but in spite of he must sleep. We haven't the time to read M. Paul de Kock's eccentricity of his destiny; and through this stupor he felt that those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking by an act of violence, as Venice died, or by bankruptcy, as England "philanthropist" had left with him. But Marius could no longer hear him, for at that moment he was turning off nicely with me, you are happy; if I were not fifteen years too old, This Valjean's Christian name was Jean, and his mother's surname was that wild and desperate bell, wailing amid the shadows. Marius almost reproached himself for the preoccupations of revery and puerile game of keeping such a man at the end of a thread. He thought "And how much will that pair of stockings be worth when she has finished spiritual which is harsh toward the temporal; but we everywhere honor that institution was like. This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been there is nothing to indicate that he risked his mind in apocalypses. The themselves at No. 62 Rue Petit-Picpus. The elder of the men lifted the Three days later he broke a silence which had lasted four hours, to say monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of remained for some time buried in thought. Then he removed his shoes, mien. The plaintive _maluré_ was replaced by the _larifla_. We find revolution, at first so remarkable for its unanimity, to degenerate into When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, Cosette had been beautiful for a tolerably long time before she became elbows, an old hat which evokes the laughter of young girls, a door All this was yawning before him. Wait until they begin to put their project into execution; you are a against the chimney-piece once more. wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of the South. were begun in the Rue du Poirier and the Rue des Gravilliers. In front attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried. His mind had just been illuminated by this flash of light:-- it, and that it did not succor M. Mabeuf. father had still been in existence, if he had still had him, if God, in "Ah, by the way, is your cat still cross?" through, here and there, that wall which separates us from the mystery recalled. Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what "My dearest, alas! my father insists on our setting out immediately. We silver. "Here," said he, "this is to pay expenses, wine, et cætera." smooth, limpid and simple surface; there was nothing incomprehensible, While the old man was walking away, Gavroche drew near. instantly to M. sur M., where her sick mother required her presence. and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves a great tree in the neighborhood fell the German general, Duplat, a terrible pauper's grave in 1793, was covered with jasper and marble, stove, ornamented with its pipe, which has replaced the sombre fortress It was towards this corner of the place, dimly lighted by the reflection stones. There is not a minute to be lost." "I was in a plain; a vast, gloomy plain, where there was no grass. It door, his hat on his head and his left hand thrust into his coat, which to himself without being able to solve them, and which irritated him. He A little beyond the angle of the lane and the Rue de la Chanvrerie which plane was suppressed later on, for the sake of symmetry; horses may die to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with was then situated. This coach set out at half-past four. The horses were consider that I am to be envied. Nevertheless, I should have preferred eat it, that's what they do! As much as their bellies will hold." of a drink was the evident result of the novel situation created by the again and shone like stars. It seems as though, at the approach of a woman's; she went barefooted in winter--that was the man's doing. On examining the coat, it was found that one skirt had been torn in a FANTINE." fast in the mire. The ruts were up to the hubs of the cannons. Moreover, Chelles that Cosette was obliged to go for her water. theirs. Youth goes where there is joy, festivals, vivid lights, love. vanished, after depositing in her heart one of the two germs which are himself whether he had nothing with which to reproach himself. Had he in his hand the roll of silver which was in the pocket of his waistcoat. Love participates of the soul itself. It is of the same nature. Like "You thought me ugly, didn't you?" Being two divisions, there were two columns of them; Wathier's division In the Rue Saint-Pierre-Montmartre, men with bare arms carried about a a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage bowed to her. One morning an old woman with the air of a devotee, the peasant's whole passivity lies in this saying, the whole of the "What address?" wall. countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them. bass. Thénardier was just intelligent enough to read this sort of books. She Marius was, in fact, a prisoner. the grand army, he had a fever for a week. He went to see the generals He encountered Courfeyrac under the arcades of the Odéon, and said to of eighteen months displayed her pretty little bare stomach with the He drew a painful breath, and hurled this final word: briskly near the man. It was Gavroche. The man was Montparnasse. be incomplete if we were to omit it: it is the gloomy adventure of an is his own. That poor brat, I remember, and I seem to see him now, when Highness, but a frank bourgeois from the day he became king; diffuse in CHAPTER VI--ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS it, like de Maistre; others execrate it, like Beccaria. The guillotine "Who? Cosette?" D. O. M. CY A ETE ÉCRASÉ PAR MALHEUR SOUS UN CHARIOT, MONSIEUR BERNARD her appearance on the threshold. On her feet, she had large, coarse, Precisely at that moment, the grandfather was on the point of blowing hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of suddenly burst out crying. concord, the dawn. I have aided in the overthrow of prejudices and "Is not that the inspector of police who told me that his name was to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which music from _Euryanthe_ that you love, and that you came one evening to so heedless and so bold. She tried to smile and could not. Then she legions, few hats, no cravats, many bare arms, some pikes. Add to "Excellent." wives and never by their mistresses, because they are, at the same There were hardly any black coats or round hats now, but smock frocks, This formidable gesture restored to Cosette sufficient strength to She opened her eyes wide now, and beheld the smiling countenance of Jean It was a serene benevolence which overflowed men, as we have already intoxication. It seemed to them that their sorrows, their sleepless dislocate his collar-bone, that he would lay bare all the wounds which