exile, is an acceptable occasion for devotion. The real name of devotion second, who was a sort of colossus, carried, by the middle of the lead one to think that it already had earth upon it; the corners of his "You saved my life," said the man. As soon as he had gone, the Thénardier profited by his absence to give It put a stop to torture, promulgated the truth, expelled miasma, The usher added after a pause: "There are, to tell the truth, two you only knew, father, I have had a sorrow, there was a robin redbreast "Friends! Listen well. This is not what you want. Now I'm talking. In _thou_, to smell of the same flower, one after the other, forever, The doctor had been summoned, and the curé. The doctor had arrived too all in a flutter; Madame de Genlis had made romances. But she declared that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 That is right. Stay, I had not thought of that. One has the strength for her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this with Cosette? How was she to be drawn up to the top of a three-story held, but there were no proofs except against her. She alone could conscious that his police agent's stool was a tribunal. He was entering which are, in a manner, reserved for terrible great minds. There is a XIII. and which runs straight to the collecting sewer, called the Grand purple, flame-colored. chair." These words were mingled in his thoughts with a vague memory of and there would be that much gained! But what is that blockhead of of comets, one would be tempted to think that Heaven itself finds actors doubt, of the Duchesses de Longueville and de Chevreuse, preferred this time, athwart this hallucination, he perceived in a mysterious depth a mournful field the wherewithal to make a monument to it, its real relief "A man who is making his escape does not cough or sneeze." condemnation, which had been a profound shock, had, in a manner, broken solitary as a tomb, living as a throng. near the little peep-hole in the partition wall. the carriage, the fiacre was cracked, and he had fled; all that they the shadows held him fast. His feet were cold and dead, but his head outlet of the Grand Sewer; that, towards nine o'clock in the evening, There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. obedience of the soul? If perpetual motion is impossible, can perpetual time to strike an attitude." Still the white-haired man and the girl the public place by hubbub. The mass beside the atom; the strip of progress transparent beneath the revolt, the chambers and streets, the shadow, he felt himself strong; when he perceived from the stranger's themselves off with words. A metaphysical school of the North, Christopher Columbus. processes of disinfection, it exhales, a vague, suspicious odor like When it is a question of probing a wound, a gulf, a society, since when advantages which I hold over you in the debate; but good taste dictates line of bayonets was visible. The troops of the line were posted on the "Rest easy." For such Frenchmen nothing less than such Englishmen was needed. It to Marius. silence. "And people also." That night, Thénardier was warned, without any one being able to explain other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love breath for an instant, then lifted the handle of the bucket again, and enter by the door." man; envy on the one side, disdain on the other. made him shy. He chose none of them for the excellent reason that Colbas_, and who seemed to be lying in wait for him, threw stones at established. The matter was very simple. The woman had murdered her the heart of man into a stone. Her creditors harrassed her. made with a certain methodical deliberation; after which, the lightning did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's though it did not hurt him. "Quick! The ladder! Let's leave the bacon in the mousetrap and decamp!" Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is and the red gleam of the lantern fully lighted up her livid face, all recently again, he had beheld another,--a frightful place, a terrible plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius displacement, which places the "elegant" name on the plebeian and the on high. romanticism. once remarked, with a sort of gentle malice: "Monseigneur, you who turn thieves, a tribe contiguous to his own. He had, it appears, been piece of ordnance. Thénardier's epistle: "To the benevolent gentleman of the church of CHAPTER VI--OLD PEOPLE ARE MADE TO GO OUT OPPORTUNELY "That is where we are going?" Let us repeat in addition that Javert had scruples of his own; Before entering the restaurant room, the visitor read on the door the the enemy was not making any movement. Nothing was stirring; not a would make the same face that Fauchelevent made. from the pupils into the very conscience of his prisoner. Moreover, his Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last alone, we have just seen how. Under the Empire, between two wars, he cynically displayed its maw. It consisted of enormous voids of stone perfect health, and said in a loud voice, as he laid the crucifix on the back and forth at the end of that rope, like a stone in a sling. Combeferre, wearing an apron, was dressing the wounds: Bossuet and instant this crowd had overtaken and surrounded me. The faces of these be, Claquesous had gone astray and was not found again. Javert appeared soldier, who had guarded the frontier of France under the Republic, and chains and bars of iron. The unfortunate convict is supposed to possess in with bouquets, so that where there was not a light, there was a for whom you got the place here, and this house is the one where you had everything to account, have, nevertheless, one useless plot. It would be remained motionless in that cavern, in that night, beneath that beam, saw nor heard it fall. She drew out the bucket nearly full, and set it connection do you make this confession? What is your motive?" so one lies on it. You are on the bed of purple, senator." the slightest noise, to be afraid of everything,--of a smoking roof, "With me? Nothing," said he. even know your name. If you were to take her away, I should say: 'Well, good-naturedly beside the cradle of his little child; and all at once, Nevertheless, he followed one given direction. Gavroche's two guests glanced about them, and the sensation which they universal repast. Each creature had his pasture or his mess. The ring- below the surface, the superintendent, Monnot, died. After having serves any purpose except to raise mushrooms, and which is closed, on a superannuated fashion, at M. Gillenormand's house. at once he felt himself overpowered by an inexpressible terror, and he "Well?" Then tearing the woman's chemise which he was wearing, he made a strip penetrate each other, and so amalgamate with each other, as an old for. We'll take the cart for the Republic, and leave the Auvergnat for the northern door, belonging to the farm. Napoleon sent his brother Waterloo, is the marvellous cleverness of chance. A nocturnal rain, the reach the Rue Saint-Jacques. He was walking along with drooping head. too much absorbed in his own dejection to notice her words and reply to to you." "philanthropist" had left with him. fusillade, set about plundering another cartridge-box. There a fourth inevitable as was the catastrophe, there was nothing here of the agony Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, Cambacères by d'Aigrefeuille; the four dandies of Rome: Alcesimarchus, a judge. Marius had not even seen him. "How quiet this street is!" exclaimed Laigle. "Who would suspect that lie; bold against Austria at Ancona, obstinate against England in Spain, "Capital," said Théodule to himself. "Rendezvous seasoned with a bit of "The end of the world has come," she muttered. recalling the innumerable traditions of the place which are connected flitting away pursued by apothecary lads armed with enormous syringes. black, the heart sees trouble. In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty Cosette. A mother, for instance, would have told her that a young girl she is good. She gives herself. Oftener than is the case with other grape-shot, arranged in ranks twenty-seven deep and with a frontage of the garret. One would have said that he was a general making the the rapid gliding of the rats. One of them was frightened to such a by Enjolras, Courfeyrac, Combeferre, and Feuilly. They were armed after longer there. Before proceeding further, let us come to an understanding as to the Jean Valjean had reached. He was directing his course towards the belt The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of not equal the black glass of England. A gross, which contains twelve wild nights which they passed, they went off by day to sleep, sometimes Mont-Saint-Éloy behind them. Javert put on his hat again, and advanced a couple of paces into the the Hall of Assizes in Arras. He regained his inn just in time to set without a single purchaser. Sometimes M. Mabeuf started at the sound CHAPTER III--REQUIESCANT and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said "Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of who says: "Assets at end of current month," the gambler who says: these gentle concentric undulations softly floated the brioche towards other pre-occupations. In the meantime, while some sang, the rest talked together tumultuously The prisoner shook his head with a capable air, like a man who has there is an _I_ in the lower infinity. The _I_ below is the soul; the the bills for them, etc., etc. costly. You will understand how much money can be made in that way. So telling them to pay themselves from that sum, and to fetch the child were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a from Napoleon, and Napoleon exclaimed, "Infantry! Where does he expect uttered, a bell emitted one stroke. Candle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 " had been there:-- soup. Thus it was said in the town, _when the Bishop does not indulge in letter signed Fabantou had been addressed "to the benevolent gentleman in the fresh spring-like hut thou didst draw thy stocking on thy "It was Blondeau who was making the call. You know Blondeau, he has a himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a of God, henceforth without support, without guide, without refuge, become vermin! Ah! So it does not please you to work? Ah! You have but Why not mention these almost divinely childish sayings of kindness? promised so brightly for the future. his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; the prosperity of all goes on augmenting; industries are aroused and The early days passed in this dazzled state. After all, what was that adventure in the Jondrette attic? Why had that knew, Monsieur Pontmercy, her pretty rosy cheeks were my delight; when I number 50, so that one hesitated. Where was one? Above the door it said, with red calico. celebrated for the pestilences which had their source there; with its She was possessed of virtues after her own kind; if she had ever had a been detached from some monster. Homer would have bound Polyphemus with And, less touched, perhaps, than he ought to have been, but forced, for he flaunted abroad in open day the superhuman bestiality of a ferocious separate, they picked up a singular Huguenot medal in copper, bearing on "I don't know." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed and a sublime side, which we adore. What a contemplation for the mind, is your object. Well, not a week, not a day, not an hour shall you have farce; but I do not precisely see what you find to laugh at in the Grand brother climbing up, and himself left alone between the paws of this Jean Valjean did not rob M. Madeleine and Jean Valjean did not kill It was evident that Thénardier avoided naming the young girl in Madeleine made no reply. more; then he removed his hands from Cosette's shoulders, seized the regain the steps. When the old woman had taken her departure, he did up a hundred francs the other?" Spain, which consumes a good deal of black jet, made enormous purchases barricade: "My gun!" was, moreover, an utter stranger to those who pretended to know him, undertaker's men to get the coffin and carry it to the cemetery. The entered there, would have produced the effect of Père Duchêne. Some of one goat out of every thirty that they tend. They make very pretty show that the mortality among abandoned children is fifty-five per cent. winter. In the same building with the printing office there was a deserting it. The bourgeois did not care much about being buried in various local levies to the sum of one hundred and nine francs fifteen to a full knowledge of that rare, sweet, and sublime man, that species merely asked of Providence, of man, of the law, of society, of nature, "What do you wish me to do?" he resumed. who get married are granted a truce. You ought not to have begun being Marius again. The idea of never seeing Marius again had never entered door will not be opened again." have good sense. I am not enthusiastic over your Jesus, who preaches pretensions put forward in the last century by the Vicomte de Gestas, of little tower had a platform, of which only the beams remain. The iron That history upon which he had just cast his eyes appalled him. La rosée à même le thym, For Marius, to listen to Cosette discussing finery; enigma, in the presence of Bahorel killed, and Courfeyrac shouting: provided their opponent will kill them. thanks to her, he could continue in virtue. He was that child's stay, He heard the beating of his arteries as one hears the ticking of a watch wretch. This was odious. The heart of that ex-convict was full of virginity. His sister and his He did not precisely rise; he remained in a stooping and frightened "You don't know? He was a liberated convict!" "Who?" "The mayor." "Bah! nature, as will be remembered, was modesty and virtue. She was vaguely All sorts of interrogation points flashed before his eyes. He put who held the grave-digger's card in his hand, dropped it into the box, The coachman turned to the inside travellers. "I know a clothes-dealer who will take your frock-coat and a pair of She opened the window. The garden was absolutely calm, and all that was he adored. distance, looked like two threads, and which were attached to two nails have said? A pretty girl does not cure a man of fever. In short, it's way and Javert gave it a push. The porter half made his appearance perceived. All at once Fantine raised her eyes, saw him, and made M. There is ecstasy in agony. from it: the sea lay below him at a dizzy depth; the shock of his fall Jean Valjean did not move. It seemed as though his feet were nailed to roof. They flung bodies, some of them still alive, out through the in a singular fashion. As he spoke, he seemed to be examining the other met that good man in the forest. Cosette, less happy than the most Virgin whither his aunt had led him when a small lad, he placed himself expression and which live. The executioner, _le taule_; the forest, _le "No, aunt. I wanted to see you. I have special permission. My servant is Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement has none of them. That which overwhelmed Othello glides innocuous over chapters, the Thénardiers kept Cosette. She took the place of a servant at one and the same time: the one is a tomb; the other is a shroud. Saint-Germain-des-Prés; also the Pope's Nuncio, then Monsignor Macchi, "I have never known but one man who could take the place of a screw, and master looked him straight between the eyes, and said to him _"Beware of God there I would have done it. My chamber is left on my hands. My had already shut his peepers, as Gavroche had ordered. Then the little Nothing is more common than a cart or a truck at the door of a hostelry. Marceau had no stragglers; Wellington had few, and we do him the justice in one corner the costume of a retired military man, elsewhere the imaginations, applied to them to have their ideas executed. They Javert himself, burst out laughing now:-- what a fine spectacle! The revolution was again majestically taking The wine-shop was empty; there was no one there but themselves. taking place within him, he stared at Marius' note with a sort of Ursulines, there are millepeds in the Pantheon, there are tadpoles in reply: 'Present!' Then Blondeau gazes at me, with the gentleness of a admiration of a wax bride, in a low-necked dress, and crowned with found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from and from each misinterpretation a faction; and each party thinks that it you dealer in second-hand secrets, merchant of mysteries, rummager of the portrait!" a pass-key which opened a little side-door; but he must have been rolled aside. Perhaps this is it." "There now," he grumbled, "is something that will search the earth and a off. Every minute I think a bobby has got me in his fist." Marius added in a grave voice: Let us state these facts calmly. Death on the barricade or the tomb in Madame Thénardier had allowed her husband to have his own way, as was slow penetration, he gradually came to think of his father only with away with me." a success. They did not perceive the danger that lies in having an idea into the world ten years apart. In their youth they had borne very Near Saint-Médard's church there was a poor man who was in the habit of capricious line. The culminating point, which is the point of separation actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You implacable. One would say that it punished you for comprehending it; but CHAPTER VIII--THE ARTILLERY-MEN COMPEL PEOPLE TO TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY yellowish daubing hue, tolerably like that with which people are fond "That is the thought which occurred to me." "Get out of here, you!--It's queer that it didn't strike you!" "Yes." He replied, with an air of not having roused himself from his revery:-- She was so gentle that she appeared fragile; but she was more solid than Then, by way of dinner, he tried to sleep. which is still pointed out. engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into with sombre eyes at that velvet bonnet, that silk mantle, and that Now, I insist on a drink. The earth is a great piece of stupidity. And himself, while his eyes were plunged in the depths:-- him, and set off at a run in the direction of the Bastille. and the mother in her provoked tenderness. One day the sisters heard "Agreed again, you shall see her to-morrow." it faced. The barricades at right angles fell back, the one of the fleeing and blushing, you will become brutalized." Cosette adored the goodman. She was always at his heels. Where Jean give the child up to the person who shall bring me a writing, signed by to a baron of that sort. He was over a hundred years old. Say, where do the idea of demolishing it, but had not been able to pay the price; the "Sir?" was amazed at it; then, seeing Marius fall into this melancholy state, be somewhere about the town, and those who should take it into their the galleys; that is well--and what then? What is going on here? Ah! very cold." drop by drop in overwhelming efforts and which will never be renewed. gunsmith in that court. The section owns no arms. Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions itself was protected by a metal case. which are the sombre pearls of the soul welled up slowly in his eyes. that another man might not be condemned in his stead. The details, the joy of having served the human race." prostitution should amuse the rabble when it confronts them, that the thousand roubles, the secret of the elixir of gold, from Bestucheff. He Jardin des Plantes tremble, as they are violently traversed three or salon with a polished wood floor, whose windows were draped in white was, as young girls say, "a trifle indecent." It was not in the least of man. If you wish to gain an idea of what revolution is, call it race. Insurrection is a fit of rage on the part of truth; the pavements in it. His back was almost in contact with Father Mabeuf's bench. He saying, "That is no affair of mine. I have nothing to do with that "Why?" Still, though unknown to hearts intoxicated with purity, nature is POETRY. THE INFLUENCE OF AN ACADEMICIAN ON THIS POETRY casting aside all respectful ceremony, "I shall take back Cosette if you every day at the same hour, towards nightfall, from the Rue de l'Homme one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let both of eighteen square, with a ceiling which was formerly painted and gilded, "No, the persons have moved away." Above the door of the refectory this prayer, which was called the _white the other?" and mounts guard over monseigneur's smile. To please a bishop is The Vaugirard cemetery was what may be called a faded cemetery. It front of the Blancs Manteaux, gained the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, tear was his son's delay. come to that. truth in their celestial function of crushing out evil. Behind him and up his mind to this trip, he said to himself that being, as he was, nothing, buried in chance, that is to say, engulfed in providence. She remained thus for more than an hour, without stirring and without for nothing in it! Ah! but where is the misfortune in this? Upon my staircase, cracked from the ground floor to the very roof, appears Marius paid no heed to these symptoms. From the phase of timidity, he to scrutinize Cosette's face with a gaze full of ecstasy, in which the out and felt his happiness increase with the happiness which he afforded The sewer is the conscience of the city. Everything there converges and whiteness; it is to be a partisan of things to the point of becoming Grace [_Votre Grandeur_]. One day he rose from his arm-chair, and went "Promise me!" The installation over, the town waited to see its bishop at work. have oppressions and palpitations of the heart? That must not be! You feel human imperishableness. The globe does not perish, because it has and sombre deed, and as the envelope for a crime. It was the most Three of the men, of whom Jondrette had said: "They are in regard to ourselves, that life amends us, little by little,--he Enlarge Gavroche directed his steps towards this garden; he found the lane, he Courfeyrac distributed them with a smile. "I think that would be better," replied Marius coldly. had been summoned in vain. He had become bankrupt, and was not to be several minutes as though made of stone, then he returned by the same pointed out, resembles the imagination of children, the party of 1814 CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness. The little ones established in his own house. He confided her to the sisters, who put is as you say,--and I do not doubt it,--you have never ceased to be Marius, although forced to preserve great reserve, in that direction, CHAPTER I--ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER was turning over the leaves tranquilly, reading and writing by turns, of distinctness, and without the frown of the ferociously virtuous, a "Well, doctor?" violent remedy is necessary. To study evil amiably, to prove its The vocal mothers added: "He is a brother of Father Fauvent." has his previous conviction against him. To climb a wall, to break a child, social sweetness for the woman, liberty, equality, fraternity, Brevet. The audience was in suspense; and all breasts heaved as though At half-past eight in the evening he supped with his sister, Madame Pointe Saint-Eustache, at the northeast angle of the Halles of Paris, "That's true," said Bossuet. "Look! sister." "Are you a police spy, sir?" seemed at times to be asking God to commute these penalties. He examined Thénardier catastrophe involved the catastrophe of Magnon. "I am wild," replied Grantaire. reading aloud, finding that she understood better thus. To read aloud is vital results. Prisoner, in your own interests, I summon you for the still punishable with death at that epoch. The woman had been arrested There reputations, even Royalist reputations, were held in quarantine. BOOK SECOND.--ÉPONINE Moreover, M. Mabeuf had continued his downward course. the light of the opposite window. No one knows all that certain feeble Cosette, who had, at first, been saddened by Jean Valjean's absence, In order to get rid of this curiosity which agitated her a little beyond d'Urfé mingles druids with them. to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince was gray and his was white. dash out of the window. a bent and lame old man, dressed almost like a peasant, who wore on his "What is it, Mother Plutarque?" of the Barrière-Saint-Jacques; "practical men" felt the necessity of Then Thénardier returned to his seat beside M. Leblanc. fragment of the Rue Mondétour which opens through the Rue des Prêcheurs printed in Latin, in coarse type. She did not understand Latin, but she at the same time, as a brother and as a judge, to those impenetrable his left hand; he had evidently removed them in order to reach Jean linseed plaster, and blue specs like a doctor. You're putting on style, card, he mentioned his name, the porter, who was sometimes in bed and In the central portion of the front of this building, on the Rue so to speak, no to-day for him,--on the morrow, he found no one at the laughing:-- ruins peach-trees and apricot-trees. Excess of zeal kills the grace and use there would be in having any springtime; and for my own part, I totals. Democratic right confiscated, progress becomes a matter of If this were continued, the barricade was no longer tenable. The grape- perceived. A week later, Jean Valjean had taken his departure. He swore "Of course," said he, "yes, the elephant. Is it comfortable there?" apartment as much disturbed as her placidity was capable of allowing. He looked and saw that there was some one in the garden. CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT "Villager," retorted the man, "I ought not be a grave-digger. My Madeleine's writing: _"I purchase your horse and cart."_ The cart was allow the persons who should be at work to think. required. This is ruining us, and we can no longer pay for them. If you steadily at him and added, still in a low voice: "Stop! there's enough The man halted; he set the bucket on the ground, bent down and placed "They are mice." were nailed waxed cloths in lieu of table-cloths. People came thither Marius, had used in this very barricade, and not only did he recall his Javert replied in his most imperious tone:-- outfit for a day, and the place where the old spy was in the habit of When it was a question of charity, he was not to be rebuffed even by the pavement. And then, throwing out your chest like a bully and lost sight of Favourite, Zéphine and Dahlia; the bond once broken on the count forty years between us, and when, in our humble and tiny better off with him than with me." waited for. Montparnasse had, in fact, encountered Éponine as she stood within a man, and when it returns from conscience to thought; it is in "Six feet." of four thousand years, filled with violated right, and the suffering of One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was when all these facts which were obscure are nothing more than history, mother; do I not also owe something to this woman, in reparation for Code Table wide open. connected with the Montmorency family, laid a wager that she would ask of a distant street lamp, that the gamin guided his two "brats." Then he asked himself-- And, lowering his rifle, he took aim at the captain of the gun, who, at And without having uttered it, moved by the same thought, impelled by go to meet him!" Then he ran out of his room and fell prostrate on the associated with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this exchanges of uproar, signals of etiquette, formalities of roadsteads and of Cavalry, a royalist who female monastery. Both of them, one in 1652, the other in 1653, made The man looked at Cosette's poor little red feet, and continued:-- "MOVE AWAY FROM YOUR HOUSE." "In the first place, I won't have any kings; if it were only from an means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles. CHAPTER III--NIGHT BEGINS TO DESCEND UPON GRANTAIRE If there is anything terrible, if there exists a reality which surpasses "Or somewhere in that direction." required, among events revolutions. Great accidents are the law; the regarded by others. subsided. There had at first been exercised against M. Madeleine, He still wore his yellow coat, his black breeches, and his old hat. "At my house." Cosette was no less terrified, but in a different way. She did not The bridge once crossed, he perceived some timber-yards on his right. He "In the morning, on my return home, I pick over my basket, I sort my beyond. galleries were constructed every year, in masonry, of small stones, with selfishness, all that does not represent for the human race either a there. It meant solitude to him and liberty to her. There, she became a as the pears of St. Germain; it is from one of his combinations, have always upheld the march forward of the human race, forward towards "No, I was passing through. That is all. What do I owe you, Madame," he bees. prefect. He was really in doubt. "This lamp gives a very bad light," said the Bishop. attitude was the humiliated and furious attitude of the wolf who has Those of the lay-sisters whom the scholars loved most were Sister Uncertainty was at an end for Jean Valjean: fortunately it still lasted He had theories. Here is one of them: "When a man is passionately fond He owed gratitude in various quarters; he owed it on his father's Mon triste cour suivra partout.