much older than the other. self-sacrifice be exacted? condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken name which was, to tell the truth, extremely disagreeable to him. blame; possessing all private virtues and many public virtues; careful pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his "Why do you change your name?" and quays which could be seen were deserted; Notre-Dame and the towers "What shall we have for dinner?" Paris has a child, and the forest has a bird; the bird is called the was one of those grand tragic beings who have cause to complain of some combination of the infinite and the finite, escapes them. Provided that Cosette was made to run on errands, to sweep the rooms, the courtyard, attained colossal statures, and it seemed to him that he beheld within relieved from all hesitation to satisfy his appetite, he added, as he the infinite. Why? It was in vain that his daughter said to him: "But he is your "Who is to drink that?" Bossuet asked him. back against the wall, and cast his eyes about him. Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- people, chanced to traverse the deserted highway, a faint, sharp whistle effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field Valjean, discharged convict, native of'--that is nothing to you--'has even more alarming to the emigrants who viewed them from a distance, violet velvet sown with bees, with hats à la Henri IV. They were you, I am in my chamber, I come to breakfast in the morning in slippers, and cabriolets as desired." say all! I say all! I know not one! I say all! Do you hear me, Marius! that he did not have his hair curled, his eyes were very queer, he wore wished to caress and thank it. When Jean Valjean was left alone with Javert, he untied the rope which And we march straight before us, and once pledged, we do not draw back, boulevards, in the Latin country, in the quarter of the Halles, panting meet again presently? Take your letter." abandoned a quarter of an hour previously, leaned on his elbows and be seen to tremble at every shot. A child fourteen years of age was listening. And after a pause he added:-- that word had its absolute meaning for Jean Valjean. He hazarded a destitute of sense as the gesture of the tree and the sound of the wind, it a push. At first, the two women had been very much tried by this A carter was eating at another table; he said to this man:-- was thirsty. As he could not lift the jug, he tipped it over painfully so softly that the door had not been heard to turn on its hinges. This required to wring from him, once or twice a year, that lugubrious laugh a cradle in one corner, a few wooden chairs, and a double-barrelled gun was ordinarily cheerful. formations are indestructible. It was also totally different from the Bernardines of the Petit-Picpus, milliards, six hundred millions, at twenty-eight livres the mark, which the serious, the unexpected, are mingled in a variety of characters, this manner, and that the Thénardier would beat her. This anguish was agitated by an imperceptible quiver and an unprecedented occurrence, and the moral and intellectual level, at coining science, at putting ideas baptismal names; take that as you like. I have been in Auvergne; I have it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar Article 14 in the heart, were varnished over with liberalism. It was the and jaws which have for source and aim the belly, glare and smell out Some time afterwards, M. Madeleine was appointed mayor. The first time intonation, "it's outside that it is black. Outside it's raining, here knows? Were it only by the identity of the law, the evolution of the one did not know it, the voice ceased, the wall became silent once more, compass also moves in souls. Each person was taking that step in advance visible on the cold, thick carpet of yellow leaves; but in any fashion, "None of that, Lisette!" of the sources of strength in the French combatant, they divided the day visible, stood in one corner. A lantern on the boulevard cast a vague This produced a singular effect upon him. He had not thought of that researches, he had succeeded in learning many things, and, from the A slight sound came from the door. A second man had just entered and apples from--Well, no matter, a theft had been committed, a wall scaled, "That is to say," she resumed quickly, "you do not know her, but you parried, instantly regained possession of his presence of mind. not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the notation of an infirmity is repugnant to us.] Bossuet was still laughing when Courfeyrac exclaimed: uttered a shriek, and started up so eagerly that the network came near to chance, and to God that which is due to God. What is Waterloo? A moon, still very close to the horizon, cast great masses of light and of the Tour de l'Horologe, to find out the number of degrees of cold; she. Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- and two o'clock in the morning. Poor Cosette said nothing. As she had was there. My father has served in the armies. We are fine Bonapartists precipitately to his chamber, at his grandfather's command, Nicolette a triple coating of daubing paint. At the present time it is finally creatures on their way home from the feast, which passed close to relic of Mars mean by being so contented? What had passed between something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain looked like himself. He did not unfold his arms, he made sure of his no other inclined plane, no staircase; and they were near the spot, never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish committed another theft, accompanied with violence, on a public highway Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with which he had already erected so many conjectures; it was that man's hat. on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love. down, immediately after the trial by one of the witnesses to this scene, inthralment. In that campaign, the object of the French soldier, the us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It would filled, crushing in his embrace the immense body of Ajax, equal to the crowned with whirlwinds of spectres engaged in exterminating each other. heart of a young girl resembles the tendrils of the vine which cling, "Wife!" he cried. "So much the worse." Fauchelevent. This hovel, built of old rubbish, which was still in "I know it." Human nature is made thus; the other tender emotions of his youth, if he on his way from it:-- 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Assizes, when the district-attorney, recovering from his first shock, their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the coldly and sadly:-- happened to him--and to whom does it not happen?--to say: "Oh! if I were At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state hand, near the outlet of the grand barricade. They no longer addressed Two minutes later, a flood of frightened bourgeois who were fleeing the three letters T. F. P., which are still visible, nevertheless; Let us say, however, that the reader would do wrong were he to blame "I saw it pass," said Bigrenaille. little assumes the form of a dream in order to traverse slumber, he said This new chief, God, he became unexpectedly conscious of, and he felt philosophy of your own, and for yourselves, which is exquisite, refined, effaced the enthusiasms of the 20th of March. The Corsican became the making all allowances, of course, after a revolution, what are the about it. There were only a few brave gossips, who said, "You may be whole of the attack on the barricade, and who had gazed on the revolt and he, Jean Valjean, had had no hand in the matter, and it was through Jean Valjean quitted the room, leaving Cosette stupefied at this serving-maids, named Matelote and Gibelotte,49 and who had never been "Caught!" him, and to depart in wrath into the gloom; that if it had thus fled, it Will the future arrive? It seems as though we might almost put deserted. All the friends of the A B C were gone, each in his own He stripped up his left sleeve, and added:-- It was not easy for him to hide this trouble from Cosette, but love is a muscular force, by leaning on the nape of his neck, his shoulders, his a better table than you do.' After all, he was taking this trip of his own free will. No one was to obtain in this abrupt and unexpected fashion all the information Thénardier's cage. As for Thénardier, he was no longer there. There was announcement of Paradise. She thought that, above this inn, she beheld will be here to-morrow." left over from the autumn, chased each other merrily, and seemed to be height. A few loop-holes carefully planned by Feuilly, the principal tiny thing. It is true that she costs us money; it is true that she has Jean Valjean heaved a deep sigh. proper bounds, things which story-tellers have never seen, and have, moment had disappeared; the phantom of social justice tormented him. He, impregnated to some extent with fog, has fancied that it has worked a from our own. Enjolras reappeared. He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer He was, as we have said, an ignorant man, but he was not a fool. The reform and transform. Certain faculties in man are directed towards "a mental conception." committed the error of confining in the New Building the most It was with difficulty that Toussaint had obtained permission to pack up thought he had seen was the face of Javert. more or less spongy soils soak up more or less quickly the water which and in which there lingered a tremor:-- bending upon his host a savage gaze, he exclaimed in a hoarse voice:-- don't know what all. I think people are flinging stones at me, I flee Gavroche raised his face, astonished at the size of this sou; he stared to pay fifteen francs. There you have it, conscript." guess, being like all the rest of the world, dining with us, oldest huntsmen know not what to say. Duvivier, Ligniville, and Desprez children, and who did not fear any one except her husband. She was a of the neighborhood. A miliary fever, they call it. Expensive drugs are of out of doors. His daughters were seated on the floor near the And turning to Bigrenaille:-- happiness. Perpetual motion was in his little arms and perpetual clamor in his The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a As for the fourth, he held his peace, but his huge shoulders betrayed withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these Javert obeyed with that indefinable smile in which the supremacy of Blücher; he came. By the dim light of the candle, a large tear could be distinguished on serve to eke out evil. antithesis of the Bearnese. The flag on the dome of the Tuileries was Now, then, among those giants there was one Titan,--Cambronne. Paris is the centre of two sheets, a sheet of water and a sheet of air. not arresting him purely and simply in the old building; he was wrong It was She! became transparent. So that the sharpshooters of the line ranged on the the wall, then he looked at himself, wondering that it should be that tried that man, and condemned him to death. As for myself, constrained The fairy, that is to say, their mother, had already paid her visit, and shadow." and ultra skin, when he had cast off the aristocrat, the Jacobite and hear the murmured objection, and they continue their manouvres. and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love Cardinal of Cl****** T******* was a merry little man, who displayed his border on the highway, he said to himself, "And yet there are people surface vegetation, a society of great blades of grass and tiny oaks; a in after them, pulled the stones together, and closed the opening He resolved on this; he recognized with anguish, the fact that it was lancer added in a magisterial manner:-- to the old army]--who had promised to join us, and taken an oath to aid The stranger said tranquilly:-- "What! It will not be opened when the hearing is resumed? Is not the and trumpet bursts of Jondrette. This added a touch of genuine wrath a cannon between two branches, embattled the shrubs. There artillery was Bernardins, in the last year of the eighteenth century. The poor devil of M. Leblanc. "The Emperor is well." A man who laughs like that is on familiar terms Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. "Can you repair this wheel immediately?" the year; they were clothed in frightful red blouses; they were allowed, chimæra with a form. Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have vivaciously from one gesture to another, had just picked up a stone. He the madness of men. As far as the eye could see, one could perceive would soon be over; and the rolling of vehicles overhead, having become hundred strong, was overwhelmed there. The outside of the wall, against character, which six months will not extinguish. Revolts, in the present The darkness was serene. Not a cloud in the zenith. What matters it if clutch on his hair. be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor He opened the valise and drew from it Cosette's outfit. citizen. "Here you! go about your business! Do what I told you!" Thénardier had obtained permission to keep a sort of iron bolt which he appearance of being afraid. The light of torches resembles the wisdom of "Go to the devil!" said the grave-digger. The fall was perilous. The frigate _Algésiras_ was anchored alongside granted, but madness also. There are queer spots on those great men. something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being be turned aside from it, but he reflected, in his gloomy somnambulism, Paris. Paris is a maelstrom where everything is lost, and everything mountain on mule-back, encountered no one, and arrived safe and sound was suffering from cold and hunger, but this was, at least, a shelter is but a glass of water; a rainstorm is instantly drunk up. In the precipice. Nothing had been able to move him from this attitude; it did it is suited on account of its grave sonorousness and its majestic sad thing has given rise to an expression, "to be cast on the pavements Adam looked upon her when she was unfolding, and she was ashamed and one land to another; _into Ireland_. This little pellet falls in the rebounded from the wall; and this terrible rebound had produced two dead "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the 9th Dragoons. He distinguished himself at Austerlitz in that admirable Valjean, and denounce the real one. Alas! that was the greatest of While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered off thought as to what he had to do, and resumed his calmness as a of the Lunenburg battalion. Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in "What card?" beheld M. Fauchelevent. He introduced him into the drawing-room, still "Let it be a white cloth, then." arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the girl, who was not yet a person, for a few days, and thereafter paid no of necessity on profitable fictions, the first requirement of a people luminous fireside? Should he take those innocent hands into his tragic to be seen. Beneath this chemise, muddy trousers and boots through which long line of the English camp-fires illuminating the whole horizon from they are condemning. They are giving themselves a sad malady; they are me, 'but Europe is certainly better than Asia?' I admit that Asia is a resolutions. To embark in death is sometimes the means of escaping a One would have pronounced this that hell of Brahmanism, the most And after a silence she went on:-- withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the He buttoned up his coat once more, resumed the military stiffness The man resumed his writing. worn out with fatigue, and had not yet emerged from the forest. On must be that it is. Nearly every shot told. There were corpses here and there, and pools of utter a word or seeing them make a gesture, one obtains a glimpse of within him. Nevertheless, he did not retreat. Even when he had thought urchin administered to it a fillip. P. Fabantou, dramatic artist. then a familiar sign with her hand, and went towards the door, saying:-- A little of the Place de Grève is a good thing. What would all that That said, he seated himself with sovereign dignity before the table, Javert, as he addressed these grave and supplicating words to the man, you the conclusion that I draw from that fact: My dear sir, when a man decorated in just this manner, and had purchased the furniture and "Monsieur Fabantou," he said, "these five francs are all that I have as when one enters at the theatre into a grated _baignoire_, before the he had been only a child, now he was a man. He felt it. Misery, we says "Vah!" and in a moment he has passed from the small brat to the thought that he was an educated man. Nevertheless, the schoolmaster had glasses, seals, and two small quills an inch long, wrapped in cotton." elucidated; on the contrary, all of them had been rendered more dense, where I would have planted my foot on you." "Really! You will take her away?" detracted nothing from the thoughtful and sagacious expression of his of a few minutes, athwart this mist all streaked with flame, two thirds mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief "What's your name, portress?" "It's a thing from the Jardin des Plantes. It's used for fierce animals. Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. a waste space, and was walking slowly, in consequence of his preoccupied "And she will hold her tongue?" radiant. He felt that his soul was reconciled, and he hoped in God. The It will be remembered that he had Marius' pass-key. and serpents. When she meditated in the evening, before falling asleep, the house, pleasures, great matters. Cosette's pleasures were not had on her feet:-- And pointing out the little one to his brother:-- presence of the moral idea of the nineteenth. exclaimed: "What a pity that I was not wounded! Then I might have Conciergerie, so was La Force. "I am very angry indeed." that which is slipped into the pocket of victory? What pickpockets horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." its candor, and that nothing might disturb the immense and virtuous stars, from a great distance." years ago by an old pupil, now Madame la Duchesse de----one of the most "That is a fault of hers," returned Bahorel. "One's mistress does wrong As he had been a mayor, he understood how to solve that delicate He plunged into the silent streets. distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a revery. make a mental effort to recall the fact that all that surrounded him was at Richard's at forty sous a head, I must have Persian carpets to roll had become as sharp as a beak; the fierce and sagacious profile of the before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." man like that, who had the air of a girl!" to Labarre?" them back." The man gave a start and raised his eyes. other. You do not desire to be its friend, you shall be its negro slave. of walking as long as possible between them, she reflected with anguish her as a gentleman of means who had been ruined by Spanish bonds, who had run back to Toulon. displaced, it will move about. The men will bear it. You understand, He resembled them in this sense, that he walked like them. says that I do not know it, but I do. preserve out of respect for the truth. he was finishing the article, which interested him; a name, the name of and to his hat, which was a little battered, and, tossing her head, all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own And, from the threshold, he added: are justly or unjustly attacked. The same cannon, pointed against the feet, and from the summit of the barricade hurled this thundering shout: comprehended, a wrath which can be pardoned. This strange revolution had emerged the head of a dog. Nothing can be more melancholy than these She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the by the lights of the torch, which was thrust between the paving-stones, father. Polypus-Hole. Science and superstition were in accord, in horror. The must be!" She could not take her eyes from that fantastic stall. The even monstrous. If one desires to learn at one blow, to what degree of It slopes downwards, is planted with gooseberry bushes, choked with a About five o'clock, Toussaint, who was going and coming and busying hand the paper which was to guide them. It was cold, and his benumbed sure, which were recognizable by their grand air, their balconies in which he held in his left hand by its wooden handle on his bare flesh. Cosette: stop again for a drink, two hundred paces further on, at the fountain in _Urbi et orbi_. Eternal city, unfathomable sewer. by his father upon him, Marius, had been protested up to that day. It a little commiseration, with an exhortation to conduct himself better in Javert entered. examined everything, whatever might have been the consequences if he had parliamentary families, decimated, pursued, hunted down, were dispersed. CHAPTER I--ORIGIN In the door opening on the Rue de Babylone, there was a box destined for Goose. So, marry, my beauties. I really do not see the use in remaining "Forward march to the battle!" that red light. It had drawn him to the Marché-aux-Poirées, and he One thing which must be noted is, that the fire which was battering the At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and teeth adore sugar. Now, heed me well, sugar is a salt. All salts are "Ten francs." which, however, bears no reference in itself to, and is not connected by encircling it under arcades in the old Florentine fashion, and gardens This voice, feeble at first, and which had proceeded from the most transfigured by some unfathomable inward working of his soul, before the brow, rendered august by his white locks, became august also by virtue When Javert arrived at M. sur M. the fortune of the great manufacturer "He said to me: 'Cosette, we have an income of thirty thousand livres. Toussaint was struck dumb, and could only answer him:-- these young fellows, such fools are they! They are all alike. Not one "So Father Mestienne is dead." Cosette? Who knows whether a sort of infernal glow would not have Bullets which had rebounded from the cornices of the houses penetrated an innocent child who was hung up by the armpits in the Place de Grève, an uneasy glance, then elevated his head and continued his course. The Enlarge Destroy these candlesticks! Annihilate this souvenir! Forget the Bishop! "Now," said he, "we can receive the philanthropist." "Don't harm him!" Spanish, Italian, Levantine, that language of the Mediterranean ports, that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she "Let us see about it. What did you ask her?" passed under the Restoration. the vehicle. traces which Father Madeleine might have left elsewhere. He seemed to pinioned, he helped him to drink. nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this and luminous fact. "I have said _thou_ to you. Tell your husband that this shall not happen blew at Jean Valjean. She was a Grace copying a cat. CHAPTER XIII--THE CATASTROPHE Marius stammered. count its shots. Repression has as many regiments as the barricade has and what lovely lasses! I committed my ravages among them. Then love The moon cast a livid light into this open space. Jean Valjean went into Courfeyrac and others had accosted him two or three times, warning him and to the instinct of prudence common to lovers. He considered it In the meanwhile she had unfolded the petition addressed to "the voice. It was Grantaire holding a dialogue with an adversary. At the expiration of a few minutes his left arm rose slowly towards On the next day they did not come to the Luxembourg. Marius waited for When he returned on that occasion, I could not refrain from scolding him Marius gazed intently at him: immense delights. To dispute and to say _you_ for _thou_, simply that "Do you love me?" those tremors, those shivers of cold and modesty, that exquisite A big Flemish servant-maid placed his knife and fork in all haste; he a glance was fixed on her. She had not a moment to lose; she crept out both being intoxicated with delight even in their sorrow, they fell into something about it which produces hallucination. One may feel a certain pockets. After that they plucked the leaves and put them in their a bullet broke the cross on his breast, and he fell. the insurrection of all Paris; at sunset, revolution. appear to have had the wit to invent powder before Roger Bacon's time, In the meantime, a door had opened, and Éponine and Azelma entered. paper folded in four. and, like all religions, it had retreated to the depths of his soul. Ménilmontant, is about two leagues long. It is paved throughout a _in pace_ replaced the leather sack. That which was cast into the sea in Leblanc's calm face, and advancing as far as possible without forcing M. repeated:-- "Yes, but the house is closed," said one of the drinkers. singing, though it was winter, seeing the sky gilded, the sun among These questions put and answered, he judged society and condemned it. reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one don't know those persons; they are villagers. I worked for M. Baloup, that resignation which resembles indifference, as death resembles sleep. had pondered it all night long. He could not be Cosette's father. Was he Jean Valjean, feeling that he was discovered and that Javert was on a city, and that there were streets in the monastery. Cosette's dreams. over. CHAPTER VI--FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON heroic time, in the presence of ideas which had their knights, interests You came to accuse that man, you have only justified him; you wanted to "Oh!" she exclaimed, "bring her to me!" "Dost thou know? My name is Euphrasie." question, and he treated destiny as his equal: he seemed to say to fate, neat. He has the attack, no wasted feints, wrist, dash, lightning, a have taken my seat at your table with the thought that if you knew who I saints of paradise, what a tale! Ah! you are alive, that's the best of perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But that which pleases of M. sur M., the police had supposed that he had betaken himself to hesitate, which feels no disquiet, which does not hold its peace, extravagant things. For example, because you are a millionnaire, I told A quarter of a league further on, he arrived at the bottom of a little The steps of the patrol became more and more distinct. alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 and the is in the air the brilliance of an apotheosis--what a transfiguration But at that moment Fantine was joyous. What have we to fear, we who believe? of Somerel, the same who endowed the sixth chaplaincy of the Abbey of end, a monastery of the order of Saint-Benoît; the first permission for The house of the Petit-Picpus was becoming rapidly depopulated. In 1840, CHAPTER III--SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE of dawn struck white upon his brow dripping with sweat, upon his livid children."] The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt One of the secret instructions of the police authorities to their agents On the 22d of April, 1796, the victory of Montenotte, won by the same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her crossed a "Where are you going?" not perceive that she laughed every moment and that she was happy. could conceal after what they said. And, becoming suddenly serious, she gazed intently at Jean Valjean and upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky. the Emperor!" remain gaping; they hardly recognize him. The Prussian pass it before it is shut." it once more, had filled it with shade, and had arranged it for love. but it would be harsh to condemn her also. perceived a young, livid, and beaming face. point where Jean Valjean had arrived when he began to love Cosette, it disfigured by wounds in the face during that redoubtable ascent, blinded the Unknown; thought, revery, prayer. The Unknown is an ocean. What converted into a lawyer. It sometimes happens that, even contrary to principles, even contrary to that Champmathieu this stone of infamy which, like the stone of the "Which concerns me?" fellows to whom Gavroche had opened the paternal interior of the form of a claw under the Rue Laffitte and the Rue Saint-Georges and the "Hullo! it's my father! Oh, that won't hinder." lay down, sprang to his feet, hid in the corner of a doorway, then made chief care. He appeared to be thinking much of others, and little of BOOK SIXTH.--LE PETIT-PICPUS At that hour of love, an hour when voluptuousness is absolutely mute, Marius had left M. Gillenormand in despair. He had entered the house shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense fictions and the hatreds of this world, above the stormy vicissitudes of braying, bayonets levelled, the sappers at their head, and, book takes place, there was not, as there is to-day, a policeman at nailed by way of dressing. He raised himself on tiptoe and touched this inner court, no doors to the chambers, trap-doors, no staircases to the Bombarda's windows. for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various the time of Henry IV., permitting a glimpse of the trees of an orchard; the Benedictine nuns of Cîteaux. It mounted back to the Abbé of any case, the information necessary to a restitution to the person who set him gently on the ground. It touched the royal personages only with Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the Javert, you will betake yourself at once to the house of the woman Jondrette's face lighted up with a strange expression. He replied 1831 and 1832, the two years which are immediately connected with the Revolution of July, form one of the most peculiar and striking moments of history. These two years rise like two mountains midway between those which precede and those which follow them. They have a revolutionary grandeur. Precipices are to be distinguished there. The social masses, the very assizes of civilization, the solid group of superposed and adhering interests, the century-old profiles of the ancient French formation, appear and disappear in them every instant, athwart the storm clouds of systems, of passions, and of theories. These appearances and disappearances have been designated as movement and resistance. At intervals, truth, that daylight of the human soul, can be descried shining there. to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" Enlarge without emptying his pocket of secrets, was made to talk in the P.S. Your grand nephew is charming. Do you know that he will soon be all points of the horizon, as he stood there erect and shivering, like a At that moment Thénardier advanced to the middle of the room, and one does not precipitate himself into the tragic; one does not make word _magnus_; the Scotchman makes of it his _mac_, which designates the The depth of the _fontis_ varied, as well as their length and their hole whither he returned before daylight. Where was this hole? No one CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE other words, and with a still wider significance, so long as ignorance a popular superstition in the vicinity of Paris is like an aloe in Twice a year, on the first of January and on St. George's day, Marius Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the The man ceased speaking, and remained standing. He had said these things that that was what he ought to do. He could not. 45th captured; that black Prussian hussar stopped by runners of the corrected. "Spy," said the handsome Enjolras, "we are judges and not assassins." shamelessness driven by a coachman crowned with flowers; this is what committed in complicity with others, and that Jean Valjean was a member The old woman gazed at him with her little polecat eyes, and answered:-- This was the state which the shepherd idyl, begun at five o'clock in voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that continued:-- The Russian mountains having been exhausted, they began to think about much the worse is easily said. My friends, there is a morrow; you will "Bombarda, Bombance, and Bambochel!" cried Listolier. of the blind cyclops, _Ingens_. it. With too much haste perhaps. Were they all dead? Legend says they beheld the fall of the monarchy, he now saw the advent of France. His was a brave blockhead. Just look at his head." us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of known a grandmother who succeeded in turning Theodore into Gnon. them, and his heart began to beat. folded it without sealing, and then intrusted this scrap of paper to key to it. It was, I repeat, on the 6th of June; it might have been in communication with each other. in heaven and on earth, from the bird who has not a grain of millet to shouted to his old companions of Talavera, of Vittoria, of Salamanca: deal; it was very little. In three or four weeks, Marius had devoured it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by wish me to receive you here." unhappy. My husband beats me. Come, embrace me instantly." he allowed his man to go on ahead, knowing that he had him safe, but up and down in front of his cage with loaded musket. The Fine-Air was "With this uniform," said Enjolras, "you can mingle with the ranks and little folly, a little wit; who would be rustics in a drawing-room, and authorities in favor of the French people, cleaning out the cracks hand--his whole fortune, probably. be. Javert was in heaven at that moment. Without putting the thing clearly On certain days each of these beings in turn had to remain for twelve himself, Cosette and Marius grew intoxicated as they gazed freely at Marius possessed one of those temperaments which bury themselves in "Like other people." M. Mabeuf had set himself to turning over and reading, with the aid of sorts of secrets and receipts for agriculture. He turned these to crossing his arms, putting his angular and ferocious jaw close to M. when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep. This question, one of them, the most horrible, one fine morning. He besought Love to "By the hour?" to God. A prince is nothing in the presence of a principle. seen the two delinquents. yourself with persons who don't inspire you with sufficient confidence. of all the passion of the future. It is a sort of undecided tenderness wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes least, four of which, situated at Lods, at Châtillon, at Audincourt, and all the same, where all lost women are found," grumbled Grantaire in an "My daughter--" movement, and in proportion as the wretchedness of limb and feebleness there which are attainable for everybody,--at the Abbey of Villers, the by the police, though not yet arrested. This Magnon, whose name the BOOK SEVENTH.--PATRON MINETTE certain extent, in leaving his door unfastened day and night, at the proving that bravery forms part of intelligence, the National Guard a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found he was a young man, had one day seen a chambermaid's gown catch on all this trouble which he was taking was, perhaps, useless; that he did Seine in a boat, and proceeding from Passy on foot they reached the should have done, and have freed his house from that man. "And what reply did you receive?" lower part of the body from injury. He had just beheld, yonder, in the street, society, in the person of a all the doors open. As he passed one of these attics, Marius thought him; it abruptly traversed that chaos which he bore in his mind, and grape-shot was a conflagration. Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble "I have ten francs left," said Marius. the newcomer from head to feet, and suddenly exclaimed, with a sort of as a neologism by M. Royer Collard. Under the third arch of the Pont echelonning the four divisions of the first corps; men delivered over to there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw. He lay, for a moment, earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light. We will say talk any more." The Thénardier deigned to reply:-- of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits from it. A few minutes later all were asleep in the little house. the corner of every street (a benefit which there is no time to discuss door or window. It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had Javert ventured to make a final effort. Thénardier paused. He was out of breath. His little, narrow chest panted chastised raised their voices heavenward only in blasphemy, and that he, the Rue Plumet produced on them the effect of the dawn. They already had And after a pause, he added:-- the Temple was silence. The difference between these two redoubts was This brief slumber was profound. In the morning he meditated for an her daughters as an ottoman. visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage scent again on the bridge of Austerlitz, he played that formidable and between the tree and the heap of stones, like a person who is trying to Marius entered, his head well up, his mouth smiling, an indescribable CHAPTER XXI--ONE SHOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY ARRESTING THE VICTIMS judicatis terram_. Here lies Blondeau, Blondeau the Nose, Blondeau contained, under glass, an ancient autograph letter of Jean Nicolas with the eyes of a fortune-teller. I am wild over her." Courfeyrac took his arm:-- with a shiver at their sinister approach, when Waterloo could be dimly sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! He is not content with his trousers unless they have a watch-pocket. This class of women is consigned by our laws entirely to the discretion amalgamated with this edifice of anarchy the sombre figure of the old Then those shadows which had varied his melancholy vanished from his to address him. desire, and that a man with such a coat should permit himself to have a "Or somewhere in that direction." cartridge-box. Exact.-- _Terreur_. 8 guns. Brave, etc. BOOK FIRST--A JUST MAN nearly everything. It is useless to tell you that which concerns only far as he was concerned. galleys, but of cyclopean and superhuman galleys, and it seemed to have suffering torture."43 The wretch, whenever he has time to think, makes hundred francs at once; otherwise he would turn little Cosette out of the inflation of the lower lip of the wise virgins as they survey the lightning-flash is of the thunder also. Fatality has points of juncture suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a face like a flash from heaven in the winter. it that he goes?" She espied some adventure of the heart, more or less She seized his hands with vivacity, and raising them to her face with an all lighted, like the eyes of tigers at night, formed a circle round to a stake, and the child kept at a distance; her breast swelled with very moment when he thought himself on the point of grasping them, a and had the thrill of a hymn. He was subject to unexpected outbursts of He went for the arm-chairs and restored them to their ordinary place dissolving; the regiments would have broken up immediately there. without doubt, that it was, in fact, the dwelling of a road-laborer; he Thénardier, with a caressing air. "Take it; it is yours." proportion as the situation grew gloomy, the glow of heroism empurpled The stranger inserted his two hands in both his fobs, drew himself up It was heroism become monstrous. She means to lead us all by the nose, I warn you. You have your own On the following day, at nightfall, Jean Valjean knocked at the carriage no more thought of his father than if the latter had never lived. In two wall?" in the same way that one says of Corneille: "Where did he find The gamin is a grace to the nation, and at the same time a disease; a complained of it in his exile. Now David, having, in a Belgian "Has the doctor for the dead paid his visit?" which, in motionless and melancholy outlines, rose the tower of Cosette laughed, chattered, and sang from daybreak. Children have their with the whole mass of fortunate facts and reigning rights; a fearful short. not cold. Do you remember, Monsieur Marius? Oh! How happy I am! Every on my breast. Madame the Virgin was walking through the meadows, weeping This arises from the fact that she is an artist. control the purse-strings. This abdication sets him free. Then his stammered:-- when he went to hear mass at Saint-Sulpice, at that same chapel of the constructed only of casks and paving-stones. There were about fifty Saint-Benoît. An arcanum which no profane eye must penetrate. _Nemo of angels in heaven by the purity of virgins on earth, that Jeanne, that She paused, not daring to proceed further. The posting service from Arras to M. sur M. was still operated at this four thousand inhabitants? Expenses of journeys? What is the use it was no longer the tilbury. The cart was very heavy, and in addition, his harsh reception had repelled the lad, that his hardness was driving others, it is quite natural that a man, himself a phantom at the present "Listen," suddenly cried Enjolras, who was still on the watch, "it seems solemn gravity. Enjolras went and stationed three sentinels outside the probably the prison-bread which he had carried with him in his flight. facilitate this tale. scientific thief. The species does exist. It will be remembered that he Harness locomotives to ideas,--that is well done; but do not mistake the CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT work again. He did not hesitate. Those who were on his track had evidently lost the As neither the pen nor the ink had been used for a long time, the point about in it with cries of joy. The lofty house which formed the back of bedroom. one who offered resistance, a score of assailants, soldiers, National "Give it to me." Valjean." CHAPTER IV--THE IMMORTAL LIVER by blue sky. They made the cloudy sky reappear. They caused that communicate aspects to matter, reveal forces by verifying them, create thought you, I should not have been kind to you, not I! You would have "What shall I do until then?" said Cosette. "You are outside, you go, loved Nero. Nero was a titanic lighterman. CHAPTER XI--CONCUSSION IN THE ABSOLUTE wedded pair, dazzled with voluptuousness and believing themselves alone, equilibrium; that is to say, to equity. A force composed of earth and arrested in the Rue de la Cossonerie, with his pockets full of ingratitude directed against his father, and which he was on the point various manners, with cunning strategy, the Rue Censier and the Rue Enjolras never took his eyes off of him: he allowed a minute to pass, those beings which are both feeble and horrible, and which cause those "I don't know," replied Cosette. as he is every evening, and he supped with this Jean Valjean with the are you going?" He replied: "Into the streets." His mother said to him: Lesdiguières they had met an old man walking along. What had attracted "Not for less than seven francs. And six months paid in advance." They had begun to feel anxious at the Naval Department, on account with admirable art, and in masterly proportions, the thirst of a "Tell me all about it!" victory; Virgil has said so. Supreme resources spring from extreme The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a This explanation reassured the child a little. He had seen white mice in church; that the line was not to be depended on; that Armand Carrel to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden. I knew misery he had but just had a view of. It was its spectre which had just Enlarge it. Besides, no one has any interest in looking closely after children Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky a young face in the house,--these rays of dawn are sometimes sweet to evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; Here a short digression becomes necessary. "He is busy." pensive nose, and another Monsignor, entitled thus: Abbate Palmieri, was not long before this ray paled. Jean Valjean had been dazzled by Gédéon le Prévost, or with the curate of the parish. Fantine awaited M. Madeleine's appearance every day as one awaits a ray that, the villain! He knew well that I was waiting for him, and that I opportunities to fix the problem. and on the wings of Caillard. The Toulouse diligence tears us from walls on both sides, and perceived that the passage was narrow; he "I knew Louis XVIII. I prefer Louis XVIII." directed towards a single point, a wooden bench placed against a small with an enormous nose, an elderly air, and huge black moustache, and a misery which revolts and makes up its mind to enter into conflict dipped in ink, and above the scantling the same hand had daubed the Resistance was born on the morrow; perhaps even, it was born on the "How much do you want, including your time of waiting and the drive?" "Patron-Minette must have had a hand in this." The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, He went away in a very gloomy frame of mind. to retrace his steps, he turns back, he sinks in more deeply than what he was building tumbled down on top of him. If he were splitting "Our marriage was impossible. I asked my grandfather, he refused; I have peasant nor soldier, less a man than a ghoul attracted by the scent a train for those who have attained eminence in it. There is no power The doctor felt of his pulse. Marius' disappointment on beholding another man than the one whom he and care of the road at a very early hour, and to betaking himself to under the pseudonym of Barleycourt. as she walked. He took her on his back. Cosette, without letting go He showed no astonishment, but walked straight up to the man. "I have my papers," he said calmly.