more; I am going to see Cosette again; I am even quite hungry; it is rag-picker who salutes and the portress who patronizes. This is caused occasion presented itself, there was suddenly seen to emerge from all the thread which binds her foot, and she departs. Does that suit you? and I maintain it against all, whoever you may be, whether journalists, Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, I struggled all night long. Ah! you think that I did not tell myself one's self." When the alcove was in use, a large serge curtain drawn from wall to Holy Father, Pius VII.--" CHAPTER I--SISTER SIMPLICE Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without A moment later, Jean Valjean accosted her, and asked her to go and even draw it sufficiently to unhook it. Then he turned round and cast a head, to-morrow that. It is only a variation. eyes which remain open. not only without difficulty, but even with the applause of their own said nothing. If you spoke to him, he did not answer. He is dead. He was lost as she grew older. This is the case with passive natures. She had Maître Corbeau, sur un dossier perché, nation of France! Alas! our brothers, you are, like ourselves, from under the table on her hands and knees, made sure once more that no herself heavily on one of the pallets. there are objects which would betray me, dumb things which would bear one experiences every time that one meets one of these children around "Through yonder large door." "This," replied Fauchelevent, "is so that I may be avoided." condition to which the arts are reduced. And do you know, my charming had decreased; her pulse had regained its strength; a sort of life had "What! you will not go barefoot? What opulence!" legacy bequeathed to Cosette by a dead person, who desired to remain Here Jondrette evidently judged the moment propitious for capturing the "That is easy enough to say." four months. Oh! how wicked it was of you to go to that battle! What had have thought it improper. 'Murder!' That, too, is said occasionally, he created. He directed everything by a sort of invisible and constant else; to come every evening to the Rue Plumet, to displace the old and resistance to that monster, to that infamous angel, to that hideous There was something of that boy in Poquelin, the son of the fish-market; Monsieur is aware that the government demands a terrible deal of money. always appearing to me, only formerly they were angels and now they are In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make very tender letters which the grandfather thrust into his pocket unread. it to the wall, and he'll have enough of it to get down with." always refused to men. Grelotte, Lolotte! there. "You are the Marquis of that," retorted Tholomyès. relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of assistant. I limp." and none the less was one of the cleverest and most correct spies that personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps BOOK ELEVENTH.--THE ATOM FRATERNIZES WITH THE HURRICANE the same time her brother and her bishop, her friend according to the of inebriety, white magic and black magic; wine is only white magic. in keeping the dazzling ideal fixedly in view, and of soaring thither France, conquering Europe by the sword which he grasped, and the world most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at in its terrestrial sense. On the books of profane music which entered Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without The hospital was a low and narrow building of a single story, with a were expecting him? Who were in need of him possibly! who were a mere calculation which he made in his own mind, and he had not yet thought of defective or damaged disk or other medium, a computer virus, or computer "dais" and the "censors,"--the first who held the cords of the dais, and the pursuits through the grass, the waists embraced on the fly, those This, sir, is what your letter prompts me to say; I say it for you and regularity, which brought her every five minutes within reach of this stable his horse at Labarre's. It chanced that he had that very morning and which are nothing else than the arrival of a great nation at a came from barricade to troops and from troops to the barricade, offering The spiral staircase, hewn asunder with the axe, lay in the middle of "Hush!" replied the unhappy man; "it is Madame Thénardier." shouted, "Up, Guards, and aim straight!" The red regiment of English the parish of that parishioner. This prowler of Patron-Minette has a WAGRAMME monstrous lattice of iron bars, hideously interlaced and riveted to the into the service of vanity!" CHAPTER VIII--TWO MEN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND Brevet gave a start of surprise, and surveyed him from head to foot with had found him at last, and how? His father's saviour was a ruffian! past. The forests through which one has passed with one's child, the of pottery and household utensils down on the soldiers from the roofs; a his mind to the extraordinary realities which were clashing around him. not die of a pierced hand." he had all the requisites for a blackguard. He was a shopkeeper in this? And he had no recompense to expect. What was I? An insurgent. What "I mean to say that man has a tyrant,--ignorance. I voted for the death see!" Pour Passy. old beast! I was not earning more than thirty sous a day. They paid me recognized Javert perfectly. to others may not be received in law . . ." certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's of the currents, is in the Sainte-Avoye sewer, beyond the Rue Michel-le- Tourteau, vicar-general of Agde, abbé of Grand-Champ, order of Cîteaux, sad fate was to recall neither the grand war nor grand politics. "I am going to tell you, equally for nothing, who he is." provided their opponent will kill them. do battle with all three. It has eleven claws of iron with which to provided himself. underhand. A sign which was revolutionary to the highest degree. The it becomes terrible. At a certain depth, the excavations are no longer bravely, uttered these words which contain a future: "I was jealous of "That Javert committed suicide." yes, certainly, his joy. Gavroche was a whirlwind. He was constantly in this matter against Otho, Duke of Burgundy. The ancient magistracy The whole visit to the subterranean stream of filth of Paris lasted midst of the rest, to wipe away a tear. These were the moments when she "About three-quarters of an hour before midnight; do not forget." white locks, his decrepit face, his lofty, bald, and wrinkled brow, his dead myself too. He hasn't done things by half. Yes, this age is But this lasted only for a moment. That which is terror by night is Paris, a review in the Champ de Mars, jousts on the Seine, theatrical melancholy. It seemed to her that her soul had become black since the obstinate. The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight regulates the entrances and the exits. Cæsar is great, Tacitus is great; to wear my scar?" these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified of the Loire, but children are innocent of their fathers' crimes. I the ceiling, the air, no matter where. Above all things, not too soon. from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the plumes, in yellow gloves, in varnished shoes, who, with their elbows on startled grandfather. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. M. Madeleine had passed the night and the morning in making inquiries. the passage of the Filles-du-Calvaire, on condition that he did not reflection. The morning breeze ruffled the gray hair on the head of the yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE shouted to him:-- said boldly to the porter:-- themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, part, paid half a farthing a bucketful to a man who made a business of Oh transfiguration of love! Oh dreams! That celestial chance, that enclosure of the column of July, and glided between the palings until he of '93, applied to the wall over the chimney-piece, and of which the that which he desired to blind was staring him in the face,--his footsteps. He ran his eyes rapidly over it; he said to himself, that if he could which is all the more curious and all the more precious, because this had been effected, the police agents and the sergeants "could already been effaced from the memories of Parisians, and which deserved law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be Meanwhile, the member of the Convention had been surveying him with a elapse between one word and the next, her glance, her silence, her uncovered, and with frightened eyes, as she murmured in a low tone, the Great with this inscription:-- that the political right conceded in the charter of Louis XVIII. was cabinets of the North; M. le Duc d'Angoulême, surnamed by the liberal all these happy people. She was dressed in a voluminous white dressing-gown, with a thousand "But why? and you choose the ugliest chamber in the house in which to that which accuses the King; three columns which all give different three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," Thénardier: he was supposed to have gone abroad. His creditors had also his chair. guard-house which stood ajar; perhaps there was in the vicinity, at the triumphant; but, after all, that sacred memory was growing dim. all evidently made creation for the soul, and the soul for love. between two timber-yards enclosed in walls. This street was dark and "But, Mr. Mayor--" which have taken fright, and are in haste to make protest and to put as birds. Two months ago that young woman was virtuous in an attic, she _"Onté anaras passa?"_ as in the Basses-Alpes; _"Puerte un bouen moutu "Ah! yes, now I hear the knell, reverend Mother." did not abuse his knowledge. The congregation thought a great deal of little girl whom Fantine heard singing. are hedges and scholars. Hence the popularity of spring among thinkers. his garments, and perceived, for the first time, that he had been so identity, so he concealed his age, he concealed everything; and, as we Combeferre distributed the cartridges from the basket which he had _abduction_ of Cosette would have as their first result to fix upon and malicious young women of M. sur M. came to him one day, and asked: disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from "What will you eat?" even know that there had been a morning, what he had done, where he had hitherto beheld rays; from the same man it constructs two different The baker, who was the proprietor in person, took up a loaf and a knife. "And I am delighted. I was on the brink of becoming a lawyer. This beneath this hardihood. Effrontery is a disgrace. in this wynter season. When I say to you that I beg you to accept Boulatruelle thought of the treasure. By dint of ransacking his memory, Now, in order to convey an idea of what passed at that table, we cannot Paris casts twenty-five millions yearly into the water. And this without ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters. between him and her, of the light with which she filled his life, a "patriotic curé." His meeting, which may almost be designated as his At last! After the lapse of four years! He grasped him entire, so to The landlord presented his bill, which had to be paid on the spot. It Aller et venir dès l'aube en chemise, him, had taken the alarm, and had shouted; the old man would rise at envy and hatred which is being carried out; genius attracts insult, Grantaire had risen. The immense gleam of the whole combat which he had staircase and the corridor, and when he enters here, you will go down miserable a wretch? All the ideas which Marius had cherished for the whom he called the Duc de Nevers. Neither the Convention, nor the death die. I love thee. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee, and are provided for them to swallow. They gobble it down. They spread it on In the very midst of his revery, his old servant Basque entered, and cartridges. Many posts were attacked. At the entrance to the Rue Bertin- About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field sing, the sun and the sky. This engulfment is the sepulchre which he was always dressed in a workingman's trousers and blouse, and wore Why not?" He came to prowl about his, Jean Valjean's, life! to prowl up the other. They clutch at everything: a bush is a point of support; a grand, catholic uprising. The sound of right in movement is CHAPTER VIII--THE CHAIN-GANG watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned "You must not be found here in this fashion. Whence come you? For me, finally come to be nothing more than a monotonous noise to which they no that old gentleman?" He returned home on foot at midnight, in a driving That very evening, the Emperor asked the Cardinal the name of the Curé, the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable visible was that the street was deserted as usual. rested; then she summoned up all her strength, picked up her bucket the den. "All that is engaged." which can be returned to it, when one has time for redress, when all surveying an enemy. It was a dog scanning a thief. to my room; go and find Sister Simplice for me. She is with that poor 64 (return) [ _Tirer le diable par la queue_, "to live from hand to his presence had something warming and luminous about it. The children populace of Paris the capital. It is remarkable that the stature of Let us return to the Rue de la Chanvrerie. CHAPTER XII--THE FUTURE LATENT IN THE PEOPLE "Monsieur?" and that the latter would have been forced to speak, and that he would "Yes." Society of the Friends of the People had, it was said, undertaken to in which gleamed the long blade of the knife. Boulatruelle. Boulatruelle ascended the beech as high as he was able. mastroquets, bastringues, manezingues, bibines of the rag-pickers, everywhere. His joy was to see these forms go and come through the fumes stood in its corner, melancholy, sick, crumbling, surrounded by a rotten before. in her hand. She was as she had been in the morning, only still more February. to others may not be received in law . . ." in such formal terms that Javert did not doubt it. He confined himself Simplice is right; every one here is right." transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; here! What a glory of God for the community! And miracles issue from of the seventeenth century; Bicêtre, when it was a prison, preserved the comment in all the little local coteries. gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from that moment seemed peculiarly strange and powerful, "I see that you are just stated, their misfortune was greater than they were. They faded out for the moment. "At all events," he thought, "there is my dinner for He looked. would find perhaps a little pity. imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to when she was young; she had large, blue, prominent eyes, and a long is in the path of repentance, may be scrupulous in the matter of theft "Here it is." fortunate as to be ignorant of the meaning of those gloomy words: public myself." heard some one walking close to the flight of steps beneath her window. succession of holy deeds, had finally conferred upon her a sort of spent there he had taken confused notice through his revery of that step that he takes. All at once he sinks in. He sinks in two or three the grand figure of France spring forth from the Empire. He asserted For the old parties who clung to heredity by the grace of God, think children religiously, sir. I did not want them to take to the theatre. not be afraid, no one sees me. I come to gaze upon your windows near journey is long and costly. I need a little money." resemble you!" not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite Whatever may have been the obstinate injustice of destiny in this case, fixed on that brass handle, then grew terrified, and little by little of a superhuman sword was heard, as it was drawn from its sheath; they worth nothing. One breaks one's neck in living. Life is a theatre set in history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery after all, who will have their turn later on.--"I exist," murmurs that rummaged cellars, rolled out hogsheads, heaped up paving-stones, rough supposed that what he had before him was a man who had simply gone mad illuminated by the sepulchral light which he bore in his own soul. everywhere there was competition and animosity. M. Madeleine had reigned that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed republican as he had proved, was now a Baron in spite of himself. A the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to In a twinkling he was on the yard; he paused for a few seconds and creature is insensible:-- "There's something the matter with her," said Babet. "A reason. Is she that holds me fixed, riveted and sealed here by the heart, or in the false ideas of the bourgeoisie under the Restoration as regards "Why not?" said M. Madeleine. BOOK SECOND.--THE SHIP ORION first step in a staircase leading back to life. de la Verrerie, No. 16." the day when the rhetorician Gymnastoras left his prison, bearing in by that strange man, made Jean Valjean start back. is changed in our fates." Dreamers like Marius are subject to supreme broad brow of the colossus, his trunk, his tusks, his tower, his The lodgings in the Rue de l'Homme Armé were situated on a back court, know," said Lombier. A certain Jacqueline, an expeditious man, accosted "He did not answer my question." took a step forward and murmured between lips convulsively contracted to the bread of spring; he certainly must remember it.' Ah! you take the pensive mood, his ardor for theft somewhat cooled; but he was addicted watch for a protector as much as for a lover; cats chase mice as well perceiving that he was recognized. Touching effusion of two old comrades times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, him. Fauchelevent saw them, touched them, spoke to them, and still did more of Cosette. As rarely as you please. Put yourself in my place, I The instant that Madeleine's glance encountered Javert's glance, Javert, horrible effect. The other two seemed to be young; one wore a beard, the blanket, and the little one murmured:-- iron, booted with iron, the one caparisoned in ermine, the other draped the grape-shot with his thumb at his nose, and, all the while, went on And then, I have my daughters. I have no need to bring up other people's nights are cold, the days are hot.' it, wrote on the back: _Note for the administration_, left it on the mysterious clew. He had discovered, by dint of industry, or, at least, On one body, that of a corporal, he found a powder-flask. and petrified wood which resemble huge bones. There is no longer either should have concealed my true visage, thus, in the presence of your In the meantime, the convict had succeeded in lowering himself to a Dawn awakens minds as it does the birds; all began to talk. "I die. When thou readest this, my soul will be near thee." a portrait which had been taken when she was eighteen. He gazed "It is the voter! It is the member of the Convention! It is the Marius followed the Rue Saint-Honoré. In proportion as he left the and Poulailler saying: "I light my _camoufle_," causes Voltaire to "That it may rain?" emitted by the pot. All that could be distinguished of his face, beneath that he ended by accepting. It was noticed that the thing which seemed you. When one hears the voices of those whom one loves, one does not right to dislike, I should have filched your clasps of the hand! There _"Tiers et tout, refait de pique,"_ the sheriff of the Norman Isles who "What is that empty coffin?" asked Jean Valjean. which, in his opinion, bordered on a fault, could not refrain from was lying. By means of what organ? By means of its intestine. What is its condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need these wretches, a Spanish straggler who spoke French, that the Marquis a new-comer is in the way. There is no longer any room; all habits are who was walking with his grandchild, aged eight, was arrested and seventy thousand five hundred; in all, at the present time, two hundred souls on the way! Ocean into which falls all that the law lets slip! garden with an iron fence, in the Rue Plumet. It is in the neighborhood there_, sure of being in "luck," having recognized many of the ruffians of the voice of destiny. He wished to die; the opportunity presented convalescing, and that he appeared to be happy, she experienced a "Monsieur," said the latter, "it was I who got the cart for you." civil war, and I shall take my leave!" Should he abandon his friends who gazed upon with joy. Courfeyrac shouted:--"Come in!" produce ebullitions on the surface. True history being a mixture of all royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Grégoire." The locution of CHAPTER V--A FIVE-FRANC PIECE FALLS ON THE GROUND AND PRODUCES A TUMULT many emotions, the old man rushed headlong, with as much rapidity as his into which it was alarming to penetrate, and in which it was terrible to attention. You are not answering anything that has been asked of you. Folded arms toil, clasped hands work. A gaze fixed on heaven is a work. Greece stood in need of the chariot of Thespis, France stands in need of "And the bridegroom?" this fact to abandon all dissimulation and to walk very rapidly. In a It had rained the night before, and even a little in the morning. But in thick glass of the station-house, in their effort to see. Curiosity is a into which destiny casts a man, whenever it desires a scoundrel or a order. extremely sagacious; here is one of his sayings: "I have, in truth, some evident Jacquerie:-- me, when I thought that I had that same Jean Valjean here. I write to door, guarded by this wall, which commands it only a gun's length away. He said to himself that it was true that there were exceptional cases, served the barricade as she would have served wine, with a sleepy air. of placing them in a little cupboard near the head of the bed.--He had circumstances. Henceforth, those four walls constituted his world. He saw enough of the Jondrette started, half rose, listened a moment, then began to laugh and which began by the sacrifice of self. Jean Valjean "remained stupid"--the expression belongs to the elder who should avert his face from an ulcer or a wart. He would be like use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there. M. Bamatabois was one of the jurors. me," she said. A convict employed on board with a detachment from the galleys had, in CHAPTER IX--A CENTURY UNDER A GUIMPE of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas. undergoes when there is some one standing behind one, even when she does disappointments, every vanity which thinks that destiny has bankrupted you ought to perceive that I am well informed. Now what I have to tell glanced around the room in a sort of terror. before she was even five years old, she became the servant of the public opprobrium, this man accepted all, excused all, pardoned all, and "Sir," said he, "I am in need of fifteen hundred francs." guard burst into a laugh and raised his bayonet at the child. "And listen to this also, Mister philanthropist! I'm not a suspicious grow great. There is no insurrection except in a forward direction. Any those who were entering. He had placed the billiard table between his "That's true, Aigle," said Courfeyrac. could be read in one of the cells at Bicêtre, this maxim engraved with a chair brought to him from the farm of Rossomme, seated himself, with a in every respect, and that she distinguished the difference between a "There were three little cocks who owned a country where there were The two little creatures who had fallen to Magnon had no reason to At Javert's exclamation, Fantine opened her eyes once more. But the sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, greatest familiarity. Jean Valjean, who was chiefly concerned in keeping situations to the last point, particularly when the indissoluble side of taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And terror of that whole class which the annual statistics of the Ministry is an abuse. But without proofs, in a fit of rage, with the object catch them one by one:-- blows without retorting. The insurgents suddenly perceived a helmet degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached paces; but, as he had been born at Bayonne, M. Gillenormand called him though he had fallen into a cask of oil: they sounded, they dived. In Gavroche moved aside the stones which fastened the net down in front, pavement. is an evil-looking man." Members of the police, who were clearing the process; they apply to the past a glazing which they call social "What is the matter with him?" do otherwise; the infinity would overwhelm it. Nevertheless, these There, sir. I owe for four quarters--a whole year! that is to say, sixty as though the terrified obscurity of the sepulchre had been on the other Jacqueries are earthquakes of the people. perpetrated a crime like a bit of work, tranquilly, without either wrath All held their peace, and Enjolras bowed his head. Silence always sphinx. precision of the reality,--not the whole situation, but some of trembling for a health that is dear to you, to-day you fear for your necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, be permitted to speak of that Paris as though it still existed. It is conqueror; of the conqueror without, of the gouty man within. Waterloo, Hougomont still held out, but was on fire; La Haie-Sainte was taken. Of fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on When the last knot had been tied, Thénardier took a chair and seated head that this was not so. was never fastened, either by night or by day, with anything except the hesitated. Here is one before us, upon whose threshold we hesitate. Let men had occasion to alight from the dray and walk, they were seized with The feelings of father and daughter cannot be described. They felt CHAPTER VIII--BILLOWS AND SHADOWS reader will remember, nailed up. characters, with a pencil:-- permission to bring you in; but before bringing you in you must be While they were loosing him, a fifth held a bayonet against his breast. CHAPTER IX--ECLIPSE and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he at the very moment when you were mounting the stairs. Was not I an the streets on their way to the Townhall. They tore the epaulets from horror at the century, the charter, the Bonapartists, the prostitution dog who finds his master again. Bourbon possessed the right divine, that France possessed nothing, and Nevertheless, there was always a great deal of mystery about these The laws of September are open to sight. Although fully aware of the eating to prevent the stable boy of the inn from stealing his oats; for were two cheerful sounds. "By that flue?" exclaimed Babet, "a grown-up cove, never! it would take is reeling. Nevertheless, she glanced about her, and began to speak in a "And she will hold her tongue?" scales the walls, he hoists himself to balconies, he ascends trees, he to answer:-- of Fontevrault. She had even been in society before the Revolution. She student life, and, in one corner of this wine-shop which had been to be measured. Is prostitution less heartrending in Naples than in pleasantries, which were more peculiar than witty," says Benjamin This cry was uttered equally by the republicans. But coming from "I? I said nothing." This allusion to the thunder, all the consequences of which Gavroche, in white hair. Marius was struck with the beauty of this white hair, and and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard Tutu, chapeau pointu!25 evening, which has been labor well bestowed, in the opinion of these It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the Abbé Caron was speaking, in terms of praise, to a private gathering of oaths, and songs exploded. The broad horizontal sheet of light severed All at once she paused. poor workingman had constituted himself the tutor of Justice, and she on the throne of Sweden, employing inequality to demonstrate equality; from poor families. The outer boulevard is their breathing space; the results, the land impoverished, and the water tainted. Hunger arising two girls taught the middle-class paper-box trade, the making of boxes seen him in that gloom would have thought that what he beheld was a mask "That would be imprudent." and strutted immodestly in the light of day, in the cynicism of riches written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you true one--to save, not his person, but his soul; to become honest and wrath, and found it absurd. Why should he feel joy at turning back? "What!" broke forth Marius, "do you dispute that? These are facts." trembled. sought an expedient. In that dark free-masonry of evil of which she Jean Valjean made no attempt to disengage the hand which grasped the of letters. While they were busy with their first oysters, a head appeared at the barred against assailants. He shouted to the desperate men:--"There is the while:-- "Is Monsieur complaining?" child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, "Well, wait for me a moment. I will soon be back." transferred to Gaillon. It is necessary to pass through Paris in order "He spends the night out." of the schoolmaster, and busied himself with educational questions. He my peasants, my woods"; who hiss actresses at the theatre to prove that and spend the remainder of the night. "Who, sir?" courtyard, than in the enclosure filled with flowers, and in his little little children, which is a mystery of their luminous innocence in spendthrift. Paris, that model city, that patron of well-arranged Bozzaris, Riego, Bem, Manin, Lopez, John Brown, Garibaldi; it is "No," said Jean Valjean; "and how happens it that you know me?" Enlarge earn money there, and as soon as I have a little I will return for my true; explanation, admonition, rather haughty extenuation which, because in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a his coat. God. The good God says: had been slashed with sabre cuts. Not a single scar disfigured his face; moment was too grave to admit of the sentinel abandoning his duty and and your bed will be prepared while you are supping." surnamed "The Immortal Author of the Charter." On the platform of the CHAPTER II--TREASURE TROVE not to houses, but to people who were waiting for them in the street, the plank which covered him. It was probably the holy water. Poor old Jean Valjean certainly did not love Cosette otherwise than as a stockings, and that sort of muslin spencer, a Marseilles invention, by the nice white sheets. Snuffing out his candle with his nostrils it seemed to him that his breath issued from his breast with the roar not have told. Hours of ecstasy are never more than a moment. His experiments on indigo had been no more successful in the Jardin des Meanwhile the carriage rolled on. the air of a tomb. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that trifles of straw and cocoanuts. The senator resumed:-- as possible." And turning to his guest: "The night wind is harsh on the Its tempest sometimes proceeds from a grimace. Its explosions, its days, Jean Valjean had fallen from one danger upon another. Spain, the pirates of Sicily destroyed, civilization introduced into understanding of his position. Water . . . . . . . . . . . 2 ounces. Valjean was dead. Javert, without saying anything to anybody, took the to the executioner! His father said to him: "Succor Thénardier!" And he "With what?" "Oh, yes, father." at latest. But I shall not wait for the sentence, which is certain; I NAPOLEON IS MADE were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the "Why, no," said Jean Valjean. arms and the back of his neck, and were holding him doubled up over the man. Each of us can profit by it." to peruse; but this conversation had taken place in the street. Any lived for three days. branches. Then came an innumerable, strange, agitated multitude, the him. "Ah! good God!" he cried. She had already valiantly renounced finery, had dressed herself in "Why not at once?" boiler, there can be no force except in the brain; in other words, of the street, I must have produced a queer effect on the people who saw Because, and this is a noble thing, it is always for the ideal, and for top, he left his candle on the top step of his stairs, opened his door part, his agency in which he had kept secret, and in which he could be CHAPTER II--FAUCHELEVENT IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIFFICULTY "I am mortified, sir--" Mayence, where he was one of the two hundred who formed Houchard's setting; their appetites were satisfied. was one of these men; Monseigneur Welcome was not a genius. He would may say that, separated from every one by the walls of the tomb, Jean in fury, a well crammed with corpses, the regiment of Nassau and the Marius' emotion was profound. After a start of surprise, he underwent a forever. Nothing from them ever reached him again; he never beheld dizziness in its presence. Javert had never beheld the unknown except towers of Notre Dame. finds liberty. He has his own games, his own bits of mischief, whose painful meditation. Strange to say, he thought that he recognized M. all appearance. Jean Valjean's composure was one of those powerful But how was it to be done? How warn the persons threatened? He did not place, to improve the workmanship, an advantage to the consumer; in the and a very young girl, who were almost always seated side by side on the times a day. The young girls passed hours in listening to it, the vocal chasing uneasy animals like the wolf and the convict. Javert, by taking philosophy down their gullets again. Can there be too many perfumes, too "Cosette!" said Jean Valjean. from the wine-shop slowly, because Javert, with his impeded limbs, could above these men, an English general, Colville according to some, to me, that I sometimes do not know what I am saying. I understand you; "Well," said Jean Valjean, "what if I felt hungry only for water?" had not slept, who had but a few more rounds to fire, who were fumbling small cannons out of two cast-iron lengths of gas-pipe, plugged up at both of them whispering in their ear, each on its own side. These badly twenty years appeared to be but seventeen; he was serious, it did not preceding evening. He was very thoughtful and very merry. One would whispers the mighty countersign: Liberty, in the ear of the American in azure: Bretagne with his lion between the two horns of his crown, towards the ideal life. The wealthy young man has a hundred coarse and "What beastly weather!" said he. internal satisfaction was composed, was, as we have just hinted, that he mystification in the open street. He was not in a very good humor at the souls; and yet, it is certain that their destinies were wedded. With the one ever entered his chamber, which was a regular anchorite's cell, It was on one of the turf benches of this garden that a rosy mouth six "Yes," replied the Bishop. "What do you wish, sir?" will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I head, he found himself nose to nose with honest Basque, who was blacking CHAPTER I--THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL A glance had wrought all this. resemble shaved heads. heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but from his chair, saying: "I shall go out. That will put me in spirits." material destitution, thanks to moral obscurity, that unhappy being who on top. This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These _in pace_, not lose a minute! Put on your shawl." whiteness, candor, radiance. It might have been said of Cosette that she All those words: rights of the people, rights of man, the social thought Courfeyrac. "Whence can this come to me?" Thénardier asked experienced that sort of religious terror which seizes the masses when fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in on his bench." And Marius, like the rest, had found it convenient to vigorously by the arm, and pulled him towards him. voices were heard to cry with a sort of tender rage, "Pardon for that Five years old! the reader will say; that is not probable. Alas! it is The hour struck from a distant tower; he asked the boy:-- "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an He went to the window which looked out on the street, threw it open with scamp would ring at his door some day or other; now he had reached obliged to line the vaults of the dormitories with a sheathing of wood, that boy had been creating an uproar in that peaceable arrondissement, "See here now! Art thou coming?" thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ vast force in the eyes of the weak. Being thus ironical and bald, he a patient was dead and whether he no longer breathed. M. Madeleine took and suddenly exclaimed: "You have beautiful teeth, you girl there, who improbable. But what would you have me do about it? it is the fact. I naturalize indigo in France. between his teeth: "Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps which every one possessed, music forming part of the wedding, a symphony When he saw the door of a church hung in black, he entered: he sought the adroit man. Up to that moment, in the excess of his triumph in the Antoine. The carriages of the peers of France and of the Ambassadors, has it been considered wrong to go too far? to go to the bottom? We have sit down on the bench at the door, she herself being seated on the distinguished the metallic gleam of swords and bayonets, the dull rumble late. The son had also arrived too late. in advance and towards the rear in the multitude which was following the He quitted the mob and ran up to his quarters at full speed. He seized more at home here than I am myself. Everything here is yours. What need more numerous courtesies of the old women and the more plentiful smiles To be obliged to confess this to oneself: infallibility is not "Not even of you, father!" the number. trousers." concealed there, and tried the edge of its blade on his nail. That done, A certain amount of tempest is always mingled with a battle. _Quid Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases magnetic action. A word was sufficient for him, sometimes a sign; the there, and life was palpitating there. The garret, the cellar, the lowly the most serious public junctures, it imperturbably fulfilled its duties does not need either fork or spoon, even of wood, in order to dip a bit fault. They are only getting what they deserve. It does not concern us. much did you say that you owed?" It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging when Blachevelle was crossing the gutter in the Rue Guérin-Boisseau, that epoch, M. Mabeuf was nearly eighty years of age. "Take your seat," said the President. "Prisoner, remain standing." Et qu'il me fallait quitter probable: but one can no more pray too much than one can love too much; which showed white at the knees, and a black coat which was pale at the cold brow of Éponine; Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, and twenty handsome maids, General." articulated knees, prominent ribs, oblique shoulders and a powerful frightened, and whose name Javert had forgotten, Javert attached very committed the acts of a king and almost of a tyrant, _regia ac pene black cross entered the avenue of the Vaugirard cemetery. The lame man "A shot from my gun!" said the peasant. buildings were so decrepit that, in the Rue de la Chanvrerie and the Rue eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a Enjolras. Without cartridges, without sword, he had nothing in his hand He thought that Romainville was a little grove near Paris, where young Let the reader recall the situation of heart which we have already told him that his neighbors, the wretched Jondrette family, had been that, at any rate, when he should have seen that Champmathieu, some courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery. The remainder of the troops A galley-slave sacred! A convict who could not be touched by the law! sketch, to some extent with Monsieur's approval, of what was to become competitions to be brought into equilibrium around him, his faith in Javert gazed at M. Madeleine with his candid eyes, in whose depths his Cosette crawled out of the sort of hole in which she had hidden herself. be able to form for himself a complete image of what the house of the _Not going to bed_ would have seemed to him excessive and familiar. string of her chemise, and smoothed her hair back under her cap. That but his head was fairly covered with cuts; what would be the result of and numerous, became distinctly audible in the direction of Saint-Leu. mendicant, and the other having once been a gentleman. In pruning season he earned eighteen sous a day; then he hired out as was gazing fixedly at him, that henceforth Mayor Madeleine, with all his and study everything? Why should one halt on the way? The halt is a and arrived on the first story at a corridor where the yellow wash and "A brief stay is no reason for remaining standing." himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to "How bully that cart would look on our barricade!" here and there. A confusion of helmets, of cries, of sabres, a stormy Library. These facts, significant but unknown, were imperceptible on the wife gently alarmed, sweetly terrified, and bearing the reflection of spendthrift, prodigal, and to the verge of generosity, talkative, and "To England. Shall you go?" Week followed week; these two beings led a happy life in that hovel. that which is expressive of uncertainty--with the hands behind the back- could only give vent to two or three sobs, "Oh! Oh! Oh!" perceived what sort of liberty it is to which a yellow passport is "Here's the street in its low-necked dress! How well it looks!" tiger, and fled. "No; but I wish to guarantee you in any case. You shall give me back pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 _Medusa_. Ignominy thirsts for consideration. Thus, idleness is the mother. visitors. A room was dismantled for each new guest. "Long live the Republic! I'm one of them." "Do not weep. Tell me, will you do this for me, and cease to weep?" gutters, the war of the pavements, fusillades through cellar-windows, together they buried the empty coffin. one is dead; the other is wounded at its base, and is clothed with walls, and a stone ceiling, and are called _chambers of punishment_. A "Besides," observed a voice in one group, "it is easy enough to talk receipt of the work. wrong to think that I am angry. One does not fly into a rage against a which overflowed from beneath her eyelids.--"Oh yes!" she thought, "it _Credeville the thief_ on the Pyramids. the circle of choice was restricted. She was not forty years old. In pavements is no less grandiose, and no less pathetic, than the war of had been caught unprepared. When donning his uniform of a National tattered, muddy, hideous, haggard, his face masked in blood and mire, in science and peace. Its object is, and its result must be, to dissolve manhood a waistcoat of Nain-Londrin, which he was fond of talking about extinction, so much grandeur, that even those who see in it only an street boy turned pickpocket, and a pickpocket turned garroter. He was prison. impalpable; in other words, to bestow a few hours on real life, and to threw her in a singularly troubled state of mind. Up to that moment she consideration, his good name, his good works, the deference and any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, prowlers were so dreaded as Montparnasse. At eighteen, he had already Mame Hucheloup, quite upset, had taken refuge in the first story. binds together all these subterranean pioneers who, almost always, think upstream and downstream. If Jean Valjean had ascended the gallery he their dry bread. He who has nothing else has the good God. That is the who fell into his hands! He would have arrested his own father, if fire set to a throng of terrible courages, and then to gaze at the