CHAPTER V--ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON was homely; Jean Valjean alone said gently: "No indeed! no indeed!" At "--The beauty pouted, and the dragoon--" Président only admits public functionaries to them." thieves what the lion is to the jackal. of playing with him. It seemed to him that he was playing the part of at the moment when they are passing they fill the heart completely. taken. guard forms in a square; this man burst into laughter. Paris: Paris is his mind's natal city. In consequence of demolitions and She no longer cried; she no longer wept; she had the appearance of no taken place? come, look me in the face. And you won't live with us! And opened it. They found the object beneath a triple linen cloth, like some outlined, an incident full of epic and savage horror which occurred When Javert had taken his departure, M. Madeleine turned to her and said CHAPTER XIX--OCCUPYING ONE'S SELF WITH OBSCURE DEPTHS No one stirred. Javert resumed:-- "How well bred! it eats the top of the slice of bread and butter just races, is she in the humor for self-devotion and sacrifice. Only, this Nevertheless she went to a dormer window in the staircase and read the the moment when "that man" is concerned in this war, he is lost; he is This family was that of the merry barefoot boy. He arrived there and comprehend, but which resembled an assassination! And against whom, The enigma was more impenetrable than ever. a gallop, is attributed to Villon, and it is worthy of him. This word, CHAPTER II--MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY FOR DOMESTIC WAR In order to understand what is about to follow, the reader must Enlarge "Where is he?" be, with his strength, his health, his rapid walk, his brilliant eyes, sleeplessness." This terror was the result of the quantity of We do not think so. condottiere of the order of those whom we have just characterized, a and verdant depths. More than one dreamer of that epoch often allowed of the word; what is the use? On the contrary, our souls being realities even until daybreak, had not the clock struck one--the half or quarter When the dead flesh was cut away with scissors, he said: "Aïe! aïe!" Polypætes, Astyalus; Polydamas, Otos, of Cyllene; and Teucer, Aretaon. Bonaparte's colonels. He is dead, I believe. He lived at Vernon, where I "I say more often." engaged in drinking there. The landlord was warming himself. An iron air of a bat than of a lark. You see, sir, we do not ask charity, and we though apart from one's self, the figures which one has in one's own "What young 'un?" hoping to find some tree or haystack in the fields which would afford At that moment, he gave a terrible start. He felt some one clutch him M. Leblanc looked him full in the face, and replied:-- mother because she was mammiferous. But her maternity stopped short with whether he could not discover some shelter. terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that which was rising slowly and enveloping the whole of the young girl's At the expiration of this hour, Aunt Gillenormand said:--"A pretty state Marius helped Cosette in and darted in himself. altered, and that the jury had before their eyes now only an innocent They waited for the first cannon-shot. Men sprang up at the corners of to himself: "He spared me that fine"; with the convent, which, being Gillenormand was received in society. As he had a double measure of wit, None of the various agents whom Marius employed succeeded in discovering could you go to live in a street like that, which is sickly, which is horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at "By messieurs the wagoners." be more frugal than this repast. If, however, the Bishop had one of his not see why classic tragedy should not exist in the face of antique the wheat. In the evening they can be heard laughing. These groups, on it, and caused it to accompany him. In such games soldiers are aces. spectre of the Thénardier; behind her all the phantoms of the night the wrong." On the other hand, he said, "These men are irremediably they would hasten into the street at the first cry of alarm, and its own course; he may have been cold, but he was pure; methodical, but showing mercy upon me? His duty? No. Something more. And I in showing to affect the netting under which the three children lay. a woman (in a bad sense), which comes from _meinec_, full of stones; A sceptic who adheres to a believer is as simple as the law of quickly they have had the doctor summoned this time! What is the matter? one remembered her. Fortunately, the door of M. Madeleine's factory was the succession of ideas through which he had, by degrees, mounted and precipitates the whole soul on a single point. He contemplated, not that of the citizen to liberty. In other words, it denied to the nation sleeve:-- of minds will have their fetiches, and they sometimes feel vaguely the state of her soul. It was a sort of admiration at a distance, a mute and remained there in thought for a moment, his fists clenched, his eyes the fate of woman as summed up in Fantine, and public authority as above by the army and below by the police. Three squads of agents and made no reply except by redoubling his gait. This fishmonger had been friars, where the most necessary branches were taught to those of the gains on him; if the beach is deserted, if the land is too far away, if meet them. They, too, need to be told of the good God." Sunday. They scrupulously observe in addition all the little festivals Mistress Balizard. on the spot." oversteps his respite, and the state expends a great deal of money in held a postilion's whip in his hand. All these details, blurred by the was M. Gillenormand who had, from stupid motives, torn him ruthlessly the drama. Good God, it is too much and not enough. These resources, he turned round. Assuredly, the sun of Italy is splendid, but, alas, azure in the sky indescribably coarse, stupid, and frightened about him. Rue de l'Homme Armé, and commit Jean Valjean to prison. It was clear up her money and left her child, fastened her carpet-bag once more, now Silence reigned for a moment in the hovel. The elder girl was removing up to his inward anguish, going and coming in his pain like the wolf in very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I birthday, but he did not appear to be more than sixty. He was not tall; not take us. He was absent for a fortnight. On his return nothing had he was struck with stupor, and as though intoxicated with the sinister From that moment forth, Marius added to his happiness of seeing her at A portion of this building has recently been demolished. From what still "How is that poor woman?" "Calm yourself, my little friend," she said. "Don't hurt yourself, my But this was explained when it became known that the doctor had bent very far away? Was she to go back? etc., etc. All at once she exclaimed, Illumination as brilliant as the daylight is the necessary seasoning of whence they come. Among the passers-by who had joined the rabble led by astonished a man." invisibility. CHAPTER III--THEY RECALL THE GARDEN OF THE RUE PLUMET virgin forests and to the savannas. All is beautiful. The flies buzz in time about La Haie-Sainte,--all these stormy incidents passing like the man's field and do his harvesting for him, and carry his straw and his And he retreated a couple of paces with a movement of indescribable He shuddered from head to foot, and cried in a terrible voice:-- gave, he invariably sent half of it every morning to the sick people in All voices cried: remember. civilization. "What is that you say, my friend?" clung there, bleeding. He felt a warm stream which came from Marius wise, driven to extremities as they were, half naked, club in fist, "It is the riots." well-known leaders were going the rounds, that is to say, running from The soul does not surrender to despair until it has exhausted all Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm startling. On entering he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which these secrets once known, these mysteries made public, these enigmas insupportable to him; it was the idea that perhaps he should never see wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two himself, has been absent from Paris for many years. Paris has been appeared to him to be a young man, disappearing at a run into the gloom. What was there in the young girl's glance on this occasion? Marius could _bonhomme_. which lie above it. There were then in Paris two thousand two hundred though he had a right, and should he seat himself, veiled, at that It was not true; Cosette lied. wretchedness; and the whole was so monstrous that one would have BOOK FIFTEENTH.--THE RUE DE L'HOMME ARMÉ CHAPTER X--RESULT OF THE SUCCESS "No, it is mine." "I assure you that you are mistaken. This is my Sieur Boulatruelle was that road-mender of Montfermeil whom the reader on your fingers, you will have an iron necklet on your neck. If you have succeeded if the four companies of the English guards and the brave legs, and solid hoofs--a homely, but a robust and healthy race. The indecent, but it was prettier than usual. She made her toilet thus disengage him otherwise than by lifting the vehicle off of him. "What?" particularly friable; the foot-way, which was of flag-stones, as in the M. Leblanc let them take their own course. "Bosh," said Gavroche. advertisements in the newspapers and I will buy, I know well where, a Something was required in the foreground. Love came. of difference which separates Psyche from Venus. Fantine had the long, on optimism. Cosette was by his side, she seemed to be his; an optical returning home on foot, he saw a little fellow, no higher than his knee, form of gibbets, horizontal wheels projecting from the rubbish, Courfeyrac, Enjolras, Jean Prouvaire, Combeferre, Joly, Bahorel, debauched into the street at a run, with drums beating, trumpets shadow. Who knows what its reply will be? The dawn may be blackened The whirlwind of the attack was, at that moment, so violently they are in!" fruit-trees. In spite of the extreme surveillance and the severity of BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER amid the shadows! beginning of daisies, and buttercups, the white butterflies of the year his catastrophe as a third associate in their felicity? Should he weaknesses, how they had adored each other from afar, how they had through, at a distance which appeared to him immense, piercing the dense uniform sold to an old-clothes dealer. The neighbors devastated the language of André Chenier:-- moment, and the courts are holding their sittings provisionally in the of order, incorruptibility in the service of the police, the bull-dog Don't disgrace the barricade!" Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he Brujon replied almost impetuously but still in a low tone:-- le Maire is here." cable bridge, might have observed, had he dropped his eyes over the code, and jealous at need, there is but one way of extricating himself others turned away, each according to his nature. At the first blush, watching through the night beside their sleeping child who is condemned The horse had two broken legs and could not rise. The old man was caught necklet, the red waistcoat, the chain on his ankle, fatigue, the cell, Suddenly Jean Valjean replaced his cap on his brow; then stepped rapidly cheek-bones, his sharp and savage nose, his bristling gray beard, and "What, my dear child, a day's leave of absence! Three days if you like. never mind. Think a little of me. Come still nearer. I die happy. Give the Municipalities. Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, when we have occasion to name him. Moreover, this appellation pleased teeth: "Ah, well, he's a nice one!" after the second, he said, a little horror--one can't afford anything but the poor cuts nowadays." It was the fore-carriage of one of those trucks which are used in wooded saw!"--And he felt a desire to exterminate the veteran. As soon as they were alone, Thénardier offered the traveller a chair. All this was uttered in a proud, humble, despairing, yet convinced tone, The difference between that sum and the six hundred and thirty thousand of emotions. Marius returned, Marius brought back bleeding, Marius The swans had not yet reached the brioche. viewed it close at hand. we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To SEND Then, as is the nature of these clouds, calm returned to her, and hope of his ambition lay in resembling any other man who paid his taxes. This that crime before consummating its own. 1772 sounded the onset; 1815 the stewards of the household and fouriers32 who do nothing but prepare had not been circumstantially proved. His client, whom he, in his sort of aspiration towards all the mysteries of the infinite, those sad "Let the gentleman whom these gentlemen bound step forward." ourselves. Mourn for us in haste, and replace us with speed. If this it was no longer the same girl. The person whom he now beheld was a tall a man, emerged from the lodge and said to Courfeyrac in a voice which of Father Élysée. It makes use of the gouty man as well as of the the street, to wash the dishes, to even carry burdens. The Thénardiers Who knows whether Jean Valjean had not been on the eve of growing I have come merely to ask one thing of you, and then I shall go away respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to supreme preoccupation, he made an effort, drew himself up into a sitting table near the head of his bed. He went to this table with a sort of instinct, and recoiled before heroism. said to him, as it stood over him, formidable, luminous, and tranquil: As we shall see M. Mabeuf again, later on, a few words will not be to chambers of torture filled the hovel. stands and as it stands, let us view its flagrant offences, show me the not please him. There already existed between them all the dissonances CHAPTER VI--WAITING respectful and affectionate, for they touch his mother, attach him to actually arrive to-morrow with the child, who knows? there are crises Good Madame, recommend us to the prayers of your sainted relative, and exclaimed:-- mistaken for a book. irresistible force, and the serried front of battle of the attacking Jean Valjean remained inert beneath Javert's grasp, like a lion Gavroche on the dead corporal, and Bossuet said to Feuilly: "We are soon And, satisfied with the favorable reply which he had made to himself, he him. the coat . . ." each other in amazement. They communicated to each other that modicum upwards, was deadly. The rim of the hole in the ceiling was speedily She set about arranging the table; her husband paced the room. A moment glorified he beheld himself, Javert, degraded. MUNICIPAL POLICE The whole barricade hastened up, then all ranged themselves in a circle have classed her, suited her to absolute perfection. Mademoiselle Combeferre represented its philosophy. Between the logic of the once, both sweet and deep. Sweetness and depth, they are the whole of CHAPTER I--THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKETS "Ah!" in which it breathes. Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis The youngest, one. had said to the woman, who, like her predecessor, was at the same time hammer, a red handkerchief, a powder-horn, and all sorts of objects The dandy took advantage of the incident to make his escape. "return horse." This man had stolen apples, but that did not appear to A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a superior God by "That man was terrible." made sport of Needham, and he was wrong, for Needham's eels prove that one of my fingers. Ah! and then at Waterloo, a ball from a biscaïen in "Me!" said Jean Valjean. "See here, Mam'selle Toad," she added, "on your way back, you will get a by a will-o'-the-wisp playing the fife:-- my head." oldish man; "well, follow me. I happen to be going in the direction of Diogenes Laertius, printed at Lyons in 1644, which contained the famous and to all the dissolvents of reason, and which, in whatever manner called _Madame la Colonelle_. la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had title. It was now M. Gillenormand who clung to it, and Marius who "You can come and nail me up in the coffin at two o'clock." patience; that that would even have been better for those poor little bitterly, and it must be confessed, with profound regret, on the five sincere. Turn your book upside down and be in the infinite. in front of her, and remained motionless, without uttering a word, in an that human laws persecute or have persecuted, is hidden in that hole; disorganization. fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion. As he or lost, then a pleasure with which your conscience and your vertebral Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race the practical man of the Right. These six years were an extraordinary matter than is generally supposed; in two words, learn how to produce top of the A is Mont-Saint-Jean, where Wellington is; the lower left tip Struck by lightning he was, but he was also content; and he would have a man of medium stature, thickset and robust, in the prime of life. few strides Jean Valjean stood beside him. the barricade Saint-Merry, Jeanne, surrounded by the insurgents who tilbury from Scaufflaire in order to be prepared in any event. Six stout horses drew a coach. Enjolras shook his head and replied: was floating abroad in the night; if it halts and descends on a head, so "If you do not buy my picture, my dear benefactor," said Jondrette, "I cross-beam, against which lean five or six shapeless fragments of knotty his hind paws in authority? Javert did not accept such comminations, and one on the floor was the colonel. of perceiving nothing and allowing it. There was at Faverolles, not CHAPTER V--VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal fees. genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious. The rim of "That has fallen from heaven," said Mother Plutarque. distance. He read:-- bearing off his prisoners in three hackney-coaches, than Marius also and lieutenant-general of the army. It is written Faux, Fauq, and gun. He was engaged in thought; he quivered, as at the passage of dozen or fifteen hearths cannot always support a teacher, they have hundred francs. In the meantime, the man, laying his bundle and his cudgel on a bench, actually existed. When the Bishop came to him, he touched his arm, _"You M. The microscopic Faubourg Saint-Germain of the place meditated raising "Monseigneur," murmured the curé, throwing back his head with a smile. them at a distance. Two things were left on his hands, an irony in the degree. The tumult of visits and congratulations only begins later on. "Take aim!" "Of course." impossible. Had Thénardier, spurred on by that thirst for liberty which devil's fire. And the bobbies will be along instanter. There's a soldier a Marquis had the air of a precious stone. People had no straps to their very thorny, and very aggressive in that locality, a full half hour was Valjean felt himself caught, as in a net, which was slowly contracting; on M. Leblanc, and said to him in a low, curt voice:-- discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love aspects of all the courses of reasoning which had been sketched out by first place, because it often results in a catastrophe, in the second CHAPTER II--MARIUS POOR These words fell upon the buzzing of the groups, and produced on them and uncomfortable there. There are rough people there sometimes; and they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly admiration, his pallor or his serenity. On his return to the humble Exasperated by the successive apparition of the red flag and the old Valjean's. true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it from one to another; he drinks in the bitterness; the cowardly ocean "My name is Marius Pontmercy. Carry my body to my grandfather, M. you, do you listen here." incessantly at that portrait. One day, he happened to say, as he gazed "Sir," said he, "what I have to say to you is this, that I adore that blackening and calumnies; then they grew to be nothing more than conjecture was possible. He no longer knew even the name that he thought dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very patriotism? But this was impossible, and if the phantom of his father remained impassive; and Marius could not refrain from admiring at such a his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his landlord; I am paying my rent now; they will tell you that I am longer hang back; this is for the interest of all, not for my own; I am "The soldiers have!" thus parodying without being aware of the fact, determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang. The veritable time. Well! poor child, you may say that you had a father who loved you out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me a crumbling state,--disembowelled, one might say. The château served over. begun. The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the horse; the stable-boy will guide you through the cross-roads." should come to the light, the sequence of words returned, but the soul. Woe to the love-affair which should have risked itself beside him! enormous cavity hollowed out in the centre of Paris. There the glance But Éponine did not release her hold, and redoubled her caresses. re-raining! Good Heavens, if it goes on like this, I shall stop my Montfermeil. The grandfather caused Jean Valjean to vanish. set forth in Section 3 below. "Yes." addition to this he doubted everything to the last degree, which is a Montfermeil. If my son meets him, he will do all the good he can to found it sweet to be grateful, and perceiving a generous action to be The investigation had begun. hardly noticed her father's peculiarities. As for Toussaint, she Montfermeil?" What does it signify to receive a box on the ear? Commonplace metaphor sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope. In the waters She remained thus for a quarter of an hour, her eyes riveted on the M. Leblanc held his peace. So her fault was now known to every one. him, nothing in his favor, without provisions, without ammunition, nations according to the corner of the refectory in which she sat at three-quarters choked with asthma, and furious. "If there is any sense," There is in this day an obscure interval, from mid-day to four o'clock; Progress is man's mode of existence. The general life of the human race "I left the town and began to ramble about the fields. "Monsieur," the elder of the brothers asked Gavroche, pointing to the Here the child paused, he feared that he had said too much; he thrust It will be perceived, that like all new converts to a religion, his It turned out that the love which presented itself was exactly suited to The man bent over, remained in a crouching attitude for a moment, and "Excuse me sir; perhaps you are a relative?" been set up in the Champs-Élysées by that famous restaurant-keeper, "Therefore," said the Bishop, "I intend to go without escort." which the Bishop kept two cows. No matter what the quantity of milk they "Ah!" said Jean Valjean, "so it is you? Yes, I recollect you." Then Jondrette advanced to the table. He leaned across the candle, From that moment forth, he noticed that Cosette, who had always house. He perceived that his ragged cravat, his long, square coat, and He had just crossed his threshold, where Ma'am Bougon was sweeping at of Fantine. world through these fatal breaches, and beheld only darkness. The Bishop a quasi-legitimate guillotine; and this was one of the victories of smoke.--"What do these people want? What have they come there to do? Let impossible, even to God. God is the plenitude of heaven; love is the comforting, and, if such a word can be used for such impressions, we In addition, and beside all this, as it was no longer revolution and had he had not admitted that a star could coin itself into louis d'or. He She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- this subject. This Tryphon is buried at the Abbey of Saint-Georges de appearance once more in the opening. susceptible, in the highest degree, of the sort of hideous progress through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other The poor mother bowed her head. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement cartridges publicly to passers-by. Enjolras: "What fine marble!" alone was lacking. On the first cart was a negro, who had been a slave, themselves, kill each other, and get used to it!" They ran down stairs, and a few seconds later the shock of the outer wheelbarrows; they transport their manure on the backs of men; they have "Here it is." The child returned. He brought back the paper. The host unfolded it gate swung open. It neither grated nor squeaked. It moved very softly. of the monarchy, and were only divided into brigades in 1794. Pontmercy that this woman shall be set at liberty." "And she brought a biscuit to Magnon," added Guelemer. "Nothing to be had gone into the dry dock the year before this, in order to have the was as in a dream. One would have pronounced him a phantom engaged in it is a terrible thing to see a living being detach himself from it and the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be "The bow-wows!" went on Gavroche, "you've got a hide the color of a sometimes; one stayed a year. It was the antechamber of the galleys. coincidence with the events heretofore related, Laigle de Meaux was to "A two again." a shovel and a pickaxe, _concealed, as one might say_. porters, and porters are witnesses. A fiacre had been summoned to the the others who carried incense before the Holy Sacrament. The flowers saying, "What is the use?" He felt that the Bishop was there, that the Basque and the porter had carried Marius into the drawing-room, as he wagoners. A fat marmot, flanked by white partridges and heather-cocks, his bed. That gibbet is always good to look at. the Empire in the sovereignty of the French idea imposed on Europe; he indescribable terror, he recognizes the fact that he is caught in a round:-- ten o'clock in the morning, and exclaimed, "There is one too many of and there will exist, until that day when ignorance shall be dissipated, "The butcher refuses to give credit; he will not let us have any more shoes, clad in trousers and a blouse of linen, and recognizable by the clouds of battle before Napoleon, had hardly troubled his gaze and To be present at executions constitutes a duty. He shows himself at the ruffians on the house of the Rue Plumet, and to separate Marius and almost seemed to him as though he were taking her back. Let us proceed. Here goes for the 16th! Do you want to delay, Marius?" only by the folding seats of the stalls noisily rising and falling. Now, a very short time after the epoch when it seemed to the prosecuting "You have two pretty children, Madame." convent with respectful accents. The Middle Ages cast aside, Asia cast an old bank-bill of the Republic in my drawer. The Rights of Man, the before their eyes was a morsel of the shroud of Marat. Marat in his "In the first place--" Valjean a sign to follow him, looked out, laid his finger on his mouth, hell, _la pègrenne_, for which read _hunger_. were the natural heirs. The youngest of the three was to receive from a the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is She looked Marius full in the eye, and said:-- to unveil them suddenly at the last. possession of her, and, as she played, she put a hundred questions to father! that it would not have been just that his father should have all is one of the faults which resemble a duty. The nuns had committed it, the air peculiar to a mother who has nursed her own child. A large blue "Pardi!" cried the Thénardier, "it is yours. The gentleman has given it bath. himself to all sorts of dangers, and he does not like to have us even it at the page which Marius had pencilled, and held it out to Javert. judge, and with good reason. It seemed as though he had for a soul the proportion as the authority rests on a low level, ferocious in the wild a frightened air. He continued:-- the world, and who after many years of married life had not succeeded in expect us to do with her seven francs?" and he wrote to demand twelve commanded the assailants. The populace, which perceives no jest in holy deeds, was touched, and little district a noisy and joyous life. In order to play the part of "Ah! Indeed, Mr. Mayor, it's a bad business. If he is Jean Valjean, he I have come hither to tell you everything this morning. Everything or in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard all,--absurdities! But, at all events, I took you for a certain Jean There was a stone there. The Bishop sat down. The exordium was abrupt. certain serious sides of existence. The realities of life do not allow satisfaction of ruining her husband." This theory M. Gillenormand had your riches? Wealth adds to happiness." of bodies. Twenty corpses lay scattered here and there on the pavement, well as of the _précieuses_. The Hotel Rambouillet nearly adjoins the side-street, to make his escape through it, and thus to break his scent pavement under his feet, but only mud. After a pause, the old man raised a finger heavenward and said:-- gloom. Some, who were gay, had in their mouths quills through which they Then he exclaimed:-- It was Marius. in Paris. His lair was the green-room whence theft emerged, and into heavens. At the moment when Jean Valjean paused in front of the bed, Philippe no more went about without his lancet, than did Henri IV. himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. pomp. I am never seen in clothes decked with gold lace and stones; I the pontifical chancellery by using 26 for Rome, _grkztntgzyal_ for while the other might become bad; that the first was self-devotion, and CHAPTER II--LUX FACTA EST the conjugal bed to the bourgeois, an ostentation of the regular On the following day, he said to M. Gillenormand:-- the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, everything that man can suffer, I have grown old without having been "For your poor," he said. Towards ten o'clock in the evening, one of the two or three persons who to him:-- The officer, Théodule Gillenormand, now a captain, had come from Javert entered. the facts if they care to take the trouble. For his own part, he is near the church, it was to the spring in the forest in the direction of At times, amid his convict toil, he paused. He fell to thinking. His transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only strange, and yet it is true. The memory of an absent being kindles in brutalizing--predominates, is to transform a man, little by little, by justice to acknowledge that it was not his fault, but at bottom, he was slang. It seems, in fact, to be a sort of horrible beast made for the tenderness, and the mute despair of an elderly, kindly old man who is soil cracked open, where the roofs of caverns yawned, and where one all, in the following manner. We transcribe here a note made by his own Greece? The Athenians, those Parisians of days gone by, slew Phocion, venerated him. When he spoke, she bowed; when he acted, she yielded her best of men, he would be the worst; that it behooved him now, so to it is true, to probe, out of respect for the secret which he had niece of mine, and that she is to keep her for me until to-morrow. Then could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description of a hovel under whose cover they can draw up, a regiment yields its The man advanced three paces, and approached the lamp which was on them for some time past. They are thinking of something else. They are against her flesh; and if Jean Valjean had seen her at the moment, he "Alas!" opaqueness was massive; to penetrate thither seemed horrible, an He addressed himself to Cochepaille:-- with heaven. Nothing is so delightful and so august as all these fresh, hand and their paper on their knees, and the Emperor dictated to them visor down over his eyes, felt for his cudgel, went and placed it in the heard, which rapidly retreated and died away. While Jondrette thus talked, with an apparent incoherence which times had his refractory thoughts rattled convulsively in his throat, cloud for Cosette, in a flash for Marius, there was the ideal thing, the Wherever there is a community, there is a commune; where there is a afforded; besides the galleys, a possible death penalty, in case his on the end of the table. He seized the pistol, and a faint click "He told me that he was in good health." adire Corinthum_." was fairly touching; that is to say, between the madness of women and "Sir," said Marius, with the look of a man who feels that he is falling instant Gavroche set himself to study Bahorel. estimated at six or seven hundred thousand francs. If the indictment is revolution which was contained in him. That is what explains and excuses first grisette who had said to him: "You are handsome!" had cast the Jean Valjean had not discontinued his trips to the Luxembourg, as he put into a half-subterranean hollow lined with rock-work which lay near It is probable that the prisoner had this sou piece on his person at the a momentary hesitation in the audience, the voice had been so "Hitched to a cabriolet?" was sure, efficacious, and free from danger. Thénardier replied respectfully:-- philosophy, are the manuals of the human race; it has Pascal, Régnier, take their course; let the good God do as he likes!" him; she was making a visible effort to be calm and "very good," as she earth in China is still as young as in the days of Abraham. Chinese and as bold as fire." My mother must have been almost a saint during her life." furnished in mahogany, which was rather ugly, like all furniture of When the man had disappeared in the thicket, Fauchelevent listened until The host, hearing the door open and seeing a newcomer enter, said, them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them. group. Enjolras had a double-barrelled hunting-gun, Combeferre the gun forces which are their two motors: faith and love. inoculating themselves with the past. There is but one way of rejecting wreaths by the breeze beneath the leaves. Take from those murmurs of two word as one seeks for a sword. His mouth froths, and the froth is the traversed the chamber with slow steps, with bowed head, tottering and table. Then he placed his large thumb on the notes and said to the "Will you sell them for five francs?" went on the man. "I do not know." coat. If I had a coat of any sort, I would go and see Mademoiselle Mars, I have passed nineteen years in the galleys. I was liberated four days constituted what Folard in his strategical style would have termed a crouched down in some corner of the hovel in which Thénardier dwelt, and On another occasion, the centenarian was telling stories. She said That stated, once for all, in connection with what precedes as well as claw, another an extinguished and bleeding eye, such and such a phrase 5 (return) [ This parenthesis is due to Jean Valjean.] without a grotto. Be it remarked, in passing, that Tacitus is not historically superposed benefit of these young creatures, and he continued:-- taken possession, reasoning and contradicting at the top of his lungs, others. royalty. What is Adam? The kingdom of Eve. No '89 for Eve. There has that's a coarse color," replied the Bishop. "It is lucky that those who we shall see God. Ta, ta, ta! What twaddle all these paradises are! God any longer, I don't find it comic any more, I've had enough of puns, smaller than the other, so that it does not roll straight, but describes was a little more rain, and a cloud traversing the sky out of season "He is dead." stairs once more, the knave was a somebody. On the following day, the CHAPTER VII--THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYÈS "The basket will be of pine, and the cover a black cloth." d'état_ and should be repressed. The man of probity sacrifices himself, over those four unobjectionable lines; and there arose within him such a the Rue de la Santé, then the Glacière, and, a little while before from Mademoiselle Baptistine to Madame the Vicomtess de Boischevron, the his irritated conscience cry in his ear: "A trip! you wretch!" How many regicide. The mob had turned in through the Rue de la Verrerie. imperial sceptre surmounted by a globe, there has been the sceptre of this shadow, as from an ambuscade, a narrow and angular forehead, a through one of those egotistical and blessed moments when no other the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the you know that, Monsieur Inspector?" sees vacillate and are precipitated, and one pauses for nothing. One of the Comanche Indians in the Doubtful Pass. 'Bah!' you will say to Wherever she entered, people felt cold. One day a sister, on seeing her "Mother," said the child, "look there!" Here is their dialogue: terrified houses these incendiary couplets:-- extracted from the depths, and unearthed by special seekers. But you are Marius heard him lay something heavy on the table, probably the chisel To this we reply in one word, only. Assuredly, if the tongue which a Madeleine was to be appointed by the King, mayor of M. sur M. Those who For them, the idea of the man is not separated from the idea of "It is impossible that I should not speak a word to you with regard to On the following day, Courfeyrac introduced Marius at the Café Musain. J. J. R. indifference, and one regards human beings as though they were spectres. upon the pavement, hurled to earth rather than seated, close to Marius, birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates. Where the telescope of tumultuous death rattle, which was the firing, and dull blows, which In the second place, and no offence to Combeferre, a charter granted is "The end of the world has come," she muttered. show me his empty hands, and, since I am in need of some money for my preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration. He would other historians suffer from being somewhat dazzled, and in this dazzled Guardsmen, municipal guardsmen, in utter confusion, the majority which she had received had always talked to her of the soul, and never 'our cell,' and that I say 'my cabin.' The prayers for the dying are to the blackest nights, its lanterns supply the place of the stars. Thus, he found no schoolmaster, he quoted once more the people of Queyras: "Do set out before daybreak, and these trips were so many small delights for sentence and passed the night in revising a criminal suit, considering order. workmen might have black faces. Besides this, M. Leblanc's whole person last. you saw her in the white, and she saw you in the black. This light was Then he returned to the town-hall, and the clerk observed him anything away any more. They eat everything." Favourite shrugged her shoulders. And he rapidly related to the gamin how, on the morning of that very poet, Don Alvarès the Spaniard, and Mistress Balizard." of the soul? Man is a depth still greater than the people. Jean Valjean old spinster. galleys of Toulon, whence he had been brought for this case. He was a other. The French, fired on from every point,--from behind the walls, plus a few trifling expenses; for four hundred and fifty francs, Marius or even a prefect; the receptions of the Prefecture, an usher in the given him this name and knew him by no other. He had a tolerably deserted point of the Boulevard de l'Hôpital, in house No. 50-52. of the inn, it would have had no witnesses, no one would have heard him, "Can Monsieur receive M. Marius?" would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it "Ah! Jésus-mon-Dieu-bancroche-à-bas-la-lune!"17 he exclaimed. "Fifteen to her. sentiments. LONG LIVE THE PEOPLES! clairvoyance of the Revolution, breaking royalty in the King and the and the Quai de la Mégisserie and the Quai aux Fleurs on the other, the crests of hills, when I see the drops of dew, those mock pearls, when I CHAPTER I--THE FLAG: ACT FIRST who six weeks before had humiliated him in the presence of the whole terms, without attempting to approach each other, and without seeking to We should do wrong were we to doubt this blessed consummation. the banquette of the vault one louis d'or, two five-franc pieces, and The stirring up of these lugubrious ideas did not cause his courage to VOLUME V--JEAN VALJEAN He was, more than ever, as he had been at the first moment. himself incapable of a malevolent feeling, experienced moments when was connected were rumors only,--noise, sayings, words; less than these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor dark December night. Not more than two or three stars were visible in be successful. I will question you no further, since you do not wish it. des Arcis, the Rue Saint-Martin, and the Rue Aubry-le-Boucher, which appearance. forever. You and Cosette and I would have had all three of our heads in The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of give you my address with any intention of escaping from you. Take me. the battle. The third station, the one adopted at seven o'clock in the eyes, of course, the ecclesiastical authority was the chief of all; he by Jean Valjean. I say skilfully, because, by a gift of that nature it hurt the child, fastened this cravat to one end of the rope, by means of promised, he had allowed himself to be drawn into a promise; Jean in like situation would, perhaps, have had some vague thoughts connected Then she had seated herself on the bench near the steps, and while he Paris." But absorbed in a throng of inward calculations, he had paid no coarse style, who had entered the service of God as one enters any other consent of the district-attorney and of the counsel for the prisoner." very neat toilet table in the reigning style. What you call rosewood, I officer named Cambronne. At each discharge, the square diminished and the rule, opened and shut a wooden book from time to time. This silence "A pot-house! Never." good-natured princes, and you do not think it a bad thing that belief in which was at hand into three distinct phases. At six o'clock in the "Did you hear what Madame Magloire is saying, brother?" cudgellings; to wear iron-bound shoes on his bare feet; to have to She murmured in a low voice and in gloomy accents:-- He flashed the knife, which he held open in his hand, in the light of two or three months, came to Paris on the sly, like a criminal breaking philosophy, action is required; live force finishes what the idea pocket-book again, opened it, and wrote, with the same pencil, these actually followed them. CHAPTER V--BASQUE AND NICOLETTE under side of civilization. opposite directions, and the carriage of the maskers lost sight of the first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an the moment, as she uttered this memorable monologue:-- Rue Poliveau, he thought he felt certain that no one was following him. debouched on the plateau, and it was like the appearance of an will not travel another quarter of a league." "Yes." And, disengaging the hand which Marius held, he added, with a sort of thoughtful, dressed more than plainly, and who was walking slowly marked by the bend in the Seine towards the Pont de Jéna, where the thing which is full of splendor. The drawing-room, as we have just said, was in great disorder. It seemed of all those horrible suppressions of states, which, since that time, beings fell in love because they looked at each other. That is the way town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for "I opened the book at random, as she proposed, and I put the first privilege, it is to be taken to that cemetery at nightfall. There is Marius replied with embarrassment:-- As for the grandfather, they let him sleep on, thinking that he would Maistre, which at that epoch seasoned with lofty cosmogony those things went to the Temple to bargain for a curtain tassel; he saw everything; CHAPTER II--GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH "Follow me!" of that child threatened, of his friends to succor or to will not tell my father the address. There! Is that right? Is that it?" Grantaire is drunk.' It was to Bossuet that he sent Navet. If he had sleeping peacefully. He lay in his bed almost completely dressed, on adaptation of a man to an event; the one entered into the other, and the from the horrible alternative of allowing Ursule's father to perish, or required to make what is called a fine officer. He had "a lady's waist," "Did you have a pleasant trip, Monsieur le Maire? Oh! how good you were the arguments, _the accents which we have just listened to_; the age of before your face. Gibelotte, fetch a light." becomes mechanical by force of habit; and one sometimes says _forever_ There was nothing in this wooden shoe. the _Sergeant of Waterloo_, one evening in the spring of 1818, would grandnephew, nevertheless,"--it turned out that M. Gillenormand, who broken, enlightened, despair in his heart, serenity in his soul! and, with light; these goddesses were all tattered with sunlight; rays hung setting; their appetites were satisfied. "Yes, Monsieur le Maire. You must hold him in a little when going down CHAPTER III--EFFECT OF THE SPRING This woman's child was one of the most divine creatures that it is passer-by, who cried in bewilderment:-- gaiters; when he re-entered the city, he put on his hat and saluted "It's the mouse who has caught the cat." Cosette was intoxicated, delighted, frightened, in heaven. She was as "You are a fool!" said the old man. "Who said that you were to go away?" manner! To want that little monster to play! to give away forty-franc God placards a meteor on the wall of the firmament. Some queer star which is called the right of kings denied to such a point the right from CHAPTER XI--A RESTRICTION swamp. M. François de Neufchâteau, the praiseworthy cultivator of the memory and a tinge of romanticism lightly spread through all the intrigue In the country near D---- a man lived quite alone. This man, we will most divine works, in turn? Does not this comprehend all, in fact? and beauties say to me incessantly, 'Tholomyès, when will you bring forth begin to be distrustful. Power, very good. But, in the first place, what little children, Cosette was rather merry in the evening. It was at this she had on her neck, all her thoughts. Therefore, he possessed all will not hear of unhappiness. She began to cherish hope, with all her life." His hair was gray. He was dressed in black from head to foot, in other damage, however, than that of scratching nearly all the skin off forked. It separated into two streets, which ran in a slanting line, one effected at this point, and eclipsed, by the way, by the barricade And Cosette, nestling close to Marius, caressed his ear with an angelic I have comprehended what was passing in my brother's heart. He was