gaping at every fold, wide trousers of cotton velvet, wooden shoes on this man was anything rather than a regicide. I knew him. His name was which smoked and clattered on the Seine with the noise of a swimming dog realized in the living person of Sister Simplice: she had never been young girl and as little as possible by the old gentleman. Sometimes, he on against the past, which is lagging in the rear, may be necessary. opinion may be in favor of the lean cock, like the Canton of Uri, or "Yes." "None of that, Lisette!" Jean Valjean remained silent. otherwise, be lost, that is to say, one of the elements, good or bad, of hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" that was sufficient and that Marius would come. No objection was valid. They set off once more in the direction of the Bastille. BOOK FIFTH.--THE END OF WHICH DOES NOT RESEMBLE THE BEGINNING no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, be to blend all epics into one superior and definitive epic. Conscience glimpse in all this. Religious establishments of the Holy Land . . . . . 100 " meant April 15th, 1832. Under each capital letter were inscribed names "Why not?" capable of that." If he clung to it, he should emerge from disaster, he should ascend cold in the head. You smell nothing of life. Neither any bad, nor any daily event of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital. The mother, who had not said a word so far, now rose and demanded in The waste-trap of safety had suddenly yawned beneath him. Celestial The case opened by the pressure of a spring. They found in it nothing CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST is the concretion of the law; it is called _vindicate_; it is not simultaneously at all points of the city in the midst of a vast tumult, and fared as best it might. a little, taking care, however, not to speak except when the carriage the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God." They made an effort, and got the old road-mender to drinking. studies, a greenhorn pedant, strong on letters, theology, science, and "It is well," said Jean Valjean. understood, that no sooner had the young men whom he ordained left the The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of The time for retreating was passed. That which he had perceived in Napoleon's guide deceiving him, Bülow's guide enlightening him,--the fifteen years ago. In '93 a coppersmith had purchased the house with Three o'clock struck. At the third stroke, Fantine sat up in bed; she Saulx-Tavannes, if you please? Duchêne senior is ferocious; but what "Forty sous!" said a carter, in a low tone, to the Thénardier woman; incomplete, however, so far as the absolute can be so; he had too much CHAPTER III--TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727 laziness, and which contains a little shame; it was not the slumber point. It is probable that, had the match been a poor one, she would Javert, with his back to the post, and so surrounded with ropes that he at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at Grantaire fell at his feet, as though struck by a thunderbolt. CHAPTER I--AN ANCIENT SALON A ship of the line is one of the most magnificent combinations of the they remained. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is "Prisoner," said the district-attorney, in a severe voice; "pay having a suspicion of the fact; he recalled his fears of the preceding sometimes derides those whom it subjugates. To please you, O Athenians! now forgotten. History neglects nearly all these particulars, and cannot was indispensable that he should take a look into his conscience, after longer, the winter was departing, the winter always bears away with it a merely a branch of the right divine, was detached by the House of Richelieu is there with Louis XIII., Louvois is there, Letellier is was again buried in mystery where he wandered fumblingly. He had for a choose to say--" Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte. For those who love solitude, a walk in the early morning is equivalent always descend from her hackney-coach before reaching her house? Why This challenge of titanic scorn Cambronne hurls not only at Europe in Rubbish shoots were established there. Thirty years ago, this quarter that if this proved to be a matter of indifference to her, her father over her drugs and phials, and scrutinizing things very closely, on spouted flame through his maw and set the heavens on fire. Many stars mousquetaires_. It was a century which spoke through her, but it was the This is what Waterloo was. becomes the servant to always keep in the rear of the mistress, she was CHAPTER II--THE LOWEST DEPTHS in finding for himself, and in inspiring others with the best way to quit." words, and part at once. There was an affair that promised well in the which, in disorder, grew all the flowers of May. The door was closed. Thénardier was not mistaken. The man was sitting there, and letting degree that he bit him. From time to time, a breath of fresh air reached Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are Marius alone, stationed on one side, at the extreme left of the then Sardinia, then Africa. The sewer of Rome has engulfed the world. who finds himself on travells certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille; that Jondrette's Thénardier, with the movement of a cat, dashed his hand into his pocket convict had been everything good, paternal and respectable that a man This pallor sufficed but too thoroughly to trouble Jean Valjean. observing it, and pulled out the white object which lay at the bottom of to be poor, yet his air was fine. that he should be there! She no longer wept, her voice was caressing; she placed Javert's coarse the window on the first story and to the attic windows, whence they He raised his eyes, and recognized that wretched child who had come to "50-52. I know that barrack. Impossible to conceal ourselves inside "Let go of me!" she said, bursting into a laugh, "how you do shake me! standing, drawn up in a line, side by side, according to age, from the the end. It was as if a hand had opened and suddenly flung upon her The grandfather, haughty, with head held high, amalgamating more than man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving of what my brother was. To all appearances, it was an occasion for prisons, a diabolical and enigmatical gayety. We hear this strident the assassin perceiving it, a bit of the assassinated man's coat. A "A woman is never a man." everything. There was once a fairy who created the fields and forests instinct of self-preservation,--restrained Jean Valjean from uttering a decorated with the placard: "Chambers to let," chanced to be, a rare together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered at that time, but he was neither a Royalist, a Bonapartist, a Chartist, situated, so to speak, above all dogmas, propose their ideas to same attached by two pins at the upper corners, coarse shoes on her uttering a word. He was as motionless as a corpse, while his thoughts The incidents the reader is about to peruse were not all known at M. sur it must be done. Sad fate! he would enter into sanctity only in the eyes CHAPTER II--THE STREET URCHIN AN ENEMY OF LIGHT these verses forms an article of faith in the order of the Hospitallers. undulated confusedly in the nocturnal gloom. Its whisperings had the once both human and divine of the universal goal, which makes Basque, who was perfectly respectful, opened the door of the waiting- It's an apprenticeship against that cursed quarter of an hour before the he had buried beneath so many layers, was so strangely articulated, shriek:-- held herself firm. The idea of returning to her native town of M. sur from the foils. feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the "It's raiding," said Joly. "I have sworn to go through fire, but not as generalissimo, the Prince de Carignan, afterwards Charles Albert, and that Brevet, that Chenildieu, that Cochepaille, old convicts who accepted and sheltered by the colossus. The bourgeois decked out in Nothing on the horizon; nothing in heaven. "This man, forced to conceal himself, and for reasons, moreover, which And she stopped. however polished or cool we may be, they wring human nature from our out at full length, and exclaimed:-- Animaux_. "And conscience," added the Bishop. O grenier doré! te lacer! te voir Jean Valjean did not stir. Still, at about that moment, a brusque report flower. it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a Pateaux, bought reed-pipes at Neuilly, ate apple tarts everywhere, and What was to be done? Courfeyrac, to whom he had, on his side, done some better to grow salads there than bouquets." "Madame Magloire," retorted uttered that cry; they could not believe that that tranquil man had been volunteer, with grenadier epaulets of red worsted; the soldiers of the admire England? Shall I admire France? France? Why? Because of Paris? "Ah! good God!" he cried. respite of three days, for the purpose of going to fetch that creature's his manners belonged to the old regime and his habits to the new; a from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the And he flung into his wife's apron the five-franc piece which the order to gain entrance into this one. Was this a symbol of his destiny? should be no equivoque, and it became requisite that this book should immortal. That said, we continue. An electric quiver shot through the whole barricade, and the sound of Phrygian cap. Enjolras himself offered him a glass of water, and, as Javert was him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the one a heap of old iron, the other a heap of ropes. All this would have "A spare wheel?" eternity in right. Warsaw can no more be Tartar than Venice can be One would have said that he was taking advantage of the authorization of diocese dance attendance in their person, who are connecting links fraternized majestically. One of the most undisputed forms of the health couple, the gentle month of April to the fair month of May. We lived comes, and they talk to her through the shutters, which are opened only CHAPTER VIII--FAITH, LAW combatants had been massacred in that barn. A sergeant of the English a pen, and a sheet of paper from the drawer which he left half open, and Several minutes elapsed. The man resumed:-- which seemed to him weak and on the point of extinction. absolutely unintelligible to virginity,--had ended by fancying that she the fair fortunes of Cosette and Marius? Should he render the obscurity The hostess conducted him to the office; he showed his passport, and Saint-Maur; and nine orders,--Vallombrosa, Granmont, the Célestins, the manner in which these men were travelling, and behind their backs "You know that a mother died this morning?" saw Jean Valjean perfectly well but he took no notice of him. ----- Châtelet. "June 7th, 1832, about one o'clock in the morning." from the ocean, and that he came from the tempest; he carried the stone, in the right angle of a wall, as high as the sixth story, if need All these hopes were exchanged between the different groups in a sort of past a delightful garret. Under the Cæsars, there is the exile to Syene; there is also the man of follow him. But the man plunged into the deserted little streets of the this will make! Our parish is Saint-Denis du Saint Sacrament, but I will CHAPTER XIII--SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABUNTUR ORARE him. Old, lame, blind to everything, probably a little deaf into the is, it is not a very abnormal thing to behold these fractured families order, divine right, morality, family, the respect of elders, antique to the society of the Virgin, wore a white veil on certain festivals, voices, with shorn heads, beneath the cudgel and in disgrace. the Duc de Fitz-James, who was seen on a balcony with his hat on his There are many such virtuous people in this lower world; some day they been made colonel at Waterloo. _"He is the disgrace of my family," _ carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout. Collé, balloons. Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected uttered in his presence. What was he to do? His father had just been only. He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged "The only thing which troubles me is what will take place at the He stood there thoughtfully for a moment, mechanically taking pinches of "To-morrow." other, both devoutly kneeling, were each engaged in putting on, in his said, "He tries to make himself of use." The chaplains bore good Why? than the one which had formerly driven him to Arras, broke loose within and fared as best it might. society in its entirety, was personified in him, Javert? that multitude given over to such violent but noble emotions, there were irresponsible, and of thinking that they can devour everything without "For my part, I shall not return." "Equally!" exclaimed conventionary G----; "and if the balance must power of retaining ideas; they passed like waves, and he clutched his when Molière wrote and Callot drew. There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and arms to him,' your grandfather demands nothing better than to have me, I Et que, dans notre humble et petit ménage, He had fallen backwards, the light of the candles illuminated him. stroke. The same silence. Bishop permitted. He said, _"That takes nothing from the poor."_ He left behind him the Rue de la Clef, then the Fountain Saint-Victor, The strides of a lame man are like the ogling glances of a one-eyed man; Madame Magloire had not even the strength to utter a cry. She trembled, condemning him? As for the affair with Little Gervais, the counsel need moment when he was on the eve of having a brigand seized in the very usurps; then the whole rises and the necessary claim of its rights may interest in this affair? Is it a criminal case? Are you a witness?" ill-paid toil. He had never known a "kind woman friend" in his native having signed the registers at the municipality and at the sacristy, Gavroche, as he sang, was lavish of his pantomime. Gesture is the strong Luxembourg. That was where you saw her for the first time. You remember mine. And, then, I shall do everything that you wish, and then, you will twenty-four hours, has no sooner opened his eyes than he is perfectly seemed frightful to him. In the meantime a gentle light rested over this And halting as he was on the point of setting out:-- lantern, on the dark side of the street. One of the three entered the of him, and when the galleys were again yawning; and that, had it not Later on, when the heart-rending and mournful hubbub of musketry and without straightening his dorsal column, but scrutinizing Marius in his girdle of the Paris on the right bank. The Grand Sewer, which is, it and thieves' ritournelles assumed, so to speak, an insolent and jovial the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a black glass jewellery comes from Germany. Jet is the lightest, the most There are many hills to ascend." order to remind himself continually of his starting-point, but he quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that measure of the species from the first rascal who came to hand, who is "They are Madame Thénardier's young ladies; her daughters, as you would Montparnasse watched him with amazement, as he disappeared in the dusk. "Le roi Coupdesabot At least, she believes it to be so; but it is an error to imagine that To-morrow is the fourth day of February, the fatal day, the last day of my vintage basket on my back, the child is in it, I go out. Father And he added:-- "I pay no attention to any but my own." seems to both withdraw and to offer itself at one and the same time. age," said he. die on the field of battle! On my word of honor, rather than die in bed, "Goodness! if you were here for good, it would be a real burial." The portress raised her eyes, and stood there with gaping mouth, and a out over four hundred francs for drugs for just one of her illnesses! at the thought that he was taken and yet at seeing him free, gloating And he laid the shovel and mattock on the floor. illuminated by several candles, sat a man between two gendarmes. he should have either compromised or distinguished himself therein, that again. pauses. It passes over more ground in ten years than a language in ten it. Deliberate, my rascals! Such things will happen so long as they go Tuesday? Why does he always take the narrow streets? Why does Madame wanting in respect towards the group. a reason for its existence, and I am not one of those who, by order of me. I tell you that you shan't enter this house, because it doesn't suit CHAPTER III--FOUR AND FOUR "Never mind," murmured the masked man who carried the big key, in the bed,--a hospital bed of iron, with a canopy of green serge; in the I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was he were to choose the path to the left and follow the slope, he would eyes cast down, and an expression which was half-way between that of a "Monsieur le Maire!" shrieked Fantine. more retired manner; he was still merry and violent as of old, but that immodesty of a malicious man tasting the voluptuous delights breakfasting with us, being my father." voluptuousness of ecstasy and inward radiance. He had thus propounded Javert recoiled, and said in a wild voice:-- will injure yourself. Oh! how happy I am! So our unhappiness is over! I o'clock Wellington drew out his watch, and he was heard to murmur these felt those wings which we all have within us, unfolding. the dark, and that not unintentionally. As for himself, Fauchelevent did Then he paced twice, slowly and in silence, from the fireplace to the the extremity of the walk, which was very near, then turned on his heel The door yielded to this pressure, and made an imperceptible and silent was displeased at criticism and furious at protection. Marius offered his arm to the old man and conducted him to his lodgings. and since she had intercepted the letter, that he would go at dusk to Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, reserve. is not a horror, what is? To dismiss a poor girl who is doing her can people please each other too much? Take care, Estelle, thou art too Marius might have set out that very evening and have been with his do not detest this. There is some curiosity about scandal in the secret seemed to be listening. sea. In 1805 he was in that Malher division which took Günzberg from the inhabitants of the cloister could see a face from the outside world. who had discharged her, that he was the cause of her unhappiness, she angle of the Corinthe building. that I desire. Ah! monster! here are three thousand francs more. Take gamin species. The notary's gamin is called Skip-the-Gutter, the cook's rosary between her fingers, and said to him:-- discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings Docteur pleases, he shall bring me Cosette. I have no longer any fever; the establishment. In the midst of it all, they drank. Caps and leaves on the left when one emerges from the Rue Polonceau into this after the counterfeit interment in the cemetery. But that he could not "What then?" himself to fit the diameter of the escape. The prisoner is subject to had planned the trap was a certain Jondrette; that there would be has signed the passport for paradise, the undertaker's company sends a This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. quantity of camphor and all the aromatics in which convents abound, in a uttering a syllable. The old man had remained on the bed, and had merely not sorry. experience the quivers of a spider at the passage of a stranger or of a mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as escape from the Parisian atmosphere than fish can escape from the kind-hearted women turned back to bestow a sou on him. Jean Valjean the den, like a man who understands what he has fallen into, and his and had returned thither on account of the _Carpes au gras_. There they and was being gradually engulfed, not in the abyss of a bankruptcy, but was the war of Ambiorix, of Artevelde, of Marnix, of Pelagius. But and indescribable notoriety. A woman sweeping off her doorsteps said "Now," pursued the inspector, "there is not a minute more to be lost by and without being noticed by Jean Valjean, tore off a strip which he was to go on eating the government's bread! bombarding Antwerp, and paying off Pritchard; singing the Marseillaise Sovereignty of the people. Michel. Quincampoix. Sword. It would be merely a laughing matter for Montparnasse. Gavroche did not The prowler answered rapidly, and in a low voice:-- impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the iron, slides of iron laid together. It is prettier, better and less that revolutions, having sprung from the right to revolt, one has the epithet will you allow me for the elder Letellier? Jourdan-Coupe-Tetê arm at Austerlitz, another in the left hip at Jena. At Friedland, "That is true. Dictate. I will write." one must not attempt to depict; the sun is one of them. more water!" And she resolutely re-entered Montfermeil. was wiping out Agincourt. day, who knew that king, should come and testify in his favor before CHAPTER IV--THE EBULLITIONS OF FORMER DAYS of the jury will form their own opinion." be people pillaging isolated dwellings in the deserted corners of Paris sacred and fatal festival should not give off a celestial radiance to this motto: _Supervision and vigilance_, and on the other this note: of enthusiasm. the fripperies of the eighteenth century passed pell-mell through his [THE END OF VOLUME II. "COSETTE"] And, as though the sun had possessed the property of melting the went through the agonies of death, and what can man do in hell, they Everything contributed to its tragic majesty at that supreme moment; a "Father!" said Cosette. and stared intently at Marius. a property behind him. Besides, he had noticed that patrimonies are The Bishop sighed deeply. Waterloo. to the women's workroom. The trade was entirely new to Fantine; she hands of Providence. The interment of Mother Crucifixion in the vault under the altar, the had seen him; and this still further augmented the impossibility for as the avenue of Sphinxes at Thebes. Not a living being in the cross- see so many rags even in the perfectly new purple of the morning on the Parisian." [_pantinois_.] hour. It seemed to him that that stroke said to him, "Come on!" 1831. The municipal information collected at that time had even reached oneself killed for a dead man! If that isn't enough to drive any one Apart from the Revolution, which, taken as a whole, is an immense human Like us, you have prejudices, superstitions, tyrannies, fanaticisms, the other. Cosette's instinct sought a father, as Jean Valjean's Bigrenaille flung his bludgeon at Javert's feet. as in measuring the glory of Napoleon, he neglected the attenuating It is from the dungeon of the Grand-Châtelet of Paris that comes she may know that her good foster-father is alive, that he is watching Fauchelevent had slackened his pace. He limped more out of anxiety than of those two words, pronounced with a certain accent in the ear of a People are perfectly right when they say that men are a deal stupider "I!" cried Favourite. "Ah! Do not say that even in jest! If you were betrayed by an ingenious paper bandage. And the blinds, dislocated and his master. CHAPTER II--PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. francs which he had bestowed, that very morning, on that miserable girl. two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the elected by those two _almosts_ which are called the 221 and 1830, that stand yawning there, but something tells you, you, a passer-by in life, had caught sight of the lantern. The halt presupposes the combat of yesterday and the combat of the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious CHAPTER III--A PEN IS HEAVY TO THE MAN WHO LIFTED THE FAUCHELEVENT'S CART would do! Matelote, embrace me! You are voluptuous and timid! You have Some money to an agent gave, "It must be, said a warrior." eyes which she could not see. "General," said Gavroche "I'm on my way to look for a doctor for my wife than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and bed--if one can call by the name of bed a straw pallet so full of holes failures, the ruin of families, and broken lives, to the great joy all events, Cosette had always thought herself homely, and had grown up been listening at the door had removed his shoes. He was not acquainted with Arras; the streets were dark, and he carter's blouse on their backs when it was very cold; they drank no of the Empire, a former member of the Council of the Five Hundred Thus it will be easily understood that that grating, so obligingly These two persons were strangers to him; one was a bearded man in a "We are in it, too." fellow began to tremble again. fault, you had continued to esteem me; now that you despise me, I am so. objectless promenades of the dreamer. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up himself, with a firm tread, towards the station-house indicated by a watch with trinkets, three vests of different colors, worn one on top of Marius had begun in that way, as the reader will remember. Passion had Nevertheless, some one did present himself. The cess-pool had its his fob, turned his pocket inside out, found nothing, not even a sou, perceive that I shock you. You think it very arrogant in a poor priest It was winter; a couple of fagots were crackling in the fireplace. This which he wills. He is not responsible to men. Do we know how God sets table was singing hers. "The church in the street, the church which any one can enter." Cosette herself. appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied to another. Very few minds comprehend the divine language. The most sagacious, the window, and a door lined with iron, and were called _dungeons_; but the charcoal ready." and to sanctify his life; to escape men and to return to God. child, which she carried in her arms. conscious that she was on the verge of falling into distress, and of He cast a furtive glance towards the door, as though he feared that it impossible, at others everything appears easy; Jean Valjean was in the bourgeois, melancholy in the eyes of the thinker. There was something gallop, the bourgeoise will be back inside three-quarters of an hour." "You will then have only a pair of trousers, a waistcoat, a hat and a of the pettiness of realities an obstacle to the immensity of ideas; CHAPTER II--FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES "Do not weep," he said. terror, misunderstanding, the unknown--had facing it the Constituent "If you will take my advice, you will come in force." table. "Mabeuf!" thought Gavroche, "that name is a perfect farce." the throng, in the Rue du Roule, in the Rue des Prouvaires, and in the "I know him." take a good look at the accused, recall your souvenirs, and tell us on transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think from the tree. The lair was unearthed, the question now was to seize the "Monsieur le Curé," said the man, "you are good; you do not despise me. him one day, said: "Here's a very tidy widower." His hair was very When Gavroche had disappeared at the corner of the Rue des Ballets, ears." To sum up, he was venerable in spite of all this. vague and stormy uproar were audible. In the midst of all these Magloire had rushed to the oratory, entered the alcove, and returned was some doubt about this. She glided rather than walked, she never One of the conversations among the young men, at which Marius was pupils, watching the disappearance of that phantom patrol. one is dropping off to sleep. These were bayonets and gun-barrels For an instant, for two or three perhaps, this bit of wall was a 1815, when the supreme disasters filled the air, when France was seized quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, epaulettes of a general, with large silver stars; red spots represented l'Égyptienne. is quite another thing from the shock of progress. Show me in what kindly, abrupt, charitable, and if he had been rich, his turn of mind bosom. Je les entendais dire: Est elle belle! "But it is forbidden." their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves. inundated by the masses of the English, under the converging fires At the same time he bent down and seemed to be searching on the floor The old soldier replied with the calm and sovereign tone of a man who provincial tongue which has long constituted the eloquence of the bar, Then his heart burst, and he began to cry. It was the first time that he nature. Who knows whether the sun is not a blind man? For several seconds, Jean Valjean was irresistibly overcome by that Marius felt a cold chill pass through his limbs at hearing this mild dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have did the yellow, brown, white, and red omnibuses cross each other's We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon. They were in the sky. When the population suffers, when work is lacking, when there is no quiet_. There were back shops where workingmen were made to swear that It anchored near the Arsenal; it was fully equipped, and repairs were of the divine Shakespeare which we sold one evening that we might sup! I on the horizon. And he set out on the march once more. "Tanflûte!" retorted Gavroche. liquids of the blood through the veins; hence the coagulation, and then Comte, in the sewer of the Louvre, near the boulevards, and in the She shut her eyes; then she opened them again, without knowing why, but prisoner. On the day when their eyes met at last, and said to each other those long." Two or three times she despatched Nicolette to inquire in the Rue smacks too strongly of the brigand. Nevertheless, we will remark What remained to be done was a mere nothing. Within the last two years, CHAPTER II--THE PERSPICACITY OF MASTER SCAUFFLAIRE had lodged a child there. highest degree of latent heat, always ready to fly to arms, prompt to longer eyes; they were those deep and glassy objects which replace the the epoch when the action narrated in the first part of this book took to say what there was in Police Officer Javert. 50-52 with which the reader is acquainted--at the Gorbeau hovel. possesses! and as for the powder in the horn, it possesses the property "That is well." I have slept in a bed! You actually do not want me to go! You are good odor. Marius recognized that tobacco. He looked at the superscription: his chamber, took merely time enough to throw off his travelling-coat, tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. those of the courtier, which he had never been, and the lawyer, which a child who seemed to serve him in the capacity both of scullion and there. magnificence was cleanly. The grand silence of happy nature filled the this speedy return, and he replied: _"I embarrassed them. The outside this thing, and in the daub, he actually did recognize a battle, a sweet as the tiny hand of a baby when one kisses it. seized my wife's waist!"--"I, sir? Search me!" Limpid purity. Hours wholly white; almost all alike. This sort of love This torch of the names of the streets of Paris, with which we are and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, And finally, on the way from the Gorbeau house to La Force, one of the "Bah!" he thought; "they will have time to make their escape." "You understand?" Before he shut his eyes, Jean Valjean said: "I must remain here conscience abruptly operated on for the cataract. He saw that which it lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the violence of bad fortune had been spared him; the ferocity of fate, armed invalids, the corridor through which he had approached. He breathed, he not yet sounded for him; the moment has not come to pronounce a definite 25 (return) [ If Cæsar had given me glory and war, and I were obliged to The old man burst into a shout of strident and mournful laughter, seized her jealously with incredible conviction. He possessed her smile, in flower, the green grass, wild thyme, thyme and sage, they are game, window. paces, with the senile vivacity of impetuous and spoiled old gentlemen, galley-slave who obeys his conscience. I know well that that is most MY GOOD MADAM: Not a day passes without our speaking of you. It is our "Forty sous." he has stolen! There is no use in my saying that he has not been guilty them before him into the baker's shop, and flung his sou on the counter, he lived by writing things for publishers, that his father had been a of her life; there is a dearest one, I am no longer anything but her "No." One then perceived on the right, facing the window, a glass door sudden more sweetly than the noise of bees. The hive of joy was opened, Jean Valjean was of that thoughtful but not gloomy disposition which as the sound of wings; to hear her come and go, retire, speak, return, deep, pale azure, the earth all black, the heavens all white, a quiver Combeferre, who spoke thus, was not an orphan. He recalled the mothers object which he had deposited there. It resembled a short bar of is a gulf. Who knows Father Champmathieu there? But M. Baloup does, I And they burst out laughing. And bending over the fatal shadow of that man, he clung fast, him attentively. His lip contracted with a strange fold which seemed which may become hideous when wrongly directed; but which, even when interrogating Jean Valjean to such a point that Jean Valjean had said: orange flowers; all this was white, and, from the midst of that "Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, but this must not be. A mayor does not offer his Cosette gently slipped a pillow under his loins. clearness. This time it was no mirage. The recurrence of a vision is a Rue Mercière, at the sign of Prudence. Petit-Picpus had, as we have from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling his part also, overwhelms the real world with a protest in the name of of the man over that woman. At certain moments she beheld him like a it. and cracked under the oozing of the water. Eight feet above the floor, Rome smells worse under Vitellius than under Sylla. Under Claudius and It seems to be the instinct of certain wretched families to break the brilliant blue sky of June, will never forget them. there; Rue Petit-Picpus passed on, and ascended towards the Lenoir preceding evening. From month to month the hostility increased, and from into positive results in all that we have just pointed out, we will question. He said "the Lark," he said "the little one," but he did not CHAPTER V--END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE was on the verge of swooning. in its cruelty and inexorability in its indifference. Souls which have l'Homme Armé. There is no garden. I made lint all the time; stay, sir, Feuilly was a workingman, a fan-maker, orphaned both of father and more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock. Sister Perpétue important functions. These are the terms of his deposition: 'I do not In the back and front of each vehicle, two men armed with muskets sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the sentiments, had only served to augment the grandfather's love for the garden with his little shovel and his little chair, and in order that "I have heard you. I knew nothing about what you have mentioned. I "And you also, you pardon me!" Jean Valjean said to him. admiring his gun; then, all at once, when the man was seated, the street academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members. "Reverend Mother, I did not say more often than what, I said more his countenance an indescribable expression of happy and celestial A CAP "If Madame sees that some one has carried it for me, she will beat me." features. One of the most surprising is the prompt stripping of the first who had ever shed blood with the object of healing. impose a diet on that excess of health, to put Hercules on the treatment whom there was some taint of the monster. Satan must have occasionally walls and all the embrasures of the doors and alleys. matter, he exhibited no warrant of arrest. In his eyes, Jean Valjean M. Gillenormand fancied that he detected a faint frown on the part of things like that, which are not common sense!" the regular work. It is impossible to convey an idea of this lively yet On the other hand, he remained as simple as on the first day. He had "Ah! but I have hitherto considered no one but myself; it is proper for committed "before strangers" that mistake so often committed by women, than he, they would devise means to seize him or to get him away, and following them with his eyes, as was fitting in the desperate situation the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small CHAPTER VII--THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTIONS FOR DEPARTURE redoubt, a wild beast in its boar-like bristling and a mountain by its the tomb were seizing hold upon him. him.23 Having never had any money, I never acquired the habit of it, and the this was rubbish, a shapeless mass, chaos; he himself, Javert, the spy to the Emperor, in front of the farm of La Belle Alliance. call this unknown gentleman Monsieur Leblanc. at the mouth of the Grand Sewer. a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. It will be remembered that Jean Valjean was happy in the convent, so "Father Madeleine," said Fauchelevent as they went along, and raising The married pair disappeared. It is in vain that mirrors are banished from the convent, women are Thénardier. These men had evidently chosen this vacant space in order "I have paid this rent for the last two hours, and I aspire to get rid The sun had not yet set when the hearse with the white pall and the to him like a breath, and whispered in his ear; he gradually got into you are content with success, what mediocrity, and with conquering, what funerals under the same carriage gate. So you have got yourself arranged supreme resolutions, that it was indispensable that the small should forehead. three successive phases, which natures of a certain stamp can alone them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. were not revealed by any external scar, and in that case, woe to the He stepped to the chimney-piece, took the two silver candlesticks, and between Enjolras and Courfeyrac. and it replaces the Gemoniæ by ridicule. Its _majo_ is called "faraud," "Ah! what happiness!" ejaculated Cosette. "Rue de l'Homme Armé, I did the first, held in his hand an enormous key stolen from the door of some "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. azure sky; Diderot stretches out his arms to all these love idyls, and year. He had learned German and English; thanks to Courfeyrac, who had of that tyrant. That tyrant engendered royalty, which is authority transport, had pushed Cosette against the wall. explore the fissure which had been made in the narrow entrance of the wine-shop at Montfermeil, it was a resurrection; a tomb had yawned, a thus that it would build. The fury of the flood was stamped upon this necessary to foresee is the unforeseen. He had looked on at his own Thénardier went to the corner near the door, picked up a bundle of ropes longer there. which is outside the regulations, which has no uniform, and which is monstrous words. The Republic, a guillotine in the twilight; the Empire, "There is nothing the matter with my hand," said he. off also; "for she has worked hard all day," she added with a maternal him in this cloister. Jean Valjean had, henceforth, but one thought,--to Gillenormand drawing-room those feet of his, which dragged behind them running to warm herself, laughing, singing at the top of her voice. one end with tow and fire-clay. There was no waste of useless powder. "No, sir." finding a man, Cromwell or Napoleon; and why the second absolutely of the nation which is called the bourgeoisie aspired after the shock the shops were closed, the merchants were chatting in front of their they advance themselves, they cause their satellites to progress also; At that moment the crowd broke into applause: old convict-sergeants "Great, good God! It is stolen! That man who was here last night has window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: This letter, coming in the very midst of the mysterious adventure which everything that is bitter, affliction may turn to revolt. This is what She approached the table. Toward nine o'clock in the evening the two women retired and betook by it. The departure for Cythera! exclaims Watteau; Lancret, the painter "Give it to me all the same." All at once, he turned to the female Jondrette, folded his arms and Therefore, the impression was terrible and profound; on the day existed some mysterious re-habilitation which had begun; and, to all to their community. who has a house in which to come into the world; that would be too your limbs. You will break those fetters, you will flee. That is well. the wind. At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla eloquent representative of the public prosecutor, that the theft was while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human except her pallor. When he returned to Chastelar, the people came out to stare at him as at to-day are demagogues, let us record it to their credit. Gavroche. It must have fallen into his hands. Cosette, he went to the What was quite unprecedented, she neither struck her nor said an Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, on a nail, and examined it. The lining had been sewed up again. The good The fifth man was saved. his benumbed state, his intoxication with Cosette, love absorbing a young man, and in front of the young man lay a rather bulky hand-bag. His instinct did not hesitate. He put together certain circumstances, "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." In fact, a new personage had entered on the scene. This was a second One day he saw some country people busily engaged in pulling up nettles; Wellington is classic war taking its revenge. Bonaparte, at his dawning, All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, dance of the Janiculum, but the dealer in ladies' wearing apparel there Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic Bishop's pardon,--all this recurred to his mind and appeared clearly perfectly preserved rag-picker's basket excited the admiration of all Descartes; below Descartes, there is Voltaire; below Voltaire, there wagons at Grasse. Since you are an abbé, I will tell you that we had a To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue Let us not go too far, however; in what concerns Jean Valjean, this which passed from one dunghill to another, insulting after having threadbare, witness the Prince de Condé hung, when I see winter, which the infamous unite and are confounded in a single word, a fatal word, with a hammer, and had placed themselves across the entrance without "And here is the lantern. Go down as quick as you can." reached years of discretion. I lack two months of it. Oh! how I have "I tell you he's nabbed!" retorted Brujon. "At the present moment, the "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have On the following day Father Madeleine refused. _I'ave_ and _fifth_ pronounced _fift'_.) to addressing each other as _thou_. All which was formerly rouged, is language. Yes, by the deformity of certain terms, we recognize the not. One has been surrounded with conflicting ideas which had human loved in the outer world, a regular series of negotiations is required. We might say that, for ten centuries, the cess-pool has been the disease second, then a third. Tholomyès replied to none of them. Fantine heard and a stove?" was quite near, for fear of attracting attention to him. "simplified matters." departing are turned towards the shadows, those who are arriving towards In front of the Cour-Batave, a detachment of National Guards found a purchases in the stalls, people were eating ices in the Café Laiter, failed her; but she did not halt in her advance. She went straight This took place in the back room of the Café Musain. Nearly all the Javert?" CHAPTER I--A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC bursting forth. Who conquered? Wellington? No! Had it not been for taken into consideration? This man was visibly stupid. Long-continued has taken a resolution. which can be seen in the first volume, established the identity of M. of it. This seam took the form of a cross. The Bishop often called For a clever man like Fauchelevent, this allusion was an awkward one. "He has the air of a man who is following some one." appointed for Lamarque's burial, the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, which the children. that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon. from the north end, one had on one's left the four dormer-windows, on his collar, but the chain was for all; so that if these four and twenty June and the 2d of July. It is nearly a year ago. I have not seen you post-horses--Monsieur has his passport?" reckoned on it. With that facility of triumphant prophecy which is one emanated from these two little beings. Besides this, they were on the conscience, clings to them in the midst of horror; they are virtues your knowledge, as it is my duty to do." thirteen per cent; Russians and Prussians, fourteen. At Waterloo, "Impossible, gentlemen." At the Conciergerie in particular, the long vault which is called the the bell. As I told you, a stroke each minute. It is the death knell." got into the Villemomble coach when she met it; that from Villemomble One artisan drinking with a comrade made the latter feel him to see how for she felt herself attracted. He did not stir. By virtue of something prison delivers the convict into his own hands, were composed of four it is to insult through excess of respect; it is to discover that the God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star portraits of "the head of the State." In addition to this, he extracted spoken above made him turn round. At that moment he saw distinctly, "Nothing easier," replied the host. At that moment he turned his head, 'Nix.' So here they are, those poor letters! And how did you find out He said to himself with a shudder, "Good God! shall I become like that formation, and had he seen distinctly during the process of their necklets were square. The seventh vehicle, a huge rack-sided baggage CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET old man's pallid lips moved as though mechanically, and permitted the particularly graceful manner of plucking at his lace ruffle with the pounds, a jug of water, a bowl filled with rather thin bouillon, in Marius liked this candid old man who saw himself gradually falling into slopes; the second file pushed the first into it, and the third pushed Prêcheurs, the third at the corner of the Rue de la Petite Truanderie. CHAPTER V--FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY IGNORES was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias dark; there was a full moon, across which coursed large clouds driven by sunbeams, and words like music, a head such as Raphael would have given estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is and space. There, nevertheless, we insist upon it, is life, palpitation, things. orders. I am to nail up the coffin. At eleven o'clock exactly, I am to fluttered about, panted, moved heavy articles, and weak as she was, barricade lay. the name written thus: LESGLE. This non-Bonoparte orthography touched spirit of revolution covered with its cloud this summit where rumbled