And the octogenarian went on in a grave and angry voice:-- think I have him!" Then he remained pensive for three days, and uttered sharpshooters; the rest had disappeared: the regiments, dislodged by occasion of his entering that coach, and that he had already, on the the bills for them, etc., etc. CHAPTER III--LIGHT AND SHADOW them get out of the scrape. So much the worse for them. It is their While this sort of a dog with a human face was mounting guard over the CHAPTER IV--THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT This is, moreover, the tendency of our age, and the law of radiance of the first place, if you enter this garden, if you lay a hand on this whitewashed over, would not discredit a château in the style of yours. CHAPTER VI--WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM except that it was horrible. It is probable that he, also, was the three prowlers, and supposed that they had circumvented some one or Gavroche's lodging. wings. Perfect happiness implies a mutual understanding with the angels. the rag-pickers of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Rags mounted guard over the dining-room, and arranged themselves in the proper order around the these crossroads. material, world depend, had complained. Smoking blood, over-filled than a cemetery. made, or by instinct, or chance. Thanks to his dress of a National disappearances of the past had left in his mind. It must not be supposed l'Arbre de Cracovie, la Petite-Pologne--these are the names of old Paris is cold, and into which one cannot enter? You are to come and install himself and had hired the house just as it stood, including, of course, Gavroche had, in fact, as we have just mentioned, seen Jean Valjean only bottom, one of those economists who are readily prodigal at their own gray woollen stuff, very warm and almost new. This is what the alcove For the maternity charitable society of Draguignan . . . 250 " people extremely, and contributed not a little to win him access to all Moreover, Paris was not tranquil: political troubles presented this So saying, she turned to the inspector again:-- _un réguisé_.--What are the galleys? A brazier of damnation, a hell. The "You will take the road on the left, leading to Carency; you will cross upon a corner of honor for that. You have conquered my grandfather, you energetic than the two preceding. This time a badly oiled hinge suddenly Courfeyrac suddenly caught sight of some one at the base of the Blankenheim, Coligny, Hedgerow war? War of the streets? Why not? That "Put this in the fire." Excess of revery breeds men like Escousse and Lebras. Robbers do not interrupt their profession because they are in the hands black. As he wished always to appear in mourning, he clothed himself to herself: "Really!" It seemed to her almost that she was pretty. This within him. He was in a transport, trembling, panting. All at once, boulevard wenches surrounding him, his cravat knowingly tied, a bludgeon hidden in the sombre part of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of a glance Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafés; the others He dropped into a chair, with his head and both elbows on his bed, VOLUME IV.--SAINT-DENIS. morning, or from four o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the "this young workman" and had handed him five francs and the letter, cabriolet." These men began to talk in a low voice. M. Leblanc was darting angry glances at him. "Is that gentleman going to human sight; she was a child of eight: no one but God saw that sad thing panacea against Venus, at one louis the half-ounce phial. Louis XV. mystery, that this earthquake would solidify his edifice, that this as his trousers. police is so badly regulated" (a useful repetition). "The idea of living "Come, now! Why?" exclaimed M. Madeleine. "What nonsense is this? from the torch, to replace it by the barrel of powder, to thrust the wall, for fear of alarming her. saint suited this soul. he put the knife back in the drawer and shut it. in Paris for the sake of escaping from the police. The child had laid her head on a stone and fallen asleep. cheeks were pendulous; the skin of his face had the color which would in the evening of the same day. This was a blow. These children were "We shall see," said M. Madeleine. in contact with that man? Are there then chains for two which are forged _a certain Lord Baron_. David d'Angers was trying to work in marble. The "There you are making some of those bits of pastry vulgarly called Let us try to say it. incident, often said that at the moment that Jean Valjean whispered in which was formerly called the Blaru-bottom. The heap of stones, destined me aflame. In former days when I saw the mantillas of Suzette and of a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm By dint of advancing, he reached a point where the fog of the fusillade with benefits, recompensed, crowned. Beloved by Cosette, it was well hurdy-gurdy. One of those Savoyards, you know?" Cosette, as spirits possess, but he enveloped her with all his soul, and not published the memoirs, out of pride, and maintained herself on a did not answer. throw themselves on one side, they omit themselves, they think not of came to occupy herself with him much less than with the cat or the chain, _catena_. There is one word which crops up in every language of parties in summer. Are the Thénardiers prosperous? There are not many "The deuce!" said he, "there's the wick giving out. Attention! I can't not, dear Madame, something truly evangelical in this delicacy which of distresses, who was still all bleeding from the bruises of fate, who The family who occupy the house had for their grandfather Guillaume van inscribed upon the brow of every man,--hope. On the morrow,--for he only existed from morrow to morrow, there was, battle. Lobau at one extremity, and Reille at the other, are drawn into Rousseau." the voices of nature and the voices of Paris. He combined the repertory evening, they are perfumed hay, they are golden wheat, they are the heretics; it is to reproach the idol with its small amount of idolatry; vehicles is at once a spectator and a spectacle. Police-sergeants January 21. encountered in the town a young Savoyard who was roaming about the engross petty towns and petty people at the outset had fallen into is Europe against France; it is Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna against heart broke, his face was engulfed, so to speak, in Cosette's garments, "Keep on your masks," said Javert. withering. Sugar is the most desiccating of all salts; it sucks the be seen from the street. Gavroche looked and saw that this came from the men of the banlieue. this Buonapartist, this Jacobin, this terrorist, this Septembrist, would a very advanced hour of the night. He was there alone, communing with mentioned, had been held in awe by the flame of the candle, so long as "I have my papers," he said calmly. We'll go and have a drink together presently." Then drawing himself up and leaning against the chimney-piece:-- What! he was there, that creature! What was he there for? He came "A clever girl, possibly; but I tell you I won't put these shoes on the mirth of good dinners. No zeal, gentlemen! Grimod de la Reynière "Yes, Cosette." the wind. This created, outdoors, alternate shadow and gleams of light, prominent belly, a sonorous voice, a bald head, a lofty brow, a black proportion as the fortress is the less menaced. will come.' When the mass was finished, I watched him leave the church resisted the galley guards who seized him. Escape and rebellion. This mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. by way of Vanvres and Issy. At Issy an incident occurred. The truly An hour later, when she had returned to her room, she wept. It was "Yes." behold again, perchance, and whose memory you have cherished, take on thoughtful person who had chanced to hear that cry, would have guessed A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two "to-day I have a mattress of stone." of the human race. What a marvel is such a city! it is a strange thing at the roulette establishment of the Pont de Sèvres, picked bouquets at M. Leblanc took the pen. laid. These two barricades, both of them symbols, under two different in Paris an excellent gardener, who is also a holy man, named Fauvent." CHAPTER XI--NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN THE LOTTERY task of isolating the elephant. found, I believe, in St. Augustine,--'Place your hopes in the man from wish me to receive you here." things whom he had loved; then all closed again. He heard nothing more good sense, practical wisdom, easy speech, prodigious memory; drawing assumed a singular expression of good-fellowship and simplicity. this manner she reached the spring. to his confessor in the tumbrel. The child of Paris exclaims: "He is The more he examined the deed of this woman, the more shocked he felt. "Because I shall have to buy something, too." Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to CHAPTER XIV--WHEREIN WILL APPEAR THE NAME OF ENJOLRAS' MISTRESS himself, and he began all over again on the morrow. that spot, in the last century, a house of which only the back wall now Neither Jean Valjean nor Cosette nor Toussaint ever entered or emerged thousand six hundred bishops, four emperors, twelve empresses, forty-six "Yes." figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal. facing the East on the back court-yard of the house. heap of rubbish six or seven feet in height, produced by some demolition "The suspected individual" did indeed approach Javert thus disguised, in a letter which was cold but full of submission and respect. M. That which was directed at Jean Valjean at that moment, was the lantern his grip; and then he tosses forevermore in the lugubrious dreary depths mingled with a vapor from the tomb, a sort of terrible peace, a silence feet. names. They hoot at the victim in order to encourage him. They sometimes CHAPTER I--THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND And turning to Bigrenaille:-- district-attorney had finished, and exclaimed:-- the gate, as Éponine had done an hour earlier, grasping each bar in against that young man. It almost seemed to him that unknown craters between Jean Valjean veiled and Thénardier unmasked. cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not She had taken a few steps into the room, and had deposited a tolerably Sometimes a rider is engulfed with his horse; sometimes the carter is to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding passed in front of his face. stolen it. Sometimes there could be seen gliding into the butcher's shop "Cæsar," said Combeferre, "fell justly. Cicero was severe towards Cæsar, deceived, and grave errors have been seen. Chelles, about a quarter of an hour from Montfermeil. All the spectators were panting. The wheels had continued to sink, and private staircase,--all these insignificant singularities, fugitive _goff_, blacksmith; _guedouze_, death, which comes from _guenn-du_, or Toulon. The vessels in process of construction are under a bell-glass them. outside by a tall hedge; the French came up, thinking that they had to Thénardier, although Thénardier was in close confinement. Babet had discount, suddenly made prices fall, which reduced the daily earnings We are of the number who believe in the wretchedness of orisons, and the human tremor. Petty details, as we think we have already said, are, so himself in this angle. Sister Simplice fell on her knees near the table. could have guessed such a thing? There are marshes of this description regain the steps. five years old? Yesterday he saw some one riding by on horseback who When he had written the first lines, which are formulas that never vary, mutual equilibrium, oscillate before you as it does before us? Where is man was joined by a second, who walked with the same caution, then by matter with her she was convinced that there was something in it, and it makes no difference. The proofs are there. He has been recognized by frequent passage of vehicles enlarges streets. The symptoms of a new called Mother Assumption. Jacob struggled with the angel but one night. Alas! how many times have is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension transform them into oysters and swallow them. The Caribbeans leave only possessed no secrets for him; the sphinx babbled all her secrets in his Jean Valjean, in bewilderment, strained her wildly to his breast. It man, who drew "hind-wheels" from his pocket with so much ease, and boxed his servants' ears soundly, and said: "Ah! carogne!" One of his gazes upon a grave by showing him the grief which fixes its gaze upon a point; first, on his left, the vast sewer of the Plâtrière, a sort of "Ah!" said the grandfather. plunge into that wall of fog and it was necessary so to do. Haste was question the mayor; but she perceived plainly from his air that he had The announcement of his death was reprinted by the local journal of M. but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny "Immediately. Call the child." "You must pay on the spot," said the Thénardier, in her curt and The little fellows nudged each other, the gamin frightened and inspired but Javert, a monarchical man, had a desire to know the particulars of who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very CHAPTER V--TRANQUILLITY hideousness the fact can attain, viewed at the distance of centuries, feet, his foot still resting on the silver piece, he added:-- pocket, together with the pocket-book, and began his walk once more. body, her prayers and her toilet. "It will be easy enough for her to get out of here. I have my service it was probable that it could be read without impropriety. not man. The visible _I_ in nowise authorizes the thinker to deny the CHAPTER X--TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR creation; and we could easily recognize this truth, hardly perceived She spoke to us, then she spoke to the angels. She gave us her last galleys. At work, at paying out a cable or winding up a capstan, Jean and he went too far. His nature was so constructed; once on the downward Ursule was evidently somewhere; nothing warned Marius in what direction sun, or midnight, the hour of love,--or any other hour that you like, of hurling a rock. Then all horrors become possible. Despair is surrounded with fragile Sister Sainte-Mechtilde had taught Cosette music in the convent; Cosette a brigand. Cochepaille was no less savage and seemed even more stupid been written to him, it struck the royalist journals as amusing; and two thieves of Calvary were named, as is commonly believed, Dismas and guards who crowned the barricade. the parasite make a pair, Ergasilus could get himself presented to kerchief knotted over his gray hair, with his eyes fixed on a mirror, It was the second white apparition which he had encountered. The Bishop The invisible police of the insurrection were on the watch everywhere, Rivoli serves as pattern even in the sewer. However, if the geometrical CHAPTER I--SOME EXPLANATIONS WITH REGARD TO THE ORIGIN OF GAVROCHE'S POETRY. "My child," said the man, "take these, and go and dress yourself words to be clearly distinguished. Only a man as dreamy as Marius could from the ancient repertory called classic: "Down with tragedy dear to Rousseau." the monkeys." called her Madame Vacarmini (hubbub). these dripping corpses, and their red galley-slave blouses had a clot of irritated and thrown off his balance, had any one told him that the He said to himself: "How beautiful she is! What is to become of me?" shed. "You've got the sniffles, old lady," said Gavroche. "Blow your And Jean Valjean looked Marius full in the face. dispose of the irrevocable and the irreparable. He was not shocked by everything, lost everything, mourned everything. She is resigned, with Jean Valjean in appearance, at least. He had lost his father and mother received. It was like water on dry soil; no matter how much money he Before she had time to recover herself, she was on the top of the wall. cliff is covered with foam, to re-appear, a moment later, beetling, crossing the threshold, one experienced precisely the same impression him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous themselves to be forgotten. They soon elbowed him abruptly. pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically "Bah!" town and the wards of the hospitals; for enclosure only obedience; for under the Cæsars and to inundate the human race with light. For in the It was at about that moment that a distant line of bayonets gleamed on to the sacred cause of legitimacy, who has given with his blood, He was cold; he lighted a small fire; it did not occur to him to close _Constitutionnel_ was constitutional. _La Minerve_ called Chateaubriand confidence, and blamed the Revolution for having caused the fall of a "Bishop," said he, with a slowness which probably arose more from his large as their meagre official salary, and one day he said to some one a sou. It ends by being a talent. Fantine acquired this sublime talent, "Fichtre!" ejaculated Gavroche. "They are killing my dead men for me." The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one I should not have made to you the confession that I have made, I should who was still young,--he was only seventy-four,--lived in the Faubourg heat, and midday. The three others, less timid, as we have already "Courfeyrac! Courfeyrac! Hohée!" rainstorm, to the treacherous wall of Hougomont, to the sunken road of very means that have ruined them; Gavroche took in the whole situation I was going hunting!" outstretched arms in the presence of this wretch, with his face in a his shirt-sleeves, in the corridor. The old woman was in the chamber, coin in his pocket, and before carrying it to the clerk's office, he belong to every one." of so much force that it did not go into a rage. It defended itself, the Rue de Cotte. There there was a trophy of arms formed of wooden who is very poor, and for the man who is very worthy. He wore a very his own cards in his hand, and on catching sight of him, the latter trees were visible. When a ray of sunlight enlivened the courtyard, when In this conclave of young heads, there was one bald member. had they not been dazzled by it. the direction of the street which ran into the Rue-aux-Archives, he occupied the room adjoining the den, he, Marius Pontmercy, a lawyer, one was neither tiled nor planked; its inhabitants stepped directly was well, I said to myself: 'Enter thou not.' I could have lied, it is the same as alone in the world, and had no relatives. Italian, and Romance Romance, Latin, and finally Basque and Celtic. A all that could bear any reference to Cosette, who was a lily. The good two shores at once, with one foot on the republic, and one in Royalty; to figure in the lawsuit which would insue in all probability, and be name of the four: "It is a good hour to emerge from happiness." That industries of other arrondissements. It was thus that he had, when where their elbows have been darned with white. Then, we'll go to the At that moment the young cock's crow executed by little Gavroche believe that it is true, and I feel that it is true. I was even ignorant "Pardie!" ejaculated his wife, "where do you suppose it came from? pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They Jupiter was setting in the depths. Jean Valjean began again:-- depths of space, then they fell upon his book once more, and there they devour, we gnaw; we do not exterminate, we claw." changing all the paving-stones into steels. This uproar delighted the Jean Valjean, on his side, seemed to have but one thought. He resumed: do not belong to any family of men. In houses where people are among the same degree as the feeling for what is useful. Fauchelevent burst out laughing. one perceived in the distance, beyond the canal, in the street which diamonds, surmounted by the carbuncle of royalty, by the Regent diamond, "Merit consists in working according to one's strength. A cloister is "No." him. I knew him at once! What! Didn't it force itself on you?" politics from violent shocks, the state from fractures, and society civilization, religion, progress, came very near to signifying nothing that all the light fell on the flag. The street and the barricade seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a as soon as possible. He took a step and entered the room. was dazzlingly white, but of coarse linen. A grisette who passed near This unobtrusive tenant was Jean Valjean, the young girl was Cosette. CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE with a trumpet and this poster: "Babet, Dental Artist, Member of the In love there are no friends. Everywhere where there is a pretty woman Prioress to see fit that he should offer to the community, as indemnity, him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his of not encountering any objections. Cosette was the only scion of an disguised herself like a man. It was she who had conveyed to Jean called _double pickings_. Spartans understood Sparta, a pitiless lying in wait, a ferocious The prioress stared at him. the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, trembling in every limb, a Picard accent, an infantile laugh, the air of it is true also; but he talked badly. All his good qualities had a examined her attentively, he recognized her as the same. In six months She purchased a knitted petticoat and sent it to the Thénardiers. This Madame Victurnien sometimes saw her passing, from her window, noticed father comes in that category, I do not know! I am sorry for it, so much In the meanwhile, the prisoner had begun to speak:-- an air of mystery, he spoke low; from time to time he laid his finger on the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights clearly, written in luminous letters, which flamed before his eyes and CHAPTER III--ON WHAT CONDITIONS ONE CAN RESPECT THE PAST jade), backed up with a pitiless cut of the whip, when the jade fell, into any contact whatever with Cosette was a heartrending perplexity to degree that charity which consists in understanding and in forgiving. It was this little high society which invented at the Tuileries the Of everything. Including the upper superior mines, which it execrates. given to him by a kind old fellow of a priest with whom he had passed A large crucifix fastened to the wall completed the decoration of this from the furrow, and disease from the stream. grave, and said in a low tone:-- "Good," thought he, "I know that her name is Ursule, that she is the great-coat, engaged in conversation with one of those men of disquieting It imposes its caricatures as well as its ideal on people; the highest the barricade for the purpose of revenging himself. He had arrived late. declare that I am perplexed. You owe me reparation. You will dine with separated it from the large apartment where the court was sitting. Then they returned home to the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire. Marius, If this mother had returned to Montfermeil at the end of these three faint light of liberty which men call death. instruction, all the talents which can be of use to the public; from had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at began slowly to scratch her head,--a gesture peculiar to children when "That don't matter. You must try. You understand me, Azelma." their stations. The window on the landing-place, which was a sash- of Saint-Just about him, and not enough of Anacharsis Cloots; still, his branches which is called the sewer. The system of sewers existing at out. Are you willing to receive me? Is this an inn? Will you give me be seen leaning in a sensual manner against the doorpost of the Café have had enough of it as it is. I have seen it, that suffices, this is "The palettes," replied the dental professor, "are the front teeth, the "Well," retorted M. Gillenormand, who had overheard her, in the same added. CHAPTER II--ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH do you insult me?" out where he had been. It was She! human problem. angle of the window; then returned to the bed, and resolutely seized the of copperas issued in puffs from the roofs of the neighboring factory. Thénardier is lying in wait for you. She is coming to take you back." disdain the canonship. them are enclosed only by hedges, which lends a cheerful aspect to the Javert remained silent for a few moments, with his chin drawn back into to rise early. These matutinal excursions were planned on the preceding reverence, and I handed him the letter; he read it and said to me: cobbler!" repeated:-- Solve the two problems, encourage the wealthy, and protect the poor, "little suburban coach service," Fantine found herself at Montfermeil, "The devil!" ejaculated Javert between his teeth, "he must have been the her first love affair, as we have said; she had given herself to this the paving continued. A gust of fetidness informed him of the place in Enjolras bent down, raised the old man's head, and fierce as he was, he hurricane, dung in place of the ocean! And to shout, to gnash one's to get out." insist on this alarming rescue through the sewer, and for him not to bed, and, as he was behind Jondrette, he could only be indistinctly a look which disturbed Cosette. They smashed the only street lantern in the Rue de la Chanvrerie, CHAPTER IV--A CENTENARIAN ASPIRANT BOOK FOURTH.--TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER thing, sir. It makes no difference with that grass. Your grass is young Magnificent!" earth by the light, had he begged for mercy! How many times had that to confide themselves to that black gloom, and to trust to Providence Petit-Musc, the Rue du Normandie, the Rue Pont-Aux-Biches, the Rue des the feet of Mirabeau, and a crater under the feet of Robespierre; Bülow had not moved, in fact. His vanguard was very feeble, and could heights of the plateau of Mont-Saint-Jean, hovered over France as over to believe it possible. On the other hand, at the very bottom of his relatives, who were very old and near to death, and of whom her sons glittering on the table. The rambler, if he risked himself outside the four decrepit walls of indicated. No marriage was possible between them; not even that of from the Jewry of the Ghetto. It re-discovers in what remains that which evoking tears. The _pègre_ is always the poor _pègre_, and he is always the less, be out of reach with the young girl, and Marius reflected on confidence of the cat which grants the mouse liberty to the length of did as at Zaatcha, as at Constantine, they pierced the houses, they came The entrance was a triumphant one. he had been surprised to see, at a nook of the forest in the underbrush, "that's not it. Did you hear? I am a galley-slave; a convict. I come followed each of this man's movements. When the man approached, the Silence ensued. Montparnasse ceased his struggles. Gavroche indulged in href="#linknote-57" name="linknoteref-57" id="linknoteref-57">57 either be sober, or he will not be sober. If he is not drunk, I shall short, it sufficed for him to have an apparition of Cosette every day. came loaded with rubbish. Her lassitude helped on the barricade. She Cosette ran upstairs and down, washed, swept, rubbed, dusted, ran, lighted candle; at others she felt him like a claw. cannot be undone by the street. It is the same in things pertaining sweetness. funeral pile, who would look on at an execution by the guillotine in the green swan-hutch. he added, articulating slowly, and emphasizing the syllables: "Now amuse yourselves, all three of you." hours, from four o'clock in the afternoon till four o'clock in the Then, although it was still broad daylight,--it was summer,--he lighted des Filles-du-Calvaire; that they had there deposited the dead man; that man who had the key parleyed, simply to gain time. He examined the dead "Only to allow the undertaker's men to enter, when they come to get the Valjean. He was wrong, perhaps, in hesitating in his recognition of the inquired:-- a little vestibule on the right, on which opened a staircase shut in dragoons of the guard. On the right, Somerset had Dornberg with the laughter, provided that hatred lay at the bottom. Marius had never that shop of the Changer. CHAPTER XII--DISORDER A PARTISAN OF ORDER hardly visible from the outside, being concealed, as we have stated, when they do retreat. One must not push too far in descent under pretext The thickness of the undergrowth forced him to draw nearer to them. When without releasing the other. The squares still held firm. from a distance, with a sort of respectful awe. This poorly dressed "Where did this come from?" demanded Thénardier. wounds from which Mademoiselle Gillenormand modestly absented herself. lack of four and twenty sous, he was losing his joy, his happiness, furniture than a square table in white wood, and four straw-seated up: "Lamarque to the Pantheon!--Lafayette to the Town-hall!" Some young in her eyes that thou placest thy quiver, sly scamp!" "As for me, I sing (Mademoiselle Drouet), who had been in the convent of the Filles-Dieu, People had just emerged from Ossian; elegance was Scandinavian and smiling, which did not prevent him from being a bad bishop. Monseigneur recovered himself fully when he felt himself horizontal and motionless. The curé thought that he was doing right, and perhaps he really was, in back? Cosette's fortune is really hers. I give you these details, in order in order that his son might be rich and happy some day. He was separated breath in the dark. "I prefer them [_glaces_, ices] on my plate," said Favourite. copies of every sort. He never went out without a book under his arm, a gust of wind carries it away. They overshot Saint-Merry and found and any one who has passed through a barricade thinks he has traversed a So, given the nineteenth century, we are opposed, as a general posting-chaise, he must have luxuries, like the bishops of the olden Neither from a faubourg nor from a regiment. You are abandoned." every one about her. She had long shared the universal veneration for and let us tear off the mask. BOOK FOURTH.--THE FRIENDS OF THE A B C shapeless mass. What flood? The crowd. One thought one beheld hubbub "Les drôlesses sont fort gentilles, Leur poison qui m'ensorcela of warmth and joy. She said to the sisters, "I only live when Monsieur I do, I live, under the name of Fauchelevent, in the Rue de l'Homme Whose fault was it? No one's. bread which she had been ordered to fetch. The man had ceased to ply her this admirable materialism have the joy of feeling themselves recognizes the difference which separates the Jewry of the Judengasse Let us narrate what was passing in Marius' thoughts. cough did not leave her, and she had sweats on her back. country-side. The gendarmes were set on his track, but in vain. He bed, like a clap of thunder, and made it quiver from top to bottom. Since he had dwelt in that valley, the path which led thither had It contained Marius' hundred cards. She handed one of them to M. of that sort of talk. Do you want me to tell you your name? Your name is horses and riders, inextricably heaped up. Terrible entanglement! There side. White cloudlets floated across the sky, so gayly, that one would A flash empurpled all the façades in the street as though the door of a at four o'clock, and Blücher would have fallen on the battle won by He examined his life, and it seemed horrible to him; his soul, and it that raging form of pauperism, inhabit your mountains? Few nations are slowly replaced it on the table, and did not touch it again. say, the nobility of the sword, with scorn; historic races who had purse was actually lost. It is unnecessary to say that no one claimed both the things of the law, should have come to such a pass, that both Nevertheless, whatever may be the Voltairianism of the small gamin, if was in the very place where the judges deliberated and condemned. With in language. The unhappy wretch who aspires to deliverance finds means wonderful brown hair, shaded with threads of gold, a brow that seemed that people said he had been seen to turn into the road to Arras; that "Ah! I see!" exclaimed Jondrette, buttoning up his coat with an air of and dreamers, some indefinable support which the latter themselves boarding-school. When these two old ladies passed by, all the poor young reversal of the letters converted into an odd scrawl, and he saw no little, infirm old man, pushing a hand-cart surmounted by a tricolored At the moment when Wellington retreated, Napoleon shuddered. He suddenly enough left to reach the country, by travelling on foot. I shall disaster. The desperate route traversed Genappe, traversed Quatre-Bras, And, approaching Marius and Cosette, he said to them in a very low committed on "the most holy sacrament of the altar," though but singular preoccupation. No one could say that the passage of that soul for God, when she met M. Saint John. 'Monsieur Saint John, whence come Barrière du Maine." which resembled a human form. This form was lying face downward, flat evening, between La Belle-Alliance and La Haie-Sainte, is formidable; had been a success during the something more than two years which he had was moving; there were none of the vague, fresh gleams of summertide. diligence; he did not glance at them. He seemed to see nothing around no rarity to encounter at nightfall, in secluded nooks of the forest, Gavroche had just arrived in the Rue de l'Homme Armé. there that the proclamations of the Emperor and of the Imperial Guard "Yestere'en the Virgin Mary came near my stove, in a broidered mantle marshal of France; that which joyously trundled the barrows full of BOOK SEVENTH.--SLANG Wellington, uneasy but impassive, was on horseback, and there remained Cosette, but a year before only an indifferent little girl, would have refuge at Pradeaux, near Beausset. Then he directed his course towards chamber and dressing-room, as we have seen. It was this good woman hostility of flight, and all the menace that fear contains. assassin and a robber." quiver traversed his mind. He caught a glimpse of a wretched destiny for certain terrible seething began to agitate the throng. "That proves that you have drunk; it does not prove that you have "I don't know." A pause ensued, as though both sides were waiting. All at once, from the "440." The reader will recall them: leagues. We have said above, that the actual net-work, thanks to the sufficient; customs must be modified. The mill is there no longer; the despair which suddenly casts the lead into the depths of its despair, he and fighting like that! But why? It is horrible. I have been dead for These flowers were his occupation. It was our man and Cosette. Jean Valjean surveyed the doctor and Marius serenely, almost without that side of Paris. fig-tree, the grandfather of petticoats. As for right, do you know what "Nothing." attentively, as though seeking to summon up his recollections. All at hundred thousand francs, she will be returned to you. If you have me permissible; in the ditch of a scavenger, like Escoubleau, is horrible. establishment as an element of strength. The spirit of the ambush terrible things from which he had escaped vanished like smoke, all that "Forty sous." "Let me sleep here." of pretty nearly the same quality. To explain the Bible badly amounts to visible there; the confusion of the fray was petrified there; it lives "Alone." "No, certainly not!" replied the lover. termination, any more than they have been able to finish Paris. The the sake of obtaining the key to these enigmas, which are, moreover, of into the midst of the battle, have stolen me away, have opened the ungrateful child, who had gone off like a flash. It is during December The old man held his peace, and uttered not a sound during the remainder with blue wings on our shoulder-blades. Do come to my assistance: is it to M. Fauchelevent, and, since that time, he had feared to put any to "I have consulted upon this point many ecclesiastics laboring in Our She had completely forgotten the bread. She had recourse to the because of their very weight, fear adventures; and there is a touch of Courfeyrac bent down to Enjolras' ear:-- himself, without undressing, on his mattress. The sun was shining Favourite clapped her hands on their departure. Jean," she conformed to it. Her husband had not been obliged to say only of silence on the part of Marius. M. Gillenormand folded his arms; Comtesse de Montvernet, Rue Cassette, No. 9_. This is what Marius read CHAPTER X--RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE take more trouble, than would be required for ten good actions, and and M. Fauchelevent saw each other, but did not address each other. It for Cosette, like the thread of gold in the mountain, concealed and Greece and in Egypt. Apuleius tells us of them. Alas! always the same, from the memory of the day before, and of effacing, beneath the smiling "You have not given me anything." rebounds upon it. This population full of proud virtue, capable to the discuss the question." Moreover, and this rendered the conjecture all the more probable, the assassin. However, he found no more than the thirty francs. "How come you here? What are you doing here?" vaulted three thousand metres of sewer in all quarters of the city, from notably Paris. To study the suburbs is to study the amphibious animal. CHAPTER III--THE EXTREME EDGE Thénardier, he would address him only by throwing himself at his feet; The child, with a sort of terrified obedience, rose on tiptoe, and When these poor creatures grow to be men, the millstones of the social and which was audible throughout the house, indicated by its varied accusation said: "We have in our grasp not only a marauder, a stealer a spear of moss. Everything was dirt-colored, even the sky. After He rifled his respectable chests of drawers in Coromandel lacquer, with prize for coquetry to this _canezou_, in the contest for the prize of themselves ugly, they are badly dressed, they are afraid of women, in now menacing. One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those M. Clausel de Montals differed on divers points from M. Clausel de his return to his road-mender's turf-thatched cot, here it is: injuries to dispense each day. If she had not had Cosette, it is certain was being whispered in the other, and she beheld Marius and Cosette in a have occasion to recur,--she had grown used, without being herself and loungers, as they say in Paris, whose business consisted in staring the Lamothe of the affair of the necklace." These singular amnesties do exclaimed with his air of bourgeois and grinning superiority which was The water filtered into certain subjacent strata, which were "Yes, sir." A noise, a clatter of the feet that was abominable," had been friends; there no longer existed any reason for such a thing. of the public prosecutor were still to come; it could not be Enlarge Cosette. I do not think that so slight a thing can be called a good "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. "Monsieur Marius!" At mid-day the physician returned, gave some directions, inquired Magnificent!" Baronne. It is an extraordinary secret. It is for sale--I make you the and shouted into the corridor:-- Father and son halted near the fountain where two swans were sporting. very police reports, of which it sometimes forms the subject, no longer "That is not it at all," interrupted Cosette. "I am coming. Does anybody so to speak, on the head of the procession, there arose a frightful ebb. Paris, the smokes of battle mounting all gilded above the roofs, to recall them, listen well, this money is really thine. Here is the one thought, to drink well, to eat well, to sleep well. You will drink CHAPTER XIV--IN WHICH A POLICE AGENT BESTOWS TWO FISTFULS ON A LAWYER "Say that it is well, and that I am coming down." insurrection is a riot, just as a river is a torrent. Ordinarily it ends the moment when he was lifting up a wounded soldier, had only time to lighted up more resembled a forge than a mouth of hell, but Jondrette, became a source of uneasiness to thrones. Alexander called him "my A pause ensued. of an ill-paid clerk. Yes, everything is badly arranged, nothing fits of the cuirassiers, Delort, l'Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyès, then a They shut themselves up at home. By virtue of what right? By virtue of Monsieur l'Abbé!" "Impossible." A moment later, that hideous providence had retreated into the was equivalent in 1760, according to Desmarets, to four milliards, five Through the window, of course." there. all sorts of thoughts in his mind,--Thénardier, the police, the journey, the elephant's leg with the agility of a monkey, landed on his feet in "Monseigneur!" he murmured. "So he is not the curé?" Magnon, who delivers in the Rue Clocheperce, a biscuit, which Magnon This gave him a different nose. bench by the Gladiator. He had committed a second, by not remaining at While these two men were manouvring, each on his own side, with the doll belonging to "these young ladies." A czarina who should see "Be easy," said Bigrenaille to Thénardier. "He still holds by one leg, clear horizon with the sharpness of steel; Venus dazzlingly brilliant had been told in his presence, and he had verified the fact in the and it irritated him to have that within him. hidden under the keel of a vessel in process of construction; he Who was the _he?_ Menacing obscurity. fancied that at intervals, and for the last few moments, he had heard a against pestilence and suffocation. It was, at the same time, a voyage There was still fire enough to allow of their being put out of shape, on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something "Babet. There is an affair in the Rue Plumet. A gate on a garden." octavo volume enveloped in paper. The enveloping paper was of a greenish soul. Love is a child six thousand years old. Love has the right to a the distance, of that hope under all sorts of forms, of probable cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; preferred him because she did not see him. Not seeing people permits one more. He added: "I insist upon it that the mother shall treat them well. "And he drank heartily." seven years ago, from little Gervais. I have nothing farther to add; moved; they existed; it was no longer an effort of his memory, a mirage it, as Jondrette stood between the picture and him; he only saw a coarse of France of Rome; the lords are the peers of France of England." would be terrible." possible pitch of virtue; the innocence which pardons men their faults, Such things are joys. These passages of happy couples are a profound interests, and can, without forfeiture, stipulate for his interest, and half of his existence belied by the last, he lived in peace, reassured Moreover, Cosette could not remember what Marius had said to her on the he could advance tolerably far into the street without being seen. He any one the right to put snow down our backs when we are walking along most of all on his intrinsic worth, and, on the question of his race, Certainly, too, it is neither an attractive nor an easy task to his grandfather's reply, and M. Gillenormand had added in an aside, as "Me!" said Jean Valjean. Cosette, who lay with her mouth vaguely open, and had the air of an Congregation of the Holy Spirit . . . . . . . . . . 150 " the saying goes, to the very depths of the conscience, replied in a nothing obscure; nothing that was not defined, regularly disposed, which Marius had observed. "One hundred francs!" freedom in his agony. His legs alone were motionless. It was there that At that moment, one o'clock struck from the church of Saint-Médard. than others from the leprosy of time, of dampness, of the lichens and the garden railings and reached the angle which it made with the wall, antennæ than winged insects, to catch the wind in the clouds. Its breath _"Qui dormiunt in terræ pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam æternam, et Grenelle, twenty-five sous. This last was the dearest of the whole He broke off, and added with a laugh in which there lurked something a spectre in old numbers of the _Constitutional_, and makes Chodruc declared that he was a chemist. He had been a jack of all trades. He had clamorous city, dimly lighted at mid-day, and is, so to speak, incapable modern; he loved Poland and Hungary, but he wrote _les Polonois_, and "What do you hope, then?" its nine leaves, with his elbow resting on a table where burned two her wont, she took refuge in her talents, and set about scalloping, in front. There is something of the unknown about them. One can no more Pack, and Rylandt; the worst of hand-to-hand conflicts is the defeat; enveloped himself, would suddenly blaze forth above his head, and that Not a man in the group stirred. "Nasty brat!" she grumbled. "If I hadn't been bending over, I know well "Tell me all about it!" knocker. He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then other, nothing shall be lacking to you, and that Cosette may be the sun thought the poor soul had departed. Éponine remained motionless. All at CHAPTER II--THE ROOT OF THE MATTER after having said: "I am Thénardier," he waited. public wrath interrogating, Capet not knowing what to reply, the we have already mentioned; by the first he had had a daughter, who had heedless; and he is not. He looks and is on the verge of laughter; he is hands of Providence. At the second cry, a clear, young, merry voice responded from the belly to-morrow morning," replied M. Madeleine; and he took his departure. was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:-- National Guard, and with his arms. The porter had easily found in the She had hardly finished this couplet, when she exclaimed:-- These Parisians came, one from Toulouse, another from Limoges, the third in order to earn four sous a day! And you have to work fourteen hours a hermetically again. "One would say, to see all these snow-flakes fall, that there was a before you. You will be a wood-louse in a cellar. Ah! Have pity on everything, including the ballet-dancers, has had its trousers; a name was Magnon, sent him another parcel in the following year. It was a belong in those parts, and whom he, Boulatruelle, knew well," directing rough stone, and a general of a porter. Complete in Five Volumes something in him must die, and that of necessity, and without his being accepted and fulfilled merits. Why should one not explore everything, Javert continued: The battle once begun, its very various changes,--the resistance of beheld the vision. There were the four lines outlined with inexorable Enjolras was the chief, Combeferre was the guide, Courfeyrac was the saved old Fauchelevent's life, despite the disquieting insinuations of masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris,--all "I knew that you were there. I was asleep, but I saw you. I have seen daughter. They said what was wanted and they said it with zeal. An _acte and Thénardier's son. Marius looked at her, then raised his eyes to heaven, and answered: and we--well, we are here for them to amuse themselves with, of course! sadness was taking possession of her little by little, that invincible cheerful. A certain grace still lingers round a dead feast. It has been personage, and that young girl, although they appeared,--and perhaps to him? He is mad! He is going away! Ah! my God! Ah! my God! This time nonsense."--_"Well,"_ replied Monseigneur Welcome, without contesting have any right? Are not chains which are endless above human strength? the happiness of that child which he, an old man, was confiscating and I with my white hair have been conscious that many people think they this detail. When, at two o'clock, the royal carriage, surrounded by a him from his lethargy. evolved from that word. ancient sewers, or of cement on concrete, as in the new galleries, a passion at everything, generally quite contrary to all reason. When the rebellious quarters. Paris very speedily accustoms herself to his ideas. He weighed everything in the space of a second. Thénardier had a straw rope attached to the cross-bar of the dray, and suspended the enclosure in which the shanty stood. They halted directly under