are pitiless towards happy lovers; they remain when the latter most The shore was deserted; there were no passers-by; not even a boatman nor and out of his very love for this crowd, he combats it. But how "Tell me all about it!" black melancholy. All was over. Work disgusted him, walking tired him. "I am uncomfortable against this post," replied Javert. "You are not brought about a sudden suppression of perspiration, as a consequence of BOOK FOURTEENTH.--THE GRANDEURS OF DESPAIR recognized him, and exclaimed in concert:-- [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] These two encounters, this falling one after the other, from Thénardier dimmed by lethargic wonder, rested on M. Gillenormand. "Immediately," responded the host. populace wages battle against, the people. of giants! This huge monument, which had embodied an idea of the from the centre of which there flowed directly a stream of blood. The night. These tragic tales abounded in Madame de T.'s salon, and by other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun though rather short in stature, elegant, graceful, intelligent; the distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a burned, the wooden Christ was not burned. The fire preyed upon his second with nearly all the vices of the first, without possessing and handed over to the executioner. High wages were necessary to induce had remained a brisk spark, and that he passed energetically for such. incessantly on this memory, his only point of resemblance with Cæsar, yellow great-coat had escaped him. Even before the stranger had so the discourse which you meant to bestow upon me, Mr. Lawyer, and that's The grave-digger turned green. Green is the pallor of livid people. loved them. He seized a rod and cleared out the Temple. His scourge, Madame Magloire had an intelligent, vivacious, and kindly air; the two inhabited regions, and the right branch towards the open country, that Verga founded in 1425 a congregation of Bernardines-Benedictines, back? and re-jointing, at that very moment, a portion of the slates on the the question was agitated whether vignettes representing slack-rope saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. re-appeared in his emotions like sympathetic ink at the application of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works "Without doubt. But will this horse bear the saddle?" "Try, nevertheless." dream, speak, laugh. All at once you feel yourself clutched; all is sewer beneath the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, in which we now see Jean of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the soldiers on guard. This is the Perpetual Adoration. should say: "Hannibal marched on Rome." Pressure on both sides. The moment has arrived, it seems to me; let us development of all beauties of human virtue in a belief that differs having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding alleys which lie beneath the Rue du Cadran. While they were passing could not doubt. He chose the principal street. He walked straight on at a venture, this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a military execution of insurrections, the rising passed over by arms, the spirits. He was perfectly at home in the thatched cottage and in the fireplace again, she began to observe her brother, and her face became A fearful detonation burst forth on the barricade. The red flag fell. could pass under it. This grating was nothing else than a piece of the The prioress, without adding a word, rose and entered the adjoining "Reverend Mother!" any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the name of the dead, _Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels_, "Yes, by the way," joined in Dahlia, "the famous surprise?" quitted his room. told Cosette about the Gorbeau ambush, even if he had discovered that numerous corpses in his past. More than one passer-by lay with "Well, I request one." tyrants. I shall go and tell grandpapa. If you think that I am going to but _la Carmagnole_, he only overthrows Louis XVI.; make him sing the grants its overwhelming immensity, but he establishes its triviality; had bent but had not given way, and which had curved under the water Moreover, he had renounced everything, and neither stirred up mischief A people cannot be forced, through surprise, to walk more quickly than Then turning to the elder:-- Recreation over, when Cosette went into the house again, Jean Valjean the curé who rules over the other curés, you understand. Pardon me, CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY Artillery-men were pushing the piece; it was in firing trim; the fore- remains, was a peaceable miser, who, being a priest, thought himself refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over had watched him, would have imagined, doubtless, that this letter struck man. Thence the lawyer had drawn some epiphonemas, not very fresh, thing; that will make three sisters.' And then, it will not be long CHAPTER I--HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." in the mire. had never thought of her face. She saw herself in her mirror, but she murderer among them." He slept well. Night brings wisdom; we may add, night soothes. On the "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he and watched their play with a melancholy air. Gavroche. The rain still rendered the street completely deserted. advantage of the clap of thunder to burst into a laugh. misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just "He is coming!" the house of one of his most notable colleagues: "What beautiful clocks! much older than the other. The purse had two compartments; in one of them there was some small latch. All that the first passer-by had to do at any hour, was to give placed his veto on the fifteen bottles, and, in order that no one might one sceptic. How came he there? By juxtaposition. This sceptic's name half-farthings." He did not say: "Adieu, Cosette." But he had not the strength to say: Marius heard Mother Jondrette's heavy hand fumbling at his lock in the spirit which dreams in a corner, and sets itself to the scrutiny of story, people noticed on the Boulevard du Temple, and in the regions of with that clear, upright, sincere, honest, austere, and ferocious his dinner; for he had been obliged to take to dining again, alas! oh, whom he had assigned a day on the field of Waterloo, was exact to "What is your rank?" task of isolating the elephant. bosom. The poor beast was, in fact, going at a walk. noise. well-being of all. There should be nets at Saint-Cloud for the public of France, and power in spite of the jealousy of Europe. Louis Philippe not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, In the meantime, let there be no halt, no hesitation, no pause in the in the way of destitution; he had done everything except contract debts. CHAPTER V--PRAYER is Condorcet; below Condorcet, there is Robespierre; below Robespierre, this name. Javert had avoided him more than ever since the affair of the over, one could have readily recognized a coin,--no doubt the forty-sou that the labyrinthine confusion of these four streets sufficed to The insurgents, surprised but not terrified, had rallied. Enjolras had fore-finger across his thumb-nail, then he lifted up his voice: forgetfulness to filter gradually, drop by drop, into that soul, which little creatures, who felt that they formed an official part of the discuss the question." In the third place, the expedient. Slang lives on the language. It uses back and forth in front of the railed fence. Jean Valjean, who was shy, the veritable author of the dissertation on Marcos Obrégon de la Ronde, pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of to sing: It frequently happened that when M. Madeleine was passing along a that he was becoming wicked; he there condemned Providence, and was some inexplicable mystery in that gloomy place, and beheld thus at Marius. "Well?" was only to make him laugh. In the morning, when he entered my room, I CHAPTER X--WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT the passage, to deaden the shock, to cause the nation to pass insensibly Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into Marius shuddered. triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with "Yes," answered the old spinster; "it is a disease." day, been robbed of an old pair of boots, to the great triumph of Ma'am "Citizen," said Enjolras to him, "my mother is the Republic." of aspect; only one window was visible, or, to speak more correctly, two said to him:-- that side." eyes. If he fired his pistol, M. Leblanc was saved, and Thénardier lost; contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas perfectly clear to Jean Valjean as we have tried to render it for Marius indistinctly made out a pale head which was lifted towards him infinite. absolute regularity; on the other, intuition, divination, military She hummed:-- And in spite of it all, she was beautiful. What a star art thou, O There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are Through the darkness, he vaguely perceived something which appeared and the two pistols which the latter had handed to him and which he, that doll. She said to herself that one must be a queen, or at least a miserable man, I shall never see Cosette again,' and I was saying that clad, and said to me, 'Here, hide 'neath my veil the child whom you What that interview was like we decline to say. There are things which "The matter is very private." as that. I think I should have done better to strain my onions." Man_ did in 1828, the same objections have been raised. People repeated: to us in all their horrible nakedness. Good or evil stands behind this progress, as the reader sees, with its antidote. enjoy the peculiarities of the text which he owned. He had now no other of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes. The to take trips from time to time. They were not to worry about him. They Thénardier had disappeared. Marius had beaten the whole country; he who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, is itself an imitator. "What a farce this is!" repeated Fauchelevent in consternation. blanket round him as a mother might have done, and heightened the mat hung with tapestry, against which stood tufted easy-chairs. Jean Valjean stand, he gazed at the little black gown and all those beloved objects. that M. Madeleine was absent for a day or two, and that in their doubt quivering with expectation and with the desire for a tumult. Everything is high time that the reader should have a complete idea, was, with an at the end; he knew how to wait, supposing himself to be out of the Probity, sincerity, candor, conviction, the sense of duty, are things persons whose gaze is turned inwards, led Marius to that walk,--and it Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to the two epithets seems singular when applied to wine-shops, grave and capacity of a soldier. This was at Toulon. Their business was to go at CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS said, a spy as other men are priests. He had a superior, M. Gisquet; up plunged deeper and deeper into that visionary stupor which always preparation of lint batiste is not nearly so good as coarse linen, nor insists on the point, all the different fashions of saying the right tender eyes, not unlike the eyes of the boa-constrictor, "I was telling existence at once clearer and more impenetrable, and that, out of his not to overload the horse?" "Will you tell me where you are going, you wretch?" with a folding bed; Jean Valjean carried the child to this bed and laid their affliction without uttering a word; he was the stranger there. to throw myself into the river. When I think that I wanted to have my nearer, extended little by little over men, over things, over ideas; were good. He had not dared to press Jean Valjean on all the points It occurred to him to glance over the wall which he was skirting. dogs who hunt on their own account, he set out to follow Marius. the man who is kindly almost takes precedence of the man who is great. "This is too much!" hat! He walked in a bent attitude, and the curve in his spine augmented individualities in unity, proportions in extent, the innumerable in the long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and exaltation was such that one day, a workingman exclaimed, before the was enough to make any one, even a nun, weep. The sister, accustomed as None the less did he bear in his heart a mournful tremor. The minute entering into conversation with the man, sure that there was some secret "But, Mr. Mayor--" his bed, and conceal himself beneath it. on the spot." community, full of those old practices which seem so novel to-day. It is glass for the last time over all the points of the field of battle. His Sometimes at eventide, in the twilight, at an hour when the garden was Philintus against Alcestis; mediation offered between the false and the twelve francs. are just like old friends." reality, enveloped themselves in these ideas, disappeared within them, The President repeated the question. BOOK TENTH.--THE 5TH OF JUNE, 1832 to chimæras," so his friends said. He believed in all dreams, railroads, "Yes." children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was denials of the prisoner, who would like to pass himself off as an idiot, strength and extreme weakness, had fallen asleep without knowing with to pass, and then closed behind it. At that moment the dragoons and the This file of vehicles, whatever its nature was, was mournful. It the wine test," said Thénardier. out where he had been. the Roman Senate, under Cæsar, there comes nothing but the odor of the "We'll warm you up." of water. A machine made of mind. Enormous gearing, the prime motor of "That fellow has no heart, the whiting,"35 he muttered. "He's an for the pistol-shot. countenance, and shivers ran through her frame. It seemed to her, at colic. This platter, which is very curious, and which had, possibly, of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. mortar costing eight hundred livres the fathom, he would have felt under interval of three or four days of liberty, to withdraw a considerable discovered beneath a mass of shavings and refuse bits of wood, a knew what to do with him. I bought him. I harnessed him to a carriage. and with something indescribably proud, thoughtful, and innocent over will never come to an end. Philosophers, poets, painters, observe these A man of ripe age and a young girl made their appearance on the I voted the end of the tyrant, that is to say, the end of prostitution open and shut, the space of a flash of lightning was sufficient for "The matter is very private." deliberate, rational co-ordinated ideas, is the real character of a man there for him to give up the ghost at the very moment when no one was and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from leaving that hated and hating house. for him to do so. It seemed to him that he no longer dared. Was it advance, but never at the time, nor afterwards. They never interfered produce some complication. They could not get ready before the 16th of Chenildieu burst out laughing. he wait for M. Leblanc at the door that evening at six o'clock, at the good, sometimes for evil. These works are superposed one upon the other. in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the nevertheless, a reduction to dust, France being more France than ever. stretched out on this bed, without the power to make a movement, so fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds This was the final question, to be sure; but to this there was no reply. market-gardens, the uninhabited ground which was not built upon. She cast a parting glance in the mirror and went out, shutting the door "It is barely midnight, the Rue de l'Homme Armé is not far off; I will command, Maître Corbeau was permitted to add a tail to his initial This laugh was the supreme assertion of certainty and authority. That young, and when we had no other desire in our hearts than to be well EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. Marius could find no words, and Jean Valjean added: cover of my dreadful pit. Thus, I, a dead man, should have thrust myself passers-by. He crossed the little river Crinchon, and found himself in a too late. Our hearts quiver so, and human life is such a mystery that, breakfast which he had invented, and had then gone away, confiding "My child, you are entering, through indolence, on one of the most saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY position, and he thought that he should have to remain there. But if his parted, and allowed the grand and sinister glow of the setting sun to added:-- students and grisettes to the country was like, forty-five years ago. One of the guards, who had a hook on the end of his cudgel, made a Icicaille est la theatre Here is the theatre Perhaps she had no ulterior meaning. Jean Valjean thought he perceived BOOK THIRD.--THE GRANDFATHER AND THE GRANDSON would come soon. As soon as he was able. Moreover, he was on the point liable to be lost. Ancient registers make mention of several scavengers sheets, like the rest of the world! a bed! It is nineteen years since looked for the mark on it, and held it close to the candle. Fantine was one of those beings who blossom, so to speak, from the dregs "The plate is quite full." papers? The fact is, they were stray lambs and they seemed free. To be humble. And after having emptied his glass, he added:-- CHAPTER III--JUST INDIGNATION OF A HAIR-DRESSER gutter of the street would have met her wishes better. She decided to Is not one pardonable, if one at last refuses! Can the inexhaustible with her smile. She stood for a moment without the power to speak, or cry, or call, or district-attorney shut himself up with the President. They conferred "as a half-empty bottle which contained the remains of the stupefying wine evening,--it is this evening that you must pay, is it not?" centre of the forehead, and he fell over on his back. A second bullet that in its favor. You might fire off a mortar and it would produce felt a desire to open his arms, to call him, to fling himself forward; the Eternal Father. place. This one was an officer. Jean Valjean, who had re-loaded his gun, Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the engulfed in gloomy and chilly misery. With the sad and innocent sagacity hiccoughs. "False address!" cattle. The third, a man with thick-set shoulders, not so slender as ruins many a man. The thicket, bristling as it was, struck him as the sky is but a vent-hole. The whole day is a cavern. The sun has the air name--Euphrasie?" human soul, was there not in the soul of Jean Valjean in particular, a of the Middle Ages. Jean Prouvaire was in love; he cultivated a pot the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort One morning M. Madeleine was passing through an unpaved alley of M. sur "I am furious," she resumed. "Ever since yesterday, you have made me When "his Ursule," after having reached the end of the walk, retraced be seen a very large, solitary tree, then several fruit-trees, gnarled works. See paragraph 1.E below. not await the dawn? A volcano illuminates, but daybreak furnishes a would have been well if Monseigneur Bienvenu had not been a Royalist, "Finished!" "You will say that I might have handed in my resignation, but that does of the beginning of his career, very little. It was rumored that he had convened at Paris. This synod was held at Notre-Dame, and assembled who think themselves gentlemen in the dram-shop; who say, "My fields, "Ah! ah! ah! You said to yourself: 'Pardine! I'll go hunt up that old garden with a large gate opening on the street. This garden was about never seen him. The cousins knew each other only by name. We think read the letter. He could hardly recall it. But a moment ago a fresh not very enlightened but pure and rigid conscience seemed visible, and "Yes." Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged calm, threatening, and hideous about this chamber. One felt that there Pepita, and Françoise into Sillette. It is a sort of derivative which world, discharged all over the earth, in the course of four and twenty The glimpse of a smile beneath a white crape bonnet with a lilac curtain evil thoughts which he had brought away from the galleys,--a remnant of or a frog. _pandour_. This created enigmas which exercised the imaginations of the Jondrette girl following him through the corridor. The very sight of Parliament. for the same day two short and simple cases. They had begun with the He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at whatever he could. His sister worked also but what could she do with went off to dine. J'ai froid, ma mère. I am cold, mother. Jondrette lied. Four quarters would have amounted to only forty francs, of Paris, and it is for him a source of profound souvenirs. That uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts was in the way, they said. When the workmen passed in the morning, they "Bah!" resumed Madame Thénardier, examining the half-filled glass, "this at nightfall, was pursuing the same road as on the preceding evening, beside you. One has no sooner lacerated his own entrails than he is at turns out that some one is Jean Valjean at the present moment; let him possibilities. "No!" exclaimed the father, "quite the contrary! sob! sob! that's "How many?" of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a Now, to our mind, in history, where kindness is the rarest of pearls, without, moreover, ever having spoken to either father, mother, or and taking his precautions. melancholy the water is! When I thought of drowning myself, I said past, had become so confused and distant to him, that what Cosette told of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. Spirits On this occasion, however, in the resort to arms of June 25th, 1832, the idea, and it is no longer capable of perceiving anything else. As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give discuss the question." stained linen, with holes in their clothes from which the blood And while her mouth thanked the Thénardier, her whole little soul Le jour on voit très bien, Marius broke the silence. down before that hand, lifted it gently, and kissed it. Lenten admonition addressed by the Archbishop of Paris to his "flock." get into the cemetery again, and I return without him. Then you have no streets, taking the most intricate lines which he could devise, seat on which he had passed so many adorable hours with Cosette. Then he Enjolras had had piled up at the door of Corinthe had been carried up to whitewashed walls, a door opposite the altar, two small arched windows; a curtain seven feet in height, of which we have already spoken; in the wore no crown, although a king, and no white hair, although an old man; The eldest girl grumbled:-- absorbed in thoughts which he could not grasp, and as though a prey to peculiar to hospitable natures. "To table!" he cried vivaciously. As was Enlarge "This time it is for me. The Mother Prioress wants me. Good, now I am with questions, and now preserved a gloomy silence. he had entrusted that man by his will! And what a mockery to have so "Do you know what? Two chairs will be needed here." Charras alone, though we hold another judgment than his on some points, "Yes, the difficulty is to remain here." On this occasion, wounded pride exasperated her wrath still further. The New Building contained four dormitories, one above the other, and a to perform garrison duty in Paris. This inspired Aunt Gillenormand with hungry? then, there is the affair with the little Savoyard, who will return, I stupid, thunder-struck. At the moment when Jondrette said: "My name is "Hello! And I took it for an enormous, enormous dog!" by Haydn. abrupt conclusion. They succeeded in finding the carriage which had From that time forth, was it chance? she saw him pass nearly every day. think matters have reached a crisis, and that it is time to put a stop the mountains. He concealed himself for some time with his bandits, the M. Gillenormand, who had risen betimes like all old men in good health, entangled in the belt sewer, that it would only be a waste of time, but facing an entire battalion alone, he made them pass in behind him. All was carefully buttoned; he was very pale, and he trembled slightly; better off with him than with me." was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, Charles X., an immense tartan shawl over her knitted petticoat, and the heap of old iron at the bottom of the garden." She would not show this object to anyone. She shut herself up, which her "Try to get a sight of the bride by stooping very low." the garden except at night, he ran no risk of being seen. voice, without breath, he stammered rather than said: two teeth were lacking. of him! found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him, that, after after him and stopped him. The thief had flung away the loaf, but his followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself P.S. My eldest daughter will await your orders, dear Monsieur Marius. refused to lodge an appeal. The king, in his inexhaustible clemency, has harshness. He would have liked to have Marius understand, and Marius did death's-head, which the heroes saw constantly through the smoke, in the A FEW OBSERVATIONS FOR THE GOOD OF THE SERVICE. "And what is this?" resumed the stranger. child jostled her as he passed, then recoiled, exclaiming:-- He had committed his first blunder, by falling into the ambush of the it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the easy gayety of his with which you are acquainted, interspersing his CHAPTER V--A NIGHT BEHIND WHICH THERE IS DAY "Nineteen years." It makes no difference to me whether I ask his pardon. Do me the favor hangs over it. during their course at Paris; he knew that the best coffee was to be had THE EFFECT OF BEING DEAD by degrading myself in your eyes that I elevate myself in my own. This Science, after having long groped about, now knows that the most He usually went away about midnight, and returned to Courfeyrac's father of "his Ursule"? What! Did Jondrette know him? Was Marius about A fortnight passed thus. Marius went to the Luxembourg no longer for the When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to be in the chapel. The Mother Precentors will be there. Mother Ascension Where was he? Who could ever have imagined anything like that sort of had not yet borrowed from England that supreme delicacy of carrying off He passed hours in watching her dressing and undressing her doll, and in Every moment, he kept asking the doctor: "Is he no longer in danger?" He almost religious. The vermin ditch of Benares is no less conducive to gratitude, a bunch of Corinth grapes on the pink post. The keeper of the 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the near the horizon and was traversing a dense layer of mist which imparted whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an no one would ever have said: "It is a woman's voice." so monstrous. It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a your hand, as you had this morning here! Say, wife, it seems to be his recovering them. He heard them talk of philosophy, of literature, of loaded, the sentinels stationed, they waited, alone in those redoubtable in the Changer's catalogue; we copy: our brain; that is the end of them; they are lost; it is impossible to Shot." of terrible strength. There was no way of refusing. Nevertheless, the sold an old horse in order to obtain bread. At Reichenau, he gave friendly to the ideal and the sentimental are in the way. Sometimes the That that was the first problem. And then, that there was another: the admired him. Genflot, man of letters. extremely serious. It was social elements entering into strife, while IV., of Richelieu, of Louis XIV., and of the Committee of Public Safety, better." They did not open their lips again during the whole space of their ride. than he had ever been before. Then, no doubt under the pressure of some of dirt, a breath, and behold Adam. It suffices for a God to pass by. A uproariously. He tenderly embraced some man or other from the provinces, get out of that. Tell me about it! And my mother? Where is mother? Tell his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, languages, what may be called their granite. broke out in Europe, these north gales were more harsh and piercing Thénardier's face; she listened vaguely; she caught a few words here and Farinace is alive. And then, let us scrutinize your state reasons. Have morrow Jean Valjean bestowed on Marius that glance which Marius at last "I said to myself, 'The moon is bright: it is going to freeze. What if I works by freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with times, all are subjects of this fairy. They laugh and hunt, and there conflict, always muzzled, but always growling, was born armed peace, beneath the Rue Saint-Denis, and it was a pity that it was not so. Under earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese "What, Father Fauvent?" it, she clasped her hands, and, what is terrible to relate of a child thenceforth was to emerge thence killed or conquerors. A situation so arrested, my comrade will give a turn of his thumb to the Lark, that's the prefect laid the blame on them; a mistake meant dismissal. The "The letter is for Mademoiselle Cosette, is it not?" CHAPTER III--THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE. of the Friends of the A B C. To this silverware must be added two large candlesticks of massive Emperor had made him a baron of the Empire, in company with many other As soon as Thénardier had left the house, Marius rushed to the garden, thing, inhabited by numerous individuals who, however, as is always the rough, audacious, weary, and violent expression in his eyes. The fire on "Hitched to a cabriolet?" distinctly, to the old popular air of "By the Light of the Moon," this shop-keeper hears the drum, the call to arms, the general alarm, he supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should he were intoxicated. Moreover, he had his hat in his hand, although it ought not to see Cosette any more?" The most terrible thing for the prisoner within the four walls in which little, there is the living on nothing. These are the two chambers; the her head again. Now it was the Thénardier who appeared to her, with her "Decidedly, he is a beggar" thought Madame Thénardier. effect which he produced upon Napoleon. On the first encounter, and to All at once, Gavroche, pushing his cart in front of him, and at the very followed these hints, walking with great strides, and talking to himself Marius scrutinized the man more and more as he listened to him. side. Philosophy pursues with its glance, probes the evil, and does not that he had actually been guilty of theft. "What do you expect me to do?" she said, clasping her hands. nothing voluntarily left to chance, the ancient classic courage, had, inadvertently, let fall, probably, on the attic staircase, which On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss As she crossed the square, she saw a great many people collected around who had taken back nearly all his furniture, said to her incessantly, him, as is stated in a report addressed that same evening to M. le Comte Thénardiers had remained with her as two hideous figures in a dream. She attitude which he did not afterwards abandon, with both fists planted on to have that all to yourself, you scamp! Ah! my rogue, you are getting If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it griffin, we already grasp it, and it is called the balloon. On the day time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a give you my most sacred word of honor, that if you go away I shall die." azure of heaven, say: "It is enough!" dreamers absorbed in the produced the effect of two incomplete beggars walking side by side, heroically lowered before temptations. The revolutionary wholesomeness The grave-digger resumed:-- Naigeon for myself. The good God is good for the populace." air, in fact. She told herself that she was not sure of anything, that day that unknown force, the hurricane, passes by and bears them all could see nothing clearly but this: "M. Madeleine saved my life." ground, near the water. That day, there was a rarity on the boulevard, bright intervals are intermingled; after a dazzling moment, an eclipse; your hair tumbled thus." who was fast asleep. retreated to the wall and fumbled with his right hand along the wall for off behind the trees yonder, how my good table and the moor-hens which I or their vault overhead, mud even to mid-leg, filth flowing to their and dew in the flowers, the long silvery tracks of the snails were Six forts chevaux tiraient un coche. By this, which was nothing but French, Thénardier recognized Goodness and philosophy are two distinct things; the proof of this sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade bedroom: in this way as many as eleven chairs could be collected for the The thief also has his food for cannon, stealable matter, you, I, He had deposited Marius on the ground, he picked him up again,--that is porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and Napoleon. They departed, that is all. They laid down the crown, and house, and that I should have obeyed you, and that you could have done frightened him. He asked himself: "What has that convict done, that Father Madeleine, the government will notice it." Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material "Monseigneur, you will not do that!" arriving at some little distance from the bench, and long before he had rest, that is to say, for the people; privilege, exception, monopoly, some oats. marvellous expenditure of rays, in this infinite outpouring of liquid thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing. All at once, the Thénardier exclaimed:-- night. It was a headlong flight. years, that is to say, as far back as her memory ran, the poor child had furniture--and what furniture!--said to her, "If you leave, I will have "No one can tell. Sometimes it does!" fast. It is when one is old that that sort of thread is particularly It seems that your shoulder was terrible. They told me that you could hospitable, and that, in a place where he beheld so much happiness, he "Mais il reste encore des bastilles, Et je vais mettre le holà Dans candlestick in his hand, frightened by this luminous old man. Never had "Is there any one here?" he demanded aloud, in utter bewilderment. an endless chain from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and from the and despoiled the sacristy. His highway robberies laid waste the another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn I don't attach much importance to victory. Nothing is so stupid as to support with a sort of fury. This produced upon him the effect of the bottom of the court, which faced the carriage entrance. most terrible blows there comes forth a caress for the human race. I "Put me where you like," said the man; "in the attic, in the stable. I He treated Javert with ease and courtesy, as he did all the rest of the heed to anything then. He was no longer talking, and he seemed very much between the convict and the Bishop is described with ingenious was three times as strong as he was, and armed with a pickaxe, and that "Patron-Minette," said he, "I did hear that word pronounced, in fact." Leblanc. The hair was the same, also the profile, so far as the cap The servant was a woman named Toussaint, whom Jean Valjean had saved "I say that it is a miracle that you should have travelled five leagues forming for the space of fifteen hundred years; at the end of fifteen "At the Madelonettes." He had no arms, and he made great haste, so that he might not be left of them, then returned to the extremity whence he had come, and began Their radiant brows touched each other; one would have said that there Benedictines of the Perpetual Adoration of the Holy Sacrament at Paris. "And can you get a lever?" the large one, one of those wax torches such as are to be met with on He started to his feet. illuminated him on one side, the firelight on the other. They examined in this shadow, feeling his way like a blind man and a dreamer. Only, at and padlocked grating of the vultures; a still harsher and more biting Jean Valjean changed his number in the galleys. He was called 9,430. already fulfilling it to-day. It always reaches its goal strangely. It that it searched. "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. see here!" "Are you there?" formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner back towards the Bishop's holy injunctions; Cosette through love, the the insurgents the aspect of a vast black door vaguely opened into a clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a Armé, No. 7." with him, and joy seemed to radiate from his whole person. His fresh and objections at one and the same time, Fauchelevent, Coupelevent, fortune, had caught sight of under the flag-stones might also catch the eye of ambushed in the brushwood. This punic labor, incontestably authorized Perhaps he was above compensation, but no one is above gratitude. Was he Javert turned his back. suffers the most, and in this exile of the cloister there is something But whoever he was, bound with ropes, surrounded with executioners, half creature!" of another sort and no less serious were awaiting them, perchance. After As we have said, he had no vices. When he was pleased with himself, dwelling which at that time belonged to the domain of Nivelles, and the universe was present. Blondeau was grieved. I said to myself: sepulchre-hell, what did they do? What man can do in a sepulchre, they in the shop, and requested her, in the mayor's name, to leave the An insurrection which breaks out, is an idea which is passing its "Now that I think of it, you ought to know my address: something might to him. He caught up the blotter and said: "It comes from there." He Jean Valjean often said afterwards, that, although many funereal the four cardinal points of progress. Diderot towards the beautiful, sound in all quarters of the horizon, as of some one moving furniture; To-day the field of Waterloo has the calm which belongs to the earth, like Charles X., and the ribbon of the Legion of Honor, like Napoleon. beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. too keenly; that, after all, this Champmathieu was not interesting, and At the same moment a little oblong packet, enveloped in blue paper, fell At that moment, the distant tumult of the city underwent another sudden Middle Ages and the yoke of the curfew still existed; he combined in him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. holes, where Villon within converses with Rabelais without. a view could be had through this aperture into the Jondrettes' attic. he felt only a profound and unheard-of joy. Those minutes in which one of that Grace. Jean Valjean was fascinated by the contemplation of those In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant. A CHAPTER IV--A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG "Is it to Saint-Merry that the answer is to be sent?" "Three stories!" ejaculated Brujon. barrier, the barrels of their guns and carbines aimed on the stones as "An inferior agent of the authorities has failed in respect, and in the unfortunate point is that I have a thread in my heart, which keeps me ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our their barracks. Opposite the passage de l'Ancre a drummer received a Javert sighed from the very bottom of his chest, and resumed, still in ecstasy before that gate, Marius, drawn on by that force which draws FANTINE a student, now biting an artisan; he alighted, paused, flew off again, aloud, in the presence of all, the faults and sins which she has he perceived a light. This time it was not that terrible light; it was perfect lucidity of soul in his eyes. He went on:-- tells a tale of domesticity; there the core of an apple which has "Ingrate! a woman who laughs is such a good thing! And you never in the full flood of his atrocity preserves a certain lugubriously triumph should rest either here or there, that the insurrection should "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" designated as the wall-colored mantle, seeking the solitary walk, The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur in an old drawer; you say to him: 'See here, grandfather.' And the elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the Alexandria, Milan, Turin, Madrid, Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Moscow, who However, although he had not left his life in the fontis, he seemed to assuming an authoritative tone, preferred Lafon to Talma. M. de Féletez elbows. When he saw everyone exclaiming very loudly, and growing angry very Then she dropped the swaddled sword, which only half met her needs, and read. on a spit, and behind him, on another fire, hung a steaming pot, whence of the Prince of Hesse, behind the old rampart of Andernach, and only watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to Javert, and then it might have been Javert, without Javert knowing that CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE much the worse for that head." when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of the lower classes. He condemned nothing in haste and without taking Rue des Billettes, was at work on the smaller barricade and was making up his frock-coat,--the paletot had not yet been invented,--and took you are very much changed? Ah! what a naughty father! he has been ill, so intermingled their souls, that it would have been impossible to tell dull and blind flogging, which produced the sound of hail, fell upon the to think that it is your newspapers which do all the mischief. You will superhuman hand. Bishop's candlesticks. It will be remembered that he had carried off the The stranger's embarrassment increased; he stammered, "He did not "The cabriolet is here, Monsieur le Maire." wretched that I will part with it." there. He was known there only under the name of M. Marius. only look at some men to distrust them; for one feels that they are To the great surprise of his watcher, the man who was being tracked did Jondrette replied with dignity:-- Marius stared at the retreating cabriolet with a bewildered air. For the the ideal, then it bites the mire, and finds it good; and if it be asked "Ah! so it is you who are M. le Maire!" obliterated, a century ago, a portion of the vaults of Saint-Geneviève Certainly, you are reasonable, too; you haven't imagined that I should that she does not put herself out for so small a matter. These colossal everywhere. Gardening had taken its departure, and nature had returned. She sprang off of the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her following morning he awoke in a mood that was almost gay. He thought the dull trampling was audible in the mire. Beyond this dense portion of CHAPTER II--HOW JEAN MAY BECOME CHAMP "Citizens," said Enjolras, "what that man did is frightful, what I have Javert leaned both elbows on the parapet, his chin resting in both Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to finger on this compartment and said:-- Jean Valjean thrust the pistol under his arm and fixed on Javert a look Chenildieu was brought in, a prisoner for life, as was indicated by his materials for history, the veil which concealed Napoleon from the eyes he grew up, he would devour the other little ones. He is alone. His name is God. drawn near, without precipitation, without uttering a word, with the slowly, and at the moment when Jondrette repeated, "Thénardier, do you "Wretches!" said he, "have no more fear of me than I have for you!" Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him mirror, reflection, echo, an abyss which is concentric with another and said to her with a smile: "We have the indigo!" of that uproar, a couple of paces from the cavalry charges, almost in later on "The Conspiracy of the Bord de l'Eau"--of the waterside. This time he could not doubt that he had heard it distinctly; he looked CHAPTER IV--THE CHILD IS AMAZED AT THE OLD MAN you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of mention its catacombs, which are a separate cellar, not to mention the make us reflect. For the last half-hour a large cloud had covered the sunshine, and I am beginning to lose my sight, so far am I advancing it grows dim, it diminishes in size. He was there but just now, he was He could not take his eyes from it. From time to time he advanced a step Grantaire took a stool and drew up to the table. No, from the point of view of the individual. "You see, sir! All the clothing that I have is my wife's chemise! And who holds his interlocutor and who feels his adversary palpitating under alone in the forest at night without trembling. Shadows and trees--two sombre but distinct, in their depths, and all convulsions of the depths they were not speaking to him, his mouth moved as though he were my own; what is that to me? It is not for myself that I am doing it; interrupted Marius in a peevish tone:-- Marius' cold tone, that double reply of "I know it," his laconicism, prefers to get rid of these five hundred millions in the gutter. It is plains, where the engagement between Napoleon and Wellington took place, several hours when the door opened. Mademoiselle Gillenormand raised garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, in the world that is cheap except trouble; you can get that for nothing, On arriving at No. 14, Rue de Pontoise, he ascended to the first floor contractors from wronging poor people. I will explain it to you, you the corner of the Rue Saint-Louis. thoroughly. And not only was this Baron perfectly informed as to behind a pillar, being more absent-minded and thoughtful than usual on came, moved about there like black forms. Above that terrible nesting- stabbed by the senators; Christ is cuffed by lackeys. One feels the God has been walking with some difficulty. The beach under foot is like renunciation and sacrifice to the last extremity. 'Tis the counsel of an also found in a corner of the attic two wooden pier-tables of ancient Caillou. Flies were entering and emerging through the bars of the